lisamcrn

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1. How odd is this??

   lisamcrn replied to lisamcrn's topic in General Nursing

   :roll :roll The only reason I got the rn was because my campus is busy from the discharges from the main campus which is currently flexing people like crazy with low census. :roll :roll I still am amazed, they cooperated together their lunch brea...

2. How odd is this??

   lisamcrn posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work in our hospitals snf unit, we hold 18 bed and had 15 pts this am with 2 admits expected, 4 hoyers pts and 2 coming were also. Mondays always suck, always. Our clinical leader/charge is excellent, but extremely anal and nasty on Mondays--wond...

3. Spinal with AAA

   lisamcrn replied to Brenna's Dad's topic in CRNA

   A side off your original topic, but curious. I currently had a patient about 25 days out of a AAA with an epidural that the end of all resulted in paraplegia and on to renal failure currently on dialysis. Testing is indicating no 'found' reason for...

4. Dual lumen PICC lines

   lisamcrn replied to Lynn Ran's topic in Safety

   Our policy is that only nongroshong or the unusal from other facilities that are not groshongs are flushed with heparin bid and/or after an infusion or blood drawl. Groshong piccs are flushed with 10cc ns bid for unused ports, always after infusions...

5. Do nurses take work home?

   lisamcrn replied to skybirdrising's topic in General Nursing

   No way would I bring it home, no compensation for that. SmilinBlueEyes, I love this quote from Chris Rock, it is great: "You KNOW the world has gone crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest basketball pla...

6. How do you encourage rooming in???

   lisamcrn replied to at your cervix's topic in Ob/Gyn

   The teen mother had many issues and rooming in wasn't going to solve it. Unfortuantely she wasn't open to your teaching and the baby suffered for it. As rooming in being manadtory, well, thank god it wasn't with my 5. I kept all of my babies al...

7. MDS/PPS nurses... a roll call

   lisamcrn replied to Talino's topic in Geriatric

   MEMEMEME. What a great chance to increase my knowledge. I worked ltc for about 5 years and went to our hospitals snf unit 15 months ago. I am the mds coordinator in title, although things are quit different here than ltc with this title. We are a...

8. Staff Nurses

   lisamcrn replied to SCB's topic in CRNA

   Well, it is pleasant to know that my last 80 hours plus whatever overtime I've lost track of in the last 11 days running in circles providing care and teaching for my patients and their ridiculous families was for not. What the heck was I doing t...

9. Stressed regarding mom health???

   lisamcrn posted a topic in General Nursing

   I think I'm just looking for a little imput from those with different perspectives. My mom just turned 54 2 weeks ago. Last July was dx with cervical ca stage3A, extremely virulent form. Complete hysterectomy performed without complications. Then...

10. Would you find this inconsiderate??

    lisamcrn replied to lisamcrn's topic in General Nursing

    Fergus, thanks. We have the same policy on our ivs. Just ticked me off today when I over and over go out of my way doing things when I have my office days or on my office time do things to help and it gets to be expected of me instead of some appre...

11. Would you find this inconsiderate??

    lisamcrn posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'll try to keep my rather long winded self short here. I work in our hospitals skilled unit. I work the floor 7-3:30 and then do MDS until 5:30. I had MDS stuff left over uncompleted yesterday so I needed to get there to get it done today. I hav...

12. Terrified!!!!

    lisamcrn replied to abnurse's topic in General Nursing

    YYEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Congratulations!!!

13. Starting my very first job

    lisamcrn replied to Tinker's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Tinker, Just wanted to tell you congratulations on your license and new job. You will survive and live to tell about tomorrow. Your memory will provide information at odd times. My best advice is remember they know you are a new grad. They expe...

14. 29 year old husband has brain tumor

    lisamcrn replied to jaystrupp's topic in General Nursing

    Prayers and hugs to you and your family.

15. partial birth abortion

    lisamcrn replied to tiger's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm disgusted. I've always been prochoice with early pregnancies believing I had the right to choose my future, not the government. In all honesty I had stayed away from this topic many times because it makes me physically sick to imagine this occu...