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queenjean

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  1. Moral Dilemmas

    queenjean replied to happyhelpert's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I've come to learn that EVERYONE can be judged by others. On any given night I can have 6 different patients, and I'll bet if I dig deep enough, I can find something within their moral fiber...

  2. can you be an rn if you take antidepressants in CA

    queenjean replied to sunshinegirl68's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know.....can you take antihypertension medications and still be a nurse? Can you be diabetic and have to inject yourself with insulin and still be a nurse? Mental illnesses are diseases to...

  3. Heparin

    queenjean replied to YoungRN06's topic in Medical-Surgical

    If they were compatible, I have ran the antibiotics through another pump into the heparin line closer to the pt. Not the ideal, but sometimes you do what you gotta do. Also, plan for your next...

  4. Horizontal violence is ruining my unit

    queenjean replied to funmom's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a floor that seems to be imploding right now. I can't transfer for a while for a variety of reasons....I really like most of the people I work with, it's just that personalities do NOT mesh...

  5. Praying with your patient

    queenjean replied to MShell's topic in General Nursing

    I do want to comment; I does make me uncomfortable when a person in a position of power over me asks me if I want to pray with them. Once this happened when I was in the hospital, and once a doc in...

  6. How many patients?

    queenjean replied to sistasoul's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Staffing is the same on my floor, night or day. We have either 3-4 pts (usually start with 3, increase to four with an admit) if we don't have an aide working with us--called TPC (total pt care). If...

  7. drawing blood from picc or port

    queenjean replied to veronica butterfly's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I don't think the PICCs can hold that much fluid at any one time; why would the manufacturer recommend flushing with a certain amount if it wasn't enough? Our facility does not need an order to draw...

  8. Newbie nurse with a ? about perineal massage.

    queenjean replied to Calzonan RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Has anyone here HAD perineal massage performed on them during labor??? I have, and it HURT SO BAD. It made me clench up and want to back off of labor. I would actually stop pushing every time the...

  9. Medication Barcoding:Comments welcome

    queenjean replied to OB/RNDEBBIEROSE's topic in Patient Medications

    I like the untethered hand held device as opposed to the tethered one. Both have their advantages, but the handheld one works best, in my opinion. Our entire system is Cerner. I've only worked one...

  10. Doing away with 12 hour shifts?

    queenjean replied to nckdl's topic in General Nursing

    They can pry my 12 hour shift from my cold, dead hands. If all facilities would go back to 8s, I'd probably leave hospital/facility nursing all together. I can't do this job 5 days a

  11. Praying with your patient

    queenjean replied to MShell's topic in General Nursing

    Hey there, I'm an athiest living in the bible belt. In short, if a family member or pt asks me to pray with them, I will, as long as I don't have to say much. If I am expected to insert my own...

  12. Opinion poll about IV practices in chemotherapy

    queenjean replied to loalb6's topic in General Nursing

    If you mean "chemotherapy" in general terms of medications used to treat disease, and not agents specific to cancer treatment, I'll respond. We never hang by gravity. The exception to this would be...

  13. IV Protonix

    queenjean replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    When you say "chemotherapy" do you mean the medications given for cancer treatment, or do you mean medications in general? I know that there are different interpretations of the word, depending upon...

  14. recommendation letters addressed to?

    queenjean replied to LadyQT's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Think about this for a second. Your professors aren't going to have the time or interest to write five different letters of recommendation for you and each of your classmates. Plus, what are they...

  15. Having Trouble telling people I'm an LPN

    queenjean replied to gt4everpn's topic in General Nursing

    I was an LPN for many years, and now am an RN. When people asked me my job, I said I was a nurse. When they asked me what I was going to school for, I'd say I was advancing my nursing degree. If...

  16. Which is better, handwashing or hand sanitizer?

    queenjean posted a topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital encourages the use of hand sanitizer (but does not discourage handwashing). I must say, I like it. They are positioned by the door of each room. I use it on my way in and out of each...

  17. Bizzare

    queenjean replied to magz53's topic in Ob/Gyn

    :icon_roll

  18. Nurses writing up nurses?

    queenjean replied to txRN07's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, in my hospital the night shift nurses do a 24 hour chart check. We check that all orders and meds from the last 24 hours have been entered into the computer system correctly, and we check...

  19. Nursing theory-Do you use it at work?

    queenjean replied to grdstdnt's topic in First Year After Licensure

    What nursing theory do we use at work? Uh, that would be a big fat NONE. Unless you count eating pizza-at-4-am-and-drinking-beer-at-8-am-after-work theory, laughing-at-the-world's-longest-fart...

  20. On Fellow Students Not Studying For NCLEX PN

    queenjean replied to eldragon's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't remember how long I had between graduation and my NCLEX-PN boards, but I didn't take a reveiw or study one lick and passed on the first attempt. For my RN I had to take an NCLEX review as part...

  21. med math

    queenjean replied to mrssmith's topic in General Nursing

    We had to buy a stupid book. I do fine with math, so I didn't find the book helpful at all; I wish it had been optional. We had optional assignments out of it, and then we had three tries to pass...

  22. Anyone know when JCCC will send letters for Fall '07 ADN???

    queenjean replied to momma&nurse2B's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe you should call the school and ask; that'd probably be the most direct way to go about it.

  23. Movie: "The Business of Being Born."

    queenjean replied to epiphany's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I would like someone to address the statement that other countries don't count preterm births as live births in their statistics. I have heard both that this is true and that it is untrue. Does...

  24. Moral Distress

    queenjean replied to LadyJRN1's topic in General Nursing

    I had some terrible distress over an incident that still bothers me, many years later. The doctor's office I used to work for contarcted to provide care for a group home for girls who were in the...

  25. Nurses writing up nurses?

    queenjean replied to txRN07's topic in General Nursing

    You are still completely undermining your risk management department. How does your charge nurse know what happens on other units? Does she work every day, all day and night? You are taking care of...