cjmiller29

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1. HACC Nursing Clinical Input Please!

   cjmiller29 replied to rookie1's topic in Pennsylvania

   Oops, I thought this was a new post. Sorry about that.

2. HACC Nursing Clinical Input Please!

   cjmiller29 replied to rookie1's topic in Pennsylvania

   program and it was brutal. That is the nature of the beast. You are taking care of lives so you need to learn your stuff. In order to evaluate a nursing program looking at just how many complete the program is too narrow. You need to look at the nurs...

3. What's your reason for putting up with it?

   cjmiller29 replied to canigraduate's topic in Relations

   I will also add that the MD's have also found when they haven't listened to me and I was right, they will receive no quarter from me also. You can ask the idiot who was booted back to Canada when he caused the demise of his patient due to treating hi...

4. What's your reason for putting up with it?

   cjmiller29 replied to canigraduate's topic in Relations

   My answer will be it depends on the situation and how I perceive the situation. My primary goal is to take care of the person lying in that bed. Whatever it takes to meet that goal is what I do. If a doctor treats me disrespectfully or walks away, I ...

5. Has a patient ever described a Near Death Experience to you?

   cjmiller29 replied to LadyMadonna's topic in General Nursing

   My patient did not code, but had one about a week before he died. It was an older man with end-stage COPD who was supposed to have died home on hospice, but his family couldn't watch him die so they called the ambulance. When he woke up intubated on...

6. do you iron your scrubs?

   cjmiller29 replied to FutureNurse2005's topic in General Students

   I like the neat look, but am too lazy to iron, so if they are wrinkled when I pull them off the hanger, I just use some Downy Wrinkle Releaser. Takes those wrinkles right out and it smells pretty good. cjmiller29 RN, BSN