miss_nurse2004

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1. Survey: Do you leave work at your scheduled time on a regular basis?

   miss_nurse2004 replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   Yes...I try to leave every day ON TIME. I'm the type that "gets things done", constantly on the go, running like a chicken with my head cut off. The oncoming nurses appreciate the fact that I have the med cart cleaned up and stocked and ready for t...

2. Drug Testing

   miss_nurse2004 replied to perfer2Banonymous's topic in General Nursing

   what about this situation: i was at my dad's house a month ago, and had a very bad headache. i took tylenol, advil...nothing helped. he had a script for lorcet + and i took 2 of them while i was at his house, and after i slept that night the heada...

3. Introductions:"New" and "Old" Students.

   miss_nurse2004 replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Students

   I'm new here! Live in Arkansas, mother of 2 teenagers and have been a nurse for 15 years. I work in long term care and am anxious to find out how the rest of my colleagues cope with the problems we share.

4. Choking !

   miss_nurse2004 replied to game over's topic in Geriatric

   At our facility, an incident is "anything out of the ordinary" so I would do an I&A. This has happened before, and I sent the res. to the ER per family request because I was unable to get in touch with the MD (out of town) The res. had aspirated ...

5. Veinapuncture: Certified or not???

   miss_nurse2004 posted a topic in Geriatric

   Question, please: I am an LPN, cross trained in x-ray and lab years ago in a doctor's office. The facility where I work now has the LPN draw labs on their own residents. Our nursing consultant was here a month ago, and I asked her about certificat...

6. physician orders

   miss_nurse2004 replied to panurse101's topic in Geriatric

   If a resident states they want to go to the ER...they are sent at their own request and the doctor is informed that they are going, and why. At times, when we call the md and tell him the problem, he says do this - do that. We tell the resident what...

7. mandatory overtime policy? need to vent

   miss_nurse2004 replied to longtermcarern's topic in Geriatric

   Our facility RNs share the "on call" duties each month. If someone calls in or has to leave their shift, the RN on call is responsible to come in and replace the other nurse. No employer can force overtime on their employees. What about the nurse p...

8. can someone help??

   miss_nurse2004 replied to shllby1's topic in Geriatric

   We had a nurse to get a needle stick after giving insulin injections on her hall during the early am med pass. She had given 5 injections, and one of the sharps got her in a finger. And I&A was done, and she was sent to the hospital for labwork...

9. Im going insane!!!!

   miss_nurse2004 replied to Lovenursinganyx's topic in Geriatric

   I also agree! I find myself stopping the outgoing lpn and basically making her give report before she leaves. I am responsible for approx. 30 long term residents, and there have been times when I've come in on Monday a.m. after being off the weekend...

10. Incident reports

    miss_nurse2004 replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric

    We have a one sided incident form, which includes the front/back image of the resident where you can mark on the body where the skin tear, bruise, etc. is located. If the incident is witnessed, the cna (or whoever witnessed the event) fills out a wit...

11. RN or busperson?

    miss_nurse2004 replied to lissyrn's topic in Geriatric

    In our facility, for each meal, there is always a department head present in the cafeteria...whether a nurse or the head of medical records. They monitor the trays as they are passed out, and also help the cna's with whatever needs done. The post m...

12. Falls and incident reports in LTC

    miss_nurse2004 replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric

    I agree with you, ktwlpn...you read my mind! Another big problem is that of understaffing. Our facility is having a hard time right now because they did away with our incentive pay progam (but we are all getting a raise soon...) and so many are NOT v...

13. Day in the Life

    miss_nurse2004 replied to mary761's topic in Geriatric

    I work in LTC, and an average day goes like this: I get to work, count in and take report and am starting my 8:00 med pass around 7am. I have approximately 26 residents to care for (on 2 halls with 2 CNA's to each hall) and always have time for gett...