cecile9155 BSN, RN

cecile9155 has 8 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Skilled Rehab Nurse.

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1. How much experience does your manager/assistant manager have?

   cecile9155 replied to DownstreamOcclusion's topic in General Nursing

   My DON has 9 months of floor experience. My nurse manager I think has less.

2. Christmas Admissions

   cecile9155 replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

   We've had admissions on all holidays and I have them on the overnight shift fairly often. Our admissions nurse and management never help with admissions anyway so really it's no different. Other than the crappy pharmacy always tries to refuse to del...

3. Storage of N95 masks

   cecile9155 replied to Kiwi82's topic in COVID

   Nothing because I have yet to be provided one.

4. Coronavirus and Supply Shortages

   cecile9155 replied to adventure_rn's topic in COVID

   I'm getting one mask to use until "contaminated" (not N95). Real safe. Or not. Reusing ppe room to room. Definitely not how learned in nursing school.

5. What would you think if you saw this patient?

   cecile9155 replied to coffeemamaRN's topic in General Nursing

   I'd go with the ER. My husband had similar symptoms once and it turned out to be epiglottitis.

6. Iowa BON

   cecile9155 replied to gies_44's topic in General Nursing

   It takes longer for Nursys to update. Your license number will appear on the Iowa BON first. I took mine on a Friday and had a license number by Monday. The actual license came in the mail later that week.

7. Unprofessional to mention you have other patients?

   cecile9155 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   Sometimes you have to. I had a resident who wanted me to get her ice water. An aide stuck her head in the door and told me quietly that another resident was on the floor. I told the resident that wanted the ice water that I would get back to her ...

8. Am I too old to become an RN??

   cecile9155 replied to bananerz84's topic in LPN-RN

   I was 37 when I got my RN. Definitely not too old.

9. Nurse's Week Festivities?

   cecile9155 replied to Extra Pickles's topic in General Nursing

   More than I'll get which is absolutely nothing.

10. Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    cecile9155 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Had a new patient who was concerned about her insulin dose being too high and asked me to wake her up and check her blood sugar again at 2 am. When I did, it was well over 300. Her response, "Well, it might have been the chocolate bunny I ate."

11. Long Term Care Nursing is Lame

    cecile9155 replied to purplegal's topic in Geriatric

    Where I live I am paid MORE at the LTC/rehab facility I work at than I would be at a hospital. I remember your previous posts. Clearly you still have a lot of growing up to do.

12. Transfering patients after a fall

    cecile9155 replied to NurseAgatha's topic in Rehabilitation

    At our facility we have a policy dictating that we have to use a vanderlift to transfer a patient after a fall. If someone has an obvious serious injury like a potential hip fracture, the paramedics transfer the patient off the floor.

13. Interview with Nurse

    cecile9155 replied to Purna94's topic in General Students

    Welcome. We cannot do your work for you. Do you have any questions that you have written yet that you could share? We then may be able to make suggestion to help you come up with other questions.

14. "Nurse Bedside Shift Report" Survey

    cecile9155 replied to kangoshichie's topic in General Nursing

    Is this homework? If so, how do you know for certain the people responding are nurses in an anonymous internet format?

15. What Can Be Done to Avoid this error?

    cecile9155 replied to callienewh's topic in Safety

    At my facility it is the night nurse's responsibility to verify orders. We have a similar system of writing telephone orders in a binder. Our problem is that the day nurses don't always write down the phone orders. Then the order goes unverified.