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single mom,grandma, have a dog

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  1. pharmacology/math question

    What I remember is being tested on how many cc's in ml. the desired, have, quanity equation, childrens meds. The different catergories of the meds. I know that there was a lot more but my brain has just went blank. Hope this helps though. Good luck!
  2. Dr.s responsibility?

    This just happened last night on my shift, (7p-7a). A resident that is IDDM had an BS of 522 @hs. We are to report to the Doc if this one is over 500. It was a Friday night, followed protcol and order of the s/s and gave resident the alloted humalog....
  3. Shift to Shift Report

    We also have a 24 hour report. But at the facility where I work, thereis a large book calender at the station where we put things like... a new lab or if a resident is going to LOA for a time. We have a 3rd and 4th nurse whose main job is to do wound...
  4. How Rude!!!

    It was a very rude statement on his part! Ignorance is never very becoming on a person. I hope that his daughter doesn't let her Dad bother her with his ignorance and goes and becomes a nurse with caring and compassion. If her Dad talks like that all...
  5. Thoughts on Flu Shots

    I just went for a check up and it was posted @ my Dr.'s that the Flu shat was available. I have gotten one for the last 8 years. I have not been sick, but I hadn't been sick prior to those 8 years either. I think it is a matter of personal chioce. Ma...
  6. Teeth Grinding

    A lady where I work is prescribed Xanax BID d/t teeth grinding.
  7. What am I getting myself into?

    This is one job that no one wants to hear about your day while eating. I found that you are so "into" what is going on with you patient that the gross stuff can be interesting. Still the smell of body fluids can be somewhat overcoming. Put "Vicks" u...
  8. Body Piercings & Tattoos

    In clinicals, I had to wear long sleeves to cover the one on the inside of my forearm. I have one on my wrist, I've never tired to cover that up and noone has said anything. At work, I wear a long sleeve cardigan. I do it on my own and have never be...
  9. spooky spooky spooky

    when the gentleman first came to our N.H., He was pleasant, happy man. He would get up at night to talk to us night nurses. In the course of a month, he became cranky, hard-to-get-along-with guy that slept or at least stayed in bed all day and night...
  10. Elderly patients: First name or Mr/Mrs?

    I try to call them Mr., or Mrs., but in the facility where I work is small, 65 residents, with the majority having dementia/ alzheimers, they like to be called by their first name. I really dislilke when people are called Honey, sweety and so forth. ...
  11. Lets write a funny/scary nursing story. Add your paragraph.

    "Well, isn't that like AdaLee to skip out when there is a messy job to be taken care of!", said B.M. She went down to the linen closet wondering where everyone went. It was then she heard the faint tinkling of music coming from the closed off hall w...
  12. Where I work, the residents do not have arm bands. There might be a question as to whether they can have their name on the door due to the HIPPA agreement. One thing I have noticed is that when a person is lying down, they look a whole lot different...
  13. I, too, have been an nurse for only one year. I have read over everyone else's answers, and they have great advice. The CNA's will prove to be a godsend if they are treated with respect, and the fact they know their people. Mine have showed me ways...