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1. pediatric HIV/AIDS nurses?

   tamdsandlin replied to tamdsandlin's topic in Pediatric

   Thanks for responding! Noncompliance is a major issue! A lot of the positive kids I work with have mickey buttons so they don't taste their meds. and therefore don't mind taking it. I have one child in my setting that is a little over 1 yr. old and i...

2. pediatric HIV/AIDS nurses?

   tamdsandlin posted a topic in Pediatric

   I work with pediatric HIV/AIDS pts. Is there anyone else that does this reading? What kind of problems have you encountered?

3. I want the truth!

   tamdsandlin replied to jujubee's topic in Pediatric

   I am a pediatric HIV/AIDS nurse and I love it! I have always pretty much known that pediatrics is what I wanted to do. There is ups and downs in every field and every profession. Good luck! We always need warm and caring people to help our children.

4. Average doseage of conscious sedation while doing endoscopy's

   tamdsandlin replied to lmbv55's topic in Gastroenterology

   I used to be a GI nurse and I worked with a specialists. I am also very sorry that you had a bad experience with your c-scope. Most of the time patients say that the prep the night before was worse than the actual scope! Everyone is different though ...

5. Do u feel RNs should be only nurse to wear certain colored uniforms?

   tamdsandlin posted a topic in General Nursing

   In hosp. where I used to work, RNs wore navy and white uniforms and LVNs wore any other colored uniforms. The same as CNA and other hosp. staff! I hated it. I feel that RNs and LVN/LPNs should wear a certain color or be distinquished in some way from...

6. Do you feel the LVN/Lpn Is being left out in the nursing profession?

   tamdsandlin replied to kjmta57's topic in LPN/LVN

   I went to school only a couple of years ago and we were taught how to make nursing assessments and evaluations! LVN/LPN and RNs should ALL know how to do that and be able to do that! I also feel IV insertion and fluid administration is within my scop...

7. Do you feel the LVN/Lpn Is being left out in the nursing profession?

   tamdsandlin replied to kjmta57's topic in LPN/LVN

   I have been a LVN since 1999. I was 2 months away from graduating with my ADN and had to quite re: finacial reasons. There was really nothing new that I learned in the ADN program that I had'nt already learned in LVN school. Its just more community b...