mountainnurse

mountainnurse specializes in Emergency.

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1. COBRA insurance between jobs....

   mountainnurse replied to mountainnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Does anyone know if we were able to qualify for an individual policy and have continuous coverage during the next 3 months if the new policy I get at my new job would be able to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions? If so this might be a le...

2. COBRA insurance between jobs....

   mountainnurse replied to mountainnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks everyone... We will just have to bite the bullet and pay the $$ for a few months. The good news is I will be making more money and the cost of living is significantly lower so it will be do-able for a little while. Do I ask HR about COBRA at ...

3. COBRA insurance between jobs....

   mountainnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi everyone! I am curious if anyone out there has used COBRA to bridge their health insurance between jobs. I have been offered a great new job closer to my family and my husband and I are moving the 1st of next month. Both of us are young and had no...

4. co-worker issue

   mountainnurse replied to mountainnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for everyone's replies. I think I will try to speak to her and try to find some resolution between us and if she is not receptive then I will ask her to sit down with one of our CN or admin and figure it out. I am not sure if the CN talked to ...

5. co-worker issue

   mountainnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been working at this hospital for 1 year and from the very first day I met this person it has been clear from her end that we are not going to be friends. She was very cold when I attempted to get to know her, and commonly rolled her eyes whil...

6. adenosine for ER nurses

   mountainnurse replied to sunshineonleith's topic in General Nursing

   Where I work we always have two nurses, MD at the bedside, crash cart at the bedside and in certain cases pads placed on the pt's chest. The adenosine is pushed rapidly into the closest port, ideally in an AC vein and immediately followed by a 20 ml ...

7. How do you treat involuntary holds?

   mountainnurse replied to New2ED's topic in Emergency

   Our ER calls security when a patient is placed on an 8 hour hold and within minutes a security officer is at the bedside. The problem is what happens next. A recent policy change states that the security officer is not allowed to touch the patient so...

8. Grossest Thing You've Ever Seen

   mountainnurse replied to sicushells's topic in General Nursing

   I work in the ER and a patient came in from a SNF with an infected fistula with an opening to the lower abdomen. When we removed the bandage, the weight of my hand above the opening caused purulent drainage to POUR out:eek: and quickly run down in b...

9. What overwhelms you the most? What did NS NOT prepare you for?

   mountainnurse replied to BeenThereDoneThat74's topic in New Nurse

   I am a new grad working in the ED and while I was nervous about the skills I hadn't had much practice with, I got plenty of time to practice with my preceptor and if something comes up that I have never done before, my co-workers are ALWAYS there to...

10. Stupidest reason to go to ER

    mountainnurse replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency

    toothache x 30 minutes brought in by medics, nothing wrong with the tooth, he later admitted he was bored and wanted to get out of the house

11. How is this fair?????????

    mountainnurse replied to jg11785's topic in General Nursing

    My school has integrated the ATI tests into our core classes as our final exams. We had to take the comprehensive ATI before graduating and pass with a 95% probability rate of passing NCLEX (I think this translates somewhere in the high 60% range). I...

12. Nurses: what's your Myers-Briggs classification??

    mountainnurse replied to Diary/Dairy's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting... ISFJ here, so according to this I am in the right profession!

13. can you help?

    mountainnurse posted a topic in Oncology

    HI, I am doing a case study for my last semester of nursing school and I am looking to see what connection there is between spontaneous pneumothorax and metastatic lung cancer. I need to find articles in nursing journals to back up my research from t...

14. Questions about preceptorship

    mountainnurse replied to mountainnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I know how that feels Thanks for the advice, I definitely have been seeking out other experiences and the other nurses have been warm and extremely helpful. I have so much respect for the nursing profession and most of the nurses I have worked with t...

15. Questions about preceptorship

    mountainnurse replied to mountainnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for everyone's input. Triagethis, I don't see your response, did you mean to write something else?