MikeyJ

MikeyJ RN

Peds, PICU, Home health, Dialysis

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About MikeyJ

MikeyJ is a RN and specializes in Peds, PICU, Home health, Dialysis.


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  1. PhD in Education

    If you look at a President or Provost's bio, you will find that all of them started off as an assistant or associate professor and went up the ranks until they got full professor. They then usually start taking leadership positions within their depar...
  2. Being Sued / Losing License

    2/3 of posts relate to being sued and losing license? I actually cannot remember the last time I read a posting related to either of these topics. I have only been a nurse for a few years but have never known anyone to lose their license or get sued.
  3. Blood draws and Starting IVs

    Most nursing students do not get a whole lot of exposure to blood draws & IV's but do not fret... you should get a lot of experience when you begin working as an RN. As a student I probably did 2 IV sticks on patients and 2 or 3 on fellow classm...
  4. Need Easy RN school Ny or Jersey

    When you find an easy nursing school, let me know... :) And when you find that "easy" nursing school, you better check out how many students are passing their NCLEX licensing exams. There are schools that make it easier on their students to pass bu...
  5. Has anyone done the NCSBN online Review?

    I was required to do it in nursing school and did not find it helpful at all. If you refer to the NCLEX discussion forum, there are quite a few threads on NCSBN, Kaplan, etc. :)
  6. NY state NCLEX...need SSN?

    With any state board of nursing, you typically need to do finger printing, go through a background check, and be able to prove you are a U.S. resident or citizen.
  7. How many schools did everyone apply to?

    I will only be applying to one, and it is the school I graduated with my BSN. Reason I am only applying to one is because I am locked into a 2 year contract with my hospital and cannot realistically move at this point. If I am not accepted, my school...
  8. University of Nevada Las Vegas
  9. Lab work connected to which medicaiton!!

    I am unaware of any standing orders on my floor for labs with the exception of drawing a lab after a rider has completed.
  10. Do you raid the patient fridge?

    I am jealous of some of your hospitals! Our hospital is dead broke and we have very little in our patient kitchen. I rarely take anything but I at times need to suck down a grape juice or apple juice when I become hypoglycemic.
  11. Head injuries

    It depends on the extent of the head injury. With a severe closed injury, you usually have increasing ICP (intracranial pressures) which can damage brain tissues and cause herniation if not treated quickly enough. Severe CHI usually include intracran...
  12. per diem pay

    That makes no sense but with the financial crunch some hospitals are facing, I am betting more hospitals will be reducing their per diem rates.
  13. self scheduling

    I am on orientation right now, thus it hasn't affected me yet... but I think it will be not so great once I am scheduling myself and can be bumped around because others have seniority.
  14. self scheduling

    My unit uses self-scheduling based on seniority. We do monthly schedules and you schedule yourself for whatever 3 days you want to work and you mark what days you would like to be on-call and what days you can to overtime and you mark if you have any...
  15. general question about medications

    I was always taught to watch the patient take the PO med -- you should never leave them at the bedside. I work with ped's patients, so it is a bit different... but with the older kids, if they are not ready to take their PO meds, I put them in their ...