DutchgirlRN

DutchgirlRN ASN, RN

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  1. Excelsior CPNE

    DutchgirlRN replied to agos1's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I graduated from Excelsior in 2001. I credit my survival on this group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rnstudygroup/ Check them out. Good Luck. P.S. If you want more info on CPNE...PM me. I'd be glad...

  2. It felt like a slap in the face and oh yes I told them all !!

    DutchgirlRN posted a topic in Home Health

    I love HH, doing the visits, but the administration/office is really really getting hard to take. Friday I felt as though I had been slapped in the face and I told them too! This company is very...

  3. can someone answer this EC question for me!!!

    DutchgirlRN replied to txspadequeenRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Call or e-mail EC. When I graduated in 2001 EC was having graduation dates every month. The actually graduation ceremonies are held several times a year but for purpose of completeting the program...

  4. LPN Tuition-how much did you pay?

    DutchgirlRN replied to avahsmiles's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    1975- $250 for uniforms and books. Free lunch in the cafeteria. For my RN $10,800 in

  5. Update on Gross Out Co-Worker

    DutchgirlRN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder why she couldn't be let go for abandonment? I don't always understand management. We've had some very incompetent nurses in the past who have been fired and then management turns around and...

  6. How do you get skills practice after homecare for 5yrs?

    DutchgirlRN replied to nursliee's topic in General Nursing

    I think you mean how to hon your clinical skills after being in homecare for 5 years? Having done both I would say you'd almost have to get a job in the hospital on a med-surg floor. In a couple of...

  7. PICC line flushes

    DutchgirlRN replied to mkflorida's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Our protocol is: Must have a doctors order to draw blood from PICC line for labs. Establish patency of line Aspirate 10cc from PICC line. Discard Aspirate 10-20 cc for labs Flush with 10cc normal...

  8. Where were u 9/11/01?

    DutchgirlRN replied to k_cole21's topic in General Nursing

    My birthday is Sept 10th, I had had a wonderful day the day before. On the morning of the 11th I woke up with the windows open a gentle breeze coming thru the window and listening to birds chirping. I...

  9. Would It Be Better To Be A Lpn First, Then Go For Rn?

    DutchgirlRN replied to wannabaRN's topic in LPN to RN

    From personal experience, LPN/RN, I would invest your time and money going for your RN right from the

  10. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    DutchgirlRN replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Patients who have are DC'd have taught me to immediately pull the IV access. We had one (not my pt, Thank God) who snuck out with his PICC to end up overdosing on something as soon as he got home....

  11. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    DutchgirlRN replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Don't climb up a telephone pole while high on crack...you may end up lying across the lines, frying like a chicken with your body fat drippin to the ground, and end up in a nursing home with no...

  12. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    DutchgirlRN replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    You and your hubby are both white, blue-eyed and blonde, don't act clueless when the baby you just delivered is black with black curly hair and dark genitals and say "honey he looks just like you"....

  13. Anyone pushing 50 and a recent grad??

    DutchgirlRN replied to TCooper's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I got my RN at age 46, now I'm 50 and I can keep up with the youngest of them until 1930. They go out and party knowing they're working again the next day.....I go home to bed knowing I'm off the...

  14. med error already-just a mess

    DutchgirlRN replied to mel1977's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    300,000 hospital deaths per year attributed to med errors. Yikes, enough to scare the hell out of you and wonder why you ever became a nurse? I've made several med errors, minor, but upset me very...

  15. ADN vs. BSN for Entry Level Nursing

    DutchgirlRN replied to pattycakebaby's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I do think BSN's should earn more hourly because education should make a difference. As an ADN I've never encountered a BSN who thought their education was better than mine only disappointed in making...

  16. Where was your first LPN job?

    DutchgirlRN replied to shanLPN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    1975 ~ Part-time days in a nursing home. Great

  17. Unit Clerks are Useless!

    DutchgirlRN replied to HUCtoRNBScN's topic in General Nursing

    :groupwelcome: :yeahthat: :yeahthat:

  18. Unit Clerks are Useless!

    DutchgirlRN replied to HUCtoRNBScN's topic in General Nursing

    Our UC's are awesome and I couldn't do my job without them. We all know it's really the UC's who hold all the power. They know everything that is going on. They are

  19. 501 ways to know you've been on allnurses.com too long!

    DutchgirlRN replied to Roy Fokker's topic in Nursing Humor

    When you wake up and have to "go" you turn on your computer so that it will be on by the time you get back to the bed and you can quickly check all nurses. Done it many

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

    DutchgirlRN replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Isn't nursing just sooo much fun? Rewarding?!!! Fun, well, I'm not so sure but occasionally it can be very rewarding but I have to say those times are getting fewer and fewer as the years go by and...

  21. Med Reconciliation...used to hate it...now love it!

    DutchgirlRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    When we first started the med reconciliation sheets it was a real pain. Especially getting the docs to do the discharge reconciliation. Now most of them ask us to go ahead and print them for them. I...

  22. An actual 1955 Good Housekeeping article

    DutchgirlRN replied to MuddaMia's topic in General Nursing

    My daughter has a 1953 Home Ec textbook and it says many of the same things. Nothing however about not questioning your husband about where he's been. Basically, look nice, have dinner ready, house...

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

    DutchgirlRN replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Charge - Acute Care Med/Surg/Tele, started out short, 2 called in sick, full census, got a ICU float nurse, WHAT !? "you want me to take 2 patients? Both new admits, that's crazy", puhlease.....! Oh...

  24. Weirdest test taker EVER on NLEX perhaps?

    DutchgirlRN replied to RebeccaJeanRN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Makes no difference and you can't guess by the last question. You do your best and then wait for the

  25. Have you ever taken care of a famous pt?

    DutchgirlRN replied to Foxfour's topic in General Nursing

    2 music legends, now deceased and other well-known music artists. Some very nice and one in particular very hateful to everyone for no reason. Years ago I worked a couple of shifts with Naomi Judd....