Isabelle49 replied to DallasRN's topic in Home Health
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...
Isabelle49 replied to Confused_nurse2b's topic in General Students
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...
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...
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
Isabelle49 replied to NOLAMOM's topic in Louisiana
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...
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 ...
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...
Isabelle49 replied to abbielu13's topic in Louisiana
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...
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 ...
Isabelle49 replied to bailyoneohnine's topic in NCLEX
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...
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.
Isabelle49 replied to ErnBlz's topic in Home Health
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.