adidas99 replied to jadednurse's topic in Illinois
Hey....your right by me! I'm in good ol' Effingham! It's been awhile since i've check up on these "where you from" threads. Those of you who work in springfield may know my boyfriend....he did his residency 3 yrs ago at St. Johns....may even know hi...
I live in Illinois. No,as an LPN you can NOT hang TPN or do anything with a central line, picc line, etc. Unless you want to keep your license, you let an RN do it. Now, we can PRIME the TPN for the RN, to help her out, but absolutely we can not hang...
Have to say, a pharmacist on the floor would be great. It stinks to have pharmacy leave at 9pm and they miss your msg about needing medicine, so then an Rn has to go to the "night room" on peds and get it out of the pyxis(which carries other drugs th...
Alichael, I have known someone close to me go thru gastric bypass. It is my "second mom"(what my best friend and i call each other's moms). She had tried dieting, exercising, and just couldn't get the weight off. Also, was causing achig in her...
That's nice of you to take in a classmate! My best friend's mom lived in New Orleans(well, Burus) and is in the nursing program. She only had time to apparently grab her computer(so she could continue her schooling) and some clothes. Had to convince ...
In IL, we can't hang IV's with more than 40 meq of KCL, IV pushes(other than flushes), TPN, blood, or anything thru a central line, PICC or port, no heparin drips. There's a few other things we can't do, but none of it's pertinent to my floor really.
Ya, calling in is a smart idea if ur feeling that horrible, except it could look bad on ur yearly evaluation(depending how ur facility deals with this).