jamato8

jamato8

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  1. Agency Nurse doesn't know how to start IVs?

    jamato8 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    The floor where I worked, a pccu, normally had 5 to 10 iv starts a day. I have started more IV's than I can remember. It never occured to me that any RN would not have plenty of experience with IV's....

  2. RN listing LPN as professional reference?

    jamato8 replied to Almabella's topic in General Nursing

    I have had a doctor ask me to give him a reference. We are professionals so why would we not provide professional references when

  3. Agency Nurse doesn't know how to start IVs?

    jamato8 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    In Tucson, where I worked, you started an IV if ordered by a doctor or it was a standing order otherwise we were told in no uncertain terms, we were doing a procedure that was out of our scope of...

  4. Agency Nurse doesn't know how to start IVs?

    jamato8 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting that you can start IV's on coworkers. An IV normally has to be ordered or part of the standing orders and to start one otherwise is practicing medicine without a license, in a normal...

  5. ACLS Certification computer based?

    jamato8 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone have experience with CPR Assoiates of Oregon? They state that they, upon passing the computer based, not online based, program that they issue an ACLS certification card from the AHA. A...

  6. ACLS Certification computer based?

    jamato8 replied to jamato8's topic in General Nursing

    You have a good point. I think that for the first time person or someone who doesn't attend codes it would not be the best idea. I have attended many codes and am normally the one doing the pumping on...

  7. Why are RN's so fat!

    jamato8 replied to MoriahRoseRN's topic in General Nursing

    When in critical care and a nurse has to gasp for breath during a code, fat ain't no fun. I came to work one day and when going through orthopedics there were 4 nurses in the hall. I had to excuse...

  8. ACLS Certification computer based?

    jamato8 replied to jamato8's topic in General Nursing

    I would prefer to do it in person, which I have always done but my card runs out this month and there are no programs open until May. I was in China for the past year and a half so this is the reason...

  9. Associate to Bachelor Degree

    jamato8 replied to Ace1979's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    For many ADN's it is about 4 years so I have never figured that out. I have worked with nurses from the 2 year programs to PhD's and frankly it is the nurse and experience and desire to use the latest...

  10. Is it true that a BSN will be mandatory soon?

    jamato8 replied to szccdw's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Where I am here in Arizona, I have seen many 2 year and 4 year nurses starting out and the 2 year program here prepares the students with more hands on. It is still true here but maybe not in other...

  11. Associate to Bachelor Degree

    jamato8 replied to Ace1979's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I see a number of places that offer online BSN's with some clinical and then there was one on this site with no clinical needed and your own scheduling. I am interested in one with no clinical and my...

  12. Entry all RN's be BSN's

    jamato8 replied to nursebrandie28's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I have seen no push at all. I have an associates and after one year was asked if I would become a charge nurse in a cardiac critical care unit. I knew I needed more experience but ADN or BSN was not...