JessLPN2RNASN

JessLPN2RNASN has 8 years experience and specializes in ER.

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1. Skilled Need?

   JessLPN2RNASN posted a topic in Home Health

   I am new to home health, and have been through the crash course on my own. Much of what I know comes from all you wonderful people who post information and answer posts from floundering fools like...

2. How do you say no

   JessLPN2RNASN replied to twokidsmom,rn's topic in Home Health

   I'd like to know how to say no when you are the only (willing) RN at the company. The other is close to retirement and has done hospice only for the last 20 years. How so you say no then? When is it...

3. Is this ok?

   JessLPN2RNASN replied to RachelRN2011's topic in Home Health

   A port is a little different than a PICC line but the technique is the same. Clean the site well, flush with 5-10 ml NS and waste 8-12 ml, draw your labs with a syringe and transfer to the tubes....

4. 5 top things

   JessLPN2RNASN replied to maddybears's topic in Home Health

   I have been doing home health for 6 months and feel like a retard. I have been a nurse for almost 9 years and I think my company is taking advantage of me being an "experienced nurse". I had two days...

5. Would you consider a home birth?

   JessLPN2RNASN replied to 2curlygirls's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   I appreciate the concern everyone voiced on both sides. I agree that the NICU and L&D nurses would be against home births because they see what goes wrong; a normal home birth doesn't go to the...

6. "I'm an uncertified medical assistant"

   JessLPN2RNASN replied to Freedom42's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   "nurse" is a protected title. It is agaist the law to call yourself a nurse if you so not hold an LPN/LVN or RN license recognized by the state. It is the same a calling yourself a doctor, Navy...

7. Why does Nursing put up with short staffing?

   JessLPN2RNASN replied to elfinM's topic in General Nursing

   I love being a nurse and helping those who cannot help themselves, but nursing is also about helping those TO help themselves. Anyone considered that part of the shortage stems from people who refuse...

8. Dear Abbey, about a nurse

   JessLPN2RNASN replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Nursing

   someone needs to write and tell abbey that its not the doctor's job to discipline a nurse because the nurse doesn't belong to him. if their is a valid complaint against a nurse, it should be made...

9. Dear Abbey, about a nurse

   JessLPN2RNASN replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Nursing

   There is an ethical obligation (and legal, to some extent) for a nurse to discuss the side effects of medications, however, this particular side effect had nothing to do with life-and-death or the...

10. microbiology for pregnant women

    JessLPN2RNASN replied to maggijo's topic in General Students

    Usually gloves are not given out in a micro class because of the use of bunsen burners and open flames; heat is easier to pull away from than is a glove melted to your skin. If you are using the...

11. Ohhhhh your a Nurse!?!?

    JessLPN2RNASN replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    How sad to hear that credentials dictate the treatment you deserve! I agree with PapawJohn and Dave Barry; it doesn't matter how you treat your friends, but how you treat your servants (so to speak....