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  1. Concurrent review nurses

    jjjoy replied to helpnhands's topic in Nursing Career

    I don't know about Interqual, but here is concurrent review as I understand it... There may be certain benchmarks that a facility is trying to meet... such ASA prescribed on discharge for all AMI...

  2. Am I doing it the same way as you?

    jjjoy replied to tanthalas's topic in General Nursing

    I think you're lucky that you could learn nursing without having to take the extra, and what I consider to be unnecessary step, of formulating nursing diagnoses. It may help some people better...

  3. I quit my job and am seriously considering quitting nursing

    jjjoy replied to sandlewood_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    To the OP, taking care of yourself is top priority! And you get to decide what works best for you. You're the one who has to get up each day and go into work. After trying several attempts at...

  4. I quit my job and am seriously considering quitting nursing

    jjjoy replied to sandlewood_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    It's all nice and good to say things like "stand up for yourself" and "be confident in yourself" and the like... but when you're new you simply do not know if the person criticizing you is being...

  5. Nice places to live for a new grad at UCLA

    jjjoy replied to RN Colleen's topic in California Nursing

    It IS confusing and there are lots of apartments so it's not easy to just give the name of a particular building. First off, are you looking to get your own place or to share? Have you checked out...

  6. Once I get RN licensure, can I still work as a CNA?

    jjjoy replied to sam1998's topic in General Nursing

    I had many classmates that after graduation and taking the NCLEX continued working as NAs until they got/started jobs as RNs. Locallly, there had been many nursing layoffs and the market for new grads...

  7. Making it to the One Year Mark

    jjjoy replied to Butterflybee's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Someone once made the analogy that a nursing license was kind of like a driver's license. It only means that you've passed the minimum requirements to get a license. You need to put in a lot of time...

  8. Wishing experienced nurses would have mercy on me!!

    jjjoy replied to new_oldRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thing is that as a newbie you DON'T know if you have gotten the things done that you should have before the next shift starts. You have only the response of your colleagues to gauge if your...

  9. New grads having trouble finding jobs

    jjjoy replied to lee1's topic in General Nursing

    Just FYI - there was a similar difficulty for new grads in some areas in the mid-nineties. In my area, several facilities were downsizing and many lay-offs had occurred, meaning less positions...

  10. New grads having trouble finding jobs

    jjjoy replied to lee1's topic in General Nursing

    Off -topic addressing a previous post... I agree that immigration is a crucial issue that we shouldn't keep ignoring for fear of being labelled racist or whatever. However, it's also not as simple...

  11. Can someone help me plz

    jjjoy replied to nursingstudent1105's topic in Nursing Career

    During nursing school, you have clinical rotations on different units working with different patient populations and conditions. These rotations usually involve one or two days a week on the floor for...

  12. Help: being asked to do my own coding, never been trained for it

    jjjoy replied to mclennan's topic in General Nursing

    Nuts, yes. Believable, yes! Where I work, the cardiac cath lab staff has been assigned the task of "billing" for the procedures done. But to bill correctly, one has to know the appropriate coding...

  13. For those of you who hold a hold a biology or science degree

    jjjoy replied to srleslie's topic in General Students

    jpeters48 - I think you summed up some of the unfortunate realities of nursing education quite well! There are many good things to learn in nursing school as well, but there's a lot of room for...

  14. Should I re-enter nursing?

    jjjoy replied to cialynnmk's topic in General Nursing

    If you want to return to nursing, you can do it one way or another, but do you want to? So I'll turn this back over to you... What kind of nursing did you do before? How did you like that? Are you...

  15. Anyone Lived Overseas for extended period of Time?

    jjjoy replied to Maslenp's topic in General Nursing

    In regard to being able to apply and build on your nursing skills... perhaps there's a foreign community center you could offer some of your skills at or teach health classes. Maybe you could...

  16. Anyone Lived Overseas for extended period of Time?

    jjjoy replied to Maslenp's topic in General Nursing

    Good point, Suesquatch! Not all states require clinical hours to maintain an active license. Some states will allow you keep an inactive license indefinitely as long as you continue to pay...

  17. Is there REALLY a nursing shortage?

    jjjoy replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    While I understand that the government has the power to make or break certain livelihoods and that we as citizens can't just sit back and expect government representatives to make choices that will be...

  18. Second-order priority setting, question.

    jjjoy replied to baedwards4's topic in General Nursing

    We never had that presented in school. It sounds like a good categorization scheme for prioritizing... much more readily applicable and clinically useful from the get-go than much of what WAS...

  19. Do you study from your text books ?

    jjjoy replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    Hopeful... how 'bout you help write a new nursing curriculum? If that's the way your school is teaching you are very lucky!!! How reasonable and

  20. New RN terminated trying to find a new job.

    jjjoy replied to blastopore's topic in Nursing Career

    I think you'd be okay applying for new grad programs still. You ARE still new and the more extensive orientation would probably be best for both you AND the facility - as you're more likely to be...

  21. I flunked out in my last semester by a tenth of a point!! Please help me..

    jjjoy replied to nautica843's topic in General Nursing

    It may be that you've been teetering on the brink for some time and really could use the extra time to consolidate your learning. Or it may be that you just flat out got unlucky with a particular set...

  22. School Nurse wants to be a Teacher...how?

    jjjoy replied to cyfan's topic in School

    I'm with the others that you might want to do a bit more exploring of your preferences before starting to work towards a teaching credential. For myself, career counseling wasn't very helpful because...

  23. New Grad & Orientation - Do I Switch Floors??

    jjjoy replied to CleveRN2008's topic in Nursing Career

    Just FYI, some traditional programs also have skimpy clinical experiences. I have my own reservations about accelerated programs but several of the complaints I've heard from accelerated program...

  24. Do you Pre-Pour? Is it legal?

    jjjoy replied to LogCabinMom's topic in General Nursing

    I do think that setting up medications ahead of time can be safe in certain settings as long as safety guidelines are followed... such as clear labeling and a tamper-proof method of storing the meds...

  25. The all important question! Do MD's remember your uniform color schemes!

    jjjoy replied to Gr8Dane's topic in General Nursing

    I think whether or not uniform distinctions make a difference can be hard to measure. There are those people who will always just plough ahead without attempting to differentiate who they are talking...