jollygreenRN

jollygreenRN

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  1. BSN Nurse supervising MSN nurses

    jollygreenRN replied to Neats's topic in Nurse Management

    Before I medically retired this past year I was the house sup for a 220 bed level 2 trauma center. I have an ADN. It can be done, but you have to give respect where respect is due, listen to those in...

  2. Is this a smart tactic in huddle...

    jollygreenRN replied to AnnoyedNurse's topic in Nurse Management

    Why don't you ask the Nurse Manager yourself? Explain why you want to go over the "teaching moment" (thinking of becoming a HM as a career choice). You can learn more this way with immediate...

  3. Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    jollygreenRN replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    Here's hoping I can get this right. I've been an RN for over 18 yrs, now medically retired. I was a house manager for over half my career. The actions of the police were egregious and cast a shadow...

  4. Difference Between a New Nurse and an Old Nurse

    jollygreenRN replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    I leave the room muttering about having to go get some extra large gloves! (I'm 6'4", 250 lbs and regularly rip "large" gloves in half while trying to put them

  5. Share Your Saying

    jollygreenRN replied to angelique777's topic in Nursing Humor

    "Just another day in Industrial

  6. WA state nursing-pt ratios

    jollygreenRN replied to rose28164's topic in Washington Nursing

    Med surg floor expect 6-7 patients with a

  7. what did you do in your former life?

    jollygreenRN replied to 3rdgenRN2B's topic in General Nursing

    I was in the US Army. Active duty from Jan 83 to Feb 93. first enlistment was Morse Code Interceptor, second was Voice Intercept operator. If I told you what I really did, I'd have to

  8. Terms we will not admit to using

    jollygreenRN replied to gwenith's topic in Nursing Humor

    TBAR- That boy ain't right. CTD- Circling the drain DRT- Dead right there. Nursing Challenge- You know the patient refered to....nasty, disrespectful, FMPS, want's any and all narcotic pain meds known...

  9. Describe your last day at work in 50 words or less !?

    jollygreenRN replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Hmmm...let's see. 6 patients, one quiet, one drug seeker with attitudinal girlfriend, one hypermanic, one full code non responsive, two confused. IV's, PCAs accuchecks and TPN. Computers crashed. 2...

  10. Foley insertion.. best techniques???

    jollygreenRN replied to sun_chica's topic in General Nursing

    Always ask for a urojet if it is available at your facility. When you explain that you are going to "numb" the area, the patients become much less anxious and

  11. Name that part. Words patients use for their own anatomy.

    jollygreenRN replied to JEHORAPHA's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, Jeez, nicknames for male genitalia:uhoh21: Never heard any:chuckle:rotfl: wood, woody, love stick, bat and balls, tackle, purple helmet warrior, heat seeking moisture missle, old man, one eyed...

  12. restraints? What would you have done (Long)

    jollygreenRN replied to jessnurse05's topic in General Nursing

    I think you did just fine. If she was abusing pain rx at home, and refusing same in the hospital, she should of at least had opiate detox orders. Sounds like she may have been going into withdrawl. As...

  13. Guys in Support Hose?

    jollygreenRN replied to mcknis's topic in Men in Nursing

    It's a little known fact that many soldiers do wear panty hose when out on winter manouvers. Anything to keep hypothermia away. Those rice paddies in Korea get damn cold in the

  14. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    jollygreenRN replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Do NOT have someone place a plastic swizzle stick inside your member while tied up at the S&M party and then have it break off. It also confuses the nurses, who when you say you have pain, wonder...

  15. Anyone get into nursing as a second career? Was it a good choice??

    jollygreenRN replied to ruby_9c's topic in General Nursing

    This is my second career, first was US Army for 12 years, German Linguist. East Germany went away and so did my job, I was offered retraining in Arabic!:uhoh21: After having just returned from Desert...

  16. Night shifts only for new graduates?

    jollygreenRN replied to ZootRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think it is because you are a new grad, it is because noc shift positions are VERY hard to fill, and are usually the majority of open positions. I have worked straight nocs my entire nursing...

  17. Charting Bloopers

    jollygreenRN replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    How about this one? "Patient has been living with her mother for the last 15 years, who is

  18. Greatest code brown stories!

    jollygreenRN replied to sweetpea839's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, here's mine.....WAAAY back when I was a noc shift cna working my way through Nursing School on an acute dementia/geri psych ward in a large hospital we had a male patient with dementia who was...

  19. Where do you buy your scrubs?

    jollygreenRN replied to Tony35NYC's topic in Men in Nursing

    Hmmm, maybe some camoflauge scrubs?:rotfl: I buy most of mine at Sear Outlet. Good quality scrubs for about 20 bucks a set. Unisex scrubs don't fit me. I need 3x tops (6'4" and 260lbs) but due to...

  20. Roll Call

    jollygreenRN replied to Tweety's topic in Men in Nursing

    Long time lurker here. Nice to see this form. Hmmm. Nursing, from a male point of view. I give it two snaps! Jeez, I guess I'm dating myself, with the In Living Color reference.:uhoh21: Anywho, stuck...

  21. So, Boeing is going to build a new plane

    jollygreenRN replied to 2ndCareerRN's topic in Washington Nursing

    I am grateful for what I have. What I am NOT grateful for is a government that continues to take and take from the fruits of my labor and WASTE it. :angryfire I give to charities to help people in...

  22. So, Boeing is going to build a new plane

    jollygreenRN replied to 2ndCareerRN's topic in Washington Nursing

    Yep it's a crock. Boeing WILL eventually leave the Seattle area, and probably the US to go to either Brazil or Argentina, if the South American version of NAFTA goes through. I see people every day at...

  23. Foreign nurses in Washington state

    jollygreenRN replied to roxannekkb's topic in Washington Nursing

    Check with St Joseph's Hospital in Bellingham, WA. They have a LOT of Canadian nurses working there. Probably cheaper to hire, less back end Human Resources costs, plus they get a nurse with...