Jacqueline.Damm

Jacqueline.Damm has 3 years experience and specializes in Med/Surg, Onc., Palliative/Hospice, CPU.

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1. "There's Nothing Else We Can Do": The Tale of a Nurse on the Other Side

   Jacqueline.Damm posted a topic in General Nursing

   In recent weeks I've studied the clock a number of times while watching a family member sleep restlessly in their hospital bed as I wait hopefully for the doctor to come through. Rounds are few and far between you know. I can see now how waiting rea...

2. Established Adult Nurse to NICU?

   Jacqueline.Damm posted a topic in NICU

   Hey everyone, I had a question for you. I recently have been given the opportunity to sit for an interview for a NICU position at my local hospital. I was surprised (it was a bit of a shot in the dark for me) seeing as my experience has not been of p...

3. From night shift nursing to Fitness Model

   Jacqueline.Damm replied to laurendrainfit's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for this inspiration! You are awesome!

4. Disgusting Icky Stickies: Nurse Protect Yourself

   Jacqueline.Damm replied to Jacqueline.Damm's topic in General Nursing

   I love that you said this. It cracks me up because it is so very true! People mistake sarcasm for seriousness, bold texts and exclamations like one is screaming... etc. I like to write very Helen Fielding-esque (in a sense). She used ridiculous editi...

5. Disgusting Icky Stickies: Nurse Protect Yourself

   Jacqueline.Damm replied to Jacqueline.Damm's topic in General Nursing

   I didn't even think of the glue! Good advice! I still won't wear my shoes in the car (like I said, over active imagination on my part) but leaving them in the car in extreme temps was so not something I've thought of! Thank you for this!

6. Disgusting Icky Stickies: Nurse Protect Yourself

   Jacqueline.Damm replied to Jacqueline.Damm's topic in General Nursing

   I am SOOOO with you there! I was in a respiratory code the other morning with a VERY complicated intubation that was just not working.... You wouldn't believe the spurting things in that room.. All I could think of (besides the obvious!) was... pleas...

7. Disgusting Icky Stickies: Nurse Protect Yourself

   Jacqueline.Damm replied to Jacqueline.Damm's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks SeattleJess! Good luck in school. I'm glad you enjoyed the seriousness and the humor in my article. It was in clinical I learned about the shoes also! Amazing isn't it? ; ) Thank you for the read and kind words.

8. Shoes?! Socks?! Tights?! OH MY!

   Jacqueline.Damm replied to Jacqueline.Damm's topic in General Nursing

   I haven't even heard of Sockwell! Thank you for the input. I hope this article leads people to lend their advice on the issue that so many nurses face! It's a big issue that warrants a decent amount of attention. Our bodies are all we have. Thanks fo...

9. Disgusting Icky Stickies: Nurse Protect Yourself

   Jacqueline.Damm posted a topic in General Nursing

   Dear, dear friends. We all hate being "under the man". I get it. But goodness. Let's face it. Protective gear is a rule because it is so very necessary. If you are ever fearing a back spray, please, wear the gear to protect your ever-absorbing skin a...

10. Shoes?! Socks?! Tights?! OH MY!

    Jacqueline.Damm posted a topic in General Nursing

    I drove around relentlessly for days, walking in and out of shoe stores trying on every pair of Zapatos (shoes in Spanish...seemed fitting) that I could get my hands on. Yes, I was absolutely being selfish in the fact that I needed COLOR in my life (...

11. The Hotel Phenomenon

    Jacqueline.Damm replied to Jacqueline.Damm's topic in General Nursing

    For my earlier post-- Anger from the patients/their families.. Thanks for that-- I was a bit general.

12. The Hotel Phenomenon

    Jacqueline.Damm replied to Jacqueline.Damm's topic in General Nursing

    Your stories are blowing my mind! I thought I had a pretty good collection, but man! Keep up the comments, I am sitting to read multiple times a day everyone-- Thank you! You are giving me much food for thought. Does anyone else feel as though they a...

13. The Hotel Phenomenon

    Jacqueline.Damm replied to Jacqueline.Damm's topic in General Nursing

    I am LOVING these responses! I think the greatest idea that seems to spring forth from the majority of all of your posts have to do with the nurse being expected to handle every situation of which leaves a "bad taste" in someone's mouth. I do believe...

14. The Hotel Phenomenon

    Jacqueline.Damm posted a topic in General Nursing

    It's 0700 and the night shift is scrambling to give report as us day-shifters struggle in with our coffee breath and slightly askew hair. Part of the way through the patient history of the terrible triad (coronary artery disease, diabetes, COPD...) I...

15. Complacency in Healthcare

    Jacqueline.Damm replied to Jacqueline.Damm's topic in General Nursing

    You make some very good points banterings, for sure. I have to agree with macawake with the below stated: I think it's important for people to remember that the decisions we make and the things we say and do can cause PTSD for those we come into c...