JillR

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  1. restarting prehospital IV's

    JillR posted a topic in Emergency

    We don't restart them unless there is a need. I have heard that this is a practice others places, but I have yet to find and studies that actually states that IV inserted in the field become infected...

  2. Crazy Co-workers

    JillR replied to NHLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. This is weird stuff. While reading this stuff I kept thinking that some people act this way because they can. They act innappropriate and when called on their actions the either admit...

  3. Practical jokes at work

    JillR replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

    One April fools day, the people on med/surg decided to fill the work sheets with all sorts of patients that had weird problems, one was there for a penile implant. When I came to work, one of the...

  4. Help! The "Life" of a Nursing Manager?

    JillR replied to layna's topic in Nurse Management

    Layna, I guess there is always the chance that some people might be put off if you hire agency, but I know that the people I worked with were happy to have the help. We are a union hospital and there...

  5. Help! The "Life" of a Nursing Manager?

    JillR replied to layna's topic in Nurse Management

    Layna, I wish I could help you more. I also live in a rural area, we had extreme staffing issues, such as yours, last year and it took a toll on everyone. It was so bad that the DON and the clinical...

  6. Help! The "Life" of a Nursing Manager?

    JillR replied to layna's topic in Nurse Management

    Agency and travel nurses may be one way to go. I would not implement MOT or mandatory on-call schedules either. In this day and age, expecting mandatory anything above and beyond what the employee...

  7. Do you hold patients in the ED?

    JillR replied to shootemrn's topic in Emergency

    WOW!! Sorry about that everyone, I guess I really needed to

  8. Do you hold patients in the ED?

    JillR replied to shootemrn's topic in Emergency

    We are beginning to hold patients, not for our own facility, but when we need to send patients to another facility because we have no ICU. I don't mind it so much, because I understand what all of...

  9. ER vs. LTC Facility staff

    JillR replied to nursedawn67's topic in General Nursing

    I ditto what CEN

  10. Itching...

    JillR replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    I have a chronic condition that causes this, I can't remember what it is called. This had bothered me for years until I saw an ENT, he diagnosed it and taught me ways to help with the irritation. It...

  11. Bad day at clinical

    JillR replied to KristaB's topic in General Students

    Krista, Don't let this bitter, mean person push you out of a profession that you will be wonderful in. You have just experienced the nurrse eating their young phenomenon and it sucks. By letting...

  12. Depsition and court

    JillR replied to CEN35's topic in General Nursing

    I had to attend my first depostion just a few weeks ago. It was from an accident that I responded to as an EMT about 5 years ago. I just used my notes. Since you may not remeber the exacts of the...

  13. feeling inadequate as a nurse *all* the time

    JillR replied to Adrena's topic in General Nursing

    First of all carole, I love your perspective on nursing and nurses. I have never thought of it this way. It's a great way to see things. Adrena, I felt that way all the time when I first started....

  14. Team Nursing with Paramedics........

    JillR replied to CEN35's topic in Emergency

    Wow, where did that attitude come from tee? Feeling a bit insecure are you? Because that is exactly how you sound, like an insecure, uninformed person who thinks that Medics are not able to think,...

  15. Men vs. Women

    JillR replied to BlueBear's topic in General Nursing

    The autonomy I get in the ER is that I order it, do it and then tell the doc, now that is autonomy. I don't see any less respect coming to to female RN's than to the male RN's in our ER, but I think...

  16. length of orientation for ER

    JillR replied to NickiP's topic in Emergency

    I agree that this does not sound like much of an orientation, especially since it's your first position in an ER. I work 4 days a week and had two weeks orientation, which I felt was fine, but I had...

  17. Good Things

    JillR replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I work with a lot of great nurses, none of them are nurse eaters in the least. The nicest things I can remember is when I would make a mistake as a new grad and the seasoned nurses would pull me aside...

  18. Poor Organizational Skills in Clinical??!!!

    JillR replied to lauraw's topic in General Students

    Organization is probably the most important part of nursing and sometimes the hardest skill to aquire. The most important thing you can do is prioritize. See your less stable patients first, think...

  19. what are charts?

    JillR posted a topic in General Nursing

    A chart is where we keep the information on the patient. It includes (at my hosptital)personal date, nursing notes, doctors orders, labratory date, medical imaging and radiological results, the...

  20. How about we take off the gloves and get out of the ring?

    JillR posted a topic in General Nursing

    I posted this on another bulletin board and got amazing results and was encouraged to post this elsewhere and see what happens. It seems like every time I turn around someone is talking about how...

  21. How about we take off the gloves and get out of the ring?

    JillR replied to JillR's topic in General Nursing

    kday, I origically posted this on the nursing spectrum bullitin board. Recieved many great replies, and there was a ton a critical thinking involved. Fergus, I could not agree with you more about...

  22. What Freaks You Out?

    JillR replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I am an EMT as well as an RN, so I have a pretty strong stomach and thought that there would be nothing that really bothered me after being exposed to it enough. Ortho surgeries drive me crazy, even...

  23. need input from Mentors!!!

    JillR replied to hollykate's topic in General Nursing

    Lets try this again. I agree that the most important thing to mentoring anyone is time. Many times I see the team (mentor and new nurse) get a larger patient load because they are two people as...

  24. Use of diapers vs. underpads for incontinent patients

    JillR replied to bmaury's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I use whatever the patient prefers. I would think that either one of them would cause skin breakdown if left wet next to the skin for any period of time. I hate having any patient wear any kind of...

  25. Are summer classes worth it?

    JillR replied to teresab_2000's topic in General Nursing

    If you are getting an A in A&P1 then you will do fine in A&P2 during the summer. I took it during the summer and we went every thurs and fri for 4 hrs a day for 11 weeks. We had an exam...