horrorxgirl

horrorxgirl

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horrorxgirl has 8 years experience and specializes in LTC, peds, rehab, psych.


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  1. Question about who is responsible for an incident report

    Ok. I just wanted to make sure that they weren't trying to make her do something illegal. I've worked at many facilities and I've never seen one not require the witnessing party be the one to fill out the report. When I tried to look up the legaliti...
  2. Question about who is responsible for an incident report

    It's not that I would expect it to end up in court, it's more a question about who should be responsible and if her filling out the details of the report could be considered false documentation.
  3. Ok so the other day my wife was working a 12 hour night shift with the first 4 hours on one unit and the following 8 hours on a different unit. She arrived on the second unit around d 11:15 after giving report to the relief on the first unit. During ...
  4. Immobile med carts

    Whoops! This was totally meant for the LTC forum
  5. Immobile med carts

    So my facility switched from paper mars to computer mars a few years back. Within the last year every battery pack for our computers has failed and the med carts are no longer able to be moved from room to room to administer meds because the computer...
  6. Picc Line Question

    The ICU that I have been doing my mentorship in uses vamps on their central lines so no blood is actually wasted.
  7. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    We have a room on our unit that every pt that stays there sees things. It doesn't matter if they are confused or oriented. Even some staff have claimed to have seen things in that room, although I never have. What they see varies though. One patient ...
  8. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    About a year ago while working midnight shift I was standing at my med cart charting on the computer. My back was to the nurse's station. From the corner of my left eye I started to see someone dressed in all white coming down the hallway toward me a...
  9. These just seems so gross to me

    The cnas said that they were willing to go room to room to wash them but so far it's a no. Not sure what state would think about it. Lots of places used to wash bed pans together and I guess our facility used to long ago but it was metal bedpans. Are...
  10. These just seems so gross to me

    They aren't autoclaved or sterilized. I would trust autoclaving because they do that with surgical instruments. Bleach isn't a sterilant, it's a disinfectant. Good point about the silverware although I was under the impression they are steam cleaned ...
  11. These just seems so gross to me

    So somebody at my facility has decided to make the rule that the cna's on 11-7 have to collect all of the plastic bed pans from everyone's room and soak them together in some bleach in the soiled utility room. I mean I know that bleach kills a lot of...
  12. Deer in the headlights pain assessments

    This thread reminds me of this hilarious stand-up Brian Regan did about the pain scale in the ER. Brian Regan - Emergency Room [better Quality] - YouTube
  13. PA scope of practice for LPN. IV pushes?

    I had a question about LPNs doing IV pushes in Pennsylvania. As far as my understanding goes, and from what I've read under the PAcode for LPNs, that we are not allowed to do IV pushes. My sister is in an ADN program right now, and has told me t...
  14. Failed NCLEX 5 Times! Am I The Only One Who . . .

    Ok, I will tell you a story. When I was a junior in High School, I had trigonometry. Advanced math has never been my strong suit, and at the time I didn't take it too seriously. I went into class one day to take my final. I was the first one done bec...
  15. Looking for guidance on becoming a nurse educator

    Thank you for the info! I do believe I'm going to focus on med surg. I'm going to have to try to find out the qualifications for teaching CNA classes in Pennsylvania. Perhaps that would be a good start.