elle4pets

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1. False Charting

   elle4pets replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

   not intending to sound self rightgeous by any means, we asked administration for more help, Lord knows we need it, and guess what they said, we don't have the money, but then a week later they hired a third secretary to sit and greet people who could...

2. Atkin's diet

   elle4pets replied to GERINRS's topic in General Nursing

   I have been a carb junkie all my life, never really liked to eat proteins except cheese that came on pizza and dorito's and the protein in milk and ice cream, ha ha, but since doing atkins ( and I do cheat a little) I have lost 31 lbs ( I have had di...

3. False Charting

   elle4pets replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

   I find that I would do all I could to get everything done for the patient but many times get short changed on the time allotted for the charting of it, if only I could have a secretary follow me around and document for me like the big wigs in admini...

4. 2 nurses arrested in CA.....

   elle4pets replied to sarahr5's topic in General Nursing

   Don't laugh but a doctor where I work told me once to go ahead and write orders and she would sign them when she came in later that day if I really thought the patient needed it....needless to say I still call, she just didn't want to be bothered dur...

5. New at Case Management and patient discharging

   elle4pets replied to elle4pets's topic in General Nursing

   My social services liasion tries to assist but she gets so busy with the other floors that she puts it back in my lap- I appreciate the words of wisdom and encouragement though! So I won't give up hope yet!

6. New at Case Management and patient discharging

   elle4pets posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been a geriatric nurse my whole career and at times have been an MDS coordinator (not a big stretch) but now I am at a hospital which has a long term care unit and sub acute unit blended and while I feel at home on the long term care unit I f...