jessiern

jessiern BSN, RN

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  1. Common Sense Nursing?

    jessiern replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    She sounds like she came straight out of school into ob. That is way I think every new nurse should start on medsurg. Give you a well rounded scope of patients and diseases to care for. You learn...

  2. med error

    jessiern replied to catjeremy3's topic in General Nursing

    Our docs love demerol 25-50/Phenergan 12.5 IV. It's there fav cocktail down in these

  3. Doctor won't back up his telephone orders!

    jessiern replied to In_Chantress's topic in General Nursing

    That's not true for all facilities, and may not be for hers. As I said earilier, our facility has terminated a surgeon before because of compliants from nurses about the same things. Usually when we...

  4. med error

    jessiern replied to catjeremy3's topic in General Nursing

    Incident reports and med events should be used as learning process, to find where the error occured and find ways to prevent it from happening again. That being said, you shouldn't be "in trouble",...

  5. Need a joke!

    jessiern replied to Nurse K8's topic in General Nursing

    Be careful with jokes. You are going to nervous in front of a crowd of people. If you aren't careful, a joke could come of very

  6. Doctor won't back up his telephone orders!

    jessiern replied to In_Chantress's topic in General Nursing

    Has he ever thrown a chair at a nurse in the nurse's station because she had a pepsi at the desk? If so, I think you guys have one of our old surgeons. Our hospital admin. handled the problem for...

  7. Is working as a CNA beneficial?

    jessiern replied to Toots71506's topic in General Nursing

    I would tend to disagree with you on that. Most nurses I know straight out of school without prior experience take a little more time to grasp the job. They have been used to one or two patients in...

  8. charge RN not following contact precautions

    jessiern replied to jamkpb's topic in General Nursing

    Yes she should have. Yes you do need to find a new position if that one is

  9. "Weekends aren't a shift!"

    jessiern replied to bethin's topic in General Nursing

    Honey, don't you know. Admin. believes if we have time to eat, then we are not busy enough. Your gonna end up with a larger pt load if you let them know you have time to eat and steal snacks from...

  10. Am I the only one?

    jessiern posted a topic in General Nursing

    After I work two or three days in a row, my first day off is a waste. I don't get anything accomplished. I have all these big plans, but when I get up in the morning I don't even feel like changing...

  11. Next time I will tell her to shut up

    jessiern posted a topic in General Nursing

    My last day at work, we didn't have a work clerk. She had to leave for a family emergency. Another lady was on the way in, so I agreed to sit at the desk (since I do have experience at that job)...

  12. need a nurses advise

    jessiern replied to Rnmkonoinmedsurg's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. The doctor is on call for a purpose. If he doesn't want to be on call, perhaps he needs to find a new

  13. Horrible Dream!

    jessiern replied to Bugaloo's topic in General Nursing

    I think every nurse has that dream. We are in a profession that no matter how orginazed we are or how good we are, we can loss control of the situation in an instant. I think that is where it stems...

  14. They called the cops!

    jessiern replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I leave two minutes from work, and its a small town. We all know where the others live at. I'm always thirty to forty five minutes early (gives me extra time to prepare, look over meds, pt charts,...

  15. Vacation 'Denied' due to another nurse's medical leave: Fair or not??

    jessiern replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in General Nursing

    Others might not agree with me on this one, but the way I see it, I'm sure that nurse didn't want to be sick to have to take medical leave. That's not something most people ask for. And It's only 6...

  16. "they're not my patient" syndrome

    jessiern replied to The Bell Jar's topic in General Nursing

    It was the same when I was in school. We were not to sit at the nurses station "taking up space". We were not professionals, and we had much to learn, and our instructor felt the best way to learn...

  17. If there were no CNAs...would that be a bad thing?

    jessiern replied to Kunzieo's topic in General Nursing

    Now I lay be down to sleep Tomorrow I go to work, you see I wish I may, I wish I might Have a tech to keep me alive Amen

  18. Peer Evaluations

    jessiern replied to GeminiTwinRN's topic in General Nursing

    We do peer evals, but it is RN to RN, or tech to tech (RN's may do techs and LPN just because we have a mostly RN staff). We only use it in the hiring process. I think it can be useful. We had one...

  19. Next time I will tell her to shut up

    jessiern replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    Oh I am sure she will, if she even wants to meet with me, which I assume she will since the lady told her. Just formalities, and to get my side of the

  20. Stupid Decision???

    jessiern replied to Toots71506's topic in General Nursing

    Don't base your decision on thinking the ADN program is easy. It is still very intense, and will take a good bit of your time. It can be done, and I know many mothers (including mine) that have....

  21. Tired of being asked to work extra...

    jessiern replied to KarmaComesAround's topic in General Nursing

    I don't agree with the above replies. I don't think you should go in everytime they call, but if you are shorthanded as a rule of thumb (sounds like it) I think it is only courtesy to help out time...

  22. staff appreciation

    jessiern replied to traumamomtx30's topic in General Nursing

    We do that too. Our hosp. admin. works a waffle maker, and serves the staff. He also takes that time to ask us if we are happy with our position, and what can be done to make us happier. He also...

  23. Am I the only one?

    jessiern replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    Omg my god...I remember those days. I was playing a wedding during my last semester

  24. I blew it!

    jessiern replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    You weren't being stupid. Is that job really worth the worry you would do if you did leave your husband and baby to

  25. Patient Education

    jessiern replied to abundantjoy07's topic in General Nursing

    reminds me of the patient i had that the doctor ran in real quick like and told her he just had acute appendicitis. she blushed and said thank you...when he left the room, she was outraged, and...