Jewelsforme

Jewelsforme

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  1. New Grad Fired After 2 Weeks

    Jewelsforme replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I read through this and it sounds like you were set up to fail, not to succeed. You should not have received more than two patients and ask questions until you are either retired or dead. I don't know...

  2. As a new nurse, how was your first experience with trach patients?

    Jewelsforme replied to Misstika's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I had a daughter with a trach. I hope it's ok to post about this. Trach suctioning I could do without breaking sterile tech in my sleep, and did as she was a "wet" trach and sometimes the nurses...

  3. Working with PTSD Disorder

    Jewelsforme replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear working with ptsd -- Please do not give up. You are humble enough to admit your own challenges. Go forward and know the rest of us with challenges or disabilities keep going one foot at a time....

  4. The Nurse on the Other Side

    Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

    Grivet, thank you for your opinion. Proves oh, so much. Hope you feel better soon and I wish you

  5. The Nurse on the Other Side

    Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

    I know Hancock. I even was flown to Honolulu to see an endo. So sad, she just kept asking me if I had diabetes, and had no clue about adrenal insufficiency. I asked her about the axis and she gave the...

  6. The Nurse on the Other Side

    Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

    I understand. It is not known because it is rare. With extremely low cortisol, mine was 1.7 at the time, the heart cannot function correctly. I had to do quite a bit of research myself because even...

  7. The Nurse on the Other Side

    Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

    Well, let the attacks against us roll. I was not in the ER for chronic pain. I was having chest pain and needed a cortisol infusion since the home I'm injection did not stop the arrythmias. I limp...

  8. The Nurse on the Other Side

    Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

    I forgot to thank you Anna - for treating each patient as a human, regardless of what we did for a living. I never had the time, nor desire, to dig up any personal info of any patient unless it may...

  9. The Nurse on the Other Side

    Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

    In a word, yes. But we value each and every single one of you who do not pass judgment on us, because we are in a very weakened and vulnerable position now and adore those of you who truly care about...

  10. The Nurse on the Other Side

    Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

    No, we do not go in "ready to be angry," at least most of us who are chronically ill, unless we are called names like "psych patient" when in fact we are a GI bleed or other REAL physical ailment that...

  11. The Nurse on the Other Side

    Jewelsforme replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

    I'll drink to this. You certainly hit this nail smack dab on the head. I used to be a MedSurg and Hospice nurse. I was the nurse that patients asked for by name, even in our hospice community. Man, I...

  12. How do you leave it at work?

    Jewelsforme replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Beccalyn175, each nurse is very different from one another. However, for those of us who have a heart, compassion and care for each human even after we clock out, that is what a debriefing is for. Do...

  13. failed nursing school again

    Jewelsforme replied to snowybee's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    When you say you are "one" class away from "being an RN," are you saying you have about 4 credits before you can take your finals, then take the NCLEX? I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Can you help...

  14. Students who get As are bad bedside nurses

    Jewelsforme replied to konstantine's topic in General Students

    Jealousy rears its ugly head. They sound jealous. You just do your best without discussing how good your grades are or that you passed the NCLEX first time etc. You'll get past this and remember a...

  15. What are your pros and cons of computer charting?

    Jewelsforme posted a topic in Nursing Informatics

    Are we making serious positive headway utilizing I.T./Computer Charting in patient care, or are we also creating more or larger problems using these electronic charting systems? 1) Name at least three...

  16. Attention LC's and nurses who assist with breastfeeding

    Jewelsforme replied to RNIBCLC's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hi, my last child did not have a suck/swallow. She remained in NICU first 5 months of her life. She initially had gavage feeding of my pumped breast milk thru NG tube. Prior to discharge she had a Peg...

  17. What grinds your gears about your coworkers?

    Jewelsforme replied to Nurse_Lily's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Grinds my gears. Hmmm. We have to work in sometimes a close environment to one another, so I'm positive each of us can do something that grates on others. Yes, the "I am the greatest thing that ever...

  18. Lady keeps "losing her pain patches"

    Jewelsforme replied to Blackcat99's topic in Addictions

    1. Put the patch between shoulder blades. Invest $34 for a box of 100 Tegaderm (sheesh to your facility for not doing this already). Still disappearing? 2. Get one member of administration to...

  19. What are your pros and cons of computer charting?

    Jewelsforme replied to Jewelsforme's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Watching paper charting convert to computer charts over the last decade or so has brought some real pros but also very real cons. For example, the current hospital has implemented a system that went...

  20. Too disabled to be NP

    Jewelsforme replied to CombatCJ's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Whoa, the "G" word. No need to explain. I was raised in the military, married military and received "care" in military hospitals. We have a dear family member who was placed in a state hospital in the...

  21. Asthma treatment

    Jewelsforme replied to Leegc's topic in School

    You did the right thing. Never mess around with an asthmatic. They can turn so fast and so bad on you that you may not get to 911 or the ER, praying you can get an ET tube down if you happen to even...

  22. Attention LC's and nurses who assist with breastfeeding

    Jewelsforme replied to RNIBCLC's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I hope you have a strong lactation services dept/lactation specialist where you all work. They will set him straight no matter how large and empty his ego tends to

  23. Sentinal event

    Jewelsforme replied to NursKris's topic in Psychiatric

    Anything can happen, although we hope not. With the very best laid plans and with our eyes literally on the patient, there will be moments our eyes cannot be on the patient. And if we take a break...

  24. Too disabled to be NP

    Jewelsforme replied to CombatCJ's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    If you work at a very good institution, they will find a way to accommodate your limitations. I've worked with an RN in a very busy MedSurg who only had one hand and no prosthetic on the other arm....

  25. I PASSED MY NCLEX-RN

    Jewelsforme replied to TiffanyMonroeRN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Congratulations. You must be floating. I know I was elated. Enjoy the