nursecheryl

nursecheryl specializes in inpatient hospice house.

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1. CHPN Exam

   nursecheryl replied to ajitamamasita's topic in Hospice

   Thanks Lykeen :)

2. CHPN Exam

   nursecheryl replied to ajitamamasita's topic in Hospice

   I'm not opening a book for the rest of the weekend :) Yes, I will check on you every once in a while. Thanks for your support.

3. CHPN Exam

   nursecheryl replied to ajitamamasita's topic in Hospice

   Looksup2sky, I just wanted to let you know that I passed the certification test.

4. CHPN Exam

   nursecheryl replied to ajitamamasita's topic in Hospice

   Thanks Lookup2sky, I appreciate your prayer and good wishes. I need all the prayers and good wishes i can get :) I'll let you know how i did.

5. CHPN Exam

   nursecheryl replied to ajitamamasita's topic in Hospice

   Wow, I'm so glad you took the test and passed. I did not sign up for the test. The company I work for signed me up and payed. I have to pass the test to work for the company I currently work. I plan on taking the test. I'm glad to hear the quest...

6. CHPN Exam

   nursecheryl replied to ajitamamasita's topic in Hospice

   Thanks for your prayers. Let me know when you are taking your test and i will do the same for you. That is a good idea to drive to the site ahead of time to make sure i know where it is. I'm taking the week that i take the test off to do my last m...

7. CHPN Exam

   nursecheryl replied to ajitamamasita's topic in Hospice

   Hi Lookupsky- Thanks for your response. I have the study guide for the generalist hospice and palliative nurse which is 255 practice questions with some case studies and a friend at work gave me his core curriculum for the generalist hospice and p...

8. Is there a proper way to chart what a patient/resident says?

   nursecheryl replied to black_widow192's topic in General Nursing

   I agree with other posters that there may have been a better way to chart what the patient said without using another staff members name. I have come across the same situation as well and wouldn't have written the persons name. Sort of like when yo...

9. Is Nursing as Stressful as Nursing School?

   nursecheryl replied to imjustme123's topic in General Nursing

   I'd say the amount of stress is about the same. The reason for the stress is a little different. In nursing school the stress was related to the grades and making it through clinical, now the stress is related to patients lives, comfort and safety....

10. CHPN Exam

    nursecheryl replied to ajitamamasita's topic in Hospice

    Just wanted to say that I'm scheduled to take the exam the last Friday in September. I've been studying but should have been studying longer I think. I'm a little scared. I was going to ask the same questions about where I can get test questions t...

11. Jay Leno slams nurses!

    nursecheryl replied to grace90's topic in General Nursing

    Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." Thanks for sharing this.

12. What's the weirdest baby name?

    nursecheryl replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I worked in a NICU I talked someone out of naming their baby Meconium and the staff and social worker tallked someone else (16 year olds) out of calling their twin babies Shi'thead (pronounced Sha'heed and...sorry i can't remember what they were goin...

13. Wound classification

    nursecheryl replied to snowfreeze's topic in General Nursing

    In the facility we work in we classify them as decubitus, arterial, venous or surgical. We also give the stage of the wound. location, dimensions by cm, drainage amount and color. smell. If we don't document all of the above we will hear about it w...

14. Modern Healthcare: Laboring for union nurses

    nursecheryl replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

    I'm a union nurse, when we (the nurses) are voting to strike or not to strike at the union meetings,getting a pay raise is the least of our worries. We are usually concerned about safety, work load and protecting our contract we have already fought...

15. about to strike, question

    nursecheryl replied to nursecheryl's topic in Agency

    Thanks for all the information and advice. I will also check out their need for home health care nurses.