winurse54984

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1. I'm I in for a rude awakening?

   winurse54984 posted a topic in MDS

   I worked in a nursing home for 7 years, last being in 2002. I did MDS at that time. Since then I've been in another field. I signed up for the AANAC Basics class and if that works out I'll sign up for the certification with hopes of going into long...

2. Psychiatric Certification

   winurse54984 replied to Aydia1's topic in Psychiatric

   I took the pysch cert back last Nov. I missed by two questions. Was my fault as I only studied 10-15 hours based on other cert tests I've passed. Had I known my Erikson and Piaget stages I would have been ok. The test in Nov was based on the Psyc...

3. Dress Code For WI Corrections?

   winurse54984 replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Correctional

   Its been a while but from what I remember questions were situational. What would you do in this given situation. One was what are long and short term goals of inmate newly diagnosed with HIV. Good Luck. Corrections different from nursing home, ho...

4. Dress Code For WI Corrections?

   winurse54984 replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Correctional

   :nurse:There is no official dress code but I think some of the suggestions above are applicable. I work nights and wear sweats and a T shirt or sweat shirt. In the summer I've worn shorts( I'm a male) on my weekend and a T without anyone ever calli...

5. Sick of being a nurse in the Prison

   winurse54984 replied to goldensfo's topic in Correctional

   I work for Wi Dept Corr. for quite a while. Also have hospital and longterm care exp. I really see any difference in inmate attitudes as I did in general public. Matter of fact I think I could toss a coin on many days as to who I would trust more,...

6. Pay for Correctional nurses?

   winurse54984 replied to TashaLPN2006RN2012's topic in Correctional

   Work for Wi corrections. Have more than 10 years senioity and make 42/hr working nights. 25 vac days, 4.5 pers. holidays, 9holidays, and now 8 furlough days. Time one half on holidays and when over 40 hours week. We had one RN who was a weekender...

7. Please Help With a Math Problem

   winurse54984 replied to Quietstorm10's topic in General Nursing

   You can actually do it two ways. You can add 80ml of water. This would give you a total of 320ml of which 80ml(25%) is water. So you would be at the MD order of 3/4 strength. OR you could save or discard 60ml of tube feed solution and replace with 60...