Jacobero

Jacobero specializes in Pulmonary.

Latest Activity

1. Different pay depending on area - is this common

   Jacobero replied to Jacobero's topic in General Nursing

   No, that wouldn't be it, we don't have different hospitals. We have different departments, for example, Dept of Medicine, Dept of Women's and Children, Dept of Surg At least I'm not the only one that thinks this is odd. My hospital has done a few sk...

2. Different pay depending on area - is this common

   Jacobero posted a topic in General Nursing

   I recently transferred from a med/surg floor to the NICU, and found out that now that I'm in the Dept of Women's and Childrens, that my shift differnetials are reduced by 10%. When I was working med/surg I would get 20% of my base rate for evening di...

3. When people say they are nurses but not...

   Jacobero replied to Jacobero's topic in General Nursing

   Dutchgirl... Those are my thoughts exactly! I

4. Which will help me get to NICU eventually??

   Jacobero replied to SAP2008's topic in NICU

   I'm glad to hear this, as a nurse with nearly two years of adult med/surg vent expirience, it's disheartening to hear that some think that having that expirieince is a barrier to being successful in the NICU. As for the original poster, I wish that I...

5. Were You a Nursing Assistant

   Jacobero replied to pat8585's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, I was a tech at a hopsital while I was in nursing school. I feel that it helped reinforce some of the knowledge learned in school, gave me practical expirience with patients (how to deal with them!), and I would help out in any way I could, so I...

6. When people say they are nurses but not...

   Jacobero posted a topic in General Nursing

   Does it bother you? The sister of my SIL is in nursing school, graduating soon (I think) but since she started taking nursing courses, the entire family- including this girl talk like she is a nurse. It drives me insane. Yes, you are in nursing schoo...

7. Why isolette covers?

   Jacobero replied to grlgid's topic in NICU

   I look at it this way...the womb is pretty dark and quiet...sounds are muffled, and the predominant sound the baby in utero hears is mom's heartbeat, blood and bowel sounds. The more we can re-create that setting for a baby who really is supposed to ...

8. NICU anxiety....

   Jacobero replied to Jacobero's topic in NICU

   Well, after a couple more days I'm feeling a little bit better. Next week I start my "real" orientation - I had been between my old unit and the NICU doing a few days on both. I have the hang of doing an assessment and vitals and getting the hang of ...

9. Allowing infected staff to work--your thoughts please!

   Jacobero replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU

   Ok, I've been working in the NICU all of two weeks and I'm shocked that this is allowed to happen. This wouldn't have been permitted on my dirty-old med surg floor...for many reasons - infection, narcotics. I'd try to bring this up the chain of comm...

10. RNs- Mostly first born? Alcoholic fathers?

    Jacobero replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I replied that niether parents alcoholic, however, my mother is from an alcoholic family, and later (after I left home) developed some dependency issues. Some could argue that my father is dependant on alcohol, because he does have one beer a day on ...

11. what time do you give meds....

    Jacobero replied to Nurseismade RN's topic in New Nurse

    We have an hour each way. I do try to combine as much as I can, like if someone is perscribed a multivitamin and the nurse before me puts it at 4pm, I might go ahead and give it with the 6 pm's as long as there is no contraindication. Or I'd just ch...

12. Head to toe assessment....how long does it take you?

    Jacobero replied to CareBayer's topic in General Nursing

    I never timed myself, but we do walking report, and that helps a little to get a first time visual on a patient. Then, while giving 8 am meds, I listen to lungs, check how much o2 they are on (I work on an adult pulmonary) or do the vent check quick...

13. Upstate NY (schools and working)

    Jacobero replied to Satori77's topic in New York

    Thanks for adding the Ellis and Samaritan programs...I forgot about those!

14. Patient asking for phone number to keep in touch, what do you say?

    Jacobero replied to amy0123's topic in General Nursing

    I never give out my phone number. Then again, I don't think that I've ever been asked. I'm not that nice of a nurse! :) Seriously, although it hasn't come up, there are those on my unit who do have social/personal contact with pts/pts familes and I'm...

15. Antihypertensive medication

    Jacobero replied to mrsluckyaz's topic in Medications

    See, that's what I've been saying on my unit since I got there!!! When I'm working on the adult pulmonary unit, people are wickedly paranoid about giving anti-hypertensives when the BP is borderline (like SBP 95-99 and asymptomatic!). It's just frus...