AJJKRN

AJJKRN has 6+ years experience and specializes in Medical-Surgical/Float Pool/Stepdown.

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1. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

   AJJKRN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Also, if I'm not mistaken, a pharmacist has to check off each and every drug filled by a pharm tech prior to it being

2. How do you deal with angry/upset with patients?

   AJJKRN replied to Karlie2114's topic in General Nursing

   This! The OP may want to clarify if needing tips on how to handle reasonable customer service recovery or what healthcare workers have been experiencing more and more, which is perfectly oriented...

3. Death at Work

   AJJKRN replied to Davey Do's topic in Nursing Humor

   I live and work in the good ol state of Illinoid too. At my facility two nurses can pronounce per hospital protocol. We have to call the doc, coroner, gift of hope, etc too. The attending signs the...

4. Possible career ending injury

   AJJKRN replied to LovingLife123's topic in Nurse Disabilities

   Look into steroid injections. I have only needed two in five years (C6-7). They have saved my career as I was told that if I had an ACDF and continued to work the floor that I would just herniate in a...

5. coworkers calling me stupid to and in front of patients

   AJJKRN replied to direw0lf's topic in General Nursing

   I know many are saying go to management or HR but in my similar experience (as a new nurse), I was not believed or even entertained by my manager and since she did not keep my struggles in confidence,...

6. MA rant

   AJJKRN replied to orangepink's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Many employers are like this. They don't want to pay up front and they end up paying more in the long run.

7. Should a new grad go into med/surg or into the specialty that they would love to be in?

   AJJKRN replied to StudentRNmt's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

   Accept the job that hires you and pays your bills...and with any luck it will turn out to be your dream

8. MO Hospital offering $5,000 sign-on bonus to new grads

   AJJKRN replied to klone's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Klone, my area has a glut of new grads to choose from and we've been offering sign-on bonuses for years (not when I graduated years ago though but...sigh). We have an issue that everyone wants to...

9. Michigan hospital sued after honoring woman's request for "white nurse only"

   AJJKRN replied to klone's topic in Nursing News

   You may want to go back and reread the comment...it was "liked" so much because of the sarcastic twist that the OP added about being able to sue for being a male and being "discriminated" against......

10. Is the term multi-tasking now synonymous with working hard?

    AJJKRN replied to Lemon Bars's topic in Nursing Career

    I bet you just unintentionally hit a nerve like when people say to us nightshifters that the patients just sleep all night. Oh man that has not ever been the truth for me! She might have just thought...

11. ACCN Emergency dilemma

    AJJKRN replied to mediwizard's topic in Critical Care

    Yep, my hospital offers all of those and more like trauma nurse certification, etc. It's a perk of working for

12. Charge nurse

    AJJKRN replied to YstRN12's topic in General Nursing

    I've been in the float pool for years and have been doing charge for years which is an expectation for many of us in the float pool. Not enough experienced nurses on the floors most of the time. I get...

13. I graduated from a non-accredited Nursing school and now wish to get my BSN......

    AJJKRN replied to zatara74's topic in General Nursing

    This link may clear up some of the confusion... Nursing School Accreditation || RegisteredNursing.org Hope you find an accepting school especially in this volatile "nursing

14. PCCN vs CCRN

    AJJKRN replied to TNnurse91's topic in MICU, SICU

    My boss told me this as she has both certifications... She said the PCCN was actually harder for her because you have to take the test in the mindset of a nurse with the knowledge of a step down nurse...

15. job offer but not until December

    AJJKRN replied to direw0lf's topic in First Year After Licensure

    As long as you get it in writing, I would wait and work a non-nursing job until you start. Continue to read up on concepts to help prepare you for when you do start but getting a job as a nurse...