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1. MDS Job Offer-Need Advice

   nursediz replied to nursediz's topic in Geriatric

   You are right. they finished and submitted their POC last week. Some of the corrections were of course replacing the old MDS coordinators with us, a tickler system, dry erase board with list of Medicare MDS due, MDS audits by the ADON, and others.......

2. 15 SNF R Out 2 Hospital--Any other with widespread flu/uri?

   nursediz replied to nursediz's topic in General Nursing

   OMG, i'm dying. I "thought" it had hit me like a ton of bricks yesterday! I was wrong. I feel like I have been hit by a mack truck...Mucinex isn't helping like it did yesterday...i gotta get in to a doc soon....:- ( that should be easy? *rolls eyes*

3. 15 SNF R Out 2 Hospital--Any other with widespread flu/uri?

   nursediz replied to nursediz's topic in General Nursing

   Arkansas.... During our stand up meeting this morning we were mulling over the fear of possibly having to quarentine...it was as much an exaggeration as it was a possibility...

4. 15 SNF R Out 2 Hospital--Any other with widespread flu/uri?

   nursediz posted a topic in General Nursing

   This is a question I wanted to pose to all working in the nursing homes or just in general..... We gave our 90 residents flu shots approx 3 months ago....to those that accepted which was the vast majority....also, the vast majority of our employees a...

5. Please Help..i Hate Nsg. Right Now.. But What Else..in A Bind.

   nursediz replied to Shell5's topic in Career Support

   OH please don't quit nursing b.c. of a bad facility! I have been in and out of nursing homes since I began the whole medical journey....a short stop in PEDS and Post Op Urology...but, mostly LTC....I even at one point thought to myself when i was at...

6. EEEEEK! Please Help Me! Losing New Job????

   nursediz replied to rnmom3153's topic in General Nursing

   It really should not be an issue if you have the scripts. Possibly she just wants to talk to you and get some copies of your scripts to put on file. Maybe she can't put you on the floor until she has those scripts in her file with a fax also from you...

7. Start my MDS job tomorrow...LIL nervous

   nursediz posted a topic in General Nursing

   i start my new job as mds coordinator tomorrow. i am so nervous. previously i worked 7p-7a in a snf...tomorrow we ((the other nurse teaming up with me)) settle into our office and audit charts, then on tuesday somebody from corporate is giving us an...

8. Odds of failing NCLEX at 85 ?'s?

   nursediz replied to sorpy69's topic in NCLEX

   If it is the same in everywhere else as it is in Arkansas...... The number of questions you answer is not the issue...the amount you answer correctly is....in Arkansas, and i am sure in other states....they mix in the "survey" questions...meaning th...

9. Meds you hate to give....

   nursediz replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   ooo, ya that one is tricky....what is worse is habgel....oh man...i was warned about it and sure enough, 4am that morning i went to give it and the last nurse hadn't cleaned off the piston syringe very well and a small amount of it got on me....i imm...

10. What is the hardest nursing class?

    nursediz replied to selulion's topic in General Nursing

    pharmacology....iv thereapy...yadda yadda yadda....i hated doing the calc's on both. our instructor was "not in the know". most of our classtime was spent with the only male in our class arguing her calculations and her spending the next 30 minutes ...

11. Feeling guilty for poor pt. outcomes...

    nursediz replied to Keely-FutureRN's topic in General Nursing

    If you didn't care...you wouldn't be working the job you are now. It comes with the territory. For every life you feel you have helped 'save' you have several others that you are going to feel like you didn't all you could. I firmly believe that TLC...

12. Meds you hate to give....

    nursediz replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    breathing treatments on alert patients.....ooooommmmmmmmggggggg...they can't talk b.c. they are breathing it in....their room is usually a thousand degrees....watching the lawrence welk show at full blast....and i always stand b.c. i feel lazy if i s...

13. Is this legal?

    nursediz replied to Rocknurse's topic in General Nursing

    (Can't even imagine how this will affect smokers...) Good point...i would probably be out of a job. I do not take my full lunch break. So, I usually go outside for maybe 10 minutes about 4 times a night...that is working 12 hours.

14. Describe your last day at work in 50 words or less !?

    nursediz replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Med-Surg

    Audited charts-one read like this from a floor nurse "R was being very ugly c me. I told him he can't be ugly with me b/c i'm his nurse. He kept being ugly with me and said "I'm a grown man, I can do what I want." I gave him 1mg Ativan P.O.---NxNeed...

15. MDS Job Offer-Need Advice

    nursediz replied to nursediz's topic in Geriatric

    Thanks for all of your advice/support/ and knowledge....I spoke with the DOn and not only will I be doing the MDS/Careplans...but, they teamed me up with a nurse from dayshift ((whoo hoo)). Her and I get along very well and think alot a like..she wor...