Nellie Nurse

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1. Are we doing good for our patients?

   Nellie Nurse replied to GeologistRN's topic in MICU, SICU

   It's like you are me. I have been working in an ICU for almost a year now. I find myself more bothered with the things that go on here than in any other place I have worked. Having to participate...

2. Hematoma after heart cath

   Nellie Nurse replied to Nellie Nurse's topic in Cardiac

   Thanks for the reply. The hematoma was too large to mark; extending into the groin and thigh. It was a critical situation. Unfortunately the SWAT nurse present, the one that we look to as a guide...

3. Hematoma after heart cath

   Nellie Nurse posted a topic in Cardiac

   Not my pt but an event that happened the other night has me wanting to refresh my education and I can't find much info with a general web search. Pt developed rapidly expanding hematoma shortly after...

4. Got myself stuck out west

   Nellie Nurse replied to Nellie Nurse's topic in Michigan Nursing

   That's surprising. Prior to moving out here I was working just south of the MI border, in Indiana and I figured their wages would be similar. Hoping to someday go to possibly the GR

5. Got myself stuck out west

   Nellie Nurse posted a topic in Michigan Nursing

   So I have been living out here in the Phoenix area. I would love to someday move back to West MI which will always be home to me. I feel as though that will not be possible due to the huge...

6. What to do about barrage of questions from families

   Nellie Nurse replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

   Sometimes when a family member would ask me more questions than I could answer about the patient's plan of care by the physician who usually did not share that information with me I would give the...

7. Becoming an RN just for the paycheck

   Nellie Nurse posted a topic in General Nursing

   Is it just my idealistic view of what a nurse should be or does this bother other nurses? I have heard several times lately and have read articles of people who are going to nursing school, not...

8. Places who pay for schooling ????

   Nellie Nurse replied to woogie_nell's topic in General Nursing

   When I was in nursing school I did not take the scholarship for the reasons mentioned by the previous poster but the hospital I worked for also had an option for tuition reimbursement. Unlike the...

9. Any outlandish therapy, you've thought up?

   Nellie Nurse replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

   - I wish that there was a headset device that you could talk into while doing the head to toe assessment of the patient that would automatically enter your assessment into the computer so I wouldn't...

10. DVT prophylaxis orders

    Nellie Nurse posted a topic in Patient Medications

    So the hospital I work at recently instituted these DVT prophylaxis orders where each pt upon admission has a form placed on their chart for the doctor to review and sign. The form has boxes to check...

11. Jcaho Medication Reconciliation

    Nellie Nurse replied to SEOBowhntr's topic in Patient Medications

    I work on an ortho/neuro unit where the doctors are babied. Our med reconciliation forms used to be order sheets that the doctors could check mark DC or continue but none of them used the order form...

12. Can't decide where to go!!

    Nellie Nurse replied to Nellie Nurse's topic in Arizona Nursing

    I have had experience with a level 1 trauma teaching hospital as well as a level 2 hospital. I am most concerned about the drive and safety. Both facilities are about the same distance from where I...

13. Can't decide where to go!!

    Nellie Nurse posted a topic in Arizona Nursing

    I have 2 offers for travel positions, one for Banner Good Sam on the Ortho/Neuro, med-surg unit, and the other on a med-surg/oncology unit at Banner Thunderbird. I have never been to either of these...

14. Southwest Michigan??

    Nellie Nurse replied to middypiegirl's topic in Michigan Nursing

    From a fellow Michigander I want to congraulate you on passing the NCLEX!! I myself was raised and currently live in Berrien county. I have worked at Lakeland, Butterworth in Grand Rapids, and...

15. New hosptial computer systems pull nurses away from patient care

    Nellie Nurse replied to lee1's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Our hospital just switched to Cerner. We had started out with using computerized MAR but we just went back to the paper MAR because pharmacy was totally unprepared for the change and a lot of scary...