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  1. Anyone have to call back patients who have left without being seen.

    JessicRN posted a topic in Emergency

    We have new management and they have decided that any pt who left AMA or LWBS are to be called by the charge nurse in the attempt to bring them back????? I have nothing else to do but call that "I...

  2. Nursing the old fashioned way

    JessicRN replied to Scarlette Wings's topic in General Nursing

    lets see honey to vulvectomy pt's wounds glass needle syringes and metal needle that were resterilized glass iv bottles moms stayed 3 days after lady partsl delivery and 5 days for C section babies...

  3. CEN, ENA, TNCC

    JessicRN replied to yankee nurse09's topic in Emergency

    I took the CEN after I took a critical care course without even steping in an ER yet and passed. I would not have passed if I had not have taken the course in my opinion. I recommend you take the CEN...

  4. What is it like to be a nurse in a prison?

    JessicRN replied to MMurse's topic in Correctional

    To the OP, please listen to those who have worked in the prison system or at least a nurse. Some of my best friends were the officers we would work out together in the morning and go skiing together...

  5. Correctional nursing like ER?

    JessicRN replied to savnlivzPRN's topic in Correctional

    I worked Corrections for 7 years before I came back to ED nursing and the one thing I became was very adept at my assessments. I had decide if that inmates pain was real enough to warrant a trip to...

  6. CEN Laura Gasparis DVD/CD

    JessicRN replied to jms11875's topic in Emergency

    No I have been a nurse 31 years and the way it worked is you write the Exam then in 4 years you do the CEN RO then in 4 years you had to rewite the exam and so on and so on The last time I let I...

  7. CEN Laura Gasparis DVD/CD

    JessicRN replied to jms11875's topic in Emergency

    I just took the exam yesterday and passed. This is my third time taking it but this time I swear was so much harder then the past in my opinion. I did very well but I truthfully think I guesed at...

  8. Are there really RNs that need a job?

    JessicRN replied to pielęgniarka's topic in General Nursing

    Maternity does not mean an job opening, it means a nurse is going to be off for 12 weeks. Not many experienced nurses are going to apply for a job that is only 3 months long and no Nursing director...

  9. What's your reason for putting up with it?

    JessicRN replied to canigraduate's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Violence against nurses by patients and family is well documented but truthfully little is done by the Upper staff to stop it. In MA, there is a bill that will allow nurses to charge people for...

  10. Is nursing really THAT bad?

    JessicRN replied to CuriousCC's topic in General Nursing

    Been a nurse 32 years 20 in the ED, are there horrible days yes, Lots are there great days, lots,would I trade it for anything? nope. The hours are long and you miss alot of holidays ,on some days...

  11. You know you're Old School when...

    JessicRN replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    We still do narcotics count 2x/week even with pixis Any body remember retrieving sterile sputum specimens without suction machines. It is a small bottle with 2 tubes (still have the same collection...

  12. How can I be in two places at the same time?

    JessicRN replied to sistasoul's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry I agree, you have an hour leeway with meds. Also If you get report which you should, and they say the patient is on O2 then prepare to have the extender in advance if they are on IV meds needing...

  13. how can we fix healthcare if ppl keep abusing the system?

    JessicRN replied to johnnyDoGood's topic in General Nursing

    People wonder how we treat our frequent flyer patients. Tonight for example 4 patients all return customers in under 14 hours one 3 times in 12 hours. If they are violent which the patient who...

  14. You know you're Old School when...

    JessicRN replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    "snowing " patients with Bronfman cocktail Glass chest tubes Sterilizing your own equipment -#13 ewald NG for every OD (a tube the width of a quarter shoved down your throat and 2-4 liters of NS...

  15. how can we fix healthcare if ppl keep abusing the system?

    JessicRN replied to johnnyDoGood's topic in General Nursing

    The abuse is rampant where I work and will never change 911 is a joke here. Ambulance cannot refuse anyone, we have people who are discharged from one hospital who walk across the street to came to...

  16. Best beach city on the East coast????

    JessicRN replied to Kurious RN's topic in General Nursing

    Corpus cristie Tx great beaches not great pay but low cost of living You have to like it hot though but nothing like tanning in

  17. how does nursing work for a military spouse?

    JessicRN replied to ljn07's topic in General Nursing

    I have been the wife of a carreer military officer for 20 years then I joined the military myself. There are no exceptions for nurses. If he is posted you either go with him or stay. If he goes to...

  18. should I fill out med error form?

    JessicRN replied to Ms.RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Med errors should be reported but near misses in my opinion should not. In the case of the unit manager she should not be penalized. It sounds more like a systems problems then the Unit Managers...

  19. Nobody Likes A Tattle Tail

    JessicRN replied to sassyrn333's topic in General Nursing

    Oh how I agree it was a total culture shock when I left the military and came to work as a civilian. It seems civilian nurses make tattling a science. I personally believe if you have to tattletail...

  20. Singled out because I gave too many narcotic analgesics??(long)

    JessicRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is long and complicated but needs to be told. I have spent the most horrible 7 days of my carreer. Last week I got a call from my nurse manager who told me that during a routine narcotic...

  21. Singled out because I gave too many narcotic analgesics??(long)

    JessicRN replied to JessicRN's topic in General Nursing

    What good would it do the unit manager already knows why I am the one choosen her answer is "we have a lot wrong with the unit

  22. Singled out because I gave too many narcotic analgesics??(long)

    JessicRN replied to JessicRN's topic in General Nursing

    It is so frustration when you have 5 patients and you see that each put that they had pain they stay in the ED for up to 5 hours and no one addresses pain. You go to talk with them and the next thing...

  23. Correctional Medical Services

    JessicRN replied to eliandrock's topic in Correctional

    iNTERESTING YOU ASKED THAT i TOOK OVER AS CHIEF NURSING OFFICER IN A FACILITY THAT JUST GOT RID OF CMS. ALTHOUGH I NEVER WORKED WHEN THEY WERE THERE I SAW THE AFTERMATH AND IT WAS NOT PRETTY....

  24. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    JessicRN replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    Promethazine is buffered with acetic acid-sodium acetate and has a pH between 4.0 and 5.5. That is stronger then some chemotherapy medication. Because of this too many accidents just like shooting...

  25. Assaulted and written up. (vent)

    JessicRN replied to JessicRN's topic in Emergency

    No idea the security officers just swear out a c/o and it is done we are not so lucky. Hmmm and they get hazard duty pay to work with the same patients we work with. Get this they cancelled the...