JessicRN

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1. IV tips and tricks

   JessicRN replied to kloock's topic in Emergency

   24 gauge 20ml/min =1200cc/hr 22gauge 35ml/min =2100cc/hr (can give blood but not prefered ) 20 gauge 60ml/min= 3600cc/hr 18 gauge 105cc/min=6300cc/hr 16 gauge 220cc/min=13200cc/hr 14 gauge 330cc/min=19800cc/hr figure out how much fluid you...

2. Nursing the old fashioned way

   JessicRN replied to Scarlette Wings's topic in General Nursing

   lets see honey to vulvectomy pt's wounds glass needle syringes and metal needle that were resterilized glass iv bottles moms stayed 3 days after vaginal delivery and 5 days for C section babies always slept in the nursery during the night and came o...

3. CEN, ENA, TNCC

   JessicRN replied to yankee nurse09's topic in Emergency

   I took the CEN after I took a critical care course without even steping in an ER yet and passed. I would not have passed if I had not have taken the course in my opinion. I recommend you take the CEN review course first. TNCC was pretty easy and even...

4. What is it like to be a nurse in a prison?

   JessicRN replied to MMurse's topic in Correctional

   To the OP, please listen to those who have worked in the prison system or at least a nurse. Some of my best friends were the officers we would work out together in the morning and go skiing together it was like one big family, they watched your back....

5. Correctional nursing like ER?

   JessicRN replied to savnlivzPRN's topic in Correctional

   I worked Corrections for 7 years before I came back to ED nursing and the one thing I became was very adept at my assessments. I had decide if that inmates pain was real enough to warrant a trip to the hospital or if I could manage him inhouse. Unes...

6. CEN Laura Gasparis DVD/CD

   JessicRN replied to jms11875's topic in Emergency

   No I have been a nurse 31 years and the way it worked is you write the Exam then in 4 years you do the CEN RO then in 4 years you had to rewite the exam and so on and so on The last time I let I lapse by a year. And NO I PASSED EVERYTIME I do not th...

7. CEN Laura Gasparis DVD/CD

   JessicRN replied to jms11875's topic in Emergency

   I just took the exam yesterday and passed. This is my third time taking it but this time I swear was so much harder then the past in my opinion. I did very well but I truthfully think I guesed at more questions then ever before. ( I could narrow mos...

8. Are there really RNs that need a job?

   JessicRN replied to pielęgniarka's topic in General Nursing

   Maternity does not mean an job opening, it means a nurse is going to be off for 12 weeks. Not many experienced nurses are going to apply for a job that is only 3 months long and no Nursing director will hire a new grad for that short period either. ...

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

   JessicRN replied to canigraduate's topic in Relations

   Violence against nurses by patients and family is well documented but truthfully little is done by the Upper staff to stop it. In MA, there is a bill that will allow nurses to charge people for assault and the fines will be the same as law enforcemen...

10. Is nursing really THAT bad?

    JessicRN replied to CuriousCC's topic in General Nursing

    Been a nurse 32 years 20 in the ED, are there horrible days yes, Lots are there great days, lots,would I trade it for anything? nope. The hours are long and you miss alot of holidays ,on some days you want to kill your fellow nurses, doctors,intern...

11. You know you're Old School when...

    JessicRN replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    We still do narcotics count 2x/week even with pixis Any body remember retrieving sterile sputum specimens without suction machines. It is a small bottle with 2 tubes (still have the same collection receptacle to this day) one tube goes in the pati...

12. How can I be in two places at the same time?

    JessicRN replied to sistasoul's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry I agree, you have an hour leeway with meds. Also If you get report which you should, and they say the patient is on O2 then prepare to have the extender in advance if they are on IV meds needing IMEDS have them available as well. Not sure whe...

13. how can we fix healthcare if ppl keep abusing the system?

    JessicRN replied to johnnyDoGood's topic in General Nursing

    People wonder how we treat our frequent flyer patients. Tonight for example 4 patients all return customers in under 14 hours one 3 times in 12 hours. If they are violent which the patient who returned 3 times we put them in restraints. When they be...

14. You know you're Old School when...

    JessicRN replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    "snowing " patients with Bronfman cocktail Glass chest tubes Sterilizing your own equipment -#13 ewald NG for every OD (a tube the width of a quarter shoved down your throat and 2-4 liters of NS inserted and removed manually (no closed system) -Hon...

15. how can we fix healthcare if ppl keep abusing the system?

    JessicRN replied to johnnyDoGood's topic in General Nursing

    The abuse is rampant where I work and will never change 911 is a joke here. Ambulance cannot refuse anyone, we have people who are discharged from one hospital who walk across the street to came to another hospital only to walk out and do it a third...