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1. How many wounds? Other Tx nurse responsibilities?

   pomegranate replied to pomegranate's topic in Wound

   I had been getting the skins early in the morning but now the DON wants me to work the same hours as the rest of the office staff so she has "more accountability" and "knows where I am" (aka, she can't ask me to do things if I'm not there at the same...

2. How many wounds? Other Tx nurse responsibilities?

   pomegranate replied to pomegranate's topic in Wound

   See that is the problem. I am not being allowed to delegate anything. Corporate policy is that the treatment nurse must do all skin checks because the charge nurses weren't doing it. I am held responsible if a skin tear gets infected and I have to mo...

3. How many wounds? Other Tx nurse responsibilities?

   pomegranate posted a topic in Wound

   I've been treatment nurse at a 100bed SNF for the past year, and recently our acuity has ramped WAY up with regards to wounds. We got a well known specialist on staff and now we are getting admits left and right. In addition we have a new DON. Look...

4. Union County College: Trinitas vs. Muhlenberg?

   pomegranate posted a topic in New Jersey

   I'm confused, what is the difference between the two? Is one track easier or harder? Different pre-requisites? Which has a better reputation? I am considering the LPN-RN track, FYI.

5. What do you do about doctors who don't write scripts for narcotics/sleeping pills etc

   pomegranate replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric

   In Texas surveyors ALWAYS look at pain management of LTC patients and, uh, 10 days is NOT ACCEPTABLE anywhere. ONE day is not acceptable for a patient to not receive their pain meds. You better make sure you are charting your ass off about harassing ...

6. Im worries that they will treat me different

   pomegranate replied to Jasminelfue's topic in LPN/LVN

   Don't tell anybody how old you are. I became a nurse only weeks after my 20th birthday. I hit the floor and people would make comments about how I was so young to be a nurse and ask how old I was, and I didn't ever tell anybody until my 21st birthday...

7. Stretched ears, hospital dress codes, and professionalism

   pomegranate replied to yasae's topic in Uniform/Gear

   I had small stretched ears (6g, 4g) in nursing school, when it was expressly forbidden and our clinicals manager used to talk about how disgusting they were all the time and look at everyone's ears really closely (as close as she could be without bei...

8. Nursing Home Medicare Skilled Units Offer Good Experience

   pomegranate replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric

   See, though, Muffin139 at least you understand that we are all human, you sound like you are a good administrator or at least try to be...it just gets disheartening when you realize you work for people who seem like they don't care about the resident...

9. Nursing Home Medicare Skilled Units Offer Good Experience

   pomegranate replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric

   I began my nursing career as a new grad on a medicare skilled unit with over 30 patients. It was horrible. I cried every day after work, lost sleep over my job, considered quitting all the time, wrote up my resignation notice at least once a week. Bu...

10. Do I need 2 stethoscopes?

    pomegranate replied to meghan91's topic in Uniform/Gear

    I did, but I'm 'tragically unorganized' lol. one of them was only $5. Worth it since my program would send you home if you showed up to clinical without your stethoscope. And now I have a little collection going on: my littman that I bought in nursin...

11. Family Members and their pearls of wisdom...

    pomegranate replied to R!XTER's topic in Relations

    95 y/o Patient on hospice for lung cancer, inoperable, chemo will not help, hence hospice. Family wants CT scans of the lungs every month. why? "we NEED to see how big the tumor is." because that's not a waste of medicare dollars? we're not treating ...

12. The Five Patients You Meet In Heaven

    pomegranate replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, this made me cry...

13. Nurses Day Gifts

    pomegranate replied to Nascar nurse's topic in General Nursing

    we get to wear colors other than our designated uniform color. i think that's it. lol

14. "what male nurses do" poster

    pomegranate replied to Brian's topic in Men

    Lol I would think the last one would be a line of smaller women saying "Can you help me put the pt in bed" and "Can you help me pull the pt UP in bed" lmao

15. STAT services..what do they mean for your facility

    pomegranate replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in Geriatric

    Our lab is pretty good about stats, usually will come within an hour or two, and we get the results very quickly after that; x-rays / dopplers /ekg take a bit longer, but within a few hours. Our pharmacy is not good with stats. Stats can take 6+ hour...