msjellybean

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  1. answering the patient's daughter's call = invasion of privacy?

    msjellybean replied to neurontin's topic in General Nursing

    This is what my hospital does as

  2. Should I learn nutrition?

    msjellybean replied to EduardoLugo's topic in General Students

    As someone who originally went to school & got a bachelor's in dietetics and then went back and did nursing; I'm very wary of letting nurses take the reins on nutrition education. Telling a pt...

  3. Dear Precepting Student:

    msjellybean replied to Music in My Heart's topic in General Students

    Oh my, this thread has me laughing. OP, I totally know where you're coming from. We have first semester students on our floor right now. One of them has been an EMT, so therefore he thinks he...

  4. Flu shot 2010-2011

    msjellybean replied to alibliss's topic in General Nursing

    Did you receive a VIS at the time of your flu shot? Because it clearly states that H1N1 is included in this years

  5. Physical Assessment and Care plans

    msjellybean replied to blessed2bfree's topic in General Students

    I had an assessment course & I went through an associates

  6. EPIC, documentation & time management advice

    msjellybean replied to Umrn1's topic in General Nursing

    Agree! We use EPIC and one of the more seasoned nurses I work with always complains that her assessments take her forever. Well when I follow after her and see that she's charting respiratory as...

  7. IV Phenergan

    msjellybean replied to Spritenurse1210's topic in General Nursing

    Hate it, but sometimes it's my last line of defense when I've exhausted all my zofran and compazine. I try to only give it last ditch and only then to patients that have central

  8. Intramuscular injection technique tips

    msjellybean replied to dedicate's topic in Patient Medications

    Nothing to say really except on the dart vs the way you described method. I've gotten IMs done both ways. Dart is faster and hurts less,

  9. Experienced nurses: What do student nurses do that drives you nuts?

    msjellybean replied to aem31's topic in General Nursing

    Please please please don't interrupt me during report. And don't argue with me on a patient's activity orders. I know it says "as tolerated" but he's comfort care, can't move his lower extremities...

  10. Any hints on organizing patient info?

    msjellybean replied to eyeball's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Here's the sheet I use. I'm an oncology nurse, so it's tailored to the info I need, you would, of course, want to tweak it to your needs. I filled in the first column with the stuff I usually put...

  11. Do I need a certification to access ports?

    msjellybean replied to ivdude's topic in General Nursing

    In my facility, you're not to access a port unless you've been trained by an onco nurse & have return demonstrated the

  12. How do you stay sexy in nursing school

    msjellybean replied to 2bnurseforce1's topic in General Students

    Your last line reminds me of a girl I went to school with who is one of my best friends and we both work at the same hospital. I should preface this by saying that she's one of those people that is...

  13. Funny doctor orders

    msjellybean replied to laurenicoleRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    This kind of reminds of me a note one of our docs wrote one time. He's notorious for putting random, non-sensical things into his progress notes. I don't remember why the lady was in the hospital,...

  14. What's your hospital policy on blood transfusions?

    msjellybean replied to ADNRN1410's topic in General Nursing

    Plum pumps with blood tubing on the floors, pressure bags with blood tubing in the

  15. A worn out topic

    msjellybean replied to artistnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I stopped reading the thread after your comment, because I felt compelled to agree with you on this. While I was in school, I worked in the hospital's diet office. We have room service style...

  16. First big nursing mistake....need some support

    msjellybean replied to KSU-SN's topic in General Nursing

    That kinda reminds me of a patient that was transferred to our floor. The floor she came from transfused 1 unit of packed cells through her fluids at the time. Which were D51/2NS with 20 of K....

  17. Calling briefs "diapers"....*vent*

    msjellybean replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    When talking to staff, I call them Attends. When referencing them to a patient, I call them underpants. It seems demeaning to me, to call them diapers. I mean, they're already incontinent and...

  18. Do you answer your phone on your day off?

    msjellybean replied to Leelee2's topic in General Nursing

    Generally, no. If I see an incoming call that has a number that my hospital uses (we have two sets of 3 digit prefixes dedicated to us), I do not answer. I also generally don't like to pick up...

  19. Great article re: death and dying

    msjellybean replied to brownbook's topic in General Nursing

    I love love love him. Great article! Just picked up his latest book tonight and it's next on my list to

  20. Confess! Whats the craziest force of habit you've done in the "Real World"

    msjellybean replied to vhern246's topic in Nursing Humor

    I'm always afraid of answering the land line with the usual greeting I give while at work... so I just don't answer it anymore. I operate solely on 2400 time now. I admire veins. When I was a tech,...

  21. Does your day shift have food days?

    msjellybean replied to mappers's topic in General Nursing

    Days will have a carry-in probably once a week. The only time nights eat together is if we decide to order something and even then, it's pretty

  22. Obnoxious overhead announcements at New Orleans hospital

    msjellybean replied to Jbug's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital used to use a clip from the Byrds song. It didn't go over very well and they stopped that pretty

  23. Chemotherapy training

    msjellybean replied to Mayiri's topic in Oncology

    We try to have all the chemo patients (even if they're only getting chemo during the day) go to chemo certified RNs, but sometimes it's just not possible. We're a small unit (12 pts max) and some...

  24. C-U Area RN Jobs

    msjellybean replied to xstarsfallingx's topic in Illinois Nursing

    I don't want to say too much, (as Carle has really been cracking down on what its staff are saying about it in the online world) but they were slow about call backs when I was hired. In addition, the...

  25. Chemotherapy training

    msjellybean replied to Mayiri's topic in Oncology

    I started on an in-pt onco unit in February and I've not yet gotten my certification. The way our unit educator does chemo certification for new grads is thus: she has us on the floor for several...