NJNursing ASN, RN

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    Families from Hell

    NJNursing replied to traumamomtx30's topic in General Nursing

    I had some nasty family members a couple weeks ago of a pt who was transferred to us from ICU after they signed the DNR. It was 11pm and there were like 8 family members in the room and being quite...
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    Night Shift Nightmare

    NJNursing replied to Stepher Gale's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Wow, I'm sorry to hear about both of your situations. With 5mg of Ambien I find that they're less out of it and if they're small in stature or confused to begin with, I'll give them 5 instead of an...
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    NJ RN Salaries?

    NJNursing replied to NurseFairy's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    OMG Pineys are a society all their own. Thankfully I live far enough away from them to not really be involved or that out of the way. I walk 5 blocks west from here and I'm looking at PA. And it...
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    New Nurse Experience!

    NJNursing replied to pirituba's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Congrats on finding a new place that you feel more comfortable at. Sometimes it's just a change of atmosphere that does a person good. I was booted out of my maternity internship for what they said...
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    arterial vs capillary glucose sample and a disagreement @ work

    NJNursing replied to november17's topic in First Year After Licensure

    LOL, it's ok. I've used picc blood for accu check blood. Then again a lot of times I'm pulling BMP/CMP's out and the glucose is checked then, so sometimes I won't do double testing if I know I'll...
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    Please help need advice

    NJNursing replied to Lucky21's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've been a nurse for just about a year and a half now. In the beginning I started in maternity and it was the specialty I had wanted to be in from the first day of pre-req's. I thought it would be...
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    arterial vs capillary glucose sample and a disagreement @ work

    NJNursing replied to november17's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Since when is a Picc line an arterial line? It's a central VENOUS line. Arterial lines are typically in the jugular in the neck. You could have given the tech a dot out of the PICC. Venous blood...
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    for the heels - isn't sheepskin used anymore?

    NJNursing replied to GingerSue's topic in General Nursing

    We elevate heels off the beds, turn pt's q 2 hours. For elbows we have those egg crate foamy things, but we also bought the pricy Hill-Rom Versacare beds and we have not had ONE single in-hospital...
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    CPM and washing & sharing sheepskin?????

    NJNursing replied to Shell5's topic in Orthopedic

    We use new pads for each patient and all of our CPM's are cleaned after each pt discharge. Our pt's also have thigh-high TED's, SCD's and ace wraps from mid-calf to mid-thigh. Generally they've got...
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    Anyone at Mercer county college, Raritan valley com. college or Essex County College?

    NJNursing replied to ivyy78's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I graduated from Mercer County College last year and I liked it. I felt like it really prepared me for the NCLEX but not so much for the real world of nursing. You don't get as much in terms of...
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    NJ RN Salaries?

    NJNursing replied to NurseFairy's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I guess it all depends on what you call Central Jersey. If you live in the top half of jersey, people think Union county and it's vacinities to be Central Jersey. If you live south of Mercer County...
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    Mercer County SONs?

    NJNursing replied to rosiekay's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I graduated from MCCC and the last 3 years we have had an over 95% passing rate on the NCLEX. I chose it because when I was searching out nursing schools, I was told that diplomas sometimes had...
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    New Grads at RWJUH

    NJNursing replied to luv2yoga's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    They get hundreds of applications weekly. You really have to call and follow up regularly with them to make one person out of hundreds stand out. I try to encourage every new grad to do an...
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    New RN to ortho

    NJNursing replied to superkyky's topic in Orthopedic

    Good luck! Pain is often the biggest thing that we deal with. I liked the one that was Morphine, Percocet, Morphine, Percocet. You'll get an occassional Dilaudid or Darvocet here and there. Plus...
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    How many patients are you assigned?

    NJNursing replied to Little Panda RN's topic in Orthopedic

    We're an ortho/neuro floor, so we're surgical and tele. We can hold 32 patients (all private rooms) and up to 4 teles at a time. I work nights and we typically
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    TKR question

    NJNursing replied to rntoon's topic in Orthopedic

    Additionally, bending the knee can actually be stressful to the incision site, especially the first couple of days post-op. The skin isn't fully approximated
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    Toradol

    NJNursing replied to BlueBear's topic in Orthopedic

    None of our ortho docs prescribe toradol post-operatively. It's often a morphine PCA or if they do really well, morphine IV with Percocet for breakthrough. In recent years there has been a study...
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    Capital Health System: Anybody????

    NJNursing replied to dream8's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I chose not to work at Capital Health and picked Robert Wood instead. I thought about it, but my husband had worked at Fuld and was royally screwed there. A lot is inter-hospital politics. I did...
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    Best way for a new grad to get into L&D?

    NJNursing replied to birdgardner's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I recommend doing an internship after graduation. Apply early as Maternity often gets filled first along with ICU and the ER. They generally start taking applications in Feb/March for August...
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    HELLLP -- British Nurse seeking job in Princeton

    NJNursing replied to gemma74's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I didn't know that you weren't living stateside yet. That's probably going to be the biggest turn-off for an employer is the fact that you don't live here right now and couldn't immediately start...
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    Job for a student

    NJNursing replied to hansen32's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    What kind of position were you looking for? And yes, there's a need for nurses, but not always a need for ancillary staff. It's unacceptable that they were rude, but being a good student doesn't...
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    single parents and 12 hour shifts.

    NJNursing replied to Lisa CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    One of the girls my daughter plays with has a 13 year old older sister. On occassion, i let her watch my daughter after school or on weekends until we go out. She only charges $2 an hour, but I pay...
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    Crepitus

    NJNursing posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had this one pt last week and this has been eating at me. The pt had a right sided chest tube. Suction was d/c'd that day and it was to gravity drainage. The tube was sutured in place. He slept...
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    Crepitus

    NJNursing replied to NJNursing's topic in General Nursing

    His lung sounds (vitals are done q 12 hrs) were slighly diminished. The suction was d/c'd that day because they were planning on removing the chest tube the next day (the day the crepitus showed up)...
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    Crepitus

    NJNursing replied to NJNursing's topic in General Nursing

    I guess that yes, the new PC term is subQ emphysemia, but i learned it as crepitus and you're right it could also mean the term with bones grinding against each other. One of those dual termed...