brillohead ADN, RN

Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty

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    Nursing Student Working At A Hospital

    brillohead replied to JayPerez930's topic in General Students

    In my area, I would have been hired in a hospital right out of school if I'd had "healthcare experience". Even if that experience was as an aide or a tech rather than a nurse. If you can, I'd try to...
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    Co. states Independent contractors are to self provide own ppe is this against Osha reg's?

    brillohead replied to gallbladder's topic in Home Health

    In my pre-nursing life, I worked for a commercial general contracting company. Virtually *everyone* on the jobsite was working for or as a contractor rather than an employee of my company. Carpenters...
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    Nurse Sues for Lunch Breaks

    brillohead replied to Mamanurse90's topic in Nursing News

    Our lunch gets auto deducted, but we also have the option to punch out "no lunch" when we don't actually get a lunch break. I've only used it once at this job, because I've ALWAYS been able to go...
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    Glasses(?)

    brillohead replied to heather717's topic in General Nursing

    I wear multifocal contacts. I've worn contacts for decades, and then the 40s creeped up on me and I needed reading glasses. I tried doing the monovision thing (wearing one contact for long distance...
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    7/3 WILTW: Brain Development, Standardized Patients and Female Condom

    brillohead replied to A&Ox6's topic in General Nursing

    Here's an excellent video series on adolescent brain development that I found a few years ago. I made my son sit through it with me, and stopped it from time to time to explain what was going on and...
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    why ? why? see no value

    brillohead replied to teddiebear's topic in General Nursing

    Agree -- flush the catheter when passing meds on each shift, since you have to track the patient down for med-pass anyway. Wheelchair shouldn't be an
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    Using Hand Sanitizers - Is a squirt and go method enough?

    brillohead replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Didn't anyone teach you to turn off the faucet with the paper towel after you dry your hands
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    Fellow student=back stabbed?

    brillohead replied to esrun77's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Also, learn the definition of "passive-aggressive" before you use the phrase. You'll do better in your psych-nursing class if you know what the phrase actually
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    Advice Greatly Appreciated!

    brillohead replied to beli1025's topic in General Nursing

    The pay isn't as high, but private duty nursing may be more to your liking. You work with just one patient for a full shift in their home, and you really get to know your patient and get vested in...
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    Busting out of LTC - advice please

    brillohead replied to Nursjsh's topic in General Nursing

    Have you tried applying and come up empty, or are you just being proactive? My unit is currently orienting a dozen new grad ADNs, and I got hired on with only Private Duty and Home Health experience...
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    Mother baby/ Labor and Delivery Nursing

    brillohead replied to missmaddie's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Get a "regular" job in a facility that has a MB/LD department, then you can get a reputation as a good nurse / worker / employee, and then you can make a lateral/internal move into a desired
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    Hospital & The Drug Screen: I thought they had to wait?

    brillohead replied to cassimoo's topic in General Nursing

    This subject was discussed here when a few states legalized marijuana... just because it was legal to use it in that state didn't mean that a facility had to hire you if you tested positive. Kinda...
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    Unit Manager Demands I Cut My Hair

    brillohead replied to Nurse Cookie Swirl's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Glad things are going better for you, but sorry you're still seeing bad stuff going on around you. Are all the coworkers just as bad, or is it mainly the unit manager that's a PITA? If you have good...
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    Possible adult admit with minor child in tow

    brillohead replied to Monkey Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    If my in-house on-call social worker didn't return a page within the hour that they're required (by our facility's protocols) to do, I would simply call CPS myself. Let them know that I had an...
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    Nurses Humilated - Illinois

    brillohead replied to SuburbsGirl's topic in General Nursing

    Existing thread:
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    6/20 WILTW Child Welfare, Confidentiality, Contraception, Commencement, Conti...

    brillohead replied to A&Ox6's topic in General Nursing

    An add-on to the ice-eating=iron deficiency thing... check thyroid levels in someone who eats a lot of salt. Their body could be craving the iodine. People always get on my case about how much I...
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    NCLEX Pass Rates vs. Graduation Rates

    brillohead replied to NavyVetNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, I'm well aware of the politics of academia... in fact, one of my friends is under a gag order to not discuss what has happened there as a condition of her separation from the organization. (I'm...
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    MSN, $60-$75K, worth it?

    brillohead replied to peanutfish's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I graduated with my ASN at 44yo. I'll be getting my BSN online in a couple years (I'm 47yo now and just took a new hospital position after doing private duty nursing for a few years). I'm a little...
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    Possible adult admit with minor child in tow

    brillohead replied to Monkey Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Like mentioned above, the social worker calls CPS and arrangements are made through the foster system. If there is a friend or family member who can take the child but they have no transportation to...
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    Using Hand Sanitizers - Is a squirt and go method enough?

    brillohead replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I almost wonder if that isn't something designed into the product on purpose... after a few times it makes your hands feel icky, so you wash them with soap and water regularly to get the ickiness
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    Help- nursing flow sheets

    brillohead replied to trauma_lama's topic in General Students

    If you do a search for "brains" you'll find lots of options already listed here. I made my own using a spreadsheet document, and I tweaked it almost daily for six weeks to get it the way I liked it....
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    Epic care plans and goals

    brillohead replied to djamies's topic in General Nursing

    Care plans are completely separate from pt/family clinical goal for the shift. For goals, I tend to "direct" the patient a little with my questioning... "I'm supposed to ask you what your goal for...
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    Nurses Humilated - Illinois

    brillohead replied to SuburbsGirl's topic in General Nursing

    Best way to improve medical outcomes and patient satisfaction? Hire more nurses. Period. A Health Affairs study comparing patient-satisfaction scores with HCAHPS surveys of almost 100,000 nurses...
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    Using Hand Sanitizers - Is a squirt and go method enough?

    brillohead replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    My facility has secret auditors who watch how well we're sanitizing (we have to wash/sanitize in and out of each patient's room). We also have a requirement for washing-only for C-diff patients....
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    What Nurses really Want to Say When They Chart

    brillohead replied to SICUshortCait's topic in General Nursing

    I can neither confirm nor deny that my charting recently said, "Attending informed of sepsis criteria; stated not concerned because patient not hypoxic". Fever of 103 untouched by regular doses of...