JVLims

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1. MBA degree

   JVLims replied to SquishNurse's topic in Case Management

   I've been a certified hospital case management RN for many years and at one point decided to get my Masters'-I was not interested in management (been there, done that) or academia at the time so I earned my MBA. I do think it gives me a unique perspe...

2. How to become a case manager

   JVLims replied to peaceful2100's topic in Case Management

   You could apply but without a solid clinical base in the area of case management desired (I.e. acute care, population health, primary care) it would be pretty difficult. School nursing might prepare you to do peds case management, particularly in a p...

3. Pregnant and burnt out

   JVLims replied to Cyrindarella's topic in Career Support

   Congratulations on your unexpected but beloved bonus baby! It seems like a bad idea to leave mid contract, but if the pace and demands are affecting your health (and by extension, the baby's-though those little passengers take everything they need fr...

4. Resigning for another job. Advice please.

   JVLims replied to nccna's topic in New Nurse

   IMHO you are in a good place for someone new to practice. ICUs in teaching hospitals are wonderful places to work (and I know, having worked at a Level 1 trauma center ICU) but can be an overwhelming place to work while you are getting your feet wet....

5. Possible adult admit with minor child in tow

   JVLims replied to Monkey Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   @rainmom....Preeclampsia and eclampsia can surface prior to delivery, during the peripartum period, or during the 6 week postpartum period!!!! What the heck is wrong with your obstetric unit???? If they can't manage postpartum onset hypertensive diso...

6. Possible adult admit with minor child in tow

   JVLims replied to Monkey Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   This would necessitate a social service consult to assist with either scouring the landscape for family, friends, faith community to come take supervision of the child (or even stay with the child at the bedside while arrangements are made) versus a ...

7. Are there any gay nurses here?

   JVLims replied to Rocknurse's topic in General Nursing

   It is a tragedy and so terrible to think people are still being targeted for who they love. All thoughts and prayers still going out to all affected by this senseless act of cruel hatred. BTW...Straight but not narrow! Hatred cannot stop our seeking...

8. Leaving Bedside Nursing

   JVLims replied to Deebuzz's topic in Career Support

   @Marilyn411...OP seems to be one of many newly entered into our great profession who are extremely dissatisfied right out of tbe gate. I am a case management nurse now but prior to going to CM i had varied acute nursing experience x years, been a nur...

9. Leaving Bedside Nursing

   JVLims replied to Deebuzz's topic in Career Support

   Fyi, agree case management is less physically demanding but our liability is no less. The burden of ensuring a safe and effective discharge plan for patients is a heavy one. Our clinical assessment of the patient, knowledge of entitlement regulations...

10. Nursing student asks nurses the question..

    JVLims replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing

    Elkpark, your program sounds a lot like my ADN program. We were responsible to go to the clinical site a day before to research our patient and had to be prepared to address whatever disease process was affecting them. Pre and post conference were he...

11. Excited about a new job!

    JVLims replied to ErinRN2012's topic in Case Management

    Did you really apply for and accept a case management job not understanding what it entails? Can you envision a nurse landing next to you on the tele unit saying s/he didn't know anything about tele but thought s/he'd give it a whirl? Not trying to s...

12. How was nursing school?

    JVLims replied to Ruth V.'s topic in General Nursing

    Typical week for me: clinical twice weekly at different sites, one a good 45 minutes away from the college. Would compare it to a part time gig. ADN, so by 4th semester we were team leader with an assignment of 3-4 patients on 3-11, community hospita...

13. Nursing student asks nurses the question..

    JVLims replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing

    At the risk of sounding old school...students have changed a lot as a group. There is a sense of entitlement and an undeserved superiority complex that sometimes comes across. When we were students, we recognized and respected that the nurses teachin...

14. Leaving Bedside Nursing

    JVLims replied to Deebuzz's topic in Career Support

    Please, please, please do yourself and your patients a favor and do NOT become a hospital nurse case manager (or perhaps, a case manager in any setting). We are out there on the front lines just as much as you are at the bedside, just in a different ...

15. Psych nursing is easy

    JVLims replied to studentnurse9806's topic in Psychiatric

    Please don't generalize. Statutes governing care vary from state to state. Our locked unit almost never uses physical or chemical restraint. The entire unit is retrofitted to prevent the use of things like fixtures for self harm or harm to others. In...