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  1. I loved this article too and sent it out to a lot of nurse friends. One, who is a geriatric specialist, said..." If only...
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    Forum: Nursing News
  2. I almost wept when I read this article a few days ago, because that is where I want to work! For so many confused patients,...
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    Forum: Nursing News
  3. Never happen in for profit LTC
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    Forum: Nursing News
  4. LTCNS, I'm not sure that providing care on any level is a "waste of nursing skills". That said, as a hyperbaric nurse, my...
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    Forum: Hyperbaric Nursing
  5. monkeybug said what I was just thinking. My malpractice policy exclusions include: Injury that a reasonable person would...
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    Forum: Nursing and Professionalism
  6. There is a difference between charting something that you've actually done and charting something that you didn't do. If I...
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    Forum: Nursing Issues On Patient Safety
  7. I have filled out many risk masters with no action taken. I have gone to multiple meetings, requested by myself, to speak...
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    Forum: Nursing Issues On Patient Safety
  8. The first ltc facility I worked in, right out of nursing school, it was universal practice for all the nurses to get report,...
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    Forum: Nursing Issues On Patient Safety
  9. I was a veteran for 9 years, teacher for 5 in my previous career. In my experience, a single individual who tries to change...
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    Forum: Nursing Issues On Patient Safety
  10. Seems like a perfect reason to support unions.
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    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  11. Yeah, probably the best advice we can give is to just develop thicker skin and push on. I wish there was something better I...
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    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  12. Hi I have been an LPN for 16 years and you are probably a lot younger then me but nursing is one of the hardest jobs you'll...
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    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  13. what you are talking about is better related to us constitution article 1, section 8: "the congress shall have power...
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    Forum: Nursing Activism / Healthcare Politics
  14. Here is a reference to my statement about our 3rd world healthcare system. The WHO ranked the USA 72nd in healthcare...
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    Forum: Nursing Activism / Healthcare Politics
  15. "Conservatives", I would be very interested to hear the basis for your beliefs. It completely befuddles me as to why...
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    Forum: Nursing Activism / Healthcare Politics
  16. Yeah, that was my question. How does it even come up? I'm too busy with patient care to bother going around asking if...
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    Forum: Nursing Activism / Healthcare Politics
  17. Not all LTC centers are equal. I love my job. I love my residents. Yes it is stressful at times. Yes families drive me crazy...
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    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  18. I am so glad someone thinks like I do! I graduated a year ago and wanted to work in the hospital, or so I thought. Got a job...
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    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  19. I am not annoyed with the patients, though their behaviors can be frustrating. I am annoyed that I have 50 patients and no...
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    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  20. a post i made to another person in a ltc thread criticizing a venter- it is not that we don't care for the elderly, i...
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    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  21. Oh please, egglady. As if you do not have patients that drive you nuts. I go out of my way to make sandwiches for people at...
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    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  22. In my last job (which I quit due to inadequate staffing), I had 30 patients to take care of, 60 while the other nurse was at...
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    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  23. Well - can't say I LOVE LTC, but I do like LTC, which would probably shock a lot of my CNA classmates. Part of the reason I...
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    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  24. This thread has been on my mind a bit lately. I'm one of the biggest proponents of trying everything possible before...
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    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  25. As long as you are polite and respectful you can be honest. Sometimes honesty is a kindness itself.
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  26. I personally appreciate kindness when I'm hurting.
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  27. The metabolites of marijuana are detectable for long after marijuana is used, but this has nothing to do with how long a...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  28. Your statements are not consistent with anyone who has ever thought about healthcare generally and infection control...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  29. Science schmience. I also wear full face shield when starting an IV to protect the patient. And shoe protectors. :devil:
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  30. I would also gather that the reason for the gloves if it is in the company policy is because if the nurse got stuck or...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  31. Ok I keep seeing people saying the Nurse might have this or that and none of that matters. EVEN IF the nurse didn't...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  32. I don't see anyone arguing that patients don't have rights. Obviously if the patient is uncomfortable with the nurse not...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  33. Outside of the ick factor of the dirty bandage, how did her putting on gloves protect you? The area where she poked should...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  34. I've been a RN for just over 1 yr now so I consider myself to know enough to be dangerous, lol :D I have done so many...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  35. Of note, the facility in question is a for-profit HCA facility. Man alive, Rick Scott must be proud. The former CEO of...
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    Forum: Nursing News