Loving Life

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1. What weekends do you work?

   Loving Life replied to TLC RN's topic in General Nursing

   I work every other weekend if I work eight hours, I work every third weekend if I work 12s

2. RSD Opinion????

   Loving Life replied to tsmith1's topic in Case Management

   I know of a nurse who developed this after injuring her shoulder from a patient. She lost a year from her life because of being heavily medicated, etc. My sister, who has Andersen's Syndrome that entails temporary hypokalemic paralysis with prolonged...

3. taking temperatures?

   Loving Life replied to RN_Dana's topic in Pediatric

   We do axillary temps on all heme-onc patients, rectal on those 2 yrs and under. Over two years, you do have the psychological aspect. We never do a rectal on an abuse child or heme/onc.

4. Hi! Anyone here attending Grand Valley State University Kirkoff School Of Nursing?

   Loving Life replied to jenrninmi's topic in Michigan

   Bio-chem was bad for me too. I took it twice. There is alot of formula memorization. You CANNOT get behind. I had a difficult period in my life at that time and got behind. It was all over. You need a clear mind and stick with those formulas. I am be...

5. Worthless medical insurance

   Loving Life replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

   Priority Health in Michigan has been fairly good except for mental health, but they are improving. I had a corneal transplant and never saw a statement. I have no clue how much it cost! Of course co-pays go up like everything else.

6. floating

   Loving Life replied to pedsnrs's topic in Pediatric

   I work peds. heme/onc and general peds. We do get pulled (thank God it only happens once or twice a year) and I hate it. We either go to PICU (which I hate) or NICU or NIM. I would much rather go to NICU or NIM. I do not feel it's safe. We had 4-8 hr...

7. long acting penicillin administration

   Loving Life replied to lucianurse's topic in Safety

   I'm from Michigan and we request a parent signature prior to administering. They are given a handout to read and they have to sign that they received, read and understand it and all questions were answered.

8. Patient dies from Intrathecal Vincristine

   Loving Life replied to gwenith's topic in Safety

   At our children's hospital only oncology docs administer IT chemo during the LP. All Iv chemo is done on the floor. Our chemo is triple checked by pharmacists and chemo nurse. On the oncology attendings can order chemo and no telephone orders are acc...

9. a few clinical practice questions

   Loving Life replied to pedsnrs's topic in Pediatric

   We don't use chloral hydrate as much anymore because it usually has the opposite effect. Many tests have had to be cancelled because the child did not fall asleep. Thankfully, we have radiology whose nurse will sedate during the day shift. We also us...

10. dx with a lipoma today, ever have one?

    Loving Life replied to Louisepug's topic in General Nursing

    It is a fatty tumor. His just got so big. They automatically biopsied it. I just get a little paranoid when they don't biopsy things like that because I know of an instance where something removed was not biopsied the first time, it came back and wa...

11. dx with a lipoma today, ever have one?

    Loving Life replied to Louisepug's topic in General Nursing

    My father had one the size of a football, had it removed and is fine. They did biopsy it and it's benign. I feel all should be biopsied. You can only be certain that way.

12. Wayne State

    Loving Life replied to Loving Life's topic in Michigan

    I just received my BSN from GVSU. They do not have a MSN for pediatrics and/or school nursing whereas Wayne does. I am going to see how many classes could be done online. I am going to take a school nurse class on school systems that can be applied t...

13. dying child...how to cope?

    Loving Life replied to vjcnurse's topic in Pediatric

    I agree. I work with cancer kids and have also had children die on general peds. Just love them and be there for them. Parents do cope with grief differently. They may be withdrawing early. You will be fine. That child will love you for it even tho s...

14. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Loving Life replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses who do not rinse out their suction catheters after suctioning someone and lets it build up in the tubing and those who do not pick up their rooms.

15. I'm a potential bone marrow match!

    Loving Life replied to TonyafutureRN's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital I work at had a free marrow drive for the first 50 people. I took advantage of that. I work at a children's hospital bone marrow transplant/heme-onc floor. It is a great thing that you are doing. I see these families holding on to every ...