jeannet83

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1. What's your craziest story of the ER

   jeannet83 replied to debo_lpnER's topic in Emergency

   Did I spell that right? Hey, have any of you run across this one? The other night I was in triage and I had a nicely dressed lady come in to ambulatory triage. I asked her what brought her here to...

2. No Call/No Show

   jeannet83 replied to jude11142's topic in General Nursing

   I guess that is the thing that blows my mind is that you always work extra shifts for them and now they don't give you the benefit of the doubt especially since this is the first time that this has...

3. Reporting unethical behavoir

   jeannet83 replied to jschut's topic in General Nursing

   Julie, I totally agree with Gwenith in that you should proceed very carefully. I was reading the other posts and without knowing the actual situation that you want to report, it's hard to recommend...

4. Reporting unethical behavoir

   jeannet83 replied to jschut's topic in General Nursing

   Julie, In my opinion, I think alot has to do with how comfortable you are with your supervisor. I've been a nurse for a long time and have had many different supervisors. There are some that I would...

5. Clinical Decision Unit

   jeannet83 replied to karoline's topic in General Nursing

   Karoline, amk brings up a good point. It will just have to be a question that you ask in your interview as to what type of acuity they are expecting to put in the CDU and what happens if a patient...

6. Clinical Decision Unit

   jeannet83 replied to karoline's topic in General Nursing

   Karoline, amk brings up a good point. It will just have to be a question that you ask in your interview as to what type of acuity they are expecting to put in the CDU and what happens if a patient...

7. Clinical Decision Unit

   jeannet83 replied to karoline's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, Karoline! Alot of larger ER's have Clinical Decision Units or CDU's. They are used for patients who are being admitted and are awaiting a bed to become availabe and/or for the 23 hour...

8. Clinical Decision Unit

   jeannet83 replied to karoline's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, Karoline! Alot of larger ER's have Clinical Decision Units or CDU's. They are used for patients who are being admitted and are awaiting a bed to become availabe and/or for the 23 hour...

9. Dispensing medications

   jeannet83 replied to RainbowSkye's topic in Emergency

   Cotjockey- Ditto for our facility Jeanne

10. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    jeannet83 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    This was a pretty gross story, maybe not as bad as the others! Quite a few years ago, I was working in a trauma/general surgery ICU. At the time, I was doing permanent weekends and was working with a...

11. Haldol IV??

    jeannet83 replied to dabestrn's topic in Emergency

    Love Haldol IV!! (Well, not me personally!:chuckle ) We use it alot for agitated patients, mostly those requiring restraints.

12. "Subacute" or observation area of ER

    jeannet83 replied to LaurieCRNP2002's topic in Emergency

    Hi! We have two different areas that are subacute. One is right in our ER and is also called CDU or Clinical Decision Unit. It is ideally for patients who are waiting to get an inpatient bed....

13. Is there a such thing as a psychiatric nurse assistant or technician?

    jeannet83 replied to ericjames85's topic in Psychiatric

    Eric, in my facility in NY state, you could be a psych tech while going to school part-time for your BSN and get your tuition paid for part-time course work. I agree with the other folks, if you want...

14. The opposite of nursing????

    jeannet83 replied to javamom's topic in General Students

    I think of nursing as caring. So i guess the opposite of nursing is not caring. Devoid (?spelling) of caring. Apathetic Just a thought-Jeanne

15. I got a C in pharm

    jeannet83 replied to just graduating's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I have an interesting suggestion for you. First of all, in order to get into CRNA school, you will need to do at least a year of critical care, maybe more. Why not during that time, take the...