MomRN0913

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  1. Blood Pressures

    MomRN0913 replied to silverhalide's topic in General Nursing

    You probably get lots of different BP's with her because she is on a few meds that effect blood

  2. Socializing after work in your scrubs

    MomRN0913 replied to klone's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow, you sound near perfect. You don't even go out in sweats. So now people who go out in sweats are just plain trashy. Well, I have been in public in scrubs and sweats. Guess I define trash....

  3. New to hospice

    MomRN0913 replied to MomRN0913's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thank you! What intrigued me and impressed me the most when I interviewed, shadowed and spoke with the director was their creative approaches to keeping the patients comfortable. The gels and...

  4. Blood Pressures

    MomRN0913 replied to silverhalide's topic in General Nursing

    CHF's have high BP's unless they are going into

  5. Socializing after work in your scrubs

    MomRN0913 replied to klone's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I wonder how icky the receptionists are here where I work who come no where near anything dirty in this department from behind their desks. I feel bad if they are shopping and people are ASSumming...

  6. Socializing after work in your scrubs

    MomRN0913 replied to klone's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    it looks like the nurse is being human and enjoying a beer and some socialization after a shift while not caring for patients. Get over the nurse is holier than thou thing. We are not, we are human...

  7. Well, I did it....

    MomRN0913 replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in General Nursing

    You will know if you like this job, and if you do, you won't have to worry about "losing your skills" and will have a new skill set obtained from this position. I have been out of bedside over a year...

  8. this did not make sense to me.

    MomRN0913 replied to turnforthenurse's topic in Cardiac

    The heparin gtt makes sense, but the rest doesn't. Multiple severe bloackages sounds like patient should have been going for CABG. Not making another attempt in the poplital artery. Why could the...

  9. bosses working on the floor

    MomRN0913 replied to jmznurse's topic in General Nursing

    Always an intersting topic, and always one that will be debated. I do believe a nurse manager should have been a staff nurse at one point, Yes. When it comes to people complaining about nurse manager...

  10. Best way to resign

    MomRN0913 replied to MomRN0913's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all the suggestions. There is no hr..... It's kind of strange. Just my boss and me. I know the guy before me quit real fast and he was the first one in the position. He will ask me why,...

  11. Best way to resign

    MomRN0913 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Got my new job and now I need to resign from my current one/ I have only been here since november, and i took the job just to have a paycheck. decent boss anyways, but I don't know if I should tell...

  12. Home health and family life?

    MomRN0913 replied to vbgniner's topic in Home Health

    The hh agency I just got offered a job with were honest and said they recently had a high turnover due to paperwork. They made sure I was ok with it, which I am and they give you the option to do it...

  13. SIGNON BONUS help

    MomRN0913 replied to Kisses_RN's topic in General Nursing

    When I started nursing in 2006, they were all over the place. These days it seems like people are volunteering just to get hired! Seems like the travel agencies will give some these days to take on...

  14. Going back to bedside after over a year!

    MomRN0913 posted a topic in General Nursing

    My goal when I became a nurse was to be out of bedside in 5 years. 5 years came (I was an ICU nurse) and I got a management position. Hated it and got let go for not signing some agreement. Place...

  15. nurses getting involved with patient,right or wrong?

    MomRN0913 replied to CLadybug's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think it's OK. I usually became close to patients and families. I know a nurse who met her fiancee by taking care of her father. In my new job (home hospice) you are encouraged to get involved,...

  16. bosses working on the floor

    MomRN0913 replied to jmznurse's topic in General Nursing

    Is it even legal for non-licensed personnel to "take" a patient? When you say "take" patients, do you mean acting in the scope of an RN o and LPN? Or wiping a little hiney and taking BP's and...

  17. I'm sorry sir, I cannot call the neurosurgeon at 3AM for that...

    MomRN0913 replied to EJBNeuroRN's topic in General Nursing

    I would have called the doctor for that. I can imagine how frustrating to a patient it must be to not be able to take something simple over the counter that he could just pop at home, because he...

  18. SCALE DRAMA

    MomRN0913 replied to GitanoRN's topic in General Nursing

    i sure as he ll

  19. "But for me, 98.4 means I have a fever...."

    MomRN0913 replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    I'm pretty symptomatic of a fever at 99.0. My normal temp is in the 96's. I am tachy and get the

  20. LTAC vs Medsurg salary

    MomRN0913 replied to imelda22's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    I would definitely try to transfer to the ICU of your

  21. LTAC vs Medsurg salary

    MomRN0913 replied to imelda22's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    I worked in an acute care hospital as an ICU nurse and in an LTACH as a nurse manager. The new grad nurses in the LTACH were getting paid more than I was in the ICU, working there 5 years. I really do...

  22. Wow They Are Really Serious - smokers not hired

    MomRN0913 replied to LemonIndiscretion's topic in General Nursing

    Again, I'll clarify. It's not "need", it's "should" monitor for other unhealthy activities. It's like the government regulating out birth

  23. Wow They Are Really Serious - smokers not hired

    MomRN0913 replied to LemonIndiscretion's topic in General Nursing

    Just to clarify, I meant if they decide to disallow and monitor smokers, they need to be fair across the board to the other "unhealthy" activities. I am not saying the actually need to monitor...

  24. Wow They Are Really Serious - smokers not hired

    MomRN0913 replied to LemonIndiscretion's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's BS when when your employers try to control your LEGAL activities on your own time. This actually angers me a lot and i don't want to get into it. I'm a former smoker, not a current one...

  25. What NOT to say during an interview

    MomRN0913 replied to Teacher Sue's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Holy crap. Hopefully this one does come on AN and start a thread that says "can't get a job and I don't know why" Because we sure as he ll will tell