jrodrig2

jrodrig2 has 23 years experience and specializes in ER, Card Cath, Oncology.

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1. What is wrong with people ?

   jrodrig2 replied to ewrn's topic in General Nursing

   psycho! move on boss, this is totally not cool advice. good advice would be check out the total potential for a job in your area, consider a move if you think it will help, incrase your number of credentials like pals, acals, bls instructor, cen, tha...

2. My resident died yesterday. What should I have done differently?

   jrodrig2 replied to NN2BVE's topic in Geriatric

   sounds like the first hospital visit should have bought him hgb and preferably an observation bed regardless of the diagnostic results. that's what i would want for me in same position. who knows what was behind that would a big vascular mass or ? no...

3. Asystole "observed" for 25 seconds?

   jrodrig2 replied to roser13's topic in General Nursing

   adenosine? good thing that node kicked in. any EP nurses explain that one?

4. PICC line reflux and occlusions

   jrodrig2 replied to alzrn's topic in Infusion

   LAD being ".......access device"? in this case PICC. i see a lot of nursing really pushing hard on partially occluded PICCs and PORTs. i let heparin and TPA do the work, and multiple patient positions. very interesting. i have been using a lot of PIC...

5. Stupidest comlaint of the night award...

   jrodrig2 replied to JDougRN's topic in Emergency

   Gunners Mate now RN? nice switch. at least your q tip patient came in before his sever otittis requiring admission racked up 20k dollars and passed that on to tax payers. lot of dumb people out there, it's crazy crazy. let's move on to a more interes...

6. ACLS Prep

   jrodrig2 replied to CAPPYBARA BREAKFAST's topic in General Nursing

   acls seems pretty easy now that the algorithims have been reduced of some meds. piece of cake. pediatric dosages on the other hand, broselow in hand

7. Things that make you go hmmm...

   jrodrig2 replied to Art_Vandelay's topic in General Nursing

   oh snap, heard that before, they are playing around with what to do with you, i hate that feeilng. could be worse, you could written up for horse crap excuse so that way you have a bad mark on your file and now you can't transfer. sucks.

8. A few questions:

   jrodrig2 replied to felineRN's topic in Emergency

   er nurse / paramedic here. many places have that problem, i think it starts with state policy, prior inicidents (similar), and the size of cojones on the medical director for said ems county. at least you are in air conditioning, i am working codes i...

9. How do you deal with some of the things you see?

   jrodrig2 replied to mego_rn's topic in Burn

   12 years recon medic, 11 yrs er nurse, i cant begin to touch what you all are writting about, i just cover it up thoroughly, i have episdoes where i may sleep 14 hours on a off night, that's about it. but i am glad yall wrote about it. life sucks som...

10. Fictional vital sign charting

    jrodrig2 replied to Rabid Response's topic in General Nursing

    god, that is ridiculous, i cant promise you it's any better in my neck of the woods. would like to talk about more stuff if you want. Rod

11. Blood transfusion

    jrodrig2 replied to blessed02's topic in General Nursing

    my bad, LTAC (long term acute care). nice post!

12. Blood transfusion

    jrodrig2 replied to blessed02's topic in General Nursing

    sounds like you have a pretty important job. that must be a government agency. i am 41, healthcaring for 23 years. recently i have been hanging more blood than usuall. i like this site. i am thinking a lot of nursing sit beside the patient recieving ...