TriciaJ RN

Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory

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    Job change - anxiety

    TriciaJ replied to Michnurse1's topic in General Nursing

    I say go for it. Opportunities like that don't come around every day. Yes, there may be a downside but if you can work regular hours for the same pay, why would you turn it down? There may be some...
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    Cracking Under the Pressure

    TriciaJ replied to River&MountainRN's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Sending you hugs and good thoughts. Hope your move goes super-smoothly and that everything after that falls into place. Hang in
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    Reporting med errors...

    TriciaJ replied to Time4dilaudidyet's topic in Patient Medications

    Exactly. You don't want to work for a facility that treats you as expendible. So my advice to everyone out there: Do not cut corners when administering meds. Report every error, so that any ill...
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    Meet and Confer Questions....

    TriciaJ replied to Loribabble's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Is this a county workplace (or some other government entity) vs a private business? Does your administrator have an employment contract? Does she have a job description? I would expect her to wave...
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    For-profit nursing schools associated with lower performance on NCLEX

    TriciaJ replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    Looks like we're all pretty speechless at this startling
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    Florida Board of Health Suspends Healthcare Licenses Over Student Loan Defaults

    TriciaJ replied to Swellz's topic in Nursing News

    The whole student loan industry seems to be quite a racket. Especially when educational institutions have been known to raise their costs to be commensurate with the amount of loan money available....
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    nurses put on paid leave for carrying out orders for potentially fatal doses of fentanyl

    TriciaJ replied to Verthandi's topic in Nursing News

    I've given elephant-killing doses of pain meds to people with an extraordinarily high tolerance. You cross your fingers, say a Hail Mary and stay in the room for a while and check back often. And be...
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    RaDonda Vaught's Arraignment - Guilty or Not of Reckless Homicide and Patient Abuse?

    TriciaJ replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    There are three current threads on this subject and each thread is several pages long. One of the threads includes a link to the CMS report which is chilling. There is a link to the GoFundMe page...
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    Sick and whiny (long rant, but I'll summarize)

    TriciaJ replied to NightNerd's topic in General Nursing

    At my last hospital job, they had a 5 occurence call-out policy. There was nothing in the contract about this and I don't think they ever disciplined anyone. They just used it as a pretext to harass...
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    Residents wearing TED hose - I'm puzzled!

    TriciaJ replied to golfdiva's topic in General Nursing

    I did some agency work in an LTC facility where a resident was required to have TED hose on during the day. There may have been a rationale for it. However, when the CNA was carefully applying them,...
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    Question about manual irrigation for 3 way foley!!

    TriciaJ replied to Race881's topic in General Nursing

    I'll tell you how I did it back when: it was done after a TURP and despite CBI the catheter had clotted off. Very important to shut off the CBI at this point because the bladder is getting fuller...
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    Tennessee Nurse RaDonda Vaught - Legal Perspectives of Fatal Medication Error

    TriciaJ replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    No, I really don't think she meant to do it. What would be the motive? I think this is someone who managed to become a nurse despite scoring low on the empathy scale and was allowed to skate on...
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    Very Frustrated!

    TriciaJ replied to cretin's topic in General Nursing

    Love how they can shut everyone up by making upper management the bad guy (although it probably does start with them). Next time you get that "mothership" crap, ask who is advocating for the rank and...
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    Bad week

    TriciaJ replied to MrNurse(x2)'s topic in School

    My dad always used to tell us: "Don't worry. It'll stop hurting when the pain goes away." And it usually
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    Tennessee Nurse RaDonda Vaught - Legal Perspectives of Fatal Medication Error

    TriciaJ replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    And maybe the housekeeper really thought of herself as a nurse because she'd worked in a hospital for so long. So when she heard a patient moaning in pain, she thought she'd do the nursely thing and...
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    Where to turn for help?

    TriciaJ replied to Heylove's topic in Nursing Career

    This is really hard for anyone to answer with so few details. What kind of discipline? A reprimand? Suspension? Did they have a good reason to discipline you or do you believe yourself to have...
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    Tennessee Nurse RaDonda Vaught - Legal Perspectives of Fatal Medication Error

    TriciaJ replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    We're really not talking about serious errors. All errors have the potential to be serious ones. But this one was not really an error. It was the inevitable outcome of incredibly sloppy nursing...
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    Active License but havent worked in 7 years

    TriciaJ replied to brotherbear's topic in General Nursing

    If the agency maintains JCAHO accreditation they cannot send a nurse to an area unless that nurse has recent (within past year) experience in that
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    Tennessee Nurse RaDonda Vaught - Legal Perspectives of Fatal Medication Error

    TriciaJ replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    I loved the part about how it was their job to ensure the citizens of Tennessee received good health care practice. I hope the citizens of Tennessee appreciate how they are being looked out
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    Dispute termination

    TriciaJ replied to FloridaLpn2015's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    If you believe the environment was not conducive to accurate medication administration, then you're better off without that job. Might as well start looking for a new one. If you have professional...
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    Need some career advice/guidance

    TriciaJ replied to Cgritz77's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Unless you're really enjoying the online BSN program for its own sake, you have to realize that a BSN is not likely to further your career goals until you clean up the mess behind you. Since the DUI...
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    Tennessee Nurse RaDonda Vaught - Legal Perspectives of Fatal Medication Error

    TriciaJ replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly. However Vanderbilt may be culpable, I haven't read anything yet that indicates any problems with their medication delivery system. Anyone who blows past all the warnings and can't be...
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    Tennessee Nurse RaDonda Vaught - Legal Perspectives of Fatal Medication Error

    TriciaJ replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    The only way the "system" would have prevented this woman's death would have been to be alert to practice issues, take them seriously and weed out problem
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    Tennessee Nurse RaDonda Vaught - Legal Perspectives of Fatal Medication Error

    TriciaJ replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    That's the thing, Davey. None of us is infallible and usually we can empathize with others who have made errors. But the CMS report is truly mind-boggling. I can't imagine the circumstances that...
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    Corrections Nurse - Do I need liability insurance?

    TriciaJ replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in Nursing Career

    Yes. You should have it. In fact, it was when I started working in corrections that I obtained it for the first time. Inmates have 24 hours a day to sit around and think things up. Where I worked,...