jonear2

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  1. What's In Your Pocket?

    jonear2 replied to AmyD_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    pens- several -mostly stolen -yes, it was me tape- transpore and paper dry erase marker for putting my name on the white board sharpie highlighter hemastats scissors (never ever lend them out)...

  2. Rules for the ER (long)

    jonear2 replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    Once upon a time many moon (7 months) ago I was a student nurse who took the FLorence Nightengale pledge to be selfless and loving and caring and whatever else it said. Then one day I became licensed...

  3. chart auditing

    jonear2 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everyone! I am still very new so I was wondering what you all thought about this: Or hospital got a few dings when JCAHO came out a few months back. Most of the dings were on documentation and...

  4. Tattoo...

    jonear2 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    So here's a question for all you fresh new nurses out there living and learning along beside me... While I was in nursing school, i always promised myself that when I got licensed I would get a tattoo...

  5. Nursing survival gifts...

    jonear2 replied to White Shoes's topic in Nursing Humor

    might as well add a portacath or a picc for that amp of D50 you will need to give yourself because you havent eaten in 12

  6. Are there nurses from Jacksonville here?

    jonear2 replied to Daning's topic in Florida Nursing

    Shands is not terrible. I work there and I love it. Its the "county" hospital, we serve alot of the indigent population. Is it hard to work here? Acuity wise yeah, and we dont have the prettiest...

  7. Okay Homo-phobic thread..LOL!

    jonear2 replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    sorry I thought this was a thread about fear of

  8. Butt Checks

    jonear2 replied to jonear2's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Umm, I never said anyone called me a perv, I was just making a joke, not getting defensive. Actually Im just as curious as you all about daily assessments. I hope that we will get alot of feedback...

  9. Butt Checks

    jonear2 replied to jonear2's topic in Medical-Surgical

    The thing is, full skin checks are a part of our routine assessment. In fact our facility has dubbed wednesday "butt check" day. The nurse manager from each floor goes around to do a full head to...

  10. How long will I be miserable?

    jonear2 replied to nrcnurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I swear to god I had to look at the screen name to make sure that I myself was not the OP. This mirrors my situation, I grad. in Dec. also, on a "progressive care" (read higher accuity) floor. I...

  11. Can I hear some positive things about nursing school?

    jonear2 replied to rntoben2008's topic in General Students

    I made the best friends of my life in nursing school. You need good friends to get through. Keeps ya from going crazy. I know I can call them anytime and they understand what I am going

  12. ACLS Ceritificate necesarry for a new job?

    jonear2 replied to napoca's topic in General Nursing

    At my facility you get hired then take acls at said facility. Just let them know up front. You just took nclex, they know that u are new. Good

  13. If you could change on aspect of nursing.

    jonear2 replied to AMBERRN2B's topic in General Nursing

    Better staffing, less paperwork. Im all for charting till the cows come home, CYA, but JCAHO comes up with all these extra forms like the interdiscilinary education record (IPER) to chart everything...

  14. time to fly

    jonear2 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ok, so Im a nurse now. {applause please}. IM 23 and have been living at home with my parents. My fiance is a firefighter and we are getting married in March 2007. We have a piece of property and it...

  15. Favorite, Fun, Weird, and Scandalous Symptoms and Diagnosis...

    jonear2 replied to doctordefender's topic in Nursing Humor

    I always laugh at "presyncope" when I see it on the report sheet. Like the patient was about to fall out but didnt. I dont know why that makes me

  16. Reconstitution Question

    jonear2 replied to Brauer's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If all else fails, call pharmacy. We actually have a pharm D on our floor every day (we are a teaching facility) who is there soley to answer our questions and god knows that i love that. But...

  17. Tattoo...

    jonear2 replied to jonear2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks for all the advice guys, I already have one tatto of a butterfly {my very favorite thing in the world because it symbolizes change} and we will just say that it is somewhere that no one ever...

  18. If you could do it all over again.....

    jonear2 replied to Visuals's topic in General Nursing

    ya, iwould still be a nurse. Ive only beena nurse for like 3 minutes but yes. I never dreamed of being a nurse but since I started I knew that I would never go to anything else. Nurses freakin'...

  19. Dnr/dni

    jonear2 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just got off orientation so I am still very new. I have a question about DNR/DNI. Does the patient have to sign the form or can 2 physicians sign and just "make" the patient a DNR/DNI? Does the...

  20. Florida Roll Call ......

    jonear2 replied to RNPATL's topic in Florida Nursing

    I think Im the 3rd Amy from florida on this tthread... I live in Jacksonville, work at Shands in progressive care. Im a new and very frightened RN. Im getting married next March (see countdown) and...

  21. shoes for aching backs

    jonear2 replied to Lori RN_09_2b's topic in General Nursing

    U can get dansko online but I got them at the local uniform shop. The size chart is European. Ummm, I wear a 7 1/2 to an 8 usually but my Danskos are a size 38. Im not sure but I think when you...

  22. shoes for aching backs

    jonear2 replied to Lori RN_09_2b's topic in General Nursing

    DANSKO. I cannot sing their praises enough. These shoes will heal acing feet, backs, you name it. they are the best shoes on the market IMHO. They are a bit pricey but worth every penny. Also, i...

  23. Who Are Your Heroes?

    jonear2 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I want to know who your heroes or heroines in nursing are. Who do you look up to and why. Lets give props and credit to the nurses who made you want to be

  24. Pay rate

    jonear2 replied to verock's topic in General Nursing

    When our GN class got hired we started out making a couple of dollars mor an hour than the class that started nine monts ahead of us. I think it all goes back to the fact that the hospitals seem to...

  25. tough time giving report.

    jonear2 replied to janetrette's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I was giving report to the PM nurse the other nite and as I was trying to give report, she wasreading thru the chart and muttering to herself about something and she kept saying "oh, well he has a hx...