jmtndl

jmtndl

NICU,ICU,ER,MS,CHG.SUP,PSYCH,GERI

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About jmtndl

jmtndl has 38 years experience and specializes in NICU,ICU,ER,MS,CHG.SUP,PSYCH,GERI.


a little cynical but w/ a good heart...very tired of BS

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  1. Hardest Thing to Learn

    The patients are the best,easiest part. I love them,figure out what they need, get more brains involved if I can't figure them out, and document with excellence. The hardest part has been discovering and accepting that hospital and nursing administra...
  2. Toxic,bully manager

    We have a new very toxic bullying manager and I am at a total loss what to do. She changes routines that work and feels it is appropriate to make people "move out of their comfort zone", which I have always felt should be a personal choice. She openl...
  3. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    She should be charged with involuntary manslaughter and lose her license. Her careless action resulted in a nightmarish death for a patient. I feel for her, but I feel more for a lady who laid in a long banging tube and slowly suffocated to death com...
  4. Is it like this everywhere now?

    Um, I'm in the day now with my ADN at a job I've worked at for 5 years. They are still hiring ADNs.
  5. GA Teen Contracted HIV from a hair weave? Really?!?!

    you know a virgin in Texas got pregnant from a flu shot...
  6. Can I get hep C without a needle stick?

    TB mask and negative air flow for Hep C? When did Hep C become airborne?
  7. Night Shift Group Hug =)

    I'm about to shoot myself in the foot here but....does the hospital close down if you don't work 10 12-hour shifts in a row? Is that even safe? Does your manager not arrange for enough staff because he/she doesn't have to because the night shift will...
  8. new device...a little rant

    I just attended an inservice on a new device. It is an LVAD pump on a catheter that must be placed exacxtly between the left ventrical and tha aortic root and sucks blood from the ventrical and gooshes it into the aorta. I am seriously wondering abou...
  9. new device...a little rant

    inservice on new device is anxiety producing
  10. Medication test Kindred

    It's a basic med test, not difficult, but has some trick questions on it. Read all questions completely and think a minut before answering.
  11. Do you clean bedpans or throw them out?

    I put the bedpan in the trash then remove the trash from the room so I'm not leaving a stinky bedpan in the patient's room. Housekeeping doesn't even know.
  12. Quality of life VS. quantity of life.

    Dying with Dignity is for those with a condition that prevents them from an expectation of life,not for those who are so depressed they don't want to live,even tho they may not be overtly suicidal.Please reach out for help! Recontact your family with...
  13. Has being a nurse changed your outlook on...

    Nursing has totally changed how I view physicians. You can't bill a dead person.I have seen orders "Place feeding tube Monday then discharge to nursing home Tuesday on Hospice." I have seen Stage 4 decubes debrieded. I have seen 1 mg of Dilaudid IV q...
  14. Moral Distress In Nursing

    It exists! This is my job! Sometimes I feel that my patients feel like they are in Hell. 68, end-stage Alzheimers, metastatic cancer, decub the size of a dinner plate, trach/vent, PEG, Full Code. 84, end-stage Alzheimers, ETT/vent (trach later this ...
  15. pre-employment drug screen...too dilute?

    Happened to me and freaked me out! Got a call-back...questioned veeery suspiciously about why I drank so much water before the test (...??because I had to pee for them??) Went back after walking around to let my pee concentrate (!) and all was fine!S...