Cheez-It!

Cheez-It!

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Cheez-It! has 7 years experience and specializes in psych.


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  1. Carestar Curiosities

    I'm curious about CareStar. I've read some other threads about it, but they turn into arguments about stuff I'm not really interested in. I'm curious about as an LPN, how nurses handle things like, billing, state, etc etc. State visits facilities ev...
  2. Favorite, Fun, Weird, and Scandalous Symptoms and Diagnosis...

    We had a new resident admitted with dx of MRDD and jump from 3rd floor window ... what's the ICD9 code for that?
  3. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

    I graduated in '03, and i was actually checked off in school for backrubs, it was considered part of a bed bath ... But anyways, I have a resident that's blind and dribbles and refuses to use depends/poise pads whatever. Claims he can't see the toile...
  4. Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

    i had posted this elsewhere: I had a resident that had BenGay PRN. She was requesting it so I smeared it on her back and a shoulder. I ripped my gloves off to help her back into bed. She said something about one of her knees may need some also. So i ...
  5. phone calls no outsider would believe

    Yeah, kinda like when the administrator thought it was real funny when i let one of the residents sing on the intercom one afternoon too. She was singing the eygyptian themed song about the people in france don't wear any underpants ... I didn't know...
  6. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    or my favorite, I'm not really a nuse, or i've never done this before, but i did sleep in a holiday inn last night. I've got some residents the hold fingers out as soon as they see me coming, I just tell them i'm here to add another hole ... We also...
  7. phone calls no outsider would believe

    I work psych ....i worked nightshift, we had telemarketers calling BAD at ALL hours it seemed. I answered to a woman with a bad accent wanting to speak to one of our residents, who was slightly demented. (alzheimer's, schizo, psychosis etc etc) I tri...
  8. Do You Have Any Favorite OB Myths?

    Hrmmm ... I concieved my current 19 week pregnancy after a Lynyrd Skynyrd/3 Doors Down concert ... How's that for rhythm? :rotfl:
  9. generation gap among nurses

    you know, I'm 25. I worked with a male 50's y.o. nurse. Not only did he "obey" and conform to authority, he thought all of the younger nurses below him should bow to him. Which considering he has more years experience than I have been alive, I was al...
  10. Approximate Narc. count?

    If it's like the bottles we have at work, the drug itself is clear. We had a hospice pt that had it ordered, and the hospice nurse actually put a drop of food coloring in it so we could count it better. It beat holding a flashlight on the other side ...
  11. Medication Aides

    Reading the little bit that I have, they'll still need LPN's. They can't do meds through any sort of tube, g/ng/etc, no inhalers, they can't split pills, no injections, they can not start a new order, can not touch peds, and it's repeated over and ov...
  12. You need to check your state laws. Here in Ohio, as an LPN, I'm not allowed to so much as think about touching a central line. I'm not sure about being IV certified, since I'm not. But, one thing I learned in school, don't do it if you're not comfort...
  13. False allegation repercussions?

    Exaclty, I'm pregnant, and i feel stuck is the only reason i'm not leaving. I don't have enough time to build vacation time to take maternity leave anywhere else. I am the main source of income to my household, or else I would leave. But seeing as ho...
  14. Something that just happened to me here recent ... I got in report a couple of residents had temps. The nightshift nurse had given them tylenol. I went to assess the two, and one had a temp of 101 and the other 103. Both residents had lungs full. On...
  15. Myself, LMAO ... total dumb@$$ attack here. I worked nightshift. I had one resident that had some PRN Ben-Gay. Per her request, I smeared the nasty crap all over her back and shoulders. She was happy, I was happy. I ripped off my gloves, and she sai...