midlife_nurse

midlife_nurse

OR scrub/circulator, hospice crisis care

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About midlife_nurse

midlife_nurse has 8 years experience and specializes in OR scrub/circulator, hospice crisis care.


Married mom of 3

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  1. no provision for continuous home care

    Jeannepaul, I've been where you are, and its painful. I loved the work I did for my company, but with the decline in the use of CC, our team of 15 Lpn's who did 12-hour continuous care shifts was cut to 5, then three, then one, and the one only gets ...
  2. My dad was a 'throw-away'

    One of the most important things we nurses should keep in mind, with every patient, every day, is this: "What if this were my family member- how would I feel right now?" If we use our empathy and put ourselves in their place, we can always provide th...
  3. Question for Hospice LPNs

    I had been intrigued by hospice since nursing school- one of my instructors was also a hospice nurse and encouraged us to check it out. I experienced hospice care up close with two family members, and ended up going to work with one of those agencies...
  4. What is your current LPN salary

    Was making $16/hr as a new grad in the big teaching university hospital, and now 3 yrs later making $18/hr in hospice, nights, with a good amount of OT and good benefits. But the mileage reimbursement is not good- I'm sure that's failing a lot of pro...
  5. My office assures us that we have discretion in choosing whether a situation is safe- driving, home, neighborhood etc. As a crisis care nurse, however, I've been advised that if I'm in a home with a patient whose death is imminent, that I should be p...
  6. New Hospice Nurse

    I'm a new hospice nurse too. Almost 3 years LPN experience, and now a night shift crisis care nurse for Gentiva (Odyssey) and I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Best nursing decision I ever made. My team is fantastic- always helping each other, very patient with me ...
  7. Is working in the or really that stressful?

    Long cases can be boring- but you must always stay ready and vigilant because when you let your mind wander, that's when they will want something unusual that they haven't used in 6 months for a case like this, and supply has been rearranged since th...
  8. Being an LPN in the MD office where I work is NOT easier. The GP doc I work with sees 40 patients a day, and there are two of us nurses. We take their vitals and complaints and refill requests, enter everything into the computer chart (older MD w...
  9. New student and questions re: Titer and immunizations?

    If you call your MD or any ambulatory care or walk-in clinic, they will quote you cash price for services if you ask. I work in a clinic and have given PPD to lots of new nursing students. We had a patient who had Hepatitis B titers drawn after comp...
  10. Alegria's Workwear line?

    I have a pair of purple croc clogs that I bought from the closeout section of Alegria's website and I LOVE them! I work 12 hour shifts either mostly standing in a small area (scrubbing) or walking quickly over a large area (circulating) and they are ...
  11. Operating Room Scrubs Sizes

    Our hospital uses the dispenser- we each get two credits for two sets of scrubs. XS is kept in a separate shelf for the petite staff, S thru 2XL is in the machine. We have the same problems with size range- some days you get new, HUGE scrubs and some...
  12. LPN's scrubbing?

    I was hired into a perioperative training program at a teaching hospital straight out of LPN school. Our hospital teaches LPN's to scrub and circulate, usually providing breaks to circulating RNs. It was 6 months of classroom and precepted training b...
  13. Role of LPN in OR

    I'm an LPN and I scrub and circulate. My hospital trains LPNs to do both. I am often a "0.5" person meaning I help set up cases and give breaks to both the scrub and circulator in one or two OR's. We have a few LPN/First Assistants as well but there ...
  14. Checking wrapped trays and instruments

    Yes, we always check. Most of our instruments are in pans, and a lot of vendors use their own proprietary pans that get wrapped. The ones with rounded edges almost never get holes (example Synthes and Medtronic spine), and the ones with square corner...
  15. Funny Nursing Dreams

    I work in the OR, and last summer I worked with the Ortho Trauma team. I had a dream that because of the busy summer accident season, team members had to host surgery in their home if needed because there weren't enough OR slots available. I was to h...