JennInColumbus

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1. Most RN's first borns?

   JennInColumbus replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

   I am a first born with no alcoholism in my family, my Mom, also an RN, was 5th of 6.

2. Anyone working in organ procurement?

   JennInColumbus posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi there! I'm an SICU nurse who had the opportunity to watch the organ procurement process in action last week when one of our patients became an organ donor. I'm very drawn to this line of work, both because of the good that comes out of something ...

3. Agency Nurse doesn't know how to start IVs?

   JennInColumbus replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

   I have been an ICU nurse for 18 months and in that time I have started six IVs. Five of those were started on the day that I had to go around with a staff nurse and prove that I could start IVs. I went straight into the ICU from nursing school having...

4. RN's leaving drugs in lines

   JennInColumbus replied to JiffyGriff's topic in MICU

   I'm fresh out of my training as an SICU nurse and one of the very first things I was taught was to always aspirate my lines before doing anything if I don't know 100% that they were flushed. It's not usually a problem for patients being handed over ...

5. treatment of post-op hyperglycemia

   JennInColumbus replied to barb o's topic in MICU

   In our unit the fresh hearts have a glucose stick as part of the first fifteen minutes post op. If they are over 150 they are placed on a gtt at 2 units with sliding scale dosage changes q2h and a bolus as necessary for levels 200 and higher. I w...

6. Blood Transfusions: How fast do you go?

   JennInColumbus replied to Genista's topic in Med-Surg

   Good question, I find the different answers/policies & procedures interesting. I guess I expected more uniform answers since evidenced based practice is in our faces at every opportunity :) At our hospital (I'm in the SICU) we do everything fro...

7. Any Amedisys Nurses Here?

   JennInColumbus replied to floridahomenurse's topic in Home Health

   My Mom works for amedisys in TN too... what city are you in? She's in the Chattanooga Hospice.

8. "Reluctant" hospice doc

   JennInColumbus replied to mc3's topic in Hospice

   My parents have published extensively about the undermedication of hospice patients. Try a search for Karl Miller, MD and Martha ( or Marti) Miller RN if you are looking for journal articles on the topic. Hope this helps.

9. General ?? and Ohio ??

   JennInColumbus replied to JennInColumbus's topic in Home Health

   I do have PPE, but no OSHA training or anything like that. I literally went on a visit with a nurse, then was on my own. That's why I was really hoping someone would recommend a great book so I could still do a great job without much orientation.

10. General ?? and Ohio ??

    JennInColumbus replied to JennInColumbus's topic in Home Health

    My training consisted of going on a visit with another nurse. I have not heard the word "OSHA" mentioned. Luckily our cases are not terribly difficult ones. Lots of clean bandages and monitoring of DM and HTN.

11. General ?? and Ohio ??

    JennInColumbus posted a topic in Home Health

    I'm a new grad nurse and my full time job is in the SICU in a level II hospital, but I have a part time job as a home health nurse. I'm really surprised by how much I enjoy home health and have a few questions for the group. 1) Is $25 a visit for sk...

12. Any Amedisys Nurses Here?

    JennInColumbus replied to floridahomenurse's topic in Home Health

    The hospice my mom works for was recently acquired by Amedisys and she is pretty thrilled with the changes they have made thus far. She says they run the place as she would if she owned it, which I consider a high compliment.

13. Authorization to test wait??

    JennInColumbus posted a topic in New Nurse

    Here in Ohio we take the NCLEX through Pearson Vue, I don't know if that is the same for all states or not. After all of your paperwork was in, how long did you have to wait for your Authorization To Test (ATT)? The wait is killing me, slowly. lol J...

14. Info RE: Moving to Columbus Ohio

    JennInColumbus replied to Treeta's topic in Ohio

    Wow, the difference between Shiprock and Gallup vs Columbus is like night and day. Shiprock is extremely rural, with a high level of poor residents and I would imagine a fairly small health care system. That said, I think it could be a very rewarding...

15. There was a full moon last night. Can you usually tell when you're at work?

    JennInColumbus posted a topic in General Nursing

    Is it true that the hospitals get a little nuts on the full moon, or is that just something that television uses for drama? Have you experienced crazy shifts on the full moon?