dortizjr1

dortizjr1 has 10 years experience and specializes in Emergency Department Nursing.

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1. Staffing and covid

   dortizjr1 replied to litbitblack's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

   Does anyone have an example of a PRN/Per diem staffing model that is working for their

2. best practices

   dortizjr1 posted a topic in Operating Room

   Hello, I have a question for Operating Circulating nurses, (or any nurse that can point me to articles), the OR I work in has the practice of having OR RN's pull local anesthetic from a pyxis in our...

3. Racist surgeon?

   dortizjr1 replied to tech22's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   True More or less what my parents taught me, though I'm not

4. Disturbing Conversation on Overweight Healthcare Workers

   dortizjr1 replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

   I've been very interested in this topic, mainly because my hospital adopted a no hiring smoker/tabacco users policy several years ago. The policy actually states that new employees will be nicotine...

5. Racist surgeon?

   dortizjr1 replied to tech22's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I happen to work in an ED in a community hospital in eastern Pennsylvania. I'm not too far from Philadelphia and not too close. I've had very similar experiences to what OP relates. It's not just a...

6. Higher Calling

   dortizjr1 replied to guest449786's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I'm a nurse in Pennsylvania and I was told many times by my instructors that nursing was a "higher calling" and that those of us who were there for a paycheck wouldn't make it through nursing school,...

7. mens shoes in nursing

   dortizjr1 replied to RandomRN's topic in Men in Nursing

   I hope linking isn't against the rules. I currently wear these when I work in my ED: http://www.skechers.com/style/76832/work-rockland-systemic/blk I'll rotate them out every few times with new...

8. Are you a new informatics nurse?

   dortizjr1 replied to InformaticsRN.MA's topic in Nursing Informatics

   I still consider myself new to informatics. I've been at it for a year and a half

9. Application Systems Analyst

   dortizjr1 replied to MissRN11's topic in Nursing Informatics

   Ikarus7401 thank you for your insightful comments. I moved from Emergency Nursing into Informatics and because of my clinical and I.T. background I'm labeled a Clinical Analyst. Some of my peers have...

10. Patients need a nurse, not a computer

    dortizjr1 replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    So does mine!!! The thing is part of a contract my institution has with a larger stroke center... so my ed doc will do the initial medical assessment, determine that the patient requires the attention...

11. Anyone attend RACC's (Reading Area Community College) RN program....help!!

    dortizjr1 replied to michelle2369's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I also had 0 medical experience when I started the program. Never bothered working as a nurse aid during the program either. I have a strong I.T. background and maintained that type pf work part time...

12. Anyone attend RACC's (Reading Area Community College) RN program....help!!

    dortizjr1 replied to michelle2369's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I graduated from RACC's RN program in 2007. It's interesting reading that nothing has really changed. One of my sisters graduated from Alvernia with a 4 year degree in nursing around the same time. We...

13. We can't go on divert!

    dortizjr1 replied to RNcDreams's topic in Emergency

    The hospital I work at is 30 minutes from 2 level 2 trauma centers and 1 level 1 trauma center. These three organizations are substantially bigger than the hospital where I work and they routinely go...

14. Help me find the positive in this

    dortizjr1 replied to Faeriewand's topic in Emergency

    At the risk of sounding very ignorant, what is and ER tech. I have a nurse aids in my ED and they do nurse aid tasks. An ED tech sounds like a person who does more than nurse aid

15. Help, ER getting swamped.

    dortizjr1 replied to MAISY, RN-ER's topic in Emergency

    Yeah but what happens when the hospital is full? I work in a small rural hospital. We total at 150 beds and we've ended up holding patients in the ED for three days. The ED i work in has 20 beds...