jadelpn LPN, EMT-B

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    favoritism in the workplace

    jadelpn replied to coolpeachmoy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Take it to your parent company. They usually have employee relation and/or corporate compliance areas of the website where you can report patient safety issues. Report to risk management. This is a...
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    He/She Said What!?

    jadelpn replied to BritBSNRN's topic in General Nursing

    "You work under my license. Remember that. I am not willing to risk my license for foolishness. So do as you are told. It would have been cheaper to just get your CNA. Ya'll are the same thing,...
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    Nursing is becoming stupid

    jadelpn replied to canigraduate's topic in General Nursing

    Healthcare is a business. Period. A nurse can either get on the bus and get an MBA (which interestingly, LOTS of hospitals are not only encouraging, but paying for in part or in whole) or be left at...
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    What to do?

    jadelpn replied to nursling123's topic in First Year After Licensure

    "My goal, being a new nurse with 5 days of orientation, is to do this job well for the benefit of our residents. I am confident that when I leave for the day, the residents who have been in my care...
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    Parent Support Groups

    jadelpn replied to msangel77's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I think the best thing that you can do is to give the parents a resource booklet. All helpful numbers to help them moving forward once they get their baby home. (Early Intervention, for instance)...
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    What every nurse should know about staffing

    jadelpn replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The age old situation-- The actual nurses on the unit are not in a place where they can be everywhere at once. The ones who come close to being everywhere at once are mysteriously hounded into...
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    Disciplinary Action?

    jadelpn replied to ChipJe's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I can not like this enough!! OP, I have an out of the box thought for you--Not at all legal advice, just some food for thought- Most student nurses have malpractice insurance. It is required for...
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    COB rollcall

    jadelpn replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

    I think hospital years count as "dog years" no?! (ie: I have been a nurse since 1987, but they have been hospital years, so really it's been 60 years......)
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    COB rollcall

    jadelpn replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

    1985..... Those were the days, my
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    Can someone explain...please

    jadelpn replied to muirite's topic in General Nursing

    An NP is an advance practice nurse, an RN who has obtained a Master's degree as an advanced practice nurse, who uses a nursing model of treating. A PA is a medical model that has alternate theory. And...
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    How do you deal with Munchhausen-type pts?

    jadelpn replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    Not your job to figure out what is real and what isn't. You can only take information as presented to you, do your assessment, and plan care accordingly. Regardless of how you feel, this is real to...
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    Is everyplace like this?

    jadelpn replied to Ankh's topic in General Nursing

    You have to remember that hospitals are businesses. Period. And you need to make due with what you have. And yes, there are many, many facilities that are exactly like this. Part of their business...
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    "How are we doing today?"

    jadelpn replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    "Nurse Emergent is just fine, thank you, and how are YOU doing? Back to work yet, still on disability? Do you want to talk about it?!" Ok, snarky to the core, but I always feel like comments like "how...
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    The aggravation of it all

    jadelpn replied to kariace's topic in General Students

    So when all is said and done, present your receipts to the financial aid office of your school. They should reimburse you for your books. In the future, before ordering said books, I would check with...
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    I just set my friend up

    jadelpn replied to Kaylle's topic in General Students

    At the end of the day, you are responsible for you. Period, end of story. And to your parents, who are the ones who have to take out 90% of the undergraduate loans to pay for your schooling....
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    What happens when you fill out an incident report?

    jadelpn replied to Bellaxx392's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I always am sure that the opposite rail is up...so that the patient can use it to grab, or the other CNA doesn't take the full weight of a person on. Were there 2 of you? Or were you attempting to...
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    revoked license

    jadelpn replied to angelb83's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Consult an attorney who specializes in going in front of your board of nursing. I get that sometimes circumstances can get one caught up in things that don't turn out well for them (to say the least)....
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    Becoming an RN with an associates degree and currently have a Bachelor's degree in Biology

    jadelpn replied to nicolep17's topic in General Nursing

    As a pp suggested, I would see about open areas of jobs in your area. No sense getting an associates in nursing if they are not being hired. However, if psych is your thing, there may be psych...
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    New way of feeding residents in long term care nursing homes

    jadelpn replied to busyrn92's topic in General Nursing

    It is very troubling that the response to this initiative was "figure it out". Sounds to me like the "initiative" is that nursing now adds the job of dietary to their already full plate. (pun...
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    Elephant in the China Shop

    jadelpn replied to hcworker's topic in General Nursing

    The elephant in the room is that bulls in china shops have no business participating in procedures of such a delicate nature.... JUST
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    How Important is it that your patients and their families like you?

    jadelpn replied to Soliloquy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When one becomes more confident in their practice, it becomes clear that approval for who we are as nurses takes a back seat to how we do our jobs. To be a strong advocate, to plan accordingly to...
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    Are you Facebook friends with your coworkers?

    jadelpn replied to BlueDawnRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The one thing I can say about social media, regardless of who I am friends with, is to never put your place of employment on it. I am selective on who I share my personal life with. The last thing I...
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    Second guessing myself....

    jadelpn replied to RED1984's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Then this is something that needs to be looked into. If the words "I can't afford my meds" come out of a patient's mouth, something needs to occur about that, even if it is the phone number of your...
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    New Nurse ... not distinguishing myself as brilliant

    jadelpn replied to SilverSister's topic in General Nursing

    OP--I think that at our age, it is often a matter of "I am wayyyyy too old for this nonsense!!" of drama making when there needs to be none. To "dress you down" in front of a patient is not...
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    Lost and in need of advice

    jadelpn replied to MNbyte's topic in General Nursing

    I would think about perhaps taking an emergency medical technician course, and attempting a position as an EMT. In some states (not all, so check) it is a shorter course of study for RN's. There are...