sarahdeez BSN, RN

sarahdeez is a BSN, RN and specializes in Emergency Room.

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1. Patients on Medicaid

   sarahdeez replied to DiEd's topic in Relations

   While I have never been in poverty myself, I have lived amongst it most of my life. You may find it hard to believe but I could give you a long list of people to support that accusation. I will also like to add that for people who have children to g...

2. Patients on Medicaid

   sarahdeez replied to DiEd's topic in Relations

   These are harsh words for someone so acusatory about judegment.

3. Patients on Medicaid

   sarahdeez replied to DiEd's topic in Relations

   I agree it would be a difficult line to judge and probably not very realistic to do so. The fact is no one would want to make that decision. It's just very frustrating when you care more about someone's health that you dont even know than they them...

4. incapable, helpless, unmotivated, unteachable pts who are unable to cope with life

   sarahdeez replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

   You must really be the most understanding person in the world. I am wonderful to my patients and am known as a softie in the ER but, but have a hard time truely believing in them like you seem to. I hope you work in an area where you get to utiliz...

5. Are accelerated programs fair?

   sarahdeez replied to caro3334's topic in General Nursing

   I agree. I would have liked to have gone in the summers in order to finish sooner or spread out the load more. Our nursing school said they could not get approval from the university to pay instructors to teach in the summers. I dont know if that ...

6. Patients on Medicaid

   sarahdeez replied to DiEd's topic in Relations

   I believe if you have insurance available to you (ie at work) you should not expect your coworkers to pay for your insurance (ie medicaid). I know people at work who deny their insurance coverage (which may only be 60-80 a month) in order to get med...

7. Nursing student tips for ER

   sarahdeez replied to fusster's topic in Emergency

   Brush up on chest pain treatments... our protocol is labs, chest xray, 0xygen at 2L, 12 lead ekg, place on 3 lead monitor, 18 guage IV, asa, nitro. we do not normally use morphine unless the nitro is not working as well as we would like. Be sure yo...

8. Want the real scoop on new grad pay in Mississippi?

   sarahdeez replied to manna's topic in Mississippi

   There have been several raises in the last month or two for nurses in Mississippi. I know state employed nurses (RN) are in the 18.25-18.50 range for starting and some hospitals pay that as well. Ofcourse experience will get you more. I know many ...

9. NCLEX Number of Questions and Clarification

   sarahdeez replied to cjmmsn98's topic in NCLEX

   The $69 set of 2600 questions you can purchase through medspub is good. We had a medspub live review at our campus and it was weak. The online questions seem good though. I just finished the Hurst review and I would highly recommend it too.