Jenni811

Jenni811 RN

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  1. Does your facility do this?

    Jenni811 replied to handyrn's topic in General Nursing

    No. there have been plenty of times where i had to stay late. for example, i was working a NOC and my shift was supposed to end at 7:00 am. But my patient coded at 6:45 am. No way am i going to leave...

  2. Caring for paraplegic patients?

    Jenni811 replied to mell260's topic in General Nursing

    It should be a normal pulse. Vascular system is not

  3. I'm pretty sure my preceptor thinks i'm done

    Jenni811 replied to Deetermined's topic in General Nursing

    I understand where your preceptor is coming from because she is trying to give you a little dose of reality. When you take your own patients, she is not going to be there to acnknowledge your other...

  4. Is this appropiate? Please...need input. Thx

    Jenni811 replied to SKYSTHELIMIT's topic in General Nursing

    1) No 2) No it's an interview, not a social

  5. Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    Jenni811 replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Because she targeted the OLD nurses. I'll agree with the fact there are some nurses that are not great to be around, but they are not always the old ones...it's the young ones too. The OP is singling...

  6. Cuffed Trached pt while eating..what to do?

    Jenni811 replied to Miley22's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    It does make sense, but what is more important? "backing up of food?" or "preventing

  7. Cuffed Trached pt while eating..what to do?

    Jenni811 replied to Miley22's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Inflate if they are breathing through trach. It is there to prevent aspiration. You don't want to inflate too much that you cause tissue necrosis. The inflation seals off the area around it so they...

  8. Which ICU should I work in?

    Jenni811 replied to NCRNMDM's topic in General Nursing

    good luck getting a job as a new grad in the ICU. Even having worked as a CNA in ICU/ER. Employers could care less about that because they are different jobs. Just saying...you're better of starting...

  9. Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    Jenni811 replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You sound like one of those students that nurses HATE to get because "you know it all" or "you don't care to know." I once was given a student, from my own school a year below me. She was very...

  10. My friend was fired - Was she wrong?

    Jenni811 replied to ravenshroud's topic in General Nursing

    If the patient did not have the medication ordered. Your friend technically gave the medication, therefore she is liable. If the medication was not ordered, or patient had an allergy, or it was wrong...

  11. Graduated 2yrs ago, haven't taken nclex, how to be marketable..

    Jenni811 replied to redsky's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Subscribing to a journal has to advantage in a

  12. Protocol for HIV partner notification

    Jenni811 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    It would be a HIPAA violation. It's so hard to sit back and see things like this knowing you should say something. All you can do is encourage safe sex practices. Encourage the risks of not practicing...

  13. How do I 'toughen up?'

    Jenni811 replied to GoLauraGo's topic in General Nursing

    She sounds like a real ******. I'm kinda the same way though, i let things like that get to me. You know the truth, you know the care you provided to that patient and that is all that

  14. New Grad willing to take a pay cut for employment?

    Jenni811 replied to kalevra's topic in General Nursing

    i got a job offer for $18/hr as a new grad last year in an ED. i turned it down, i have to make a living which you can do on 18/hr but with my school loans (i attended a private school) 18/hr just...

  15. Immunizations & nursing school

    Jenni811 replied to determined09's topic in General Nursing

    i remember when H1N1 was going around. I was a CNA at the time in my hospital i work at now as an RN. but i had signed a refusal for the H1N1, i never got my flu shots. So i'm working one day and...

  16. Immunizations & nursing school

    Jenni811 replied to determined09's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with the others. You cannot enter into a hospital facility without your immunizations, not because you are putting yourself at risk but because you are putting your patients at risk. You are...

  17. How to live/eat working the nightshift?

    Jenni811 replied to Cindy143x0's topic in General Nursing

    i work Day/NOC rotation. So when i do NOC, i get it for like 3 days in a row. ...So i nap before i go to work maybe around 3:00pm til 5/5:30. Shower, go to work. Then when im done with work...i come...

  18. Blood transfusions??? just say no...

    Jenni811 replied to macgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, i care for patients enough to set my own beliefs aside and care for them in the choice they

  19. Blood transfusions??? just say no...

    Jenni811 replied to macgirl's topic in General Nursing

    I've jsut seen it done because i work at a very large hospital, and we have a psychiatric/medical unit. Only they can't take serious Detox, that would be my floor. D/t the possibility of

  20. Blood transfusions??? just say no...

    Jenni811 replied to macgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Odd....

  21. Blood transfusions??? just say no...

    Jenni811 replied to macgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Oddly, i've seen it done. Believe it or not, psychiatric patients have health issues

  22. Blood transfusions??? just say no...

    Jenni811 replied to macgirl's topic in General Nursing

    ^I very much agree. there is SOOOO much more to blood than to just giving it. Its monitoring a patient who has received blood, verifying blood with another nurse, ordering blood, going to get blood...

  23. Blood transfusions??? just say no...

    Jenni811 replied to macgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Don't think you'll make it then and should consider something else. Sorry to be so blunt, but its the truth. Because not only will you be giving blood, you'll be giving blood products. In nursing, we...

  24. Funniest/strangest dementia patient stories

    Jenni811 replied to Angie O'Plasty's topic in Nursing Humor

    ahhh, another one of my favorite from back when i was a CNA in LTC. it was soooooo cute and funny. You have to imagine the cutest/sweetest old man ever with this story. our patients have "private...

  25. Funniest/strangest dementia patient stories

    Jenni811 replied to Angie O'Plasty's topic in Nursing Humor

    oh god. When i was at my first CNA job in a nursing home, we had one dementia lady who was an LPN back in her day. She was fairly sharp, but super super confused. You could ask her any nursing...