JerseyGirl

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1. Pregnant and Working with Respiratory MRSA

   JerseyGirl replied to JerseyGirl's topic in General Nursing

   You know, good nurses need compassion. I feel bad for anyone who has to work with the likes of you. I hope you are never in a position to need help from your fellow workers, because if you act like...

2. Pregnant and Working with Respiratory MRSA

   JerseyGirl replied to JerseyGirl's topic in General Nursing

   We don't have isolation rooms period. Not only that, but they keep all the isolation garb IN the room so you have to enter the room in order to garb up. That's what really has me concerned. No...

3. Question about rectal exam

   JerseyGirl replied to rachel18us's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I am 28 years old and so far have had only one rectal, and that was when I was trying to get pregnant and the doctor was trying to feel the uterus. She also stated that I was getting the rectal very...

4. Abusive patients...

   JerseyGirl replied to Sgt_Chunk_Spelunker's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I work agency and one of the facilities I go to had a very similar resident. He was in his fifties and weighed over 300 pounds. He required a total assist because he refused to do anything for...

5. Pregnant and Working with Respiratory MRSA

   JerseyGirl posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am a pregnant LPN working in long term care as an agency nurse. One of the facilities I work at has a resident with respiratory MRSA under contact isolation precautions. The nurse in my doctor's...

6. Can LPN's take phone orders?

   JerseyGirl replied to Tweety's topic in Florida Nursing

   We were taught in school that LPN's may not take phone orders, only an RN may do so. However, I'm working agency and have seen LPN's taking phone

7. Id Badges

   JerseyGirl replied to tatoome33's topic in General Nursing

   I work agency and we are required to wear a badge with our first and last name every place we go, and I've noticed that most of the places I've been to require first and last as

8. Nurses caps!

   JerseyGirl replied to FERTMYRTOBRN's topic in General Nursing

   When I was a student, which was recently (I just graduated in August), there was one woman at the hospital who wore hers, said she'd been a nurse for tweny years and never once worked without her...

9. Stiff Neck

   JerseyGirl replied to frannybee's topic in General Nursing

   My husband had whiplash r/t a car accident and he hurt just like this. The only thing that helped him was a muscle relaxer alternated with heat. Good