nurse4lyfe37

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1. There's a Mousetrap In My Med Cart

   nurse4lyfe37 replied to 99percentangel's topic in Geriatric

   Yes, that is so funny..the beating the clock thing...me too! Every day I pray and try to beat that clock. It's crazy, I'll feel like I'm on a roll and might actually do it because it seems I've passed meds to about 20 people, then I'll say to myself ...

2. writing telephone orders

   nurse4lyfe37 replied to nurse4lyfe37's topic in Geriatric

   yes I'm sure. the first time they sent someone out to the hospital and they were admitted, that night day nurse called me and told me she forgot to write a telephone order stating admit patient to hospital for diagnosis of...colitis. I told the dsd t...

3. writing telephone orders

   nurse4lyfe37 replied to nurse4lyfe37's topic in Geriatric

   lol...yeah sounds like a great idea. I would like to have some kind of documented evidence that it's unethical/against nurse practice act, etc etc etc, to show them next time they tell me to write these orders. this is the second time it happened. th...

4. writing telephone orders

   nurse4lyfe37 replied to nurse4lyfe37's topic in Geriatric

   Lady Free 28 " find out if the doctor wants the pt transferred.". I'm really not trying to be difficult, I'm just trying to understand where you are coming from. The day shift nurse called the doctor to find out if they wanted the patient transferred...

5. writing telephone orders

   nurse4lyfe37 replied to nurse4lyfe37's topic in Geriatric

   why didn't I call the doctor for what? this resident was transferred to the hospital on the prior shift. that nurse should have written an order to transfer the resident to the hospital and that would be the end of it. For what reason would I call th...

6. writing telephone orders

   nurse4lyfe37 replied to nurse4lyfe37's topic in Geriatric

   that's exactly what I thought and what I've always done. I wasn't even there when the resident was transferred to the hospital anyway. im from California and every time a resident was transferred to the hospital, but when they were, in cali, I would ...

7. nursing in wyoming compared to california...

   nurse4lyfe37 replied to ChristaMedeiros's topic in Wyoming

   I agree. I paid 1300 a month for a brand new 3 bedroom condo in central coast of cali, here, you can pay like 850 for a one bedroom torn up apt.

8. Nursing Salary Survey 2014

   nurse4lyfe37 replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

   Geographic location-Wyo Pay-$24.30/hr Specialty-LTC Degree-BSN Years-14 Full time 2-1030 (more like 2-1230 lol), $1Diff No, I am not a supervisor

9. writing telephone orders

   nurse4lyfe37 posted a topic in Geriatric

   I have a question ...ethical..in the state of Wyoming. I get to work and in report am told a resident was sent to the hospital 2 hours prior. I call the hospital an hour later to check the status and am told the resident was admitted to icu. later, t...

10. impossible resident

    nurse4lyfe37 replied to nurse4lyfe37's topic in Geriatric

    I will try pyridium....she is on lasix 20 bid but everytime she goes to br she trinkles uti ruled out several times we think its not a bladder problem but part of her head injury from her last fall ...she gets oob every 2 to 5 minutes ..weve all time...

11. impossible resident

    nurse4lyfe37 replied to nurse4lyfe37's topic in Geriatric

    Ok ...I thought it might b wrong ill look more into it ...it wouldnt surprise me tho because when I asked for the policy n procedure manual everyone looked at me like I was crazy some people said it was in a book at nurses station then it was locked...

12. impossible resident

    nurse4lyfe37 replied to nurse4lyfe37's topic in Geriatric

    Well she doesn't have a uti ...its been months like thus...I just started there ..we try distractions but no matter what shes doing shell ask any and everybody around to take her we have to block her room off with the med cart

13. impossible resident

    nurse4lyfe37 posted a topic in Geriatric

    So there is a little lady had a head injury and forgets she Just went to the bathroom n asks every 5 min she doesn't sleep ever if u ever tell her she just went she won't believe you and shell get combative..shell go in her Room and go herself setti...