ChickenHealer

ChickenHealer has 5 years experience and specializes in Psych.

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1. Student Attempted IV 7 Times

   ChickenHealer replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

   Two angiocaths. One for each site. Sorry- I posted while tired, only really looking for guidance on what to do next. I didn't think the topic would have gone in these directions or I'd have added more detail. Could you imagine seven needles? I w...

2. Student Attempted IV 7 Times

   ChickenHealer replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

   Sorry- I didn't know if there was another word for this. Yes, this was what I was counting as an attempt. She had to pull the angiocath back, reposition, and advance hoping to get the vein. The thing that was most shocking to me was switching sites a...

3. Student Attempted IV 7 Times

   ChickenHealer replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, I completely agree. I saw a few people commented similar things- I did speak up about it. I told the nurse that this isn't something that we should be doing. I spoke up when the site wasn't cleaned, I spoke up and told the nurse that she should ...

4. Nursing Products We'd Like To See

   ChickenHealer replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

   I would LOVE an air conditioned gown. Working in a gown for hours on end is too hot and sweaty, especially when patients have the heat on.

5. Vaccine Hesitancy

   ChickenHealer replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   I'm not sure if its the same thing, as I haven't engaged in something similar, but I was given a QR code to scan, which enrolled me in a symptom tracker. Every day, I was texted a symptom survey, asking about how I felt, any symptoms, including write...

6. Student Attempted IV 7 Times

   ChickenHealer replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for you guys who gave me advice. I will just be sticking to what I know we're allowed to do. An update, I talked to my classmate about it, and she had admitted that even though I mentioned that we weren't allowed to do the IV insertion, she di...

7. Volunteeering to give COVID immunizations

   ChickenHealer replied to Hannahbanana's topic in COVID

   One of the local healthcare systems here is allowing nursing students to volunteer as a vaccinator. We get community service hours, which are required for most of the schools around here.

8. What CNA to RN, "now I understand" realization have you had?

   ChickenHealer replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, that seems so weird to me that wages changed so much in a short time! Almost an RN, but one thing that I see now, is the mountain of paperwork that comes alongside most simple tasks/events. I never realized it when I first started as a tech...

9. Student Attempted IV 7 Times

   ChickenHealer replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

   The nurse was in the room with the student. I meant alone as in without help. The nurse just stood there doing nothing. Sorry, I was freaking out last night thinking about it and messed up my title. Our coordinators are required to sho...

10. Student Attempted IV 7 Times

    ChickenHealer posted a topic in General Nursing

    Not sure where to post this but I saw something today in clinical that was just eating me up. My school has an agreement with a few clinical sites to allow students to return to clinical early, and I saw something today that made me very uncomfortabl...

11. I don't know if I should call out or not r/t snow storm

    ChickenHealer replied to SoNan's topic in General Nursing

    I understand where you're coming from. I live in Pennsylvania, in an area where we're expected to have about 12-18 inches of snow. Based off of how much we have right now I imagine we might have more than that much. One of the nurses I work with...

12. Resources for caring for Eating Disorders??

    ChickenHealer posted a topic in Psychiatric

    So to start off, I am a mental health technician, graduating nursing school soon. I float to many different units, but my usual unit is adolescent/children psych. Anybody have any resources on care for patients with eating disorders? My hospital...

13. Nurses and other staff refusing to Treat COVID patients

    ChickenHealer replied to Mena2015's topic in COVID

    Something similar is happening in my hospital. Techs and nurses have seen that they are floating to the covid unit and decide to call off. We're a psych hospital, so the "covid unit" is covid positive psych patients who have mild symptoms or are asym...

14. New job. Got injured. Fired for unexcused absences during new hire probation period... what did I do wrong?

    ChickenHealer replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. I asked a friend who works in management about this when I applied for my first healthcare job, and I got similar advice. A resume is just there to give employers an idea of why they should hire you, leaving something off is fine. Application...