heathIam RN

heathIam has 36 years experience as a RN.

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1. How long should it take a nurse to be competent in a new area?

   heathIam replied to heathIam's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Thanks for your responses. We have already implemented actions along the lines of what has been suggested. The emerging concern is the apparent inability to transfer learning from one situation to...

2. Ever Refuse a MD order?

   heathIam replied to Leelee2's topic in General Nursing

   I am astounded at this AND that it was allowed to continue over years! Where the hell was this resident's supervisor? Succinycholine isn't even pain medication, it's paralysis! Why was this not...

3. How long should it take a nurse to be competent in a new area?

   heathIam posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Looking for some suggestions and ideas of what is a reasonable expectation here...in the past the picu I work in had a fairly unforgiving attitude that if you didn't get it within a short period of...

4. Is it to late for me to become a Nurse?

   heathIam replied to louis345's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   No, not too old, but I would be concerned about your willingness to be swayed by the opinions of others so easily. You also need to realize there are hundreds of different kinds of nursing, so just...

5. Another nurse bites the dust due to facebook

   heathIam replied to siringe's topic in Nursing News

   There's an old adage in nursing - you can't fix stupid. Facebook, twitter and all the other social networking sites prove the adage true. People are willfully stupid about what they post online and...

6. I am an American.

   heathIam replied to UnionRN2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Cultural sensitivity gone amuck. I find it hard to understand how a manager would even suggest such a thing to the staff. I like the idea of asking for a behavioural policy for this. Dare them to make...

7. Coworker quit/fired! Should we know what happened or not?

   heathIam replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   Absolutely no right to know this extermely private information. Our culture has gone way too far in thinking exveryone's private life is within thier shere of 'right to know'. Just because we can know...

8. 6th attempt on Nclex ---> PASS!!!!!

   heathIam replied to jadu1106's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   Oh yes please, close it down so that words that might disturb the so called positive encouragement won't have to be viewed. Or thought about, or considered. Very sad and disturbing that raising...

9. 6th attempt on Nclex ---> PASS!!!!!

   heathIam replied to jadu1106's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   Thanks to kty1, at the very least I know that there are others out there who see the problems and are concerned enough to speak

10. 6th attempt on Nclex ---> PASS!!!!!

    heathIam replied to jadu1106's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    See, all those who posted at what a mean, negative person I was to attack those poor, dedicated people who keep writing their exams are perhaps a good part of what is wrong with nursing. I didn't...

11. 6th attempt on Nclex ---> PASS!!!!!

    heathIam replied to jadu1106's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    My kind of judgement? Wow! talk about judgement. You know nothing about me other than that I have posted I fear for the profession, the patients and the staff due to the dumbing down of nursing. Let...

12. 6th attempt on Nclex ---> PASS!!!!!

    heathIam replied to jadu1106's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Ok, first off I want to say here that I am in no way casting aspersions on teh author of this thread, but I just need to ask...Is anyone else but me concerned that nurses are practicing who had...

13. Most RN's first borns?

    heathIam replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

    First born female but second born in the family. My older brother is a doctor (does that count?) but my father never drank. So that blows that theory. Just to add to the statistics, my mother, also a...

14. You Know the patient is going bad when...

    heathIam replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yeah, that reminds me of the liver transfusion method favoured in PICU - another sign things are going badly with your

15. You Know the patient is going bad when...

    heathIam replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

    When your HR, SBP, PAP, sats, RR and innotrop infusion rates all equal 50 (actually, this is the celestial traige sign; they have already GONE bad!) When you hear the words ECMO and TRANSPORT in the...