J Friday

J Friday has 2 years experience.

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1. Admitting More ICU Patients than Hospital is Licensed To Take

   J Friday replied to J Friday's topic in Safety

   SO... through talking with staff that has been working this ICU for over a decade, it turns out the hospital does have a negotiation with the state to open up tele room for ICU overflow patients. It's a very underserved community and many hospitals w...

2. Admitting More ICU Patients than Hospital is Licensed To Take

   J Friday replied to J Friday's topic in Safety

   These are real ICU patients....If it was just an insulin or heparin drip on a stable patient, I wouldnt' be concerned. These are septic, ventilted, hypo/hyperthermic, unstable patients on multiple vasopressors, propofol and other titrated meds...

3. Admitting More ICU Patients than Hospital is Licensed To Take

   J Friday replied to J Friday's topic in Safety

   I am worried that denying the assignment is going to get me fired. I wouldn't be worried if I knew I had a legal leg to stand on. Has anyone else experienced this? Putting a piece of paper that says "ICU" on the door and now a certified 4-bed ICU hos...

4. Admitting More ICU Patients than Hospital is Licensed To Take

   J Friday posted a topic in Safety

   My hospitals has a 4-bed ICU. We are constanly admitting up to 9-10 ICU patinets at a time, and using completely underequipped mulitbed tele rooms as an ICU "Overflow". Nurses are put in those rooms alone with no remote monitoring or in-room suppor...

5. UCLA New Grad Residency Winter 2017

   J Friday replied to m2912's topic in California

   My coworker said, last night, that she is still waiting to hear from Santa Monica ER. I don't know about RR. That's SM ER. Don't know about RR ER. I'm still waiting for RR NTICU. ABCDEFG...lol. (Sorry couldn't help myself.. long night in the ER...lo...

6. UCLA New Grad Residency Winter 2017

   J Friday replied to m2912's topic in California

   Mine was December 2nd...lol. I think the answer is.....yes But it seems that each department is on a slightly different timeline...

7. UCLA New Grad Residency Winter 2017

   J Friday replied to m2912's topic in California

   Still haven't heard from Neuro ICU.... For those that got selected, or anyone that can answer, Did the status change on your UCLA application page? Mine still says, "Routed to Interviewing Supervisor" I interviewed December 2nd. SO.. there has real...

8. UCLA New Grad Residency Winter 2017

   J Friday replied to m2912's topic in California

   It would make sense about no second interview being that the first was listed as a single person interview, but turned out to be three people--including two floor nurses... well. I do hate the waiting game, but at least I have a current job to keep m...

9. UCLA New Grad Residency Winter 2017

   J Friday replied to m2912's topic in California

   @ anybody that can answer..... I was a trying to remember everything in the interview but the exact structure of the residency program kind of flew over my head. How is it again? 2 days at the bedside for 12-hour shifts + 1 or 2 days in class? is th...

10. UCLA New Grad Residency Winter 2017

    J Friday replied to m2912's topic in California

    @ M2912 and Ashcho Did they ask you to do a live-scan or tour the unit when your interview was over? and have you heard anything back yet? I did mine today and was asked to tour the NTICU. They said the same day live-scan was for out of town applican...

11. UCLA New Grad Residency Winter 2017

    J Friday replied to m2912's topic in California

    Hello all!! Just wanted to chime in here. I haven't read the whole thread so I do not know if anyone else interviewed for Neuro-Trauma ICU, but I had my first interview today. It went really well. I do have experience in acute care and with various d...

12. BSN premium on the table.

    J Friday replied to tokmom's topic in Union

    The BSN spent years more time, effort and money in their education. They also boost the reputation/status of the hospital and have been statistically proven to have better patient outcomes.... bottom line, they deserve some form of premium. Just as a...

13. Nurses at Allina to strike: What's at stake?

    J Friday replied to herring_RN's topic in Union

    "In other words, Allina took a segment of its business and paid to outsource it to a for-profit company. The conflicts of interest abound. For starters, Allina CEO Penny Wheeler is on the Health Catalyst Board of Directors..." WOW !!!!! non-profits a...

14. Withdrawing from BIO 1200

    J Friday replied to Lessh's topic in Pre-Nursing

    WITHDRAW NOW !!!!!! BATTLESHIP SUNK !!!! BATTLESHIP SUNK !!!! Most schools will not count W's against you because they do NOT factor into GPA (main scoring criteria for apps). My university did not count W's against you or even inquire why I dropped ...

15. First week- will I die of boredom?

    J Friday replied to gypsierose's topic in General Students

    walk now... run later... trust you will be running soon enough and before you feel confident in doing so.... That being said... There are many boring and uninteresting (and sometimes seemingly useless) parts of nursing school. Get over it, cause you'...