princess_picklejuice

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1. Anyone Lost A Baby?

   princess_picklejuice replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in Emergency

   I am so sorry for your loss. I had 3 miscarriages within a 3 year time span and I know how much it hurts. Please remember to take care of yourself. Give yourself time to cry, to be angry and to ask...

2. Just my hospital??

   princess_picklejuice replied to shortstuff31117's topic in General Nursing

   Our hospital has eliminated all range orders, dosage or frequency. Not only that, it applies to meds like Tylenol. No longer can a doc write "Tylenol 1-2 tabs po q4h prn" Now, there also has to be an...

3. Please share something GOOD that happened at work!

   princess_picklejuice replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

   This didn't happen to me personally, but some of my co-workers were... A patient, "Peter" was dying on our Cancer Care unit. All through his illness, "Rose" stayed by his side doing all that she could...

4. customer svc the norm?

   princess_picklejuice replied to Kitty Hawk's topic in General Nursing

   True story - to increase patient satisfaction, our hospital now provides coffee, juice and snacks, free of charge, to people in the outpatient services waiting rooms - who's serving? our security...

5. Does Magnet Status make a difference?

   princess_picklejuice replied to abbythetabby's topic in General Nursing

   The only difference Magnet makes is a $100,000 dent in the coffers. $50,000+ for the application and survey and $50,000 for the book

6. question about salary in the US

   princess_picklejuice replied to norhubez's topic in General Nursing

   We live in Corpus Christi, TX. A new grad here can expect to start off at $20/h and then move up to about $22/h in a year. If you are an experienced nurse from out of country $24/h sounds about...

7. Have you ever taken care of a famous pt?

   princess_picklejuice replied to Foxfour's topic in General Nursing

   we once had a "charlie's angel" at our hospital - no, i'm not going to disclose from which decade - and in as much as the word went around that she was a patient, everyone kept their distance and left...

8. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   princess_picklejuice replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   We had, in our ICU, a frequent flier named Ricky. He was non-compliant, obscene to staff and so mean, his last gesture to his mother was flipping her the bird. The night he died, a little lady we had...

9. anyone gone through JCAHO recently?

   princess_picklejuice replied to ERERER's topic in General Nursing

   Our nurse surveyor was apparently on the team that created and initiated National Patient Safety Goals...our med reconciliation is only a few months old so we got a few recommendations for...

10. News of Mother's Death Left on Answering Machine

    princess_picklejuice replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    ...and imagine what would have happened if he had dialed the wrong number...heartless, no matter

11. Where are you from?

    princess_picklejuice replied to noworries's topic in Canada

    hello from corpus christi, texas! i graduated from centennial college in toronto, ontario 10 years ago. ...y'all are making me