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queenjean

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  1. Attention Attention!!!!!!!!!!!

    queenjean replied to trjohnson0213's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Get a job as an aide on a med/surg floor. You'll learn so much. Particularly if you are a hands on sort of person, or you need demonstration as opposed to reading about it, being on a med/surg floor...

  2. Cleft lip/palate and breastfeeding?

    queenjean replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Depends upon the extent. I've seen mothers breastfeed a baby with a cleft palate with no external assistance; I've seen mothers use a nipple shield to help with the nursing; I've seen mothers use the...

  3. Is there RN to BSN online Accelerated?

    queenjean replied to tabrown1's topic in General Nursing

    Why dont' you check out the schools in your area more closely? Most RN to BSN programs are relatively short if you go full time. There is a classroom based on in my area that is a year. I am...

  4. Unsafe Nursing

    queenjean replied to trimeduRN's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital I work for requires a minimum four week orientation for all new nursing hirees (LPN/RN, new grads or experienced), and if the orientee or preceptor think additional time is needed, the...

  5. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    queenjean replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, you are totally right, there is some sort of culture of entitlement that has developed in our society. I find myself feeding into at different times and have been trying to actively avoid that....

  6. Hepa b positive

    queenjean replied to meyou's topic in International Nursing

    Absolutely you can work in the US as a nurse if you are hep B positive. It is not an issue at all. What requirements would bar it where you are,

  7. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    queenjean replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    My standard response to a trivial request (something like "I need the head of my bed raised...when that button is right next to the call button) is "I'm going to let you do that." Of course, I make...

  8. Are you paid less than new hires?

    queenjean replied to jcaste's topic in General Nursing

    About 10 years ago, the facility where I work had this issue, and instituted something called "compression raises." In effect, whenever they raise the minimum starting salary for new nurses, there is...

  9. Nurses with tattoos

    queenjean replied to Kshel's topic in General Nursing

    We have many nurses with visible tattoos in my facility; some of these nurses are in administration. In my experience, having a tattoo has as much bearing on employment as having glasses. In other...

  10. Do you start your own IVs?

    queenjean replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    We have IV therapy from 7am until 10pm; so during the night we start our own IVs. During the hours that IV therapy is available, they start the IVs unless there are extenuating

  11. Which types of patients should I not take care of while pregnant?

    queenjean replied to RN 4 U's topic in General Nursing

    That's gonna be a big strain on your coworkers, if you refuse to take care of all those Ebola

  12. Tell me if this would be legal

    queenjean replied to catlynLPN's topic in General Nursing

    In our computer system, I (a lowly staff nurse) can chart that someone else gave a med. I cannot unchart, though. Our system always shows who did the charting, changing, etc. So even if *I* chart...

  13. IV Antibiotics

    queenjean replied to TelyRN's topic in General Nursing

    If someone is a full admit, or anyone admitted for chest pain or n/v automatically gets nexium ordered, for the same reasons previous posters have cited--increase risk of stress=increased risk of...

  14. Non-GI C-diff

    queenjean replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know....all I know is there are nights where, if I have a cdiff pt that is terribly incontinent, stools everywhere, and I've smelled it all night, it's all I can smell even after work, and I...

  15. Non-GI C-diff

    queenjean replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, I don't know; it impresses me, especially in those who are chronically infected. Nothing like gowning and gloving every 1/2 hour to spend 10 minutes elbow deep in that mucousy, foul-smelling...

  16. Code blue: family at bedside????

    queenjean replied to ljcraigrn's topic in General Nursing

    Based on your postings, I'm trying to imagine what your inner voice is like. I'm imagining something along the lines of Dr. Cox.... My inner voice is probably somewhere between Rosanne and Dr....

  17. Bike commuters?

    queenjean replied to moonischasingme1's topic in General Nursing

    I ride my bike when it works for my schedule (sometimes it does, sometimes not). It's 3 miles each way; not too bad. I carry my scrubs in my back pack. I *must* shower in the summer; it's usually...

  18. Code blue: family at bedside????

    queenjean replied to ljcraigrn's topic in General Nursing

    Really? You don't think that the opinions of the 15% that survive would in any way be representative of those who die? What about the DMPOAs? If someone has handed their decision making over to...

  19. to sleep or not to sleep???

    queenjean replied to trmr's topic in General Nursing

    Hell yes I will wake them for an assessment--I work on an acute care floor. So, when my pt wakes up in the middle of the night, short of breath with crackles in one lobe, how I am supposed to know if...

  20. Code blue: family at bedside????

    queenjean replied to ljcraigrn's topic in General Nursing

    You've obviously thought and read about this a lot, Timothy. Have you or anyone else come across any studies that compare outcomes with FP codes, or litigation rates? My inclination would be that...

  21. Code blue: family at bedside????

    queenjean replied to ljcraigrn's topic in General Nursing

    It should just be a part of your code team; it is in ours. One of the nurses who is a part of the code team is dedicated to family if family is present. The operator who calls the code also pages...

  22. Pca Key

    queenjean replied to barbyann's topic in General Nursing

    We all have our own PCA key. Just like we have our own key to the med drawers. Eh, I don't see what the big deal is. Our PCA doses are monitored every four hours, any change has to be co-witnessed,...

  23. Did he get too much morphine?

    queenjean replied to Deb123j's topic in General Nursing

    OMG, if I had to get a witness to give every narc I give, they would have to double staff our floor all night. Some nights every one of my pts in on some type of narc, sometimes multiple doses...

  24. Sick kids and nursing school

    queenjean replied to NN2BVE's topic in General Students

    My husband saved up his sick time; when I had class/clinicals and one of the kids was sick, he stayed home. Simple as that. I'd been home for years, arranging my life around the kids; we all knew...

  25. Spanish for OB?

    queenjean posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am trying to learn Spanish. My dh is a spanish teacher, and I took a year in high school, grew up around a lot of Spanish speakers, so I have an ear for it. But I need some help. I can say the...