ICRN2008 BSN, RN

Infection Preventionist/ Occ Health

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About ICRN2008

ICRN2008 has 5 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Infection Preventionist/ Occ Health.


BS, MT(ASCP), BSN, CIC, COHN-S

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    When will being an RN stop sucking?

    I had a position that I loved for the most part. Unfortunately, the long hours did not fit with our family's needs. Now I'm in an hourly position where we are basically set up to fail and are given responsibilities at the very edge of our scope of pr...
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    Getting back in the game

    I've been off of work for a year (staying home with my kids) and now I'm thinking about going back (prn or casual position, not full-time). Any tips to get back into the game? I think I'm going to be pretty limited by the fact that I will only work w...
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    Is there any nursing Job that is not stressful

    I think every nursing job is stressful in one way or another. I've worked both at and away from the bedside. When you work bedside, your shift is brutal but then you turn your patients over to another nurse and leave. Working in infection prevention ...
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    How Far Would You Commute for Part-time?

    I'm considering returning to work at some point this year, but I will not be willing to commute longer than 30 minutes each way. And no more than 2 days a week.
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    To apply or not to apply...

    The previous response was great. I found the "Getting Started in Occupational Health Nursing" CD by AOHP to be super helpful, along with my local AAOHN chapter for education, networking and support. And, of course, the AAOHN Core Curriculum Be prepar...
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    How to Return to Work after Raising Kids

    I've been out of the game for a year now, but have not worked full-time in 3 years because I've been home with my children. I've started networking with old colleagues and found that I've received a pretty positive response so far. Attending local c...
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    I'm not answering call lights

    When I worked the floors I found that rounding every 15 minutes to half hour cut down on the number of call lights for things that could wait, by at least 80%. I also made it a point to chart on the mobile computers near the patient's rooms instead o...
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    What do you do?

    I currently work in occupational health and I am responsible for the following: Writing policies and procedures for my department Writing protocols for others in the department Designing systems for documentation and retention of employee health file...
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    Hourly Rounding/pain management?

    Oh, and we had to document the IV site assessment hourly as well. This came after a few lawsuits for infiltrated IVs. We managed to do our hourly rounding, but we usually only had four patients. Even then, we were running around the entire shift a...
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    Hourly Rounding/pain management?

    In peds we were required to document hourly: Patient alertness, position and activity (ie calm, crying, etc). We had to do hourly pain assessments on all patients in pain, especially sickle cell patients on PCAs. We had to document IV VTBI and PCA...
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    Dengue Fever

    There are many vector-borne diseases that are making a comeback. I just read a book about the Yellow Fever epidemic in Memphis around the turn of the century, and it certainly serves as a cautionary tale for us today. I know that many people are opp...
  12. At the peds hospital I worked at, the rapid response team consisted of a critical care RN, critical care RT (many times our team from the helicoptor would come by), out team's resident MD, and the senior resident. A few times I had to call in the RRT...
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    Hep B titer

    I am still learning, having just started in infection control. I can tell you that our practice right now is not to do titers on new employees who have already gotten the series. Many times it will come back negative, but doing the series over agai...
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    BSNs Need Not Apply

    I know that there can be minimum qualifications for hiring someone, but can they discriminate against someone because they have "too much" education.? I would think that if they made this a written policy as opposed to an informal practice they may ...
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    ImmunoglobulinM problem

    PS I hope it's not urgent because you're taking an online test. Because if so, it's cheating to ask others for help....