nursesaurus

nursesaurus has 8 years experience and specializes in Hospice/Mental Health/LTC/Home Health.

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1. Nurse license plate

   nursesaurus replied to nursesaurus's topic in Ohio

   Thanks. From what I found in my research there is a physician license plate in Ohio.

2. Being an LPN in Ohio

   nursesaurus replied to runnerdoug87's topic in Ohio

   Hello, I live in Dayton (a suburb called huber heights to be exact) and I have had a steady job in home care for five years. Before that I worked with hospice and in an assisted living. The major hospitals do not hire Lpns though.

3. Nurse license plate

   nursesaurus posted a topic in Ohio

   Hello, if this question has been asked, feel free to point me to the thread. I was wondering if anyone knows anymore about a nurse license plate in Ohio? Last I saw from ONA was from May and talked about the "possibility" of one. I wasn't sure if th...

4. LPNs are nurses too.

   nursesaurus replied to vbarger28's topic in LPN/LVN

   I encountered this once as an LPN doing home care visits. A patient told me she had "too many" issues and an LPN just wasn't "qualified" enough to take care of her. I did notify the RN case manager who defended me and Lpns to this patient and many ot...

5. Need to share this...

   nursesaurus replied to Forever Sunshine's topic in Geriatric

   i just ripped that off my calendar too!!! love it!!!

6. Elevated temp and dehydration

   nursesaurus replied to nursesaurus's topic in Home Health

   OK Thanks so much guys! Makes sense now!

7. Elevated temp and dehydration

   nursesaurus posted a topic in Home Health

   Somewhere along my nursing career I heard a sign of dehydration can be an elevated temperature. I can not find any literature to support this. Has anyone else heard this? Any input? Is it a symptom or could dehydration cause an elevated temp? Th...

8. I would like to be a nurse in the entertainment industry...where to get started?

   nursesaurus replied to HeatherGurl84's topic in Career Support

   I do know that "HawthoRNe" had a "nurse consultant" that gave advice on medical procedures, language, etc. Scrubs magazine had an article about it about a year ago. You may be able to find it on their website. www.scrubsmag.com

9. question: 1 on one what to do?

   nursesaurus replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in General Nursing

   I worked on a psych unit while I was in nursing school and did 1:1's all the time, I worked night shift and we stayed with the patient in most cases even while they were sleeping. It gave me a perfect opportunity to study materials. Most of the tim...

10. Johnson & Johnson commercials

    nursesaurus replied to Fribblet's topic in General Nursing

    i apologize if this is repeated information but here is a link to 'The Nursing Show" which is a podcast for nurses which is a very good podcast btw to listen to but he did an episode where he interviewed a rep for j&j here is link to the search ...

11. pacemakers and hiccups

    nursesaurus replied to nursesaurus's topic in Cardiac

    thanks so much for your responses! this definetly helps and all makes sense now!

12. pacemakers and hiccups

    nursesaurus posted a topic in Cardiac

    Hi! Please only nice responses, I have done research and haven't actually found an answer to my question(s). Why would someone get persistant hiccups with a pacemaker, and what problems does this cause. Thanks for your answers!

13. Jobs not being advertised?

    nursesaurus replied to ConsideringNursing79's topic in General Nursing

    i have found (in ohio) that a lot of companies don't post to a newspaper but will have the job posted on their website.

14. Nurse Manager Write-Up

    nursesaurus replied to Girlygirl69's topic in General Nursing

    IMO you were following doctors orders. end of story. im not experienced in this field but if the dr was second guessed by other RNs and he stood by his order then you had no choice but to hang it. just because they dont "like" to use it is no reas...

15. Just want to share the news; I got a JOB

    nursesaurus replied to cna to crna2b's topic in General Nursing

    congrats!