suni

suni BSN, RN

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  1. 12 Hr Shifts Kick My Butt

    suni replied to RedhairedNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I did 12 hour shifts for 10 years the night 12 for 7 of those years. It was not too bad in the beginning but by the end I was totally toast. My knees and back started to give me trouble and I was...

  2. Computer virus screes

    suni posted a topic in General Nursing

    What computer anti virus/security system do you use? I had a free one but it is running our and I need to purchase

  3. Computer virus screes

    suni replied to suni's topic in General Nursing

    how do i get the free avg

  4. Need help with an activity

    suni replied to JoMom4's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    The first sitedoes not open for me. Also as a Staff Educator in a hospital would it be beneficial to join creative

  5. Help New and Nervous

    suni posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I am relatively new to education and am involved with staff education at my facility. I have always been nervous when speaking to a group of peers and actually get tongue tied. I presented material...

  6. Can graduate nurses work before passing boards?

    suni replied to Aspen1's topic in General Nursing

    In PA you can work as a GN but must always have an RN on the unit with you. I am not sure how long you can work on your temporary permit however most people take the NCLEx within 3

  7. where do you get your continuing education?

    suni replied to mp2100's topic in General Nursing

    There are ceu's offered in most of the nursing journal. Also you can use medscape and wildiris.com to get free hours and the Johnson and Johnson usually has some on there also. The bottom line is that...

  8. Share Your "Brain" Sheet

    suni replied to nurseJ88's topic in Cardiac

    I have to tell you I have been a nurse for 20 years and without my brain sheet I am lost. I need it to remember all the things I have to do and all the patients, I cover 12 patients at a time tooo...

  9. Spelling Bee was Great Entertainment!

    suni replied to Absolutely13's topic in General Nursing

    I was hoping the girl from Harrisburg would win since it is my hometown. I fell asleep so who did end up

  10. Performance Appraisal Goals

    suni replied to celticwoman61's topic in General Nursing

    Some of the things I have used are: Will have 20 contact hours by next evaluation. Will test for orthopedic nursing certification. Will partcipate in a shared gov

  11. wrong route phenergan?

    suni replied to cybernurse614's topic in Patient Medications

    I have seen reactions to Phenergan IV from venous irritation to an area that required debridment. I hate to push but always dilute it, push slowly and usually also apply a warm compress to the site...

  12. Can RN's moonlight as LPN"s?

    suni replied to haitianrn's topic in General Nursing

    so my question is this, if you were an LPN who went back to school and got your RN is there any benefit to maintaining your LPN

  13. Why?

    suni posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Why is it that more postings are not on this forum? As a novice educator this would be a great place for me to network and pick your brains> I have some ideas about what I would like to do but...

  14. Developing Nursing Preceptor Program

    suni replied to hershey's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I am not sure I understand what you all are looking for, our preceptor program has classes for the preceptor. We do bi-weekly meetings with the preceptee, preceptor, Staff Educator and manager of the...

  15. Bloomsburg and Cedar Crest nursing students

    suni replied to lovemeformexox's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I am familiar with the Bloomsburg program although I did not attend it we have had there students for clinicals. We also have quite a few of their grads who work for us.' I do not know what the Cedar...

  16. Bought their BSN?!?!?!

    suni replied to HyperTension's topic in General Nursing

    i know a few years ago there was a website whre you could go on and print an official looking college diploma and just put in whatever you wanted. There was an article in one of the magazines about it...

  17. Regina writes another column

    suni replied to lpn1313's topic in General Nursing

    unfortunately this rings so true, it generally is the visitors that make our life hell, and patients will always be patients to me not customers or

  18. COPD and hospice

    suni posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    My Dad has severe COPD and had an MI which has left him with a 15% EF. Co- morbidities include: HTN, sleep apnea. CHF, COPD, would he be a hospice

  19. AMSN Certification time. Who's studying for the exam?

    suni replied to geekgolightly's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I took the AMSN exam last May and passed! I really did not review much at all because I had no idea how to study. Actually, I found it a little more difficult then I had antcipated and it took me 3...

  20. Agency Nurse Orientation

    suni replied to 80's fan's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    we don,t hire agency

  21. Fellow RN died this morning.

    suni replied to Ali_Oop07's topic in General Nursing

    So sorry for your loss, having worked 12 hour night shifts for many years I can identify with this, twice I almost fell asleep and the one time surely would have been killed if someone else had not...

  22. LPN had more than twice load of the RNs

    suni replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Having been an LPN and now an RN this does happen, however there are certain things that only an RN can do, hang blood, call physicians, sign off orders, take verbal orders, do IVPmed, hang TPN. Until...

  23. Mucomyst iv

    suni replied to msn2008's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Is the information aboujt the filter in the package insert? I have given it IV but just used our regular pump

  24. Starting a Shared Governance Program

    suni replied to WapitiHunter's topic in General Nursing

    our hospital is similiar size and we have shared gov. Each unit has it's own committee such as Ed. QM, Nurse Practice that meets monthly to discuss issues on the unit they way it should work is: QM...

  25. Acute MI Education for non-CC areas

    suni replied to sjt9721's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Have you thought of case studies based on actual presenting patients or ones that have occured on the unit and then you can have staff role play which I hate but is interactive and a great learning...