wunzieRNBSN

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1. wound care question!

   wunzieRNBSN replied to wunzieRNBSN's topic in Wound

   THANKS! I am going to show up at her house with a bunch of products to try. What makes it hard is she is so obesed and the air cannot really get to the area to keep it dry. right now I switched her from A&D to the sensicare protective barrier sin...

2. wound care question!

   wunzieRNBSN replied to wunzieRNBSN's topic in Wound

   is that safe to put on open areas?

3. wound care question!

   wunzieRNBSN replied to wunzieRNBSN's topic in Wound

   She is bowel continent. She has a caregiver that is able to help her to stay clean. I saw her this morning, and the area is just so raw... and moist. I took off the duoderm (which by now has rolled up and traveled to a completely different spot in he...

4. Advice for a young home health nurse. please :)

   wunzieRNBSN replied to wunzieRNBSN's topic in Home Health

   I started this job Sept. 2010. Thank you for your post. I really needed that. It's not that I am really wanting to experience being a hospital nurse. In fact, after starting out in home health, I don't think I can survive in a hospital setting. I've...

5. wound care question!

   wunzieRNBSN replied to wunzieRNBSN's topic in Wound

   she is a medicare patient... the only thing that medicare covers for bariatric hospital bed are the alternating pressure matress. According to our supplier. We often provide low air loss mattress to our patients, but the maximum weight for those is...

6. The Pride of a Nurse

   wunzieRNBSN replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Geriatric

   "nurses aren't supposed to have favorites but I am, after all, only human......and in my opinion anyone who fails to bond with at least one patient in her/his career probably shouldn't even be a nurse." i love this. so true.

7. wound care question!

   wunzieRNBSN posted a topic in Wound

   patient was multiple small sore near perineal area. posterior thighs, but below the buttocks pt has a foley cath and morbidly obese. non ambulatory. MD classified them as pressure ulcers. But my interpretation is perineal dermatitis secondary to mac...

8. You Can't Be a Nurse Without Love

   wunzieRNBSN replied to Mully's topic in General Nursing

   you should save your post... and read it to yourself years later. sometimes it is easy to forget why we became nurses in the first place. as a nurse we encounter so much... from patients... their family.. their doctors... our family with not understa...

9. Patient Education on Anticoagulation

   wunzieRNBSN replied to jbowers's topic in Education

   i'm in home health... So usually I verbally educate. Then I will provide a print out of what I just told them. For elderly patients, things have to be kept simple. with cues of when to call the nurse or doctor. food to avoid, goal of therapy, etc.

10. RN school graduation gift to self? What did you promise yourself?

    wunzieRNBSN replied to OnaTrek's topic in New Nurse

    I bought myself a louis vuitton purse... not such a wise decision but it was my first big purchase with my big girl paycheck! lol

11. Advice for a young home health nurse. please :)

    wunzieRNBSN replied to wunzieRNBSN's topic in Home Health

    Thanks for the replies! you guys are right... I'm learning so much in home health. And it is exciting it its own way. getting to know pts in their home environment. everyone has different dx so it is never the same thing. I've done wounds, i've calle...

12. oncology RNs... please help this home health RN...

    wunzieRNBSN posted a topic in Oncology

    First of all, I'm a home health nurse. I just admitted a patient to our agency with main dx of DMII, CHF, and multiple pressure sores. Anyway, my pt is a female, 37 yrs old, but morbidly obesed. close to 600 lbs. non ambulatory. completely bedridden...

13. Advice for a young home health nurse. please :)

    wunzieRNBSN posted a topic in Home Health

    I graduated with my BSN last May 2010. I passed my NCLEX last September. I applied at hospitals around my area, but I never even got called back for an interview. I guess I did not apply hard enough. Although, I managed to land a job at a home health...