JoshuaAdamsRN

JoshuaAdamsRN has 6 years experience and specializes in Emergency, neonatal, pediatrics.

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1. Anyone working at penn state hershey medical ctr?

   JoshuaAdamsRN replied to time4nicu's topic in NICU

   Hi Ethel, I am clinical head nurse in the emergency department, so although I wouldn't be able to answer most of your SICU-specific questions, I am able to speak to overall hospital attributes. Our surgical ICU is a 30 bed, multidisciplinary critical...

2. Anyone working at penn state hershey medical ctr?

   JoshuaAdamsRN replied to time4nicu's topic in NICU

   I did work in the NICU for a while...now I am back in the ER. Send me a private message.

3. Being a NICU parent while working on the unit...

   JoshuaAdamsRN posted a topic in NICU

   I don't know if anyone has ever been in this situation, but I'm looking for advice. Before I found out my wife was pregnant, I pursued a transfer opportunity in my hospital and went from being an RN in emergency to working in the NICU. Monday morning...

4. Western Pennsylvania School of Nursing?

   JoshuaAdamsRN replied to sid05's topic in Pennsylvania

   Hi Sid, I graduated from West Penn in 2005. It was a difficult program, but extremely worthwile. I really feel like it prepared me well clinically. The instructors take the time to get to know you, help you grow and learn. If you have any specifi...

5. West Penn Nursing students anyone ever live on campus?

   JoshuaAdamsRN replied to futureRNAshPA's topic in Pennsylvania

   I didn't live there but a number of classmates did. In general, I think it provided less distraction for them than living elsewhere. I was lucky to find a house two blocks from the hospital. The one thing to keep in mind though is that the buildin...

6. Relocating to Hershey/Central PA

   JoshuaAdamsRN replied to shinyblackcar's topic in Pennsylvania

   Hey there, Just wanted to say hi and good luck with your interview. Hershey is an interesting place to live. While we're not urban here, we're certainly not completely rural either. You'll find that there are a lot of apartment complexes and townh...

7. New in ER

   JoshuaAdamsRN replied to RiverNurse's topic in Emergency

   It sounds like you just need to get a clearer idea of what the advanced nursing protocols are for your department and what's expected of you as a nurse. If the doctor signed the order, I think you could rightly expect that he or she follows up on th...

8. Burned out traveler - need a home base - any recommendations on a great ED?

   JoshuaAdamsRN replied to ItsTime's topic in Emergency

   I know it's not on your list of places to live, but I thought I'd do a little recruiting for our department anyway. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, PA is the teaching hospital of the Penn State University College of Medicine. The hospital has 50...

9. Ez-io

   JoshuaAdamsRN posted a topic in Emergency

   So I had a pretty tense situation last night I was wondering if anyone else has ever encountered. Four week old infant, vomiting the past twelve hours, comes in pretty hypovolemic. Three attempts at vascular access by experienced ER nurses unsuccess...

10. Looking For Other Pa Nurses!!!!

    JoshuaAdamsRN replied to Pete495's topic in Pennsylvania

    Hey, I saw your post over on the emergency nursing board. Just wanted to stick my head out there and say hi. You're from my old neck of the woods. Which hospital are you working at?

11. Emergency Nurses Week

    JoshuaAdamsRN replied to impress0508's topic in Emergency

    Our department is getting embroidered scrub tops for the nurses, ED techs, and secretaries.

12. PALS Course

    JoshuaAdamsRN replied to NurseLay's topic in PICU

    This is just my opinion, but it doesn't hurt to take the course now and then maybe instead of waiting the two years before you take the refresher, take it again next year. A whole lot more will make sense. The "new" PALS goes into a lot more than j...

13. Changes this year

    JoshuaAdamsRN replied to Miriam57RN's topic in Camp

    This is similar to the first camp I worked at, which was huge (~1200 campers per 12 day session). We had 1 RN, who had "office hours" during the day (like 8 am-5:30 pm), but then she was available by pager the rest of the time. The staff who worked...

14. The Med Room: An inner sanctum where Angels of Mercy bare their souls...

    JoshuaAdamsRN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    At my first ER, the med room was definitely the place to vent. Now I work in a facility where the med station is at the nurses' station, right around the corner from where many of our hall patients lie. So the dirty utility room is where the prover...

15. Looking For Other Pa Nurses!!!!

    JoshuaAdamsRN replied to Pete495's topic in Pennsylvania

    Prioritization is key. Know what you would call the doctor for in terms of abnormal labs, what to do yourself, and what to delegate to an unlicensed assistant.