Lennonninja MSN, APRN, NP

MICU - CCRN, IR, Vascular Surgery

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    Adult-Geriatric Primary Care NP or...?

    Lennonninja replied to David Offenbaker's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I'm starting a AGPCNP program this fall with a very similar situation. I have no desire to work with kids at all, but I worry about marketability too. I hope we're both making the right
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    Committees creeping into time off

    Lennonninja posted a topic in General Nursing

    How important are committees where you work? For my unit at least, membership in at least one committee positively affects your yearly review and raise. I've been a very active part of one of our unit...
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    Committees creeping into time off

    Lennonninja replied to Lennonninja's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, we are paid our normal hourly wage while clocked in for the committee. Otherwise I definitely wouldn't be there! I'm going to try and organize our group to rally against this because I'm sure...
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    Committees creeping into time off

    Lennonninja replied to Lennonninja's topic in General Nursing

    We brought up that the interviews were taking up far too much time back in March. That meeting was 3 hours of interviews, and then the meeting went to 5.5 hours but I had to leave at the normal 4 hour...
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    Is anyone else's ICU more like LTAC?

    Lennonninja replied to ICUchick's topic in Critical Care

    I work in a MICU and it often feels like an LTACH and it frustrates me to no end. We see all of the same stuff people have already mentioned, but our stepdown unit can't take even the most stable of...
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    Working as an RN while in FNP school

    Lennonninja replied to yoganurse22's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I'm starting NP school this fall, and I'm planning to stay in the hospital to have as much flexibility as possible once clinicals start. I'll be working full time until clinicals, and going to school...
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    Journey Before the Storm - Follow Me Through Grad School Episode 101

    Lennonninja replied to BizzyBeeNursing's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Subscribed!
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    2017 application cycle

    Lennonninja replied to tinamayrn's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I've been accepted to the IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) Adult Primary Care NP program! So excited to get
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    Longer commute for less pay. Worth it?

    Lennonninja replied to UseTheForce's topic in General Nursing

    The extra wear and tear and gas for that long of a commute for less money doesn't seem worth it. I got a raise when I took a job that's a 100 mile a day round trip and the commute still kills
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    Are there any Psych/Medical Units?

    Lennonninja replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital has a med/psych floor. It's not a locked unit and it's only a few months old so they're working on getting the kinks worked out, but I believe that it will be a very useful
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    Incentives to orient new hires?

    Lennonninja replied to Lola Lou's topic in General Nursing

    I really enjoy precepting, both capstone students and new employees as well. My new grad experience (at a different facility) wasn't a great one so I strive to make my orientees have a better...
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    New to ICU. What do you hate to see a new ICU nurse do?

    Lennonninja replied to IPMC15's topic in Critical Care

    Label all of your lines at any place where something could be attached at a Y site! I absolutely can't stand to see a bunch of cord spaghetti with no labels anywhere, it's so unsafe and disorganized....
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    What the hail is a 'capstone', anyway?!

    Lennonninja replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    The capstone for my ASN-BSN program was a research paper about how to solve a problem we have seen on our units. I wrote my 17 page paper on the use of chlorhexadine impregnated caps for IV
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    Are questions related to heart murmurs on the CCRN

    Lennonninja replied to Brooklynn89's topic in MICU, SICU

    I had one question about murmurs, and they described it and the location, I had to name
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    Hands off my vent!!

    Lennonninja replied to adventure_rn's topic in Critical Care

    Oh HELL NO!!! If I have "handsy" visitors, I always lock my Alaris pumps on the back so they can't do anything to
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    What was your practice scores for CCRN prep?

    Lennonninja replied to SebassRN's topic in Critical Care

    I bought the PASS CCRN book and used their question
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    What was your practice scores for CCRN prep?

    Lennonninja replied to SebassRN's topic in Critical Care

    I was getting 68% and up on the practice exams, I passed the CCRN last week with a score of 103! I feel like the PASS CCRN practice exams were extremely detailed, and that the actual exam was half of...
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    Calling in for no sleep

    Lennonninja replied to Nurse131382's topic in General Nursing

    I called out for a lack of sleep one time ever. I already had trouble sleeping for night shift and it was getting to panic levels. One day I had a 4 hour long panic attack & couldn't sleep even...
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    ICU nurse testing for CMSRN

    Lennonninja replied to RN_Pink's topic in Critical Care

    Eligibility Criteria | Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Board I guess technically you could be allowed to take it, but 5 years in ICU, and getting a certification that's under your...
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    Being called in to work extra.. ALL. THE. TIME!

    Lennonninja replied to 20plusyearRN's topic in General Nursing

    I get calls for day and night shift both, usually once or twice a day. I blocked that number about a year ago and have been much happier ever since. I don't work OT very much because I know it will...
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    Hospital with Money Back Guarantee

    Lennonninja replied to twss2323's topic in General Nursing

    What I really loved is that not only is it no questions asked, but they can request any amount of refund that they think they deserve! What happens when the etohers in withdrawal start requesting...
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    ICU Patient Ratios

    Lennonninja replied to Misnim's topic in Critical Care

    How does an RN have a cvvh assignment and not a patient assignment in your unit? If my patient is on cvvh I'm 1:1 with them, and doing all of their care, assessments, and running the machine as well....
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    Questionable legal and ethical violations within a department??

    Lennonninja replied to ednrs4life's topic in General Nursing

    Our Pyxis machines are set up so that I can select a time frame, say 0800-1000 and it will highlight all of the meds due within that time. That's how I miraculously remember which meds to pull. Also,...
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    What have you learned in nursing school that was utter nonsense?

    Lennonninja replied to TheMiss's topic in General Nursing

    Nonesense and outdated - making nursing
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    Hospital that bans family members

    Lennonninja replied to paramedic-RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Our policy is to not allow visitors to bring food or drinks into the patient rooms, especially when the patient is NPO, that's just cruel. If we start giving them juice and crackers, then what's next?...