jk2185 BSN, RN

jk2185 has 6 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in CCRN.

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   Treat the Patient, not the Monitor.....Really?

   jk2185 replied to jk2185's topic in General Nursing

   I wish people on this site wouldn't ask damaging things such as,"are you a nurse?" or "how many years have you been a nurse?" just bc you disagree. I find this very childish and cutthroat. I wish we were all more supportive of each other. This is ...
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   Tired of being angry

   jk2185 replied to Rexie's topic in General Nursing

   PREACH!!!!!!! Tired of being tired....well put; I've said that myself. Hobbies help-lots of them A good therapist helps, really really helps A little bit of dissociation from others, which is WAAAAY hard, maybe impossible. Can you turn off empath...
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   Treat the Patient, not the Monitor.....Really?

   jk2185 replied to jk2185's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks everyone for weighing in....this post didn't go where I thought it would, I apologize for the confusion.
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   Treat the Patient, not the Monitor.....Really?

   jk2185 replied to jk2185's topic in General Nursing

   Well no duh!!! Of course if your patient looks horrid and the monitor doesn't reflect that you should most definitely perk up and do some investigating. Im regretting this post! Your assessment skills can fail you just as badly as a monitor can, we ...
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   Treat the Patient, not the Monitor.....Really?

   jk2185 replied to jk2185's topic in General Nursing

   The fact, though, is that you do not know how to use physical assessment skills and what you will be able to do if you master them. Sorry. wow..thanks for the encouragement. I can't help but feel very misunderstood by these responses, as I prefaced, ...
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   Treat the Patient, not the Monitor.....Really?

   jk2185 replied to jk2185's topic in General Nursing

   "Look at the patient, not the monitor" doesn't work for me either. I've seen plenty of patients that look fine chatting away with a CI of 1.8 or an SBP around 200. So...as long as my equipment is calibrated correctly and not being assessed by someo...
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   Treat the Patient, not the Monitor.....Really?

   jk2185 posted a topic in General Nursing

   This is my least favorite "go-to" that I hear all to often. Why even have monitoring in the first place? I trust the monitors more than my own ability to intuitively know a patient's condition based on my limited assessment skills; and just to ward...
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   Malpractice Insurance Question

   jk2185 posted a topic in General Nursing

   What does a 2mil/6mil aggregate coverage entail? Im not sure how all this works...what's the difference between the 2mil coverage and aggregate coverage?
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   CSC help

   jk2185 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm taking the CSC pretty soon....what did all you fantastic people that passed use to study?
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    Tattoos?

    jk2185 replied to heronurse's topic in Professionalism

    Nah...I've had no problem getting jobs and both my arms are sleeved. I did have to wear long sleeves ALL THE TIME at my last job which was awful at times, overheating and sweating like crazy. It's pretty lame when you have to cover yourself up; my ...
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    Question about Cussing on the job.

    jk2185 replied to Roda dendron's topic in Professionalism

    doubt it....Can't say I've ever cussed at a coworker, but I've cussed out a few patients, family members, and doctors.......in my head
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    Pushing Code/Emergent Drugs

    jk2185 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Here's the question... Are there times in emergencies when you still push drugs over 2 minutes? Like during a code: Epi always seems to be pushed as fast as possible, but what about the Amiodarone 300mg dead dose? What about Calcium or BiCarb? ...
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    Seeking advice from all you Introverted nurses out there...

    jk2185 replied to jk2185's topic in Relations

    Wow, lots of response. Thanks to all for participating and doing my biased poll, it's just nice to know there's introverts out there silently suffering too!!
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    Diluting your IVPs??

    jk2185 replied to jk2185's topic in General Nursing

    No no no...just one syringe at a time. Fentanyl is our first-line drug so I'll have a syringe with 100 mcg in it and give 25-50 mcg boluses every 10 minutes as needed. If I'm done with that drug for that patient or if I switch drugs I'll waste what...
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    Diluting your IVPs??

    jk2185 replied to jk2185's topic in General Nursing

    Good point....my example is from a PACU where nurses commonly draw up an entire vial and give boluses as needed instead of wasting for every administration due to the higher volume of IV narc pushes immediately post-op. The wasting occurs after the ...