jschut

jschut BSN, RN

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  1. In home assessments

    This sounds like what I want to do once I finish my program. I want to continue to work for Hospice and do face to face meetings with patients. Thanks for the
  2. Advice please: Withdrawal of feeding tube

    Oh wow... I agree with all of the above... Talk to the DON, the Medical Director... a health care POA is only viable if the person is not capable of making her own decisions... sounds to me as if she...
  3. afraid of failing nursing!

    Go talk to a counselor, first and foremost. I handled a home, children and worked weekends while in school... It's doable. Hard, but doable. I went from CNA, to LPN, to ASN to BSN... I had 4 children...
  4. If you fail a nursing course twice...

    Ours was if you fail two classes, out for three
  5. Standard med orders for dyspnea

    If he was alert and oriented, he could have been started with Roxanol 20mg/ml at 5mg q4PRN and titrated up. I think the dose mentioned was a bit overboard, but then again, I don't know the...
  6. Employer resonsibility?

    Oh my goodness! I would call his Dr, explain the situation and have him sent off
  7. Got written up

    Could be a vindictive co worker, could be an honest mistake. Since you don't remember, state just that along with the patient not knowing what you were talking
  8. no luck so far

    Yea, you sound burned out. I understand how you are feeling, but honestly, how do you know where they got their tattoos and piercings? I have a beautiful tat that I received free by a friend, and I...
  9. Orientation over... Now what?

    Hmm... that's interesting... Is there any one else you can call first thing in the
  10. Silly nursing license question

    Indiana hasn't sent licenses for a few years
  11. TheCommuter is right. There is so much information about the patient in the chart. When I worked and had a few minutes down time, I liked to read up on the folks I was taking care of... to give me a...
  12. Georgetown University application process

    I applied to Indiana Wesleyan... scared to death... hope I hear something soon... my BSN GPA was pretty good, but overall brought me down some (not serious enough, I guess)... Im sorry you weren't...
  13. When do you get Narc orders?

    Anytime one of my patients takes a turn, I get end of life meds ordered. I would rather have them ther and not used than to not have them when they are
  14. Hospice...hostile and toxic work environment!

    Oh wow... I worked for two years in a small hospice where I was the "target" by the clinical director. Other nurses saw it, I was written up because she said, "I wasn't where I said I was." (She said...
  15. Am I too old to go back?

    I currently have my BSN, and have feeling antsy to go back to school and do something different... I would love to become a NP and work with the elderly. (I'm not much with working with little ones)....
  16. I have been told by two other RN's that the dialysis tech (in Indiana) is not supposed to be training me (I am a RN), unless there is another dialysis nurse on the same floor. Not in the hospital, but...
  17. Laws Regarding Training

    I have been training with this tech pretty much since I started. I meet this person in the morning at whichever hospital our supervisor sends us to (we work acutes) and the tech tells me what I am...
  18. Phone Interview with DaVita today

    Be yourself! Explain the situation... Good
  19. I am still fairly new to the whole process, but I do love my patients... so I voted as being "quite
  20. Travel dialysis nursing

    I do too.... So that's what I was thinking... Keep working for Fresenius, just in a different
  21. Travel dialysis nursing

    I am also looking into traveling... I want to have a bit more experience under my belt first though. I would feel safer (for myself AND my patients). I think I've always been a traveler at heart......
  22. Not Sure What to Do...Fresenius Nurses?

    Im fairly new to dialysis at Fresenius, but I really like it so far! It changes daily, as to what patients you have or where you are going that day.... its a new adventure every time you walk in the...
  23. What should I know? I understand there will be classroom work for 4 weeks, and then I will be with a preceptor for 6 months...I am coming from a LTC/hospice (case management) background, so this is...
  24. I am in agreement here. My manager took me in her office frequently with plans to improve my performance, even though I did (and had been doing) things the way I was taught, and the way the other...
  25. Renew LPN if RN?

    If I had to keep them both as an option for job hunting purposes, I probably would. But now that I am a RN, I let my LPN go. But I can definitely see the need in certain areas.... Good luck with what...