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1. Vent Alarms Ordered to be Turned Off

   letitbe_lindsay replied to letitbe_lindsay's topic in Private Duty

   I tried to explain this to my husband--God bless him, he's not medical. He wasn't understanding why I was having such a hard time with it because it sounded like "easy money" because the family would allow you to watch TV, etc. while working. I was l...

2. Vent Alarms Ordered to be Turned Off

   letitbe_lindsay replied to letitbe_lindsay's topic in Private Duty

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3. Vent Alarms Ordered to be Turned Off

   letitbe_lindsay replied to letitbe_lindsay's topic in Private Duty

   Thank you everyone for your advice! My nursey senses were tingling that this just didn't feel safe to me. I brought up all my concerns with my nursing supervisor, unfortunately the family is not willing to budge on most things. They are willing to ha...

4. Vent Alarms Ordered to be Turned Off

   letitbe_lindsay posted a topic in Private Duty

   Hello, I am fairly new to Private Duty nursing. I just began working with a patient who has muscular dystrophy and is on a vent. She is on a continuous pulse oximeter, which alarms and if she needs something during night shift she can flick off the f...

5. Can new grads start out as public health nurses?

   letitbe_lindsay replied to andpeggy's topic in Public/Community

   I just got my first nursing job at the county health department. I talked a lot about my previous volunteer experience, but I think the reason they offered me the job was because I really do love public health and that came across pretty clearly. Als...

6. County Health Department Interview***

   letitbe_lindsay replied to wife&mommyRN's topic in Public/Community

   I'm a new grad but I just got a job as a PHN with my county health department. The interview questions they asked were mostly about my understanding of the differences between acute care nursing and community health nursing. I just talked about how t...

7. What a blow to my ego

   letitbe_lindsay replied to letitbe_lindsay's topic in General Students

   Thank you all for your kind words and suggestions. Basically how it went down was like this: My preceptor was with me everytime I gave report, sort of as a standby in case I missed anything, but I was running the show. I was always surprised that she...

8. What a blow to my ego

   letitbe_lindsay replied to letitbe_lindsay's topic in General Students

   I gave this woman report again today, and she attempted her previous pattern of rude interruptions and swearing. I gave her this stare. Didn't say a darn thing, just looked at her, raised my eyebrows a bit, and stopped talking for a minute. Knowing t...

9. Which Nursing Jobs are the Least Stressful?

   letitbe_lindsay replied to LeLeeFNP's topic in Career Support

   Not technically nursing experience, but I'll give you a story to illustrate what other people have been saying about post-partum. I was a tech in the float pool at a hospital for two years. Generally, being a tech in the float pool means you get to g...

10. What a blow to my ego

    letitbe_lindsay replied to letitbe_lindsay's topic in General Students

    Thanks guys! EricJRN, I think what you said is probably the thing that has put me the most at ease. You are right. Probably nothing I would say to this lady would make her any easier to work with...and yeah, it does help me to vent a little. I've jus...

11. What a blow to my ego

    letitbe_lindsay posted a topic in General Students

    I am currently doing my clinical practicum on a very busy ICU unit. I feel like I'm doing very well given that there is SO MUCH to know and SO LITTLE room for error. My preceptor has given me lots of positive feedback about things I do well and I ask...

12. Letter of Recommendation Advice

    letitbe_lindsay replied to letitbe_lindsay's topic in Career Support

    I will be a new grad in December of 2010. Quite a few grad schools require letters of recommendation from previous employers, preferably nursing ones. I have lots of other people that will write me letters, I'm just wondering how it will look if I le...

13. Letter of Recommendation Advice

    letitbe_lindsay posted a topic in Career Support

    Hi all, I'm applying for grad school for the Fall of 2011. Right now I'm trying to gather up letters of recommendations--the problem is, I only have one work experience in a hospital. I was a PCT for a year during nursing school. I worked about 20 ho...

14. UCSF 2011 MSN Hopefuls

    letitbe_lindsay posted a topic in Post Graduate

    Hi ya'll! I'm applying for UCSF 2011 MSN program ACHIN specialty. I know that the MEPN programs are VERY competitive--does anyone know how the MSN programs compare? How many of you are applying? What have you done to prepare yourself? Have you heard ...

15. I have no idea what to do

    letitbe_lindsay replied to LadyJoce's topic in General Nursing

    The Southwest isn't that great--I live in Arizona and there are NO jobs here. People who did externships at local hospitals are the only ones who have a chance at getting a job--and even then, most of the agencies around town are not guaranteeing tha...