schroeders_piano RN

schroeders_piano has 21 years experience as a RN.

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1. Where to go as a nurse if you dont want to work with patients at ALL?

   schroeders_piano replied to guest1074618's topic in General Nursing

   With nursing informatics you wouldn’t be dealing with “annoying” patients, but at times you would be dealing with annoying co-workers who don’t follow simple instructions and are having conversations while you are on the phone with them. What about b...

2. Switching departments... And regretting it

   schroeders_piano replied to BosLav's topic in General Nursing

   I used to be a Med/Surg Director in a small, rural hospital. Generally, Med/Surg units in rural areas will have times of low census during the Summer months. Most units rotate and take turns for low census days and there is always at least one nurse ...

3. Job offer

   schroeders_piano replied to pinkdaisyx3's topic in General Nursing

   I spent far too much time of my career working in areas I hated simply because I was offered the job. I’m a darn good ER nurse and have years of ER experience, but I have never really liked ER. If you know you love Peds and thats where you want to be...

4. Age vs Years Nursing

   schroeders_piano replied to Erika Patterson's topic in General Nursing

   38 and 17 years as a nurse

5. Rural ER Nursing

   schroeders_piano replied to MuayThaiGuy's topic in General Nursing

   I’ve been a nurse for 17 years with a large portion of it ICU and ER. I have worked in Level 1 trauma centers to community hospitals to rural, critical access ERs where I was the only nurse. For the most part, the rural ER was like working in a clini...

6. Unprofessional Conduct Online

   schroeders_piano replied to Anon4thispost's topic in General Nursing

   Not your circus. Not your monkeys. You know nothing about the care this person provides nor the mindset or situation that led her to post what she posted. As others have suggested, delete her and move on. You are not the social media police for her ...

7. Unprofessional Conduct Online

   schroeders_piano replied to Anon4thispost's topic in General Nursing

   The part of you that feels like you should mind your own business is the part you need to listen too. Why would you want to jeopardize someone’s job?

8. Do hospitals hire FNP-C?

   schroeders_piano replied to Guest05/31/18's topic in NP

   I live in Southern Illinois and FNPs (new grad and those with primary care experience) are hired to work in the Acute Care setting frequently in my area.

9. Patients Say the Darnedest Things - WIN $250! Nurses Week Contest 2018

   schroeders_piano replied to Brian S.'s topic in General Nursing

   I had a little 90 year old lady say, "I need to empty my pocketbook." I searched for her purse for 30 minutes before I realized emptying her pocketbook was her polite way of telling me she had to go pee.

10. HIPAA violation or heads-up?

    schroeders_piano replied to AngelfireRN's topic in NP

    Could you make a progress note stating what the patient did and that you were "firing" him as a patient? The progress note goes with him with his medical records and the new provider can see what happened. On a side note, why wasn't the cops called?

11. how to ask patient for pain scale score correctly?

    schroeders_piano replied to 7feetunder's topic in Emergency

    With me it was dependent upon how many times I had seen them in the ER that month. If it was their 20th visit for HA, backache, abd pain, etc. I would say, "On a scale of 0-10 with 0 being no pain and 10 feeling like you were ran over by a semi truck...

12. Nursing Theory: Does anyone have a nursing theory paper that I can borrow? :(

    schroeders_piano replied to chaitealatte's topic in General Students

    I know that this is a novel concept, but why don't you sit down and write your own paper.

13. Stupid things that nurses say

    schroeders_piano replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in Humor

    I used to always say, "You're going to feel a little prick" whenever I drew blood or started an IV. I didn't realize what I had been saying until a 90 year old woman looked at me and said, "Honey,don't beat yourself up. If what they say about a man'...

14. Finally decided to quit nursing

    schroeders_piano replied to jennjen512's topic in Professionalism

    I wish you the best. I understand completely. I've been a RN for 8 years and this is going to be my last year. My goal is to be in a different career by 2013. Good luck!

15. EHRs stink!

    schroeders_piano replied to imintrouble's topic in General Nursing