JBizzleRN

JBizzleRN ADN, RN

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  1. Travel as a team?

    JBizzleRN replied to jab3da's topic in Travel

    I am currently finishing up on an assigment that I took with a friend of mine. Both of us are ICU nurses. We didn't have a problem getting a job because of being a "team", we had trouble because she...

  2. How fair is your transfer policy?

    JBizzleRN replied to Jean1313's topic in General Nursing

    Fair? Lets talk fair. I put in a transfer to the ICU from my med/surg floor. Well to start with my manager offered me a day PCC position, I refused and told her I just wanted to transfer. Two days...

  3. Respiratory therapist Vs Nurses

    JBizzleRN replied to omgodzilla's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses get paid more. Nurses have more responsibilities Nursing is more demanding Nurses can do respiratory therapy's job Nursing is always in high demand. Don't get me wrong I love and appreciate...

  4. Stop IV for what?

    JBizzleRN replied to garciadiego's topic in General Nursing

    In our hospital we cannont disconnect an iv w/o a drs order. . even to go down for

  5. Changing PICC Dressings

    JBizzleRN replied to imanedrn's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Really? Every 7 days? Our hospital is still on the every 96 (every 4 days)

  6. Patient Abandoment?

    JBizzleRN posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    Okay here is a senario: On our Med/Surg floor it is normal to have 7-9 patients (yeah crazy), but whatever. So let's say you have eight patients...it's you and a nurse RIGHT out of orientation on the...

  7. Patient Abandoment?

    JBizzleRN replied to JBizzleRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    In southern Mississippi at a public hospital. Yeah it does suck more than I can even

  8. new grad and I already hate working

    JBizzleRN replied to 2bnurse_it's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Nobody is ready to come out orientation. It's a scary place, but remember you have people there you can ask for help and ask questions. When in doubt call the doctor :) that's what he gets paid for!...

  9. What is Your Daily Routine?

    JBizzleRN replied to abundantjoy07's topic in Medical-Surgical

    My usual routine: 1) Make walking rounds and see if they need anything then. Also if I got a good report from the previous nurse I go ahead and do my shift assessments. If I got a crappy report I'll...

  10. Clothing issues/malfunctions.

    JBizzleRN replied to THAT Nurse.'s topic in Nursing Humor

    HAHA...and get a free wax job if you aren't

  11. travelling w/ 2-3 yrs under your belt??

    JBizzleRN replied to HD-RN's topic in Travel

    Oh it's not like that in every hospital I wouldn't think, just ours :) They don't use travel nurses because that's what they have the "float pool" for. But when you only have 6 nurses in the float...

  12. travelling w/ 2-3 yrs under your belt??

    JBizzleRN replied to HD-RN's topic in Travel

    Yes, Mississippi...LPNs? I WISH....CNA'S we are lucky to have one for all 33 patients on the

  13. travelling w/ 2-3 yrs under your belt??

    JBizzleRN replied to HD-RN's topic in Travel

    IV teams! Oh my that would be a dream.. With our 8-9 pts we start or own IVs and we have to draw our morning labs..so needless to say we get plenty of that

  14. low diastolic BP after giving PRBC

    JBizzleRN replied to LLawsor520's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Did you take it manually or was it with a machine? Either way if it was truly 40 that is considered a critical blood pressure...So you could have called the MD or put the dynamap on the patient set it...

  15. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    JBizzleRN replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    Does it every aggravate you that someone on your unit answers the call light, and one of your patients wants to "see the nurse." You get there and they want pain medicine, or nausea medicine or a...

  16. Patient Abandoment?

    JBizzleRN replied to JBizzleRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    If I can just tough it out for a few more months I'll be fine. I look at it this way, if I can survive here I can probably survive at any hospital haha. And then I just think about moving off the...

  17. Clothing issues/malfunctions.

    JBizzleRN replied to THAT Nurse.'s topic in Nursing Humor

    I feel you on the tear in the front of the pants! I was pulling a patient up in bed and had my stance just a little too wide, and up went the patient and rip went the pants. Well went to the bathroom...

  18. Patient Abandoment?

    JBizzleRN replied to JBizzleRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Why yes, I am still working there. Mainly that I am under contract with them until June of next year. It's the same situation all over again... had 8 patients... had to give six units of FFP, two...

  19. Patient Abandoment?

    JBizzleRN replied to JBizzleRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Bluffing? Maybe, however the same situation happened on the Telemetry floor. The nurse took the 8th patient, then put in her resignation that next day. They didn't let her work her notice out just...

  20. Finally got it passed!

    JBizzleRN posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    So for 4 months now I've had a monkey on my back about our hospitals Blood Consent form. On the form is states that you can contract AIDS from a blood transfusion. This really burns my biscuits as...

  21. Patient Abandoment?

    JBizzleRN replied to JBizzleRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I was the charge nurse, our charge nurse has full patient loads

  22. Charge Nurse Duties

    JBizzleRN replied to Celia M's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Wow, you people make me jealous. Myself and another nurse rotate weeks of being the charge nurse and we still get full patient loads when we are in charge. And I mean FULL patient loads 8-9pts/rn on a...

  23. My Jingle

    JBizzleRN posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    So the other night I had this lady who kept calling out for Phenergan, however when I went into her room she was chowing down on doughnuts and chips, so I refused to give her the Phenergan until she...

  24. Patient Abandoment?

    JBizzleRN replied to JBizzleRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Thanks. That was my thinking but I wasn't for certain so I did not want to leave. I mean I've had bad nights before, but this takes the caked, the frosting, the pan, and the serving knife. I have...

  25. cranberry juice and ptt

    JBizzleRN replied to buddiage's topic in Medical-Surgical

    The first was 26.7 and the repeat was 29.1 I believe was the numbers. But no it was not drawn incorrectly. I drew it from the arm opposite the IV. One doctor told me that it's actually normal for...