Jensmom7 BSN, RN

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    Today, I am thankful for......

    Jensmom7 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    *sigh* Six months for me. Getting long and it's so humid I look like Little Orphan Annie
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    Today, I am thankful for......

    Jensmom7 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    The inadvertent humor in the email I just received from my supervisor, letting me know that she had faxed me a form that I needed to finish an admit. I had sent her the original request in April....
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    Become a Nurse without Nursing School

    Jensmom7 replied to Longa's topic in General Nursing

    While I admit I am not up on all the "bells and whistles", it isn't because I trained almost 40 years ago. I'm a Hospice nurse now, and all that new stuff is just interesting reading now and then,...
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    This week I have learned (6/20, a day late)

    Jensmom7 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Another bad 70s poster (that my roommate and I had on our wall): "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T out to get
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    Unusual treatments

    Jensmom7 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Me too, but it reminded me of the joke about the woman who went to see her doctor and was told she was pregnant. Doc was puzzled, as the patient had been started on BC pills recently. So, he asked her...
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    Passed in 75 questions

    Jensmom7 replied to Minkuscat1's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Thank you, I've been wondering the same thing myself. We weren't expected to be experts right out of the gate, either, but we WERE expected to have a basic knowledge of a wide range of material. I...
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    This week I have learned (6/20, a day late)

    Jensmom7 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    "The patient is positive for bowel sounds and hiccups. Goosebumps developed following the onset of bloody nose." Horripilation is the only one I had to Google, but I did think it had something to do...
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    Can someone explain licensure in multiple states to me?

    Jensmom7 replied to BeachsideRN's topic in General Nursing

    Me either, and I did the same thing you did. Went to school in Missouri, came back to Illinois, got a job as an RNLP, then sat Boards a few months later. Now, a few years ago, an employer wanted all...
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    Unusual treatments

    Jensmom7 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Um...which end does the mixture go into??
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    Health One vs Centura

    Jensmom7 replied to Nurse216's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Funny how the more things change, the more they stay the same. This is exactly how I got my first Nursing job, straight out of school, 36 years ago. I hadn't even planned on talking with anyone that...
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    Reasons patients turn on their call light

    Jensmom7 replied to diamondp17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ok, I get it. Judgmental Nurse is being Judgmental. First of all, I really don't think that any competent nurse here would go to a room, listen to what the patient has requested, and then just walk...
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    Old wives tales

    Jensmom7 replied to SDALPN's topic in Private Duty

    So, either my friend was "Nurse Zero" for this scenario, which has since grown a life of its own, or she pulled a good one on us way back in the 80s. Well, she wasn't a reader, so I doubt she found it...
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    This week I have learned (6/20, a day late)

    Jensmom7 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I learned that telling a grieving daughter that it was an honor to care for her mom means as much to me now as it did the first time I said it as a Hospice nurse. And I still get teary (just a little)...
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    Torn between the two

    Jensmom7 replied to nursemoma35's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I've been a Hospice nurse for awhile, and I completely understand how it can leech over into your private life if allowed to. It's insidious that way; you don't want it to, it just happens. I've...
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    Unusual treatments

    Jensmom7 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I put this one in the Old Wive's Tales thread, but it fits here as well: Inserting a potato into the lady parts to relieve uterine prolapse. An organic pessary, so to speak. Apparently worked until it...
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    Unusual treatments

    Jensmom7 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Most of us who have suffered through his pretentious, condescending crap ARE pretty much ignoring him. We don't need anyone to tell us to do so. And as far as "fostering negativity", life ain't all...
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    Today, I am thankful for......

    Jensmom7 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Today, I am thankful that my patient who has been transitioning for the past 3 weeks finally heard from the last person she needed to hear from in order to relax and finish her life journey. She died...
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    Become a Nurse without Nursing School

    Jensmom7 replied to Longa's topic in General Nursing

    The rest of us get stuck down here with Kirk
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    Become a Nurse without Nursing School

    Jensmom7 replied to Longa's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you!! I was going to try and find it, but it's been one of THOSE on-call
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    Today, I am thankful for......

    Jensmom7 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes that's part of the fun lol. I'll respond to a comment, then look up to see the thread title, and realize that the conversation has veered WAY off course-it's like that childhood game of...
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    Become a Nurse without Nursing School

    Jensmom7 replied to Longa's topic in General Nursing

    I knew that!! BTW, have you seen the cat food commercial where the cat is closer every time the woman turns around? Whoever came up with that one must have seen the "Weeping Angels" episodes at some...
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    Unusual treatments

    Jensmom7 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Read the other posts he's started and then get back to me. Dogen's right-people are getting tired of
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    Become a Nurse without Nursing School

    Jensmom7 replied to Longa's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't gotten any PMs. Waaahhhh no one loves me!! Your all a bunch of mean bullies!!! Just because I passed Boards on my first try, have actually worked as an RN for 36 years and am an official...
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    Old wives tales

    Jensmom7 replied to SDALPN's topic in Private Duty

    I've been around Nursing for almost 4 decades, I've seen and heard just about every weird, bat-crap crazy thing out there. I don't have to make things up. Frankly, if I were to write a screenplay and...
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    Become a Nurse without Nursing School

    Jensmom7 replied to Longa's topic in General Nursing

    I totally heard that in caps, because that's how House