jojotoo

jojotoo RN

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  1. Need help with IV technique

    This is good advice. Stop looking and start feeling for veins. And if you can't get some time in Day Surgery for practice, you should already have an "in" at the ERs that you service. WE are always...
  2. Experienced Nurses Only

    With an attitude like yours, there's only going to be one place for you in nursing - the ER!! So hurry up and finish school and come on down - we'll be waiting! (That's were the cool kids
  3. Experienced Nurses Only

    Good point!!
  4. Call the LTC and say something to the effect: How you've been out of the workforce for such an extended period of time and how you are excited about their job offer and that you just want a little...
  5. Experienced Nurses Only

    I totally agree. If I need specific advice for my practice I go to the speciality forum for Emergency
  6. Mom needs advice please!!!

    It's not the graduation rate from the school that you need to worry about, it's the pass rate for the LVN boards. We started with 60 students in my ADN program and had 12 graduate at the end of two...
  7. patient satisfaction

    You ARE kidding,
  8. Experienced nurses, please help!

    You know, you can only smell if you breathe through your nose. Try just breathing through your
  9. Is 26 too old to go back to school?

    Finished nursing school at 36, now 51, and have LOTS of years yet to
  10. Ethical considerations

    Welcome! And that was a well thought out post and something for us all to think about.
  11. Rules for the ER (long)

    LOL!!!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: This post just goes to show that the ER is the same all over the country. Same story - different
  12. ER violence

    THANK YOU!! I personally appreciate your willingness to get
  13. I think I would get some more clarification from my MD. I f Mono is only transmitted via droplets and you aren't planning on kissing or spitting on anyone, I don't think this should be a patient...
  14. Oops, sorry! Son got wrong vaccination

    Actually, I think this constitutes a
  15. Anybody buy their own private insurance?

    NSO
  16. Anybody buy their own private insurance?

    Not only could you lose what you have now, but a judgement could be awarded against you for future
  17. petty ? about med student

    This is a very good attitude. The nurses that you will work with will appreciate it. And it's the nursing staff that will be the ones to save your butt (if it ever needs saving.) A little...
  18. What's YOUR favorite specialty area?

    ER!!! Feast or famine - treat em and street em! Out the door to the
  19. Questions re:Bible passage and nursing

    If you don't have time to do a scrub, and the odor is having everyone running for the exit - coat their feet with Maalox. Once that dries it's a pretty good odor barrier (especially if you use the...
  20. How Did you survive???????

    Shut your mouth. Do as you are told. Keep a low profile. And know if you do these things, it will eventually be over and you will be able to make a pretty good living for yourself. (You can...
  21. patient satisfaction

    Ha!Ha!Ha! IF ONLY!!!
  22. Questions re:Bible passage and nursing

    I think this means - put your money where your mouth
  23. My first few days, as a new RN

    The theory behind nurse/ patient ratios is great, but the practical application doesn't always work out as planned. My hospital is staffing the floors as close to the bone as possible. Each shift...
  24. How far do you commute to work?

    18.4 miles one way. That can be anywhere from 35 minutes to 1 1/2 hours depending on traffic. (Los
  25. ER Nurses. Read This!

    How nice to have public