MsJenn_The_RN

MsJenn_The_RN has 7 years experience and specializes in Critical Care (MICU).

Latest Activity

1. Article Contest: How is the Covid 19 Affecting Your Life?

   MsJenn_The_RN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

   Will it be a private message on my Allnurses account or will I get an email? I didn’t even know we could do messages on here. Just want to make sure I look in the right

2. Article Contest: How is the Covid 19 Affecting Your Life?

   MsJenn_The_RN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

   Holy cow! Thank you so much to everyone who read and could relate to my article! Stay safe and keep saving lives

3. Article Contest: How is the Covid 19 Affecting Your Life?

   MsJenn_The_RN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

   When/where will the winning articles be

4. CRNAs Staffing ICUs?

   MsJenn_The_RN replied to adventure_rn's topic in Disaster Preparation

   That’s what’s happening at my hospital. A lot of the CRNA’s don’t have as much work available since the number of procedures has been cut so drastically. We’ve been crash-course re-orienting...

5. Am I overreacting?

   MsJenn_The_RN replied to OUxPhys's topic in Disaster Preparation

   This. Right here. Whether or not you feel properly trained, if mgt/admin says "you're properly trained" and you make a big mistake, you're going to be the one held responsible, because that patient...

6. Key Drugs Join PPEs on List of Front-Line Shortages

   MsJenn_The_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

   We really are running out of

7. Another Quitter

   MsJenn_The_RN replied to BlessYourHeartt's topic in Disaster Preparation

   I feel you on this. So much. And I empathize with you 100%. I do not think there is a "right" or "wrong" answer. As nurses, prioritization is at the center of our decision-making. We also got into...

8. To be a coward, or to be a fool?

   MsJenn_The_RN replied to MsJenn_The_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

   You are right-on. That VERY accurately describes how I’m feeling. I’m still a baby nurse; I’m only 2 years in. I still had a lot of that new-nurse idealism. I wouldn’t call seasoned nurses who...

9. To be a coward, or to be a fool?

   MsJenn_The_RN replied to MsJenn_The_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

   Oh I did. And my employer. I have a drive through test scheduled tomorrow morning, and I’m quarantined for the foreseeable

10. Was Covid-19 Here Already?

    MsJenn_The_RN replied to BSNbound21's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This is interesting. The intensivists have talked to us about this issue several times, and they think it’s been here since January or February. We had this influx of patients with all the symptoms,...

11. To be a coward, or to be a fool?

    MsJenn_The_RN replied to MsJenn_The_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Update: I have had a cough for the last 4-6 weeks, but so has everyone around me, because it’s pollen season. I noticed last night, though, that the cough felt a little different. Tonight, I started...

12. To be a coward, or to be a fool?

    MsJenn_The_RN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    My Dream Job as a New ICU NurseI have always known that I was meant to be an ICU nurse. Call it intuition, divine planning, or blind ambition. Since I was a child, my dream was to heal the sick, to...

13. COVID-19 "Tylenol Test" T /F?

    MsJenn_The_RN replied to T-Wave's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I’m in ICU, and we are sent to take care of the critical COVID patients. The nurses and intensivists on my floor have had lengthy discussions almost every night about diagnose and treatment...and I...

14. What should hospitals do about PPE?

    MsJenn_The_RN replied to ThomasB's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I actually just got an updated e-mail about how we're going about providing PPE now. N95's, surgical masks, face shields, isolation gowns, and cleaning wipes, as they become/remain available, will be...

15. Article Contest: How is the Covid 19 Affecting Your Life?

    MsJenn_The_RN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I just submitted an article; I hope I submitted it correctly. I'm brand new on this site as a member...I browsed it some when I was in school and clueless. Whether or not anyone else even reads my...