nursekare

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1. "LPNs should be done away with altogether"

   nursekare replied to missjennmb's topic in LPN/LVN

   :heartbeat :redpinkhe I am an RN. I've been an RN for 15 years. For 15 years prior, I was an LPN. In LPN training, we were told by our instructors that if we didn't continue our eduction, we would eventually be phased out by the ANA. This was in ...

2. I hate nursing

   nursekare replied to prettylittlenurse2b's topic in General Students

   I have felt the same way at one time or another, squawmeemaw. I've read a few of the repsonses to your post. And, I personally don't agree with some of them. The ANA likes to talk about the nursing shortage, yet the administrations in many of our n...

3. Nurse fired for calling police

   nursekare replied to Runman1914's topic in General Nursing

   i've seen many nurses get fired for doing one thing wrong. not long ago, in a hospital i was working in, a new graduate recieved the results of a positive drug test on a patient and a container of an illicit drug had been found in the room. the nur...

4. Nurse fired for calling police

   nursekare replied to Runman1914's topic in General Nursing

   security should have called the police after the first couple of times that the visitor began throwing things. not only was she putting the staff at risk of injury but other patients and their visitors as well. someone in a prior post indicated that...

5. Rich nurses?

   nursekare replied to tiij's topic in General Nursing

   tiij, I wasn't offended by your remarks and I concur with your thoughts on nursing in this country. American nurses are some of the highest paid in the world and we whine about how hard the work is. If U.S. nurses went abroad to work maybe we'd bet...

6. Pet Peeve: Poor Grammar by Nurses

   nursekare replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

   [color=brown]personally, i feel that this obsession many have with grammer, spelling, and pronunciation, is a perfect indicator of why many poor people and people from certain cultures, races, and/or ethinicities don't recieve the same level of healt...

7. Pet Peeve: Poor Grammar by Nurses

   nursekare replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

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8. heparin drip mistake! what would you do?

   nursekare replied to youngever's topic in General Nursing

   i believe that the first thing that you need to do is obtain and read the hospital policy/protocol for heparin administration. if you can determine from the policy that you indeed violated it by your action or inaction, you must take the write-up...

9. Witnessed a terrible death last night--pls help me...

   nursekare replied to Annebug's topic in General Nursing

   I have been a nurse for 28 years. I have seen people die of many varied diseases and for many varied reasons. I too have issues with the administration of of drugs by nurses to make the dieing comfortable. The issue of taking part in what seems to...

10. Whites or Colored scrubs?

    nursekare replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    i believe that the facilities that employ nurses shouldn't be so hung up on the color or kind of uniform a nurse wears as long as the uniform covers the appropriate areas of the body, the nurse performs their duties, comes to work on time, and perfor...

11. Wacko RN - Write Up vs. Direct Report

    nursekare replied to antidote's topic in General Nursing

    A similar occurance once happened at a hospital in which I worked. During a code in ICU, a nurse thought that the ET tube wasn't working properly in the coding patient and after several strong pulls ripped it from the patient without deflating the c...

12. HIPAA violation or not..?

    nursekare replied to traumaQN's topic in General Students

    So true, no one knows the actual circumstance. It is somewhat of a hypothetical situation as neither the name of the student, the school, the patient name, the instructors name, the name of the hospital, nor the name of the relative called have all ...

13. HIPAA violation or not..?

    nursekare replied to traumaQN's topic in General Students

    Question: Is it as harsh as having her prosecuted? http://www.ehcca.com/presentations/HIPAA3/malone_1.pdf Criminal Penalties for a Violation of 42 U.S.C. 1320d-6. Section 1320d-6(b) sets forth the maximum penalties allowable for a violation of 132...

14. Tips for a good gtube stoma (re: gran tissue and leaking)

    nursekare replied to AmericanChai's topic in Gastroenterology

    Nitara is a beautiful little girl! I have always known that leaving the g-tube site open to air is quite helpful unless the area is bleeding or draining excessively. I wish you could find out the name of the steroid cream used so that I could find ...

15. Andrea Yates R.N.

    nursekare replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    well said!! couldn't have said it any better. this woman had a history of psychosis and was instructed to reconsider her desire to continue to have children in light of her considerable struggle with reality. yet, her husband, who made her the mons...