ICRN2008 BSN, RN

ICRN2008 has 5 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Infection Preventionist/ Occ Health.

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   Getting back in the game

   ICRN2008 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I've been off of work for a year (staying home with my kids) and now I'm thinking about going back (prn or casual position, not full-time). Any tips to get back into the game? I think I'm going to be...
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   Is there any nursing Job that is not stressful

   ICRN2008 replied to nursegillian's topic in Nursing Career

   I think every nursing job is stressful in one way or another. I've worked both at and away from the bedside. When you work bedside, your shift is brutal but then you turn your patients over to another...
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   How Far Would You Commute for Part-time?

   ICRN2008 replied to FocusRN's topic in Nursing Career

   I'm considering returning to work at some point this year, but I will not be willing to commute longer than 30 minutes each way. And no more than 2 days a
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   To apply or not to apply...

   ICRN2008 replied to jsterling01's topic in Occupational Health

   The previous response was great. I found the "Getting Started in Occupational Health Nursing" CD by AOHP to be super helpful, along with my local AAOHN chapter for education, networking and support....
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   How to Return to Work after Raising Kids

   ICRN2008 replied to jcemen's topic in Retired Nurses

   I've been out of the game for a year now, but have not worked full-time in 3 years because I've been home with my children. I've started networking with old colleagues and found that I've received a...
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   I'm not answering call lights

   ICRN2008 replied to imintrouble's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   When I worked the floors I found that rounding every 15 minutes to half hour cut down on the number of call lights for things that could wait, by at least 80%. I also made it a point to chart on the...
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   What do you do?

   ICRN2008 replied to Daisy_08's topic in Occupational Health

   I currently work in occupational health and I am responsible for the following: Writing policies and procedures for my department Writing protocols for others in the department Designing systems for...
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   Hourly Rounding/pain management?

   ICRN2008 replied to locolorenzo22's topic in General Nursing

   Oh, and we had to document the IV site assessment hourly as well. This came after a few lawsuits for infiltrated IVs. We managed to do our hourly rounding, but we usually only had four patients....
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   Hourly Rounding/pain management?

   ICRN2008 replied to locolorenzo22's topic in General Nursing

   In peds we were required to document hourly: Patient alertness, position and activity (ie calm, crying, etc). We had to do hourly pain assessments on all patients in pain, especially sickle cell...
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    Dengue Fever

    ICRN2008 replied to oramar's topic in Infectious Disease

    There are many vector-borne diseases that are making a comeback. I just read a book about the Yellow Fever epidemic in Memphis around the turn of the century, and it certainly serves as a cautionary...
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    Pediatric Rapid Response Team in a Community Based Hospital

    ICRN2008 replied to guardwife's topic in General Nursing

    At the peds hospital I worked at, the rapid response team consisted of a critical care RN, critical care RT (many times our team from the helicoptor would come by), out team's resident MD, and the...
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    Hep B titer

    ICRN2008 replied to Nrsstudent09's topic in General Nursing

    I am still learning, having just started in infection control. I can tell you that our practice right now is not to do titers on new employees who have already gotten the series. Many times it will...
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    BSNs Need Not Apply

    ICRN2008 replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    I know that there can be minimum qualifications for hiring someone, but can they discriminate against someone because they have "too much" education.? I would think that if they made this a written...
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    ImmunoglobulinM problem

    ICRN2008 replied to snp37's topic in General Nursing

    PS I hope it's not urgent because you're taking an online test. Because if so, it's cheating to ask others for
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    ImmunoglobulinM problem

    ICRN2008 replied to snp37's topic in General Nursing

    G stands for gamma, A stands for alpha, M stands for mu, etc. Greek