wyowyome

wyowyome has 9 years experience and specializes in med/surg, hospice, swing bed, ecd, schls.

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1. How does it work in your world?

   wyowyome replied to Evalina's topic in Disabilities

   You and I could definately chat! I work with a residential home for disabled children, and am also on perma-call! I care for about 40 kids- all school health needs, plus dr/dentist/eye appts, illnesses, immunizations, flu shots, etc... Uggh... I ...

2. How does pharmacy dispense your meds???

   wyowyome replied to wyowyome's topic in Disabilities

   Noreenl: I can't figure out this P. Messaging thing... But I am in WY. If U PM your email to me I will respond using mine to your email account. Thank you for you help. My cousin will graduate as a pharmacist in MT in May, she is also looking in to...

3. How does pharmacy dispense your meds???

   wyowyome posted a topic in Disabilities

   I work as the school nurse for children with developmental disabilities/autistism/behavior issues. We are also residential for most of them. I handle about 40 children's medications- and there are A LOT of them! My facility has had conference calls...

4. med aides

   wyowyome replied to dkw's topic in Disabilities

   Med aide means different things in different states. Contacting the Board of Nursing will only be helpful if your state BON recognizes med aides. Otherwise, you need to look at what their training is comprised of. What are they "trained" with (the...

5. School/residentail care of DD children

   wyowyome replied to wyowyome's topic in Disabilities

   again, thank you for your responses! that is if the med cart is locked then there needs to be an additional lockbox or drawer inside the general med storage area in which the controlled substances are kept. the lock to the room does not count as 1 lo...

6. School/residentail care of DD children

   wyowyome replied to wyowyome's topic in Disabilities

   txredheadnursere: school/residentail care of dd children i have a few questions. how do the uap document the meds they give? because i have medication boxes for each child, i sign the mar labeled with each drug/dose/times i have filled the boxes eac...

7. School/residentail care of DD children

   wyowyome posted a topic in Disabilities

   I am an RN who's been doing hours of research to write SAFE and LEGAL medication policy/procedure processes for the DD school/cottage I began working for last August. I want to be sure that use of UAP's ARE in fact a safe and legal practice for most...

8. You Know the patient is going bad when...

   wyowyome replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

   When they say: PLEASE don't let me die! Oh great, like I needed THAT pressure!?!

9. NEEDLES in a WALMART BAG???

   wyowyome posted a topic in Emergency

   I triaged a 30-something male pt last night who had been cleaning out his families storage unit and was stuck with a dirty needle IN THE DUMPSTER when he went to throw away his trash!!! This is a small community- less than 30,000 people.... But we d...

10. Hey ER, what takes so long???

    wyowyome replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in Emergency

    I can't speak for all ER's, of course, but there really is an increase in patient flow into the ER around mealtimes (4-6p) and this might account for the admits around the bewitching shift change. We actually have something in our hospital called th...

11. Most RN's first borns?

    wyowyome replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

    I myself am a first-born of an alcoholic family and was raised catholic....Hmmmmm Very interesting... Despite several posts by non-first borns and non-alcoholic fathers, there is a high percentage of us??? My coworker is also the 1st born of an alco...

12. How do you staff for surges?

    wyowyome replied to wyowyome's topic in Emergency

    Thanks for your tips, I will pass this along to my manager. I do believe we decided our busiest times were 10-10 (triage times) and thus, we have the triage nurse and another nurse/tech come in at 1p, but I don't know if these were actual documente...

13. How do you staff for surges?

    wyowyome posted a topic in Emergency

    OK, ER nurses, I need some staffing info. We are a small ER in Wyoming, but we are the only ER within several hundred miles, so diverting patients isn't usually an option.... We are struggling with a quickly increasing population (coal mining, meth...