Jedrnurse BSN, RN

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    Career Crossroads

    Jedrnurse replied to beeker's topic in General Nursing

    If the part time job is in nursing, it's not truly a dead-end or career suicide. You can always jump back into another specialty later. It's much worse to have extended periods of not working at
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    Does Hospital Leadership and Policy Promote Working When Sick?

    Jedrnurse replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    That is horrifying. What kind of facility is this? Oh, and I hope you save these emails for future legal
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    Seattle is Dying

    Jedrnurse replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting. I think that the exquisitely complete hypocrisy of hyper-conservatism has played a large part in society's fracturing as
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    Nurses that “only do it for the money”

    Jedrnurse replied to AFJ32780's topic in General Nursing

    Well, there are about 1,000,000,000 posts on AN dealing with that precise issue. And that's a low
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    Am I less likely to get hired into ICU as a psych nurse than a new grad?

    Jedrnurse replied to badfish2162's topic in General Nursing

    No matter what you do, a six month stint will not bolster your resume, it will stick a red flag on
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    Experience

    Jedrnurse replied to RNBSN116's topic in General Nursing

    On the application you put start date (not date when you finished orientation) so computer systems looking at resumes would use that for calculation
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    Incompetence or bad night?

    Jedrnurse replied to littlerayofsunshine's topic in General Nursing

    EVERYBODY has a shift/night/experience like that at some point, and more than once to boot. Give it some perspective and shake it
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    Seattle is Dying

    Jedrnurse replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I think it's appropriate to have a standard for use of public facilities that doesn't scare off taxpayers from using
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    Seattle is Dying

    Jedrnurse replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Use of generic labels in policy discussion, e.g. liberal, conservative, progressive, etc. can lead to sloppy "stereotype-think" as well as polarization that often ends in fighting instead of action on...
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    Generation Z

    Jedrnurse replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

    Probably has always been that way, at least to some
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    Do women find male nurses attractive?

    Jedrnurse replied to Sykadia's topic in Men in Nursing

    "Do women find male nurses attractive?" If they're attractive, they
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    Did I make the right choice?

    Jedrnurse replied to Toaster's topic in General Nursing

    New nurse, no experience and starting at a SNF on night-shift with two hours orientation? Bad idea. Really bad
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    Internal transfer telling my boss over the phone a good idea?

    Jedrnurse replied to OncologySANEBABE's topic in General Nursing

    Why not "split the difference"? Inform your boss via email then offer to meet in person if he/she would like
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    Write Up's and Potential Termination for Pain Reassessments

    Jedrnurse replied to MiralaxOnIceRN's topic in General Nursing

    The Joint Commission needs to veer from cause du jour to cause du jour to perpetuate their own existence. If all the "high priority" problems were magically solved, they'd find new ones. Mind you,...
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    Nursing Intervention

    Jedrnurse replied to Lux Mee's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Your secret is safe with
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    Nursing Intervention

    Jedrnurse replied to Lux Mee's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Preach!! Also, the OP's following post has a like- can you like your own
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    side job/second job?

    Jedrnurse replied to lalalalexi's topic in General Nursing

    ...and she supported recycling at the same
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    side job/second job?

    Jedrnurse replied to lalalalexi's topic in General Nursing

    I've done dog walking on the side. It wasn't a lot of money, but time around dogs was a natural mood elevator. (and a bit of extra exercise as
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    RN skilled nursing facility

    Jedrnurse replied to Aurora0941's topic in General Nursing

    Part of the original post might have been insulting to LPNs. Anyway, take the statement about ratios with a grain of salt. 10-14 patients but you're relieved of the med pass- in a nursing home- seems...
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    Medical tent for school carnival

    Jedrnurse replied to alligatoRN's topic in School

    ...and that's just for the
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    Is 54 too old to get hired as a new RN?

    Jedrnurse replied to OHRN2023's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I would take it as a compliment (not a discriminatory remark) to be a mature, experienced adult who isn't too quick to drink the
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    Resource for the wee ones

    Jedrnurse posted a topic in School

    Hi, all. I've got a few years in schools now, got the NSNC and feel pretty comfortable with the elementary munchkins. But I now also cover an ECC and some of the kiddos are as young as 2 yrs old. I...
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    Resource for the wee ones

    Jedrnurse replied to Jedrnurse's topic in School

    Yup. I'm in MA. I was just looking at Pediatric Assessment Handbooks on Amazon; that may be my next
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    Medical tent for school carnival

    Jedrnurse replied to alligatoRN's topic in School

    Ice. Ice. And then add some more ice. (Dare I say "Ice, ice,
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    Nurse to Patient ratio in rehab. Is 20 patients in a unit normal.

    Jedrnurse replied to tatyfreedom's topic in General Nursing

    I've written variations on this theme before, but I don't see 20 patients being able to get good care from even an experienced nurse. Yeah, you get better at putting out fires and covering the basics,...