LobotRN BSN, RN

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About LobotRN

LobotRN has 4 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Med Tele, Gen Surgical.


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    Lindsey Koi Pants

    I found that the material on Koi Lindsey wasn't very sturdy and they would last maybe 9 months with regular washes after every shift. My personal fave is the Youtility Gen Flex by Dickies. I think they wear like iron, the colors stay true even when u...
  2. I work(ed) acute care (Hey Commuter! Congrats) and my rule for refusals was this type of assessment and documentation: "Pt refusing (shower/bedbath/pericare/turns). Pt assessed for (pain/disorientation-delirium/LOC/mentation, etc). Pt educated for r...
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    How did you pay off your student debt?

    Exactly elkpark. Go to bankrate.com and look at their debt calculators. If you know the loan amount and interest rate, you can create all the scenarios you are asking about and see what the numbers look like. Its not a mystery. Don't go into debt if ...
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    Post op complication question

    (FUNNY!) But on a more serious note, How long post op? Immediately after I vote hemorrhagic complication. A day or two later, I vote sepsis. What is the WBC? Lactate? This can really be a chicken-n-egg situation...either way its shocking!
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    Will my diabetes affect my future in nursing?

    Yes, yes we are. Why thank you blondy! And to the OP, I have been IDDM since I was 2 years old. Now on a pump with continuous glucose monitoring for the last 15 years. As far as your employment physical may go, your A1c says it all. Way to be a self...
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    Patient Bathing...or Not.

    Hmmmm. I'm starting to think bathing and lift fairies aren't real?
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    Patient Bathing...or Not.

    No, we use disposable basins. In fact if we lowered the volumes of those, it would offset the bath wipe costs. I don't wanna even think what a reusable basin would culture out ewwwwwwwwww
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    Patient Bathing...or Not.

    THIS! A few months ago I tried to get a trial of the Medline bathing wipes, which are AWESOME, but was told it wasn't cost effective. Reallllllly? Single use items reduce infection rates, and it would take less than 10 minutes to bathe a patient (f...
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    Patient Bathing...or Not.

    Ahhhh. I was hoping to find the bath fairy out there, somewhere. Seriously, thanks for the comments. But what it is seeming to boil down to is that we actually need to 1) have a culture shift that setting up a patient to do some self care with a ...
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    Patient Bathing...or Not.

    How do we get it done? I am looking for ideas on how to address patient hygiene issues in acute care. It is essential nursing care in my book, I am all for it, I try my best to get it done and help our CNAs to get it done. I'll absolutely MAKE it ...
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    Frustrated with nursing

    In a nutshell, it can still affect you. Virtually any licensure application in any field has some verbiage to the effect of, "have you every had any publicly issued license revoked, reprimanded, or suspended?" That means if you were a licensed home...
  12. My Uncle works for the FDA. His response is cost re: glass ampules. Medications that are single use and that can be batch created and group sterilized, thus low cost production. And the glass ampules are impervious, so longer shelf life. This work...
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    Magnet status

    ^^^Exaaaaactly Ruby! Incidentally, we are paid for time in those ancillary meetings. However! Being forced into it and the impact it has on work life balance is horrible. Be on Shared Governance, sure it's only 2 hours for the monthly meeting. If ...
  14. At Acute HD, they must have candidates qualified for entry into a BON approved program, and that means science, English, and math, right? So then they can charge for that, too. Here's a good read on the subject: These are the schools driving Americ...
  15. Surprisingly their pass rates are 91% + for 2014 and 2015, and they deliver about 75 or so candidates per calendar year. I just wonder how many enrollees make it to the end and can sit for boards? They pay tuition regardless, and none of the standa...