patricelynne

patricelynne specializes in peds, OB/L&D, ER and peds ER.

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1. Nurses who DON'T work in a hospital, what do you do?

   patricelynne replied to RNfaster's topic in General Nursing

   I, too, am in home health care/hospice and after 3 decades in hospital, it is heavenly to be able to schedule my own hours! I can second the idea that you really need a few years of med-surg...

2. Witnessed a terrible death last night--pls help me...

   patricelynne replied to Annebug's topic in General Nursing

   Hello there!---What a situation for someone so new to this role in life! I have a few thoughts that might be of use. For one, what you have done is throw yourself "into the fire" much as many new...

3. Funny fake names for meds

   patricelynne replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

   :welcome:Hi Guys!---Re: funny drug names, when I was a student nurse in the 70's, we had a lot of really rundown patients from the rougher side of Baltimore. Kinda' the type who look "ridden hard and...

4. "Funny Codes"?

   patricelynne replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

   :eek:Re TVCCRN's statement about not removing saline locs 'til they're practically in the vehicle, when my honey & I were newly-married and he was in his internship in NY, I was nursing at a...

5. "Funny Codes"?

   patricelynne replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

   In my senior year in training we had 3 mos. of team leading and mine was on Osler 4, a public ward with primarily indigent, physically-challenged patients from Baltimore's ghetto. The first room on...

6. Most RN's first borns?

   patricelynne replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

   Hi there: first born in Catholic family with a father who was a "dry drunk" depressive w/ ETOH personality. After he retired he began Zoloft and noone could believe the diff. Mom was a nurse; her...

7. What Is the Problem With These Nurses?

   patricelynne replied to Sheri257's topic in General Nursing

   Hi Guys!---My experience in over 30 years has been that the more rarefied the specialty-nursing one is doing, the tougher they come. NICU, CCU, ER for example, vs. regular med-surg wards, general...

8. What was the WORST thing a patient has been brought to ER for?

   patricelynne replied to SteveNNP's topic in Emergency

   Several: A 400+ lb male who wouldn't bathe with gangrenous testes...that ER probably still smells like clostridium Welchi. A baby with a pulse less than 20 bpm due to getting 2cc instead of .02cc...

9. Is there power in the color white?

   patricelynne replied to bbfw2's topic in General Nursing

   I graduated from the last hospital-based three year class at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. [Now they have BSN and beyond programs there.]Graduating out of our "blues" into our whites was...

10. phone calls no outsider would believe

    patricelynne replied to JBudd's topic in Emergency

    Hi Guys---Back in the 70s when I worked in the Johns Hopkins Pediatric ER we had MANY volumes of ridiculous/audacious calls on the poison control phone as well as regular phone. Being a teaching...

11. Desperate !!

    patricelynne replied to mika1's topic in General Nursing

    Hi There---this idea may be of help; see what you can find at these websites: http://www.mygovernmentgrants.com, http://www.nextstudent.com, http://www.findtuition.com, http://www.freegovmoney.net,...

12. 2nd thoughts about being a nurse

    patricelynne replied to smileysenior's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi There---If you haven't heard of this do look into the programs out there fornursing internships. Medical Colleges of VA, Johns Hopkins, LOTS of teaching institutions offer them for a year. They...

13. Job Hunting - I don't understand

    patricelynne replied to Pupnshnooter's topic in General Nursing

    Hi There---Society as a whole in this country has been changing in "appearance" since the end of the 1960s. The focus on being free to do and look any way one wanted, braless or not, impacted so many...

14. Andrea Yates R.N.

    patricelynne replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    I once nursed in a private psych hospital in NY; among others we received all the alcoholic and/or suicidal priests and nuns in that archdiocese---talk about sad. Damned if you do and damned if you...

15. Alaska Emergency Rooms

    patricelynne replied to jenny031's topic in General Nursing

    Hi There---All the "travellers" I've worked with in the past at Prov were pretty-much pleasantly surprised at how wonderful it is up here. MANY have stayed, married here etc., and that's after...