aachavez

aachavez

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  1. Mandated colors

    Royal blue and/or white. In my ER we get to wear pink on Fridays year round (for breast cancer awareness). Any brand or style. Shoes are whatever we want which is nice, makes it easier to find something that works for me. techs, CNA's, UC's are hun...
  2. do you follow up with your patients?

    Thanks for the feedback, and heaven forgive me for a TYPO....
  3. Lawsuit Claims Nurse Was 'Worked to Death'

    YES!!! JC definetly needs to look at staffing ratios! There is enough evidence to support the fact that there is a significant safety issue here...
  4. do you follow up with your patients?

    I've seen this mostly on ER shows like NY ER or Trauma : (but this question could apply to anyone in any dept) where doctors and nurses go check on a particular patient to see how they're doing. After a patient is no longer in your care (IE been tra...
  5. Telemetry Tech Training

    Our tele techs take a course on EKG interpretation, about 32 hours of class time and some study at home. Some were CNA/PCT, patient transport etc. At my hospital they pay $3-4 more an hour for a much easier job, I'd go for it if I wasn't already lo...
  6. Unique jobs?

    Im curious what are some nursing jobs that aren't your typical hospital or clinic setting. I've considered going over seas for a while, or trying to get on a cruise ship, I'm also interested in travel nursing. I'm also planning on doing short missi...
  7. ANCC Emergency Nurse Practitione ENP-BC

    This is awesome! Thanks for sharing! I'm a long ways off, but this is definetly something to look into for the future.
  8. ED Cheat sheet?

    On occasion I can write a quick note on my gloved hand if I don't have anything else handy. Of course I usually toss the gloves and forget what I wrote....
  9. Charting Bloopers

    I wonder how many of these errors are due to transcription or scribe mis-interpretation. Still hilarious, so keep em coming!
  10. Years ago my sister made some false accusations and tried to have me arrested. (really, I guess she could have been charged with 911 abuse or something, this was not the only time she did something like this... anyhow....) However I got extremely lu...
  11. I'm thinking about doing a some private duty or home health, just as a side job and hope to work in a hospital full time. Gotta take a second job at least for a while to pay down student debt....Anyhow.... What do you like about private duty the mos...
  12. "Fake" or Nonprescriptive Eyeglasses

    Hipsters.... I do wear needed glasses, but not as often as I should. They are a pain, and I can see ok enough most of the time. I find I am needing them more and more for computer work, homework etc. I have an astigmatism, driving at night is supe...
  13. do some review each day. Don't try to cram it all in the day before the test because you will never make thru all the material in one night. Practice questions!!! Get the workbooks that go with your texts, there's lots of great questions in there, ...
  14. How much of your cohort did you "lose"?

    You hit the nail on the head here.. all the people that have been having problems are the ones that party, are lazy, show up late, dont follow instruction, don't pay attention in lecture, complain, and expect everything to be handed to them. After f...
  15. How much of your cohort did you "lose"?

    My cohort is 22, we graduate in September (woohoooo!!!!!). One failed a course, and repeated, and is now a term behind us, another delivered her baby very early (was due during break) and had to miss most of the same term, and so now she is a term b...