jaderook01

jaderook01 BSN, RN

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  1. Do you consider it helpful or not to be given a Pt’s attitude during a report?

    jaderook01 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I like a heads up. However, I also like to be pleasantly surprised and often am. I generally have a good PR face and attitude and handle alleged problem folks just fine. I've often found it is the...

  2. Patient's "right" to abuse nurses...I need your opinion

    jaderook01 replied to MsNewbee's topic in General Nursing

    That AMA paper would have been printed off and presented to her. Also, I would have fired her. However, I would have also called the doctor, explained her outrageous behavior and gotten her...

  3. scope of practice, the EKG/ECG?

    jaderook01 replied to wtpsych's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a floor where we all are expected to measure, interpret, and save strips. However, if we have to have a stat EKG done for chest pain protocol, we always have to call the provider to let...

  4. That teacher that is totally paranoid about lice

    jaderook01 replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    True story: Back when I taught, I had a group of girls that constantly shared hair brushes. I repeatedly told them that was one way people got lice. One day, I was walking the aisles and saw the...

  5. Demoted from ICU to IMCU

    jaderook01 replied to TiffanyB1313's topic in General Nursing

    ^This x

  6. Return to the bedside

    jaderook01 replied to Missmilo's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    When I was night shift I met more than one NP that picked up nights as a resource/float nurse because reasons. Their NP jobs, as they described them, sounded very crappy to

  7. Fired By My Patients

    jaderook01 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    A lot of people have sussed out multiple potential reasons for why you're being fired by patients- even though many give you good feedback. I especially think the advice that you may not realize how...

  8. If not nursing what other career would you have done?

    jaderook01 replied to nurse2bnoob101's topic in General Nursing

    As do I. It was my first career. I will go back to it at some

  9. Getting a non-nursing job?

    jaderook01 replied to TNViking's topic in General Nursing

    I am a firm believer that people know themselves best. That said, I am also a firm believer that one should not use their first year of a career as the indicator of whether or not they should...

  10. Personality Type and Nursing.

    jaderook01 replied to MJPN2012's topic in General Nursing

    Take anything regarding personality types and the resulting perfect careers that go along with them with a grain of salt. If I was doing the job one of those personality career tests said was perfect...

  11. Quitting Nursing School...

    jaderook01 replied to Swiftem01's topic in General Students

    It sounds like you need to talk to an advisor. You don't have to be a nurse or even work in a related field. It's perfectly alright. Sit down, do some soul searching, and decide what other major...

  12. NO experience new graduate BSN student applying for MSN-FNP graduate school?

    jaderook01 replied to 2bABLE's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    If you didn't care, you wouldn't be responding to us about

  13. NO experience new graduate BSN student applying for MSN-FNP graduate school?

    jaderook01 replied to 2bABLE's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    OP: The best NPs have bedside nursing experience and the assessment skills that go along with that. Personally, were I you, I would gain experience first before becoming an

  14. I'm having doubts about nursing... :(

    jaderook01 replied to Texasstudent0's topic in General Students

    OP: The very first thing they taught me in nursing school was how to do bed baths, turn, and help ambulate patients. We were not allowed to go to our first clinical rotation without knowing basic CNA...

  15. How do your students address you?

    jaderook01 replied to River Song, RN's topic in School

    Exactly what I used to do. Any kid that called me "teacher" was always addressed as "student" in

  16. CPS/Child Abuse Protocol

    jaderook01 replied to mslove's topic in School

    I'm a former teacher. Teachers (and school administrators) are also mandated reporters (at least in my state). I've called CPS many a time. Technically, the teacher the student told should have...

  17. YOUR Childhood School Nurse memories

    jaderook01 replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    There were never school nurses in my school district until the last couple of years. I once feigned being sick in the seventh grade to get out of taking a math test I forgot all about. The teacher...

  18. Does Death Have A Smell?

    jaderook01 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I believe you that there is a smell. I've not experienced it. However, after seeing a few patients die, I once walked into a room to help a CNA and immediately I thought the patient looked like...

  19. nurses not using stethoscopes

    jaderook01 replied to akint19's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a pulmonary floor. I always use my stethoscope unless the patient is in isolation. If there is no isolation stethoscope, I will put one in the room. I never rely on someone else's...

  20. One thing i dont understand(at the nurses' station)

    jaderook01 replied to BellaCat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In the work place, if you're using a language that isn't held in common to (i.e. spoken by) everyone physically around you, then it is rude and unprofessional. Private conversations need to be...

  21. Giving report/day shift probs

    jaderook01 replied to scooterscamp123's topic in General Nursing

    ^All of this. I worked night shift until two months ago. Night shift had issues with day shift (and some things were legitimately annoying). However, I'm now seeing it from the other side and have...

  22. HELPP! New nurse to Med Surg but NOT a new nurse

    jaderook01 replied to zoomonkey's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a little confused. I work on an ICU step-down unit and it isn't considered med surg- it's considered an intermediate floor/progressive care. We have to take vitals more often, all of our...

  23. Is it like this every school year?

    jaderook01 replied to VgsNrs's topic in School

    OP: Before I was a nurse I was a classroom teacher for fifteen years of my life. It is extremely common to have numerous parents drag their feet on stuff like this (i.e. important paperwork and...

  24. How to get into ICU?

    jaderook01 replied to alli.'s topic in General Nursing

    Exactly. Sometimes the only difference between an ICU patient and one on my unit is that they had to make room in the ICU for someone else- and I've had ICU level patients on my unit solely because...

  25. How to get into ICU?

    jaderook01 replied to alli.'s topic in General Nursing

    I've seen brand new grads with zero experience get ICU positions. In the case of one particular new grad I encountered this past week- putting her there was a big mistake- but I'm sure there are new...