Nurse Jenni

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1. As Agency Nurses do you feel That "hired" nurses look down on you?

   Nurse Jenni replied to sandstormsdust's topic in Agency

   I feel strongly compeled to respond to this one. I am a staff nurse with a facility that relies HEAVILY on agency staffing. We as a staff are really very welcoming to agency, we treat our regulars as one of our own and try to get the new ones orien...

2. Toradol

   Nurse Jenni replied to BlueBear's topic in Orthopaedic

   Hey thanks for the great info everbody..I just stumbled in to this one, and guess what...I just accepted a job on ortho/trauma unit this week! i got lucky!

3. You've got a what up/in your what???

   Nurse Jenni replied to hoolahan's topic in General Nursing

   80 yr old vagina-pair of wadded up socks and half a box of kleenex WITH some of the box! Who said LTC is boring?

4. All Lpn's Please Read

   Nurse Jenni replied to RNforLongTime's topic in LPN/LVN

   JMP, WOW! I'm an LPN only a year, but I really thought I've heard every slam I could about the profession, until now. Why are you so bitter toward LPN's? Did you have a bad experience as a RPN? and what exactly is the difference between LPN and RPN...

5. Aggressive Therapy

   Nurse Jenni replied to LCPHrn's topic in Geriatric

   I have run into situations like that. Thank god they've been few and far between...the facility I'm innow has guidlines for pt and st to "pick up" new pt's...we have to have 3 solid days of charting on either a decline or improvement in status for e...

6. A question for ER nurses

   Nurse Jenni replied to Nurse Jenni's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you all for your input! You've definately shed some light on the situation! and helped me to improve my transfer sheets! Thank you all again!

7. A question for ER nurses

   Nurse Jenni replied to Nurse Jenni's topic in General Nursing

   I'll be more specific.... These 'copies' are just that a hard copy sent with the pt. in an envelope that the nurse has to open and look at to get our phone #! only current med sheets are sent so the ER know exactly what meds hd been admin. befor pt...

8. A question for ER nurses

   Nurse Jenni posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm in long term care. When we send a pt. to the ER we make copies of their cover sheet with all pertinent personal info. contact, insurance, MD etc, their Advance Directives, any insurance cards/medicare #'s,Dx's Med sheets and treatment sheets, re...

9. lantus dosing

   Nurse Jenni replied to golfRN's topic in General Nursing

   We've been using Lantus one one res. for 3 months now. He's not very stable on it though. For the first few weeks it worked ok but now his checks have been at least in the 2-300's. He's getting QD dosing at HS, he's up tp 96 units! but doc. is sti...

10. Need some advice, and venting time!

    Nurse Jenni replied to Nurse Jenni's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the input! Turns out that it's all my fault anyway. (surprise!) Held the med, got no answer from Super. etc. next day called on carpet bad, bad girl you didn't go over your super's head and call the doc yourself, pharm. etc....as an LPN...

11. Need some advice, and venting time!

    Nurse Jenni posted a topic in General Nursing

    Here's my issue: Last night I got report, 2 readmissions, my other 28 people ok....one admision complete, the other med sheets need finishing, 3-7 float lpn, no prob sheets will be done I'm on my merry med pass way. But wait on the completed admis...

12. Studies Support Home Birthing Option!

    Nurse Jenni replied to jamistlc's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am a new LPN, licensed 1 yr this month. When I started Nursing School my long term goal was OB nursing, even before I was out of high school, and I'm still interested, but I would also like to hear more about Midwives. Length of school, eligible ...

13. med pass observation

    Nurse Jenni replied to nursenel's topic in Geriatric

    Wow! Since I've changed jobs I hadn't realized that my new facility doesn't use observation. I've only been here 5 months, bt I've only ever heard of Pharmacy coming in to Audit. They control everything from the obvious of ordering and filing 'scr...