JenniferSews

JenniferSews

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  1. New Nurse Graduate-ASN

    JenniferSews replied to COboundRN's topic in Colorado Nursing

    I am not really sure why anyone would be trying to trick you. But as other's have stated the job market in CO for ASN is a little difficult. If you have previous experience in the medical field...

  2. New graduate moving to colorado please help!

    JenniferSews replied to NY2CO's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Very true! SNF was not my area of choice, it was instead the only option after many, many, many, applications. 18 months later and just as many applications it's still my only option. But I've...

  3. If I Said on Here What I Wanted to Say.

    JenniferSews replied to DixieRedHead's topic in General Nursing

    I have posted hoping for some real, true, honest to goodness advice and gotten a page full of "nice" responses that meant nothing and didn't help me in the least. I would have appreciated a true and...

  4. Do you find this article insulting?

    JenniferSews replied to cacentralvalley's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a SNF, and it is NOT like long term care. Yes, we have a nursing home unit in a seperate part of the building, but to say they are the same shows a lack of understanding. IMHO the SNF has...

  5. Spin off of the thread on putting mom in the nursing home

    JenniferSews replied to Vtachy1's topic in General Nursing

    The MDPOA doesn't kick in until she is unable to make her own decisions. Likely in the wording of the document there is provisions, such as "when declared incompetent by 2 Mds." Otherwise she...

  6. How would you respond to this??

    JenniferSews replied to nurse678's topic in General Nursing

    I have been similarly annoyed. Apparently everything I do on a daily basis looks like nothing at all. Passing meds? Standing and doing nothing. Charting? Sitting and doing nothing. Assessing a...

  7. New graduate nurse-BSN

    JenniferSews replied to Eminemily's topic in Colorado Nursing

    I hear some of the northern hospitals in Fort Collins, etc are still hiring new grads. I'm not sure if that's really true but with a BSN you have a slight edge. Unfortunately the market is extremely...

  8. This radio ad ENRAGED me

    JenniferSews replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

    I know someone who searched high and low to find someone to tell her what she wanted to hear. She was able to find someone to tell her that her stage IV cancer could be cured with sweat lodges and...

  9. Seems a bit excessive to me....

    JenniferSews replied to 42pines's topic in General Nursing

    It might be partly that corrections nursing isn't for everyone. Here it pays more too, because to recruit nurses they have to pay more. If they don't want to pay her overtime, then like someone else...

  10. Has anyone even heard of this school?????

    JenniferSews replied to Coloradogrl's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Wow that's a lot for LPN! I have to wonder what the starting pay is for LPN in Pueblo, as well as the job market? I paid 1/2 that for my RN in a community college in the Denver area. ETA- "everything"...

  11. Help, I am very conflicted about turning peer into nursing board

    JenniferSews replied to auntie72's topic in General Nursing

    Do you have a manager of your unit, or a director of nursing you can speak with? I was a manager for a while until I realized it was NOT what I wanted to do with my life. But I also learned a ton...

  12. New Nurse 4 Med errors in 6 months

    JenniferSews replied to lpncharlie's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds to me like the facility you are working at is at least willing to work with you instead of just firing you straight out. Is the entire facility LTC? So even if you float the residents are...

  13. Things you "should" be taught in nursing school

    JenniferSews replied to KimberlyRN89's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I totally agree! Our instructors tried really hard to have us take more than 1 patient but with clinical spots being what they are these days we were lucky to get 1 patient sometimes. Then I...

  14. Rotten deal or should I be happy I got it at all. New Grad position with strings.

    JenniferSews replied to ItsaTwap's topic in Nursing Career

    In my facility if you get promoted (no matter what you are promoted from/to) you work 90 days at your previous wage before you get a raise. That allows the facility to "try you out" before they buy....

  15. Horrified, disappointed and need advice......

    JenniferSews replied to Mom2Chaos's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    If you're area is like mine, preceptorships are in seriously SHORT supply. I asked for the same, and even arrainged my own. Even though my school couldn't place me for a preceptorship until 2 weeks...

  16. Does your facility allow the floor/unit nurses write up other nurses?

    JenniferSews replied to DayDreamin ER CRNP's topic in Emergency

    Sounds like an easy sub acute patient to me too! I really don't think you did anything wrong. Obviously I don't work in a hospital but the ER is to stabilize and send the floor for treatment,...

  17. And the survey says......

    JenniferSews replied to RottieGrlLPN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I still have dreams (just 18 months into nursing) that I get to the end of the day and realize I never gave a patient ANY meds for the whole day. This dream was started not by my mistake but by...

  18. slower paced nursing in long term care?

    JenniferSews replied to pepsi115's topic in General Nursing

    I think you can find a place that is slower paced if you look hard in LTC or other specialties. Like a night shift in a med surg in a rural community with low census that transfers acute patients to...

  19. "6 months notice is customary"

    JenniferSews replied to PediLove2147's topic in General Nursing

    Like others have said, 4 weeks management and 2 weeks for employee. Show me anyone, even a highly paid CEO, who gives more than 4 weeks notice. I can't say anything about what might happen in the...

  20. Patients' "home remedies"? What have you seen

    JenniferSews replied to flyingchange's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe cinnamon can help or work for some peopel, but with an A1C of 19 it apparently isn't working for that

  21. Problems with prefilled NS syringes?

    JenniferSews replied to LogCabinMom's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't had any pts complain, but I remember once I was in the hospital a few years ago and they flushed my IV and I tasted saline/metal at the same time. The flushed the same line several times...

  22. Nursing home/LTC getting more acute

    JenniferSews replied to adoglover's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It's the same here. Our medical director has told me the same thing. His point was a lot of patients who would never have survived their illness 20 years ago now do, but are far sicker afterward....

  23. new job description every day, unpaid on call

    JenniferSews replied to supervisorhatchet's topic in General Nursing

    Just say no. If it wasn't in your original job description then you didn't agree to it. I left management primarily because of the on call. I HATED it with a passion to be called and woken up in...

  24. New or Experienced: Am I acute care qualified?

    JenniferSews replied to SMUgrad's topic in Nursing Career

    It's like that here too. I'm stuck right along with you. One of the new (2 yr) nurses I work with just got a job at an LTAC though. I know the hospitals here consider that acute experience so...

  25. How well does misogyny work out in your facility?

    JenniferSews replied to UserG's topic in General Nursing

    IME misogyny has equaled disdain for nursing. If you think about it, how can it not? If you hate women and think they are inferior, how can you effectively work in an environment that is 90% women?...