NurseStyles

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1. What did SANTA bring YOU this year????

   NurseStyles replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

   Wow! I am soo jealous. I guess if you don't ask for things, you don't get them. Actually, our pipe in our house broke Sunday morning. Our entire house/carpeting/floors flooded. So on Christmas Eve and Christmas we have all our flooring taken out and ...

2. Have you ever taken care of a celebrity?

   NurseStyles replied to BarbPick's topic in General Nursing

   I agree that sometimes HIPAA is taken to far. I have been trying to find out more info on providing info over the telephone. People refuse to give out info over the telephone to family members who may be outside of the area or unable to come in to th...

3. migraine faker at the ED!

   NurseStyles replied to z's playa's topic in Emergency

   First of all, We are not to judge a patient's pain. A patient can most certainly be able to fall asleep and have horrib le pain. I had a cancer patient woman with cervical CA with mets who had a bladder distended up to her ribs but couldn't be cathed...

4. Nurses, Would you go into nursing if you had to do it all over again?

   NurseStyles replied to 4everpeace's topic in General Nursing

   I could not imagine doing anything else besides nursing, but I am frequently told by patient's that it takes a special person to be a nurse. I do have several patients who tell me that some nurses are very rude, uncaring, etc. I have to assume the re...

5. CNA's in Med-Surg

   NurseStyles replied to FutureRNMichael's topic in Med-Surg

   Our CNAs do vital signs, ADLs, enemas, urine specimins from foleys, collect stool, sputum specimins, some put on ointments and cremes (although I don't believe that is within their scope of practice). Not much else. They do not do fingersticks or any...

6. Is it time for this nurse to retire??

   NurseStyles replied to nursenatalie's topic in Med-Surg

   we have several nurses on our floor in their mid 70s. They are vey efficient. That is a tricky situation. Did anyone ask the pt. who was to have received the dilaudid if in fact he remembers receiving it. When suspicions such as these are made, inves...

7. Cooling blanket placement

   NurseStyles replied to javajunkie's topic in Med-Surg

   We do not use cooling blankets on our floor. I have never used one.

8. Questionable Pain

   NurseStyles replied to preciousnurse's topic in Pain

   As a nurse who is a recovering addict, I have been through many years of therapy, drug treatment, self help programs, nurse support groups, etc. I wish to share my experience. If an addict was requiring say 250 mg of demerol or 20 mg of morphine to ...

9. Frustrated!!N/M probs

   NurseStyles replied to NurseStyles's topic in Med-Surg

   I forget sometimes that I am talking to nurses all over the country/world here. In California, LVNs cannot administer any IV medications or tpn or do anything involving a central line. They do not do care plans. I agree that the LVNs that I work with...

10. Frustrated!!N/M probs

    NurseStyles posted a topic in Med-Surg

    I really need to vent here. I have been a med surg nurse for 4 years. Up until about the last 6 months, I have pretty much enjoyed my job. I do have a couple of concerns that really piss me off, and I sometimes want to talk to the DON, but then somet...

11. Was I wrong not to call dr?

    NurseStyles replied to rileygrl11's topic in Med-Surg

    I empathize with you. Often it is difficult to make decisions such as this. Do I call the doctor and have him yell at me for calling? Do I not call and be penalized? However, protecting yourself is usually worth a rude response from a doctor. In you...

12. nurse-patient ratio

    NurseStyles replied to NANCPER's topic in Med-Surg

    Our LVNs do admissions, hang blood, call doctors, they do everything except IV pushes and piggybacks, and central line care. I wonder if this is legal, I guess I should check with the LVN scope of practice. The charge nurse just cosigns the charting.

13. nurse-patient ratio

    NurseStyles replied to NANCPER's topic in Med-Surg

    I work on a med/surg/tele/peds mixed unit. Usually for days, we have 1:6-7 RN or LVN with a CNA for each team of 6-7 patients. PMs is about 1:4-7 RN or LVN with the CNA ratio being 1:6-12 Nights is about 1:6-9 RN with the CNA ratio being 1:11-16 Days...

14. Hospital industry seminars advise administrators how to evade RN ratios

    NurseStyles replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in California

    I need to clarify my concern. The CNA website q and a page says that it is not legal for an LVN to have 6 patients and the RN to have her 6 plus the LVN's 6 because that would give the RN 12 patients. It also says that the LVN should be assigned to a...

15. Hospital industry seminars advise administrators how to evade RN ratios

    NurseStyles replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in California

    Spacenurse: How do you interpret these articles? To me they seem a bit vague. I would appreciate your input. From the CNA Q and A webpage: The minimum, baseline ratio of 1 RN to 4 couplets represents the The notion of "covering" an LVNs patients is...