Introductions

RN92 · Jul 24, 2004

I live in North MS but work in Memphis, TN at the MED. Mainly an ER nurse.

Juanay · Sep 5, 2004

Hi all,

I am a fellow Mississippian! :)

Got my ADN from Jones County Jr College and my BSN from USM. Live in a small town near Laurel.

Have been traveling for a year in dialysis and love it! Would love to come home but pay rates leave much to be disired in my neck of the woods.

Juanay

claudeey · Mar 13, 2005

Hello I am from Jackson Ms.

MissPriss · Mar 19, 2005

I'm a step-down/TELE RN who is going to be picking up her first travel assignment this summer. After satisfying the travel bug, I'm going to be moving back to the old home place (Jackson). I currently live and work in Gulfport.

Now for the question....does the hell a couple of you ladies referred to happen to be the University? I want high level ICU experience and kind of figured that the University would have it. Am I wrong?

I lived in a small town outside of Jackson for the first 21 years of my life. I have BEEN IN (extent of my experience) the University, St. D's, and Baptist. I just would like to know which would be better for initial ICU experience.

By the way, I graduated from USM, did Preceptorship in ICU @ Memorial in Gulfport and have occasionally floated to ICU to "monitor sit" until the help arrived, so I'm not totally ignorant of the ICU environment. (not to mention that on any given day, at least one of the pt's I take care of would be IN and ICU if they were anywhere else (sorry, had to rant on that one)

Anyway, would love any info,

MP

MissPriss · Mar 19, 2005

just realized that I should have posted that as a new thread....... :mad: MP

mississippi_lpn · Apr 10, 2005

Hi everyone! I just thought I'd start the new State forums off with an introduction thread. Please feel free to reply to this thread if you wish. Otherwise, feel free to start a new topic if you wish to discuss other topics that are local or state related. Enjoy!

Hello,

I am an LPN student in northeast ms, I just wanted to introduce myself. I will be graduating in Dec 2005. Can't wait. What are some good hospitals to work for in northeast ms. Is NMMC a good place to work. Can someone tell me about the staff and stuff there. How are the LPN's treated there.

I am married and I have three children. One is 8, 2 1/2 and 15 months. Nice to meet everyone. I am glad there is a site for Mississippi. :thankya: :)

RN_PhD2B · Jun 13, 2005

My name is Theresa and I just completed my MSN!! I am taking the certification exam for Family/Peds nurse practitioner in September. I will start the doctoral program at UMC in Jackson, MS this August.

mandysue · Jul 2, 2005

I'm at NMMC..Stepdown unit...very good hospital. I may well have met your brother...here we call the residents "The Posse"..LMAO We admit a patient, they arrive in a pack..thus, 'the posse is here.' Then every day 5 'docs' see the same pt, constantly changing the orders written by the previous resident. It's kinda funny in a way, since I was nursing before they started school. Most are cool and open to *ahem* "suggestion"..but there is ONE that drives me INSANE..beats the dead horse, etc..I hope it's not your brother!..LOL

Hi I'm new to Tupelo. I'm starting LPN at ICC in about a month. I would like to work for NMMC. Nice place to work? How respectful is the staff to LPN's? Just curious, because although I know being a nurse can be stressful, the people around can make it SO much worse!!

Thanks :)

mandysue · Jul 2, 2005

Hello,
I am an LPN student in northeast ms, I just wanted to introduce myself. I will be graduating in Dec 2005. Can't wait. What are some good hospitals to work for in northeast ms. Is NMMC a good place to work. Can someone tell me about the staff and stuff there. How are the LPN's treated there.
I am married and I have three children. One is 8, 2 1/2 and 15 months. Nice to meet everyone. I am glad there is a site for Mississippi. :thankya: :)

Hey are at the LPN program at ICC? If so, what is the program like? I start LPN there in Aug. and am SO nervous!! Any advise is greatly appreciated! :)

pedrn, RN · Jul 10, 2005

Hi I live in Collinsville, MS. I now work in NICU/nursery. I am married with a one year old. Its nice to meet yall.

legalnurse22 · Jul 21, 2005

Hello everyone, I've been a RN for 27 years in Jackson. I've done telemetry,

PACU, Radiology, Med-Surg and currently a Nursing Supervisor ( for the last

8 years). I have made a few changes lately. I'm a Legal Nurse Consultant and

also taking a Nurse Forensic's course. I plan to work more with Criminal cases as opposed to Med-Mal cases. I will probably see some of you that are going

to Nursing school this fall (ADN programs). I have scheduled some documentation inservices with some of the schools. Focusing on what we as

Legal Nurse Consultants look for in the way of charting (tampering, SOC, etc.)

I don't like to see nurses torn to shreads during a deposition because of lack of charting, "skimpy or vague" charting, and "tampered" charting. When a case goes to trial all you have to defend yourself is the Medical Record, you

have to defend what is or is not written. I have never regretted becoming a

nurse, I hate that it's become a "business". I'm from the old school where we

were allowed to staff by "acquity" and not by "numbers". For all you new nurses, remember why you became a nurse, don't lose the "passion", the doc's and administration may think they run the hospital, but we know better.

legalnurse22

chrissy10 · Jul 21, 2005

Hello! I am brand spankin' new to this site but I did search it out because I had a situation at my work that I wonder if anyone else had experienced. I am a public health nurse and am required by my employer to home visit TB patients alone. I have found out through public records that many of my patients have been convicted of violent crimes. I was wondering if other states, counties, districts had any policies about home visitation that protect the safety of their nurses? I would like to see a policy change in this county because I believe that this represents a very dangerous situation. If anyone has any policies in effect, would you please let me know? I would like to present policies that are already in place when I approach my supervisory staff. Thanks!