1louise1

1louise1

Telemetry, EKG interpretation, ICU/CCU

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1louise1 specializes in Telemetry, EKG interpretation, ICU/CCU.


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  1. PCOS guidelines

    THank you! i found a number of national guidelines and they all have pretty much the same recommendations. Just curious, do you see PCOS patients? what is your recommendation for follow-up and monitoring?
  2. PCOS guidelines

    Hi Nurse Practitioners! Was wondering what, if any guidelines you use to treat PCOS patients? Currently there are five guidelines by different associations and I'm not sure which one is most followed,or endorsed by AANP or ANCC. Thanks!
  3. Home health RN question

    so your office only has 2-3 RNs for 80-100 clients? how does that work? is it because the RNs only do supervisor visits? is there a ratio in place (i don't know about home health ratios in california, but i do know in hospitals we have them) how man...
  4. Home health RN question

    hey lpncal...thanks so much! this is an interesting field, so i'm learning. i had a couple more questions, if you have the time. so mainly your patients are underprivileged, uninsured. are they geriatrics? what is the typical problem (if there is on...
  5. Home health RN question

    @caliotter: well, when i interviewed her, she had limited examples of nursing routines/activities (she didn't do admissions, assessments, you know, stuff RNs can do), she didn't know the roles of other team members, nor did she take part in coordinat...
  6. Home health RN question

    Hello all! I'm an ICU RN taking a community-based nursing course for my BSN and have to interview a home health nurse for my class (I know, I know). I interviewed a girlfriend of mine who was a home health LVN, and not until I was done did I realize ...
  7. What would you rather do?

    why not a hotel room? you won't pay for utilities that way!
  8. Rash from hand sanitizer?

    I have the same thing; I went to my dermatologist who prescribed a topical steroid to use prn. of course the medicine works, but then I'm back to work, washing, geling, drying my hands out all day and the rash comes back. I'm not sure what the soluti...
  9. do you and i work on the same floor?
  10. wrong order

    thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks. when i realized i had done it, i immediately got palpitations and had to sit down. it was an incredibly intense moment, i'm sure we've all been there, but i'm not sure why i reacted in so negatively to that.
  11. wrong order

    un, nothing, all negative. patient was 80+ years old. that's called, not paying attention! but could i get in trouble, like placing an order; practicing medicine without a license sort of thing?
  12. wrong order

    busy day the other day, accidentally ordered the wrong urine test (tox screen instead of culture)...repercussions? urine culture had already been ordered the day before, too late to cancel urine tox. thoughts?
  13. Student caught stealing....

    who's going to write a closing argument on this case?
  14. Student caught stealing....

    could be!
  15. Student caught stealing....

    thanks! people need to lighten up!