Isabelle49

Isabelle49

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About Isabelle49

Isabelle49 specializes in Home Health.


rn 16 yrs in acute care; part-time private piano teacher

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  1. I Must Be Missing Something

    It is that agency and those particular management personnel. Leave that agency. Find another one that respects you. Keep doing that until you find a happy medium. Remember, respect is number 1 priority for the nurse and compassionate patient care for...
  2. Kicked out before even starting

    Geeze!!! Why not call the dean of your school or a counselor. I can't imagine why you got kicked out. You could have had the word done at a slow lab and that wouldn't have been your fault. Take this as a sign or things to come in school and throug...
  3. NG Tube Salem Sump

    If the pigtail is left open to air, you would have this connected to continuous suction. If the pigtail is closed, should only be connected to intermittent suction to prevent damage to the gastric mucosa from continuous vacuum and no release. The pi...
  4. Post-test reviews

    Do any students here attend a nursing program that does not provide a Post-Test review, where you are provided with a rationale as to why one answer to a question is correct and the others are not? Thanks for the input. Isabelle
  5. I Must Be Missing Something

    Start looking for another HH company to work for. You are working for a bullying tyrant. Don't put up with it!!!
  6. LSUHSC or Delgado Charity

    Wondering if you made the cut for Charity-Delgado. I have recently learned that the school no longer offers post test review to the 4th level students who are very close to graduating and taking the NCLEX. I expect this teaching process will be ref...
  7. I'm a long ago graduate of Charity Hospital School of Nursing. We had a wonderful education at the time, and included test review with rationales for answers to questions. I understand students are no longer offered test reviews with rationales for ...
  8. syringe pumps and mechanical slack

    32 years ago in NICU, we manually primed tubing before connecting to stringe pump, but things may have changed as awareness of potential problems become evident. All I can say is, remember every machine is just a machine, keep an Eagle eye on all eq...
  9. Its 5 months and still no update on NCLEX Results

    That's crazy!!! I hope you post an update. In Louisiana results are in during the same week the NCLEX was taken. I think I would contact NCLEX too!!!
  10. new grad RN Ochsner NICU

    I see you posted your message on my birthday in 2017!!! 32 years ago I interviewed for a position in Ochsner's NICU as a new grad too. I got the job and the main campus on Jefferson Hwy (that was the only Ochsner then). I worked there for years and...
  11. January 2018 Nclex

    Imagine this: 32 years ago we sat for 2 days to take the board exam. It was a pencil and paper test where you colored in the dots to the correct answers!!! Just think what the outcome would be if one of the dots was skipped and all the rest of your ...
  12. how does potassium affect blood pressure and heart rate?

    Considering the effect hypokalemia has on the heart muscle, causing a decreased output, initially a person may have hypotension. Remember, there is a feedback mechanism for just about every physiological event. Once the brain senses a decreased out...
  13. Slow flow nipple?

    I think it is a big problem that this baby spills so much feeding from the mouth. You know it doesn't spill out until the mouth gets too full. This baby is at high risk for aspiration!!! Sounds to me like tube feeding are in order for a while.
  14. Horrific news item

    I read about that. The nurse involved is on leave. Have discovered through FB that the nurse is a he, hoping his license will be revoked.
  15. Requiring paperwork after I left

    Is the paperwork for patients you were seeing or were you working in the office? If it is for patients you were seeing, the company can report the undone work to the board of nursing.