kimmie4476

kimmie4476 ASN, RN

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  1. Minimum staffing need data

    kimmie4476 posted a topic in Emergency

    Hi all, I am trying to find some peer review articles or any data on the safe minimum number of nurses in an ER. My ER is a 22 bed level 3 trauma center with an average census of 80-100 per day. We...

  2. Minimum staffing need data

    kimmie4476 replied to kimmie4476's topic in Emergency

    Thanks for a starting place, I was getting no

  3. tips to keep patients from passing out durumg blood draws?

    kimmie4476 replied to LPNtoRNin2016OH's topic in General Nursing

    If I have someone who tells me they are feeling faint, or that they normally faint with blood draws, the first thing I do is whip out an alcohol pad and stick it under their nose and tell them to take...

  4. Skills Fair Ideas?

    kimmie4476 posted a topic in General Nursing

    My hospital is wanting to begin holding a skills fair yearly and since it will be new to us, I was wondering if you all could give me some ideas as to what your skills fairs are like? Things like what...

  5. TNCC please give me some inputs

    kimmie4476 replied to redseven's topic in Emergency

    Make sure you know the assessment process and practice saying it OUT LOUD. They will go over most of the book in class, so you can take good notes there, but KNOW THE TRAUMA ASSESSMENT. You will only...

  6. I need help!

    kimmie4476 replied to AlexaG's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I can answer some of these questions. A little background....I got my LPN in 07 and my RN in 09. I have worked the same hospital as both an LPN and through school for my RN. 1) In my hospital, when I...

  7. Question about post CVA and blood pressure

    kimmie4476 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok, this may be a stupid question, but I had a patient the other day that was post CVA and had right sided weakness. The patient's family member started freaking out when the CNA started to take a...

  8. Getting Your Desired Position 101

    kimmie4476 replied to BostonTerrierLover's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Wow, this is great! I for one am horrible at interviews because I am so shy. On the positive side it keeps me in the same position for many years which looks good on my resume

  9. Assessments every shift?

    kimmie4476 replied to Ntheboat2's topic in General Nursing

    It really doesn't matter what anyone else does. You are responsible for what you do and for holding yourself up to your own standards. You have to find a way to keep your full assessment and fit it...

  10. Things that make it all worth it

    kimmie4476 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Had a really rough night at work...one patient in particular ran me ragged all night...so much so that I was begging the other nurse to just answer their call light once. Then, just as I'm about to...

  11. Things that make it all worth it

    kimmie4476 replied to kimmie4476's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, it wasn't requests that they were calling me for, it was because they were critical and in addition...anxious about it so the thank you was for getting her through the anxiety...talking her down...

  12. improving staff responsiveness

    kimmie4476 replied to idonthaveaphd's topic in General Nursing

    Take away the "That's not MY patient/job" mentality. Everyone where I work answers call lights regardless of whose pt. it is including the ward clerk and DON. It only takes a second of your time to...

  13. Where do the damn pillows go?

    kimmie4476 replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    I'm lucky in that our hospital uses the disposable kind and we have an abundance of them. Our DON who is extremely budget conscious (tight with the money lol) Says they are actually cheaper than...

  14. LVN to RN on same floor?

    kimmie4476 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in General Nursing

    I started as an LPN on my floor then became an RN on the same floor...no one had a problem with it but me lol, I was the only one having to make the change from an LPN mentality to an RN mentality....

  15. It's all in the resume!

    kimmie4476 replied to CharleeJo.RN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Thanks for posting this, everywhere it says that the cover letter is the most important part of the resume, but all I've ever been able to find are generic ones that never really fit me...yours has...

  16. what is the BEST material i should use for the NCLEX PN

    kimmie4476 replied to juh_lee_suh's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    My In addition to studying content, maybe try reading up on test taking skills. I think that a lot of times when a person has taken the same test over and over again, it has to be something with...

  17. "Don't be nice to her"

    kimmie4476 replied to NurseBatzy's topic in MICU, SICU

    regardless of what the other nurses say, always assume your patient can hear you. I had a nursing instructor who developed sepsis and was coded 3 times, was in ICU for awhile unconscious, but she...

  18. photographic memory real??

    kimmie4476 replied to kitty222's topic in General Nursing

    I think maybe there are different degrees and types of photographic memory, I too can "see the page", I can also remember every single word of conversations, picture exactly where everyone was...

  19. How do you do it?

    kimmie4476 replied to peppapig123's topic in General Nursing

    I worked as a waitress after school and on weekends during pre-reqs and the first year of nursing school (lets you make the max amt of cash in the fewest hours and truthfully the skills will come in...

  20. First Code

    kimmie4476 replied to jones.rn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't understand.. the patient was holding a medicine cup and syringe when the first nurse arrived on scene... what was the student nurse doing in there? was the student nurse the one that called...

  21. Best Nursing Quotes

    kimmie4476 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    The character of the nurse is as important as the knowledge she possesses." ~Jarvis,

  22. What do I do about nurses who think my job is worthless?

    kimmie4476 replied to onlyj's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    PLEASE come to work at my hospital! We don't have sitters and on night shift we don't even have a CNA, so all those pt's that normally require a sitter are the responsibility of myself and one other...

  23. Orienting woes!

    kimmie4476 replied to KeechieSan's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Document, document, document! Is there someone above your manager that you can talk to? Like the DON? This girl obviously does not be on a step down unit, sounds like she has no common sense and needs...

  24. FAILED Nclex for the 6th TIME!!!

    kimmie4476 replied to 7Laquisha's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I'm going to agree with everyone else about questions, questions, questions! Ask your classmates if you still keep in touch with them for their review books and do those questions. Search the internet...

  25. dosage calculations

    kimmie4476 replied to santuono's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    my bad on the first one, it's been a long night shift! This is why when you are working and tired, you always have someone double check your calculations! but the object was to show how you get rid...