mountainnurse

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Hi, I am new to this site and have encountered a question that I can't seem to find a definitive answer to. I am a second year nursing student and have been asked to prioritize care of four patients with abnormal cardiac rhythms. We have not been giv...

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...

Hi everyone, I am in my last semester of nursing school currently doing my preceptorship the emergency room which I was REALLY excited about starting. My first couple days with my preceptor have been really disappointing and I am trying to make the b...

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...

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

I can't thank you enough for your thoughtful advice. I will most certainly discuss the best course of action with my instructor. We have been taught to voice concerns with the individual with whom we have a problem, should I let her know how I am fee...

Thank you for the advice. I will speak with my instructor on Monday, she is really great so hopefully she can give me some guidance. I agree that I need a good preceptor. This is soooo disappointing to me because I have been looking forward to this e...

How should I go about this without stepping on her toes? She has ALOT of pull around there and I was hopeful to work in this department when I graduate.

Thank you so much for your thoughts. I think it is something we have to learn as nursing students that every patient will present differently and we can't know what is going on based soley on the monitor. This is why I have so much trouble with this...

I have had the same problem because there is not enough info. Can you tell me why you chose sinus brady over A fib? I thought with the risk of emboli that this would be a priority... I would love to know your reasoning. We are not suppossed to pi...

Thank you so much for your input!!! I was thinking the same thing because there is more that can be done to treat sinus brady, and pts in the hospital are under stress which can cause sinus tach without pathological causes. Does anyone have other t...

Hi, I am new to this site and have encountered a question that I can't seem to find a definitive answer to. I am a second year nursing student and have been asked to prioritize care of four patients with abnormal cardiac rhythms. We have not been g...

We haven't been told whether or not they are symptomatic, would you still assess this over A fib?