TessLJ

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  1. Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    TessLJ replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    I experienced a medical emergency this past April, and the best, kindest, most compassionate and understanding nurse that took care of me during my hospitalization was

  2. is nursing right for me

    TessLJ replied to samantha7's topic in General Students

    I'd be interested to know what made you choose nursing for your degree. Also, what was it that you didn't like about your other clinicals? And what was it you liked about your pediatric one? Nursing...

  3. Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    TessLJ replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    So are you saying that nurses can only be effective educating patients from the same ethnic or cultural

  4. Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    TessLJ replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    Saw what you did

  5. 'What's your plan of care?'

    TessLJ replied to Delite's topic in General Students

    Do they still teach you nursing diagnoses in Nursing School? (Honest question.) I think first, consider the primary issue: UTI: what should your plan of care be for someone suffering a UTI? Monitor...

  6. OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    TessLJ replied to carti's topic in General Students

    The education programs are constructed to give you experience in all areas of clinical nursing, because nurses can end up literally _anywhere_ in their career. I am a woman, and have never had any...

  7. Outrageous Complaints

    TessLJ replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in General Nursing

    Worst complaint was from administration: When we walked through the unit all the nurses were standing around at the nurses' station talking and not in the patients' rooms. It was shift change and the...

  8. My manager is interrogating staff, what does this mean?

    TessLJ replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I schedule regular 1 on 1 meetings with my staff, but I try to give them fair warning they're coming, so they don't think something is wrong. I also try to let them know ahead of time what I suggest...

  9. Not receiving discharge paperwork

    TessLJ replied to MJJnurse's topic in Home Health

    Sounds like there is definitely a breakdown in the process for the weekend. Do you think the hospital admin and the management at your agency would be willing to meet with each other and discuss a...

  10. How do I get out of the home?

    TessLJ replied to Kaisu's topic in Home Health

    Agreed. You can also tell them what to expect when you schedule the home care visit. For example, that you will be there to do X, Y, and Z, and the visit should last about 20 minutes. It is important...

  11. Accused of Privilege

    TessLJ replied to nursemaryzzel's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think you need to have a serious conversation with your preceptor. Tell her that yes, this person is your fiancé, but that is something she must have heard from someone else, because clearly you...

  12. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    TessLJ replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We coded a lady in the ICU, and she didn't make it. Her primary care doctor showed up as we were cleaning the post-code debris and prepping her to be viewed by her family. We relayed the events of the...

  13. Which Area Has the Most Compassionate Nurses

    TessLJ replied to RNite's topic in General Nursing

    Old ICU nurse here, and I don't think the low scores indicate a lack of empathy, it's just that often the other more life and death matters take priority over empathy much of the

  14. HIPAA Violation?

    TessLJ replied to peppers2's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    It's definitely a violation, and in my organization an immediately fireable

  15. New Supervisor Violating HIPPA?

    TessLJ replied to FutureNurseWoman's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    If it is email on an internal server, or, like others have said, encrypted if the email is going to an external server, then it is not a HIPAA violation. I'd be a little more concerned about texting...

  16. A Push for the Return of Team Nursing in Medical-Surgical and Telemetry/Step-down Units

    TessLJ replied to Lev's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I think there are pros and cons to this model. Splitting the tasks of patient care between the staff can help with getting the work done faster in an ideal staffing situation...LPN handles the med...

  17. Take my survey for Statistics class please!

    TessLJ replied to kelynndi's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hi, here are my responses. I didn't see a link so I just replied

  18. Code Blue

    TessLJ replied to 2018nursewi's topic in General Nursing

    The time the security guard in the professional office building coded and fell off his chair in between the sliding glass doors. We had to code him with the motion sensing doors being activated and...

  19. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    TessLJ replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    My mother graduated nursing school in 1974 and went to work on a med-surg floor. I scampered down those hallways as a child because dad would take us up to the hospital to have lunch with her, and I...

  20. D/C Foley when patient is sitting?

    TessLJ replied to htg722's topic in General Students

    I would have let him finish lunch first, then get back in the bed. Nursing instructors for the most part are amazing and know their stuff, but you do get the occasional

  21. Confusing and irritating situation

    TessLJ replied to Happynurse2222's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Why is the unit short staffed all the time? Are they not budgeting for more staff or is it a high turnover situation? The manager doesn't need to be working alongside the staff, but instead addressing...

  22. Tell me about your nurse manager

    TessLJ replied to Ra3liana's topic in General Nursing

    As a manager myself, you have to be very careful to not show favoritism, and even then people will still say you have your favorites. I'm not saying you are wrong, though, because clearly this manager...

  23. Just another "no friends in nursing school" rant

    TessLJ replied to prettywishes's topic in General Students

    Curious; how many students are in your nursing class? Years ago my class was 104, and so it wasn't easy to know people in my class, much less make friends. Top that off with the fact that I had little...

  24. Already been told I shouldn't be a nurse (Rant)

    TessLJ replied to misskayy's topic in General Students

    MissKay I applaud your cool-headed response, and that signals to me that you'll be able to keep a cool head in intense situations as a nurse. No one does all that well the first time they take CPR. It...

  25. Demoted from ICU to IMCU

    TessLJ replied to TiffanyB1313's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in the Medical ICU unit as a new grad and thrived. I think it has more to do with finding your niche as a nurse. Yes, the patients are more critical, but then I had fewer patients than I...