worldqueenie

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1. Some ideas please?

   worldqueenie replied to Schmoo1022's topic in Geriatric

   I agree about vitamin orders. While Vit. C is certainly a good thing and is water soluble, labs must be looked at to adjust vitamin supplements as necessary, they can also have adverse reactions for some patients depending on their diagnosis'. Alt...

2. Pet Peeve

   worldqueenie replied to BookwormRN's topic in General Nursing

   According to the free dictionary, orientated is a verb meaning to orientate and sontimeters is not even a word. My pet peeve word: irregardless

3. Pet Peeve

   worldqueenie replied to BookwormRN's topic in General Nursing

   although I have heard "sontimeters" before, I googled it and looked it up in tabers and got nada!!

4. high arch support

   worldqueenie replied to ymm123's topic in Uniform/Gear

   I bought a pair of dansko pro's and yes they took a while to break in. They still hurt my heels a bit after an 8 hour shift but the next day they are fine. I trade off and on with my Shox that have amazing arch support and that helps. I still love...

5. pay rates

   worldqueenie replied to Nurse-One's topic in LPN/LVN

   what part of FL? How much do you have to drive though? Sounds awesome!

6. pay rates

   worldqueenie replied to Nurse-One's topic in LPN/LVN

   I'm a 7month old grad. in the Tampa area. I work at a SNF and started at $18 with .50 for shift diff. I was offered a promotion to floor supervisor with a $1 raise to be eval'd in 90 days. The only benefits I get are PTO time which equates to abou...

7. A Little Game: 10 Words or Less

   worldqueenie replied to HisTreasure's topic in General Nursing

   Never Underestimate Rectal Sounds Involving Noxious Gas OMG I cracked up laughing at this one. Thanks for the giggles!!!!!!!!!!! HYSTERICAL!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

8. A Little Game: 10 Words or Less

   worldqueenie replied to HisTreasure's topic in General Nursing

   needed under all conditions regardless of the case since we're trained to help everywhere you go it's the same thing necessity of the job is goodwill to man

9. Writing Telephone Orders/without calling doctor

   worldqueenie replied to Nov2007_LPN's topic in General Nursing

   I don't understand why you wouldn't just call the doc. At my facility, while it may seem silly to call to get an UA/C&S, when the resident has cloudy, foul smelling urine and altered mental status, it only takes a sec to call and it only takes a...

10. LPN supervisors

    worldqueenie posted a topic in LTC Directors

    any LTC/SNF that are LPN supervisors? Curious what the salary range is. I live in FL and have been offered the position that they are basically addding to our arsenal to help improve the state of things. salary.com didn't offer this info.

11. call offs

    worldqueenie replied to worldqueenie's topic in LTC Directors

    Thank you all for your insight. It is sad that it is such an universal problem. However, SUANNA, said it best "treat them like fast-food employees and they will act as such"

12. call offs

    worldqueenie posted a topic in LTC Directors

    any good policies/programs in place to help curb call offs? Prefer something positive rather than a negative. Just getting written up after so many doesn't seem to work. Any creative ideas would be helpful.

13. Best Shoes

    worldqueenie replied to Serlait's topic in Uniform/Gear

    I have tried many and for me it is 2 thumbs up for the new SHox!!!!

14. high arch support

    worldqueenie replied to ymm123's topic in Uniform/Gear

    The new nike shox. amazing arch support. as sooon as you slip them on you will notice the support.

15. Need specific info for my Plantar Fasciitis

    worldqueenie replied to NTPinky's topic in Stress 101

    I too suffer greatly from plantar fasciitis. I purchased the strassburg sock. http://www.thesock.com/howitworks.html It helps but did not "fix" the problem. I have purchased dansko professional shoes, they were ok but I would still get flair ups....