country mom

country mom has 16 years experience.

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1. Looking for Wellness In All The Wrong Places

   country mom replied to Carol Ebert's topic in General Nursing

   For a person who has diabetes, a referral to a Diabetes Self-Management Education service can be very helpful. Healthy eating, physical activity, and many other topics relating to diabetes management are part of the services. Most of my referrals com...

2. Do you work at Hilton?

   country mom replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   If your employer understood the whole idea of customer service, they would make sure a maintainence person got up to your unit and fixed your coffee maker, or brought you a new one, PRONTO. That means one call and they get up there and take care of t...

3. From First Generation College Student To Nurse

   country mom replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

   Thank you for writing this. My grandparents had a 6th-grade education. My parents were educated in a 1-room schoolhouse (think Little House on the Prairie.) I was fortunate to have an older brother who blazed the trail for me. The part where your par...

4. Interview for Critical Access Hospital, and where would I live?

   country mom replied to greyL's topic in Rural

   If your interview goes well and you are offered the job (crossing my fingers for you), I'm willing to bet they would help you find a place to live. Small towns and small hospitals are like that. Once you're in, you're family.

5. Working long hours to buy gifts for everyone...

   country mom replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   Made me think of my dearly departed Granny- she had very, very little money- but she would always make us something on her sewing machine- the best part is that for a graduation gift, she made me a simple block quilt- and in those blocks are bits of ...

6. Do you work at Hilton?

   country mom replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   The suits at your place need to get the "tv people" on board. Places would run right and patients would be happier if everyone just made it a point to get the nurses what they need for their patients. Of course you could not fix the tv- but why could...

7. What are the nurse's rights regarding difficult family members?

   country mom replied to Brekka's topic in Relations

   Is the patient supposed to be discharged home with this family member? Some possible red flags are: threatening speech, becoming vocally beligerent when aggravated, acting out physically against staff, making unreasonable demands, invading another's ...

8. The Wise Nurse Speaks

   country mom replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

   There is so much truth in what you have written. "You cannot pour from an empty vessel"- that is a pearl I'm going to remember. Excellent piece, thank you.

9. Thinking about making the switch to home health...

   country mom replied to RN_Mommy_2_3's topic in Home Health

   One thing to consider if you have small children- will you be required to take call? For a while about 12-15 years ago, it was popular for the hospitals in the region to have their own home care department. The nurses were required to be on call for ...

10. The nurses every co-worker hates

    country mom replied to RNGriffin's topic in Relations

    Have you ever read the book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People"? It's a great basic book about human relations and how to get what you want and need by garnering the cooperation of others. It's very likely available at your local library or b...

11. Too much emphasis on "caring"

    country mom replied to sweet~revenge's topic in General Nursing

    Stay in nursing! Professionals like yourself who care to question the status quo, problem solve and critically devise solutions are exactly the kind of leadership needed. Yes, nursing will change. So will medicine, physical therapy, pharmacy and ever...

12. Newly diagnosed diabetic

    country mom replied to mustlovepoodles's topic in School

    I work mostly with adult type 2's and learning carb counting is a challenge for them- I can't imagine being 10 and trying to learn it. Thank goodness this child has a school nurse there to help him.

13. A Place For Mom: The Best-Kept Secret in Long-Term Care

    country mom replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Geriatric

    Dear Viva: How is ALF different from Adult Foster Care? Thanks!

14. A&P "coloring book"??

    country mom replied to butterflykisses23's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Medscape: Medscape Access Link to anatomical line drawings on medscape. Requires (free) registration to access.

15. Weird interviews

    country mom replied to redhead_NURSE98!'s topic in Job Hunt

    I don't think that asking a candidate about their strengths and weaknesses and long term goals is a goofy question. Wouldn't you want to hire a person who has some sense of direction, who wants to aspire to something other than punching the clock and...