Jensmom7 BSN, RN

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    Open mouth, insert foot...

    Jensmom7 replied to Christy1019's topic in General Nursing

    I was in the Activity room with one of my patients today. They were doing beach ball toss and two of the ladies were pretty good at it. What I MEANT to say was "Got a couple of ball tossing champs...
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    Nurses, how do you view your job?

    Jensmom7 replied to 8*P23J's topic in General Nursing

    Part of being a Hospice nurse is learning to set limits and boundaries, so you don't get burned out and overwhelmed. I don't take my work home with me, but that doesn't mean that I don't have empathy...
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    Nurses, how do you view your job?

    Jensmom7 replied to 8*P23J's topic in General Nursing

    Because she didn't get the responses and kudos she was looking for, she started a new thread. As far as Nursing being a calling, that's entirely Flo's fault. She had a religious epiphany when she...
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    Scripting sounds patronizing

    Jensmom7 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Other professionals don't want to hear scripted responses-personally, I think they make everyone sound like Forest Gump. I once had an Orthopedic surgeon pitch a fit in the middle of the hall because...
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    Does everyone have a conscience?

    Jensmom7 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, was it really that easy? I can't believe it was that easy. Something nefarious is
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    Does everyone have a conscience?

    Jensmom7 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Please, for the love of fuzzy puppies, please stop feeding it!! As soon as I saw who the OP was, I skipped right to the end, with this impassioned
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    How do you leave it at work?

    Jensmom7 replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Tenebrae, you're right. Empathy was the word I was searching for. It allows us to anticipate needs, act quickly in an emergency and do what needs to be done without collapsing into a puddle of green...
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    How do you leave it at work?

    Jensmom7 replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow-I just realized Superwhatever totally hijacked the thread. Turning the focus back to OP where it belongs, you don't ever want to lose your compassion. But, you don't want it to dominate your...
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    How do you leave it at work?

    Jensmom7 replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What Dranger says might sound blunt and COB to you, but he has a point. Look at your screen name-NO nurse can be "Super" 365 days a year. You will burn yourself out very quickly if you continue to...
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    What would you do in this situation? (If you know it all ;) )

    Jensmom7 replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    I would drop a Foley more for energy conservation than I&O accuracy. Once she starts to diurese, she's going to be peeing like a racehorse-you ever try to get out of bed to a commode every 15-20...
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    WHATS THAT SMELL???

    Jensmom7 replied to lumbarpain's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    This!! I was told that, by an ET nurse, right around 1980. It was all about "Don't embarrass the patient". There weren't hand sanitizer dispensers every 6 feet down the hall, Universal Precautions...
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    Unusual treatments

    Jensmom7 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Play nice children. Don't MAKE me stop this
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    Funny Things Patients Say

    Jensmom7 replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    One of my patients has fairly advanced dementia, and usually just babbles when you talk to her. Holding a baby doll helps to keep her calm. When I saw her recently, she was holding the doll, as usual....
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    Venting

    Jensmom7 replied to MendedHeart's topic in General Nursing

    She means the person who gets told to stay home due to low census. When I worked the floor, it was rotated, and a list was
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    Preemployment drug screen

    Jensmom7 replied to Gc738315's topic in New York Nursing

    If you're actively going on job interviews, you should realize that there's always a chance, no matter how remote, that you'll be asked to advance to the next level right then and there. You're a bit...
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    Venting

    Jensmom7 replied to MendedHeart's topic in General Nursing

    Also known as "Not my circus, not my monkeys!!" 😄 I do NOT miss being charge at all-now all I'm responsible for is my own schedule, and when things change, I can move patients around myself....
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    New grad in hospice = doomed?

    Jensmom7 replied to aphillipi's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Seriously? This is one of the more smug, condescending comments I have seen here (and I've seen plenty). I've been a Hospice nurse for 6 years, and have a total of 36 years of Nursing experience. Yes,...
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    So Embarrassing

    Jensmom7 replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    You still play Candy Crush??
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    Pearsonvue trick June 2015

    Jensmom7 replied to HealthyFuture's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Took it in Chicago in 1979. It was given twice a year, may also have been given in Springfield, don't remember. We took them on one level of the McCormack Place parking garage. Rows and rows of...
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    Unusual treatments

    Jensmom7 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Funny thing is, the correct route turned out to be oral
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    Dose calculations, new and old nurses.

    Jensmom7 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Both, actually. That's a pretty first level calculation. I did it in my head first, just to make sure the old neurons were firing,lol, then did it on paper. 10.3ml. When I was precepting, I would make...
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    I Need A Nurse To Interview!!

    Jensmom7 replied to BeaRamos's topic in General Students

    Ok, what the heck is a "tapatalk error 2203"? That's what I got when I tried to send a reply here (and it was a good one, too
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    I Need A Nurse To Interview!!

    Jensmom7 replied to BeaRamos's topic in General Students

    Yes, some of you guys are very young. Wouldn't hurt you to pay attention to people who have more experience (job AND life). For example, one poster mentioned that OP is too new to PM. Sometimes paying...
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    I Need A Nurse To Interview!!

    Jensmom7 replied to BeaRamos's topic in General Students

    Ok, stop. Just stop. This is NOT NETY. This is an unprepared student who either doesn't have the time or doesn't want to exert herself enough to meet a real nurse face to face. So she goes on a...
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    Pearsonvue trick June 2015

    Jensmom7 replied to HealthyFuture's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Two days. My, my. Imagine if there was no PVT, no Internet, and you had to wait almost two months to get your results? (Although you could still work as a nurse until you got your results.) The use of...