RehabRNjc

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1. Support for PICU Nurses at Children's Hospital & Research Center

   RehabRNjc replied to AOx1's topic in Pediatric

   I was wondering what it would be like to have to care for that family. My thoughts and prayers are with the Oakland nurses.

2. Why Do People Bully Me?

   RehabRNjc replied to TheCommuter's topic in Relations

   I was bullied as a CNA by other CNA's and a few nurses. By the time I became an RN, I had conquered the situation, but I was bullied for a couple years. With one bully, a CNA, eventually, near the end of RN school, she started in on me and I looked h...

3. advice needed

   RehabRNjc replied to RehabRNjc's topic in General Nursing

   This has become an ugly mess. The other nurse she told to do this, did, and put a big sign up that said "all discrepencies have been resolved." I had just not done the audits and when DON approached me and asked how the audits went, I told DON "I ha...

4. advice needed

   RehabRNjc replied to RehabRNjc's topic in General Nursing

   She told us to just make up a weight, if a weight was missing. "Just look at what the patient weighed the day before and the day after and put something in, you know, common sense." I can't. I won't. I believe there is a line between right and wrong...

5. advice needed

   RehabRNjc posted a topic in General Nursing

   My DON is having me audit charts prior to joint commission coming. She told me when she finds information is missing or incorrect she "just fixes it". These are closed charts and she told me if it didn't sit well with me to leave her a note and she w...

6. Leave you family for nursing??

   RehabRNjc replied to litebrightgirl's topic in Career Support

   This is a deeply personal decision your friend will have to make. It will strain her marriage I'm sure and it will be hard on the kids, but it can be done. I have an 8 year old daughter. I started college when she was 5 months old. I didn't know I w...

7. 5 things you wish you knew as a new nurse

   RehabRNjc replied to Bugs20091's topic in New Nurse

   1. RN does not mean "smarter than 30 year LPN" 2. Doing something for 30 years doesn't necessarily mean your good at it, RN or LPN, choose mentors carefully, but everyone is right sometimes so don't be too hasty to ignore other nurse's advice. 3. "N...

8. Ouch...my back hurts

   RehabRNjc replied to RehabRNjc's topic in Stress 101

   Just a follow-up, yeah, the comment about "faking pain" was indeed tongue-in-cheek as my DON had informed me that if I just told them my back didn't hurt anymore, this would all go away. It was offensive but I stuck to it and will reach "full recover...

9. Being an ugly nurse

   RehabRNjc replied to mofomeat's topic in Relations

   I don't care what you look like, if you know how to pull me or my loved one back into a Normal Sinus Rhythm, you're the best nurse in the world. (Not always possible, but when you can...you and your coworkers will be the coolest people in the world f...

10. Ouch...my back hurts

    RehabRNjc replied to RehabRNjc's topic in Stress 101

    You're probably right Been There, it does sound like I'm seeking medical advice. I'm not, I want career advice and suggestions and someone else to say "yeah, my back hurts too, it stinks", but this does come pretty close to the line of violating TOS,...

11. Ouch...my back hurts

    RehabRNjc replied to RehabRNjc's topic in Stress 101

    Thanks Minnymi, I didn't mean to insult case management but after re-reading my post, I could see how it might sound offensive, I'm sorry. At our facility, the case managers spend a great deal of time with insurance companies, that's not really my dr...

12. Ouch...my back hurts

    RehabRNjc posted a topic in Stress 101

    Okay, I've been an RN for 3 years, before that I was a CNA. In 2005 one month into my first job as a CNA my back got messed up. Not too terribly bad, minor back sprain. We where 2 person transfering a guy who just stopped standing and picked up his f...

13. Ad for an MA program

    RehabRNjc replied to psu_213's topic in CNA/MA

    It's okay to laugh at me :) Early in the morning on my way to my RN job with my BSN, I hear these commercials and think, "Hey, maybe I should go to school to become an MA." LOL They run these convincing adds so early in the morning when I'm so sleepy...

14. Sex in the workplace.....what do YOU think should be done?

    RehabRNjc replied to pawsomepooch47's topic in Relations

    This might be one of the most entertaining threads ever. :) I wanna find a hospital with such a relaxed enviroment that people just sneak away and scrogg (is that a naughty word?). Must be a really relaxed facility where everyone wears whatever they...

15. Just when you think you should hang up the stethoscope

    RehabRNjc posted a topic in General Nursing

    It's been a horrible week. Wednesday the patient who refused her TED hose developed DVTs, the patient across the hall is a sweet heart who manages to break your back no matter how you transfer him, the patient down the hall who will be a quadrapalegi...