jmtndl

jmtndl

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

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  1. What do you wish for in a break room?

    jmtndl replied to RNmom08's topic in General Nursing

    We had a Flexi-Seal Insertion poster in our break room untill I took it down!

  2. VERY Important Interview Question!!!

    jmtndl replied to LostNurse24's topic in General Nursing

    NO,no,no...don't give up! We are out here, you just have to find us. We are old experienced nurses who do not eat our young! We love to teach! I precepted a girl for 6 months in the NICU! I am a night...

  3. Agency work in DFW? Recommendations/warnings?

    jmtndl replied to dfwccrn's topic in Texas Nursing

    I worked for Pro-Touch for many years and was very happy. It is owned by a nurse and they always did right by me. I am now in Houston and we use nurses out of their Houston office.I would reccommend...

  4. Saddest I've ever been at work

    jmtndl replied to joeb1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    One of the saddest situations I have ever seen was a premature 21 week birth.The lady was delivering with bulging membranes. The amniotic sac was intact and coming out. The baby was devlivering feet...

  5. packing a child in ice for a fever of 105 degrees?

    jmtndl replied to TooterIA's topic in General Nursing

    As far as I know this is an old practice that was abandoned years ago. We did it when I worked a pediatriac emergency room in 1978. Then it became known that rebound temps could ocur, plus it is like...

  6. help..

    jmtndl replied to charli's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know what the "ten carative factors developed by Jean Watson" are, but I look my patient in the eyes, do no do anything else, or interrupt, while I am listening to them, and answer all their...

  7. Held Down and Forced to Take The FLu Shot

    jmtndl replied to Nurse_FF_EMT's topic in General Nursing

    So what is the name of this facility and where is it

  8. Drug Screening

    jmtndl replied to Inquisitive one's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Do you realize how absolutely Orwellian you sound..."or the state"?Do you think they use at work? That is one matter...or do you just "think they

  9. What do you think of JCAHO?

    jmtndl replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I have always thought that JCAHO would be much more useful if they spent their time counting horse droppings at the Kentucky Derby. And I have dealt with them for 35

  10. Somalian patients

    jmtndl replied to Zhlake's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It does seem reasonable for me to expect my culture to be respected in my home country. I have always respected the culture and customs in the countries where I have visited and worked. In Saudi, I...

  11. Trouble c accents at work?

    jmtndl replied to Suninmyheart's topic in General Nursing

    I think diversity is fine and I don't think accents...per se.. are the point. We are not all about tolerence of accent or no tolerence of accents.We are supposed to be about the patient. I work in a...

  12. How much did you start as a nurse and when.

    jmtndl replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in General Nursing

    $2.18 an hour at the ER at John Gaston in Memphis,TN in 1973. And that was with "hazard pay". I had just worked my way thru nursing school at $1.18 and hour so I thought I was stepping in tall...

  13. Colorado - Illegal Immigrants no longer eligble for state health care

    jmtndl replied to hope3456's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Excuse me...in reference to the man in the dementia unit that can't,apparently, be moved and is illegal..why not involve the

  14. Colorado - Illegal Immigrants no longer eligble for state health care

    jmtndl replied to hope3456's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Why don't you call the