Tammy90

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1. Punny nursing names

   Tammy90 posted a topic in Humor

   Hey guys! Thought I could use your creativity cause I dont have any! Haha But I joined roller derby and I need a name So I was thinking something nurse related. I work in LTC. Any suggestions for a punny name? I'm staff educator. I do blood work al...

2. Bed rails protocol/algorithm?

   Tammy90 replied to Tammy90's topic in Geriatric

   Do you mind sharing the assessment? Do you have anything about when one is using an air mattress?

3. Bed rails protocol/algorithm?

   Tammy90 replied to Tammy90's topic in Geriatric

   Do you mind sharing the restraint assessment form? Just to gain a sense of what we could do/use for our facility?

4. Bed rails protocol/algorithm?

   Tammy90 replied to Tammy90's topic in Geriatric

   We rarely use full side rails. We will keep the upper rails up more for re-positioning in bed. Specifically, we only use full bed rails for those on air mattresses since the rails need to be up or they will fall out of bed. We also have a few reside...

5. Bed rails protocol/algorithm?

   Tammy90 posted a topic in Geriatric

   Hello all! I was just wondering if anyone would be willing to share their facilities bed rail algorithm. I work at a private LTC facility. We typically follow our provicials guidelines and regulations but we don't specially have a bed rail algorith...

6. Not feeling good enough to be a nurse

   Tammy90 posted a topic in Stress 101

   Hello everyone! I was wondering when did you guys feel confident as a nurse? I have been working in LTC for almost a year now and I just feel so stupid. I am a floor nurse and recently started my new position as the new infection control nurse an...

7. New nurse- Metformin/ gliclazide when not eating.

   Tammy90 posted a topic in Medications

   Hello, I am a new nurse working at a long term care facility I have a resident who has type 2 diabetes. He is on Metformin and Gliclazide. Yesterday there was a possible flu outbreak (unconfirmed) and he was one of the resident on isolation. His onl...

8. Need help finding a palliation issue

   Tammy90 replied to Tammy90's topic in Student Assist

   Opps sorry. yes Palliative care. I was thinking to do something like that, as that is a very interesting topic, but I feel that everyone in my class is going to do that. So I just wanted to see if there were other topics out there. I may wind up just...

9. Need help finding a palliation issue

   Tammy90 posted a topic in Student Assist

   Hello, I have an advocacy project to do and I am having troubles on what palliation to do. We need to find articles to support this issue and why there needs to be change and how we are gonna effect change. Do you guys have any ideas on what would be...

10. question about patient decision making

    Tammy90 posted a topic in Student Assist

    If we give a patient all the information about a procedure that they want but they are advised to not have, like a surgery, because of their circumstance, can the patient still push for the surgery? For example, if a patient had low albumin level whi...

11. Nursing issues ideas?

    Tammy90 replied to Tammy90's topic in Student Assist

    Perhaps it is different in Canada about the nursing shortages? Oh yeah staffing mix is getting big here. They are hiring more LPNs than RNs. That may be a possibility. Thank you for the ideas and NurseP00kie, that would be nice, but I rather not push...

12. "nursing issues" ideas

    Tammy90 posted a topic in Canada

    I have to write a literature review paper in one of my classes and I just am stuck on ideas for the paper. For example, nursing shortages was one that was given by the teacher. I don't want to do that one because it seems a lot of people may do tha...

13. Nursing issues ideas?

    Tammy90 posted a topic in Student Assist

    I have to write a literature review paper in one of my classes and I just am stuck on ideas for the paper. For example, nursing shortages was one that was given by the teacher. I don't want to do that one because it seems a lot of people may do that...

14. What is relational ethics exactly?

    Tammy90 posted a topic in Student Assist

    I have been doing my readings, but I just cant seem to grasp fully what it means? Is it just how we interact with people and how ethics plays into how decisions are made and what we do for patients and family? and how we come with our views and op...

15. Tachypnea and infection

    Tammy90 posted a topic in Student Assist

    Hello, I am in my newborn rotation and I am just going over infection/sepsis notes What is the patho behind high resp rate and infection? why does it happen? is it because the infection increases the metabolic process which requires the body use more...