JBudd MSN

WHOA! Where did that image on my original post come from??!! okay.............. I know I'm not that talented LOL. I'm at work , in triage, waiting for someone to come through the door.... (finally go my uniform out of the dryer)

Mine was ESL nursing students; lots of articles about programs various schools tried, and almost none of them done in a research manner.

Heheheh; karma works both ways! Congratulations!

I went into my own ER once (many years ago), with wheezing and coughing; just needed a neb. They were swamped as usual, gave me a hall bed. The nurses were so busy, after my VS were done, I just filled in most of the paper chart myself ( allergies...

Old enough to take personal responsibility, young enough to have an open mind and willingness to learn. How many winters you've seen has nothing to do with maturity ?

Dimensional analysis fits just about every problem I can think of; I taught DA when teaching med calc for several years. Our students had to pass at 100%.

No, it is not too old. I've had nursing students in their late 50s, and at least one over 60. He got hired by my hospital, after doing clinicals there. What is your associate's degree in? Here, LVNs are LPNs, (semantics), but most work in lon...

My hospital was the first in our state to get Pfizer vaccines; I got mine on the 2nd day it was offered, and the repeat in early January. Why? I have a personal hx of getting things! PEs postop, HepB while volunteering overseas, Breast cancer ...

Once can be a misunderstanding, twice suspicious, repeated: it is a real pattern that needs rebuking. One may be too thin OR too thick skinned, balance is key.

Nope. No dating. Especially not if exchanging numbers while in hospital. Now if you meet them socially somewhere else by coincidence and things take off... you might have met them anyway and no big deal. I live in a semi-small city, that does happ...

Never hurts to ask. My union negotiated an extra few dollars for having an MSN at our hospital (I'm bedside). The honors part, not so much, just the degree. Just a question, while you were getting the other degrees, why not finish getting your...

Was this the manager that gave you "excedes" ratings? I doubt very much all the other managers think that of you. And you agreeing to switch with someone else at their request can hardly be interpreted as you wimping out on something. If that ...

I'm with the "just ignore" them group. One time isn't enough to go to battle over. If this becomes repetitive, to the point of harrassement, then you can get a manager involved. But it needs to be significantly more than a one time mocking of a sp...

It isn't perfect, but it works. We are told to have our patients out of the ER in 15-30 minutes within receiving a room assignment. There is a place where we can look to see if the floor nurse has checked the EMR review. We are expected to keep cha...

"Ryan's sentence includes a three-year deferred judgment on the felony count and three years probation on the misdemeanor count, as well as 100 hours of community service, mental health treatment and anger management therapy, according to the DA's of...

Well, for many years my hospital was the only one in town, and is self insured, so there was no anonymity for me or my husband. Many of my nurses were also former students of mine (I taught them health assessment), talk about intimidation, LOL. One...

60 years nurse for 39 years; candystriper at 14, nurse's aide at 17

My knee jerk reaction is, yeah get rid of him. But why are you with him to begin with? Is he super supportive in the rest of your life? Does he love you so deeply that your happiness is more important to him than anything else (except for his son o...

I've had several celebs, usually had no idea who they were as I'm just not up on the Who'sWho type world. Other staff tells me later, ? One told me which award she had won, I still had to Google her and what the award was..... Had a guest star on a ...

ER here as well. Our masks and face shields are the in clinical supervisors office, but the clin sups will hand them out. We are supposed to keep the face shield and wipe it down, for an indeterminant length of time (not just the shift). I made a bu...

That happened to me when I was diagnosed with breast cancer; I was (am) part time. They said I was short by about 40 hours, but I had lost 48 hours to jury duty. HR tried to claim that didn't count! But I fought, saying I would have worked those d...

Just got back in the country after a six week hiatus. Went to Wallyworld just to buy some basics to restock the house (my pet/house sitter used most of it, 6 weeks after all ? ). The shelves were totally stripped! no TP, no paper towels, no saniti...

Good Lord! NO! You can take verbal orders, and they are written as verbal or telephone orders with your name and the MD's; but it still has to be cosigned whether electronic or on paper. As said above, signing his name (without yours) is forgery...

Why bother with the bag? If I'm giving it through a saline lock, I might dilute with a saline flush to make pushing it slowly easier, but only a few mLs. Just don't give faster than 10 mg/minute; risks ototoxicity. You didn't say what dose you are ...

ICU is tough for a new grad.