Jewelsforme

Jewelsforme has 26 years experience and specializes in MedSurg Hospice.

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1. New Grad Fired After 2 Weeks

   Jewelsforme replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   I read through this and it sounds like you were set up to fail, not to succeed. You should not have received more than two patients and ask questions until you are either retired or dead. I don't know...

2. As a new nurse, how was your first experience with trach patients?

   Jewelsforme replied to Misstika's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I had a daughter with a trach. I hope it's ok to post about this. Trach suctioning I could do without breaking sterile tech in my sleep, and did as she was a "wet" trach and sometimes the nurses...

3. Working with PTSD Disorder

   Jewelsforme replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   Dear working with ptsd -- Please do not give up. You are humble enough to admit your own challenges. Go forward and know the rest of us with challenges or disabilities keep going one foot at a time....

4. The Nurse on the Other Side

   Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

   Grivet, thank you for your opinion. Proves oh, so much. Hope you feel better soon and I wish you

5. The Nurse on the Other Side

   Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

   I know Hancock. I even was flown to Honolulu to see an endo. So sad, she just kept asking me if I had diabetes, and had no clue about adrenal insufficiency. I asked her about the axis and she gave the...

6. The Nurse on the Other Side

   Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

   I understand. It is not known because it is rare. With extremely low cortisol, mine was 1.7 at the time, the heart cannot function correctly. I had to do quite a bit of research myself because even...

7. The Nurse on the Other Side

   Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

   Well, let the attacks against us roll. I was not in the ER for chronic pain. I was having chest pain and needed a cortisol infusion since the home I'm injection did not stop the arrythmias. I limp...

8. The Nurse on the Other Side

   Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

   I forgot to thank you Anna - for treating each patient as a human, regardless of what we did for a living. I never had the time, nor desire, to dig up any personal info of any patient unless it may...

9. The Nurse on the Other Side

   Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

   In a word, yes. But we value each and every single one of you who do not pass judgment on us, because we are in a very weakened and vulnerable position now and adore those of you who truly care about...

10. The Nurse on the Other Side

    Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

    No, we do not go in "ready to be angry," at least most of us who are chronically ill, unless we are called names like "psych patient" when in fact we are a GI bleed or other REAL physical ailment that...

11. The Nurse on the Other Side

    Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

    I'll drink to this. You certainly hit this nail smack dab on the head. I used to be a MedSurg and Hospice nurse. I was the nurse that patients asked for by name, even in our hospice community. Man, I...

12. How do you leave it at work?

    Jewelsforme replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Beccalyn175, each nurse is very different from one another. However, for those of us who have a heart, compassion and care for each human even after we clock out, that is what a debriefing is for. Do...

13. failed nursing school again

    Jewelsforme replied to snowybee's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    When you say you are "one" class away from "being an RN," are you saying you have about 4 credits before you can take your finals, then take the NCLEX? I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Can you help...

14. Students who get As are bad bedside nurses

    Jewelsforme replied to konstantine's topic in General Students

    Jealousy rears its ugly head. They sound jealous. You just do your best without discussing how good your grades are or that you passed the NCLEX first time etc. You'll get past this and remember a...

15. Attention LC's and nurses who assist with breastfeeding

    Jewelsforme replied to RNIBCLC's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hi, my last child did not have a suck/swallow. She remained in NICU first 5 months of her life. She initially had gavage feeding of my pumped breast milk thru NG tube. Prior to discharge she had a Peg...