jmgrn65 RN

cardiac/critical care/ informatics

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About jmgrn65

jmgrn65 has 16 years experience as a RN and specializes in cardiac/critical care/ informatics.


Mother of one 16 y/o boy, married, and have 3 dogs

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  1. Nursing Informatics is in its infancy and growing rapidly. It is needed and hospitals that have gone up with EHR that do not have a strong informatics team will not do well, they are finding out the need and developing their informatics department. I...
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    Advice on how to get here

    I don't think that it is stressful. Just watch for job postings and apply. Good Luck
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    EPIC Computer Charting

    You will attend many classes, and there will a learning curve. It does take time, practice when you can.
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    EPIC Computer Charting

    1. when will I know that there are new orders/admissions/discharges for a pt. there are many different ways, order review, acknowledge orders and new order icon on trackboard 2. how can I use epic to communicate to our float nurses and emt-...
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    Physician Ordering and Documentation

    Having note templates and pref lists for the physician before you go live. That was one of our biggest complaints from the physicians. Lots of super users/floor support.
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    Very nervous.. can I lose my license for this?

    SNF/ECF's are very difficult to work at, you arent' going to lose you lisence because were given late if that was the cause I don't think any nurse would have thier license. SNF/ECF is probably not a good idea for new grads just because you don't hav...
  7. i know, I thought it was a very useful site.
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    Order Set Approval

    we have zynx, the nice thing is once you built an order set, you can send it to the persons you want to review and they can put thier comments on them. we have a committe which include doctors, quality, informatics, & pharmacy they go thru and a...
  9. our joints also get coumadin, and fragmin (similar to lovenox) until INR 2
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    advice desperately needed

    First, the guy that left AMA you cant do anything about, he obviously didn't give you time to think about it. If you had remembered after he left sometimes homecare will go out and remove them. Blood cultures sometimes get contaminated, that is a n...
  11. [color=#333333]this site has been taken down, at least temporarily. the content was prepared by duke nursing informatics graduate students for the prior ancc certification exam outline, and has not been updated to the newer version. in addition, duke...
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    Signing orders off

    Only an RN can sign off orders, and they are supposed to make sure they have been placed correctly by the Unit Clerk
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    Which hospitals use EPIC?

    I thought if you go to EPIC website they have a list of who they are live with, and about to go live with. could be wrong
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    What would be your IDEAL Nursing-related job?

    my ideal job is the what I am doing now, informatics. Hours are great, no patients and families complaining about not getting thier bath by 8am etc.
  15. Drawing blood is not the issue. It is wether or not the vein it is in can withstand chemo or whatever medication to be put into the line. And right off I couldn't say if this is a good placment for all medication. The doctor seems to think it is ok....