stutl2ep

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1. Flu Shot or Mask?

   stutl2ep replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   One would think if "The flu is such a bad virus when you get it and there are so many different strains you can get," and it is such a hot button issue with health officials who require us to wear masks if we aren't imminized each and every year" as ...

2. Flu Shot or Mask?

   stutl2ep replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   In 2002 I acquired the miserable Flu. Since then I have not missed getting a shot every Fall when my employer starts giving shots. This season like others since 2002, I received my shot in October as I should and ended up getting the Flu again. So al...

3. How do the male nurses feel about perineal care?

   stutl2ep replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

   You're not always going to have a CNA, or a female colleague. If you were dirty/soiled would you really care whether a male or a female cleaned when you could not clean yourself? Of course not!!! Just get in there and do it, give the best care. There...

4. Incompetent nurses

   stutl2ep replied to medicrnguy's topic in General Nursing

   Does your facility have a Nursing Supervisor to notify if the floor RN's do not resolve the arrhythmia issues with patients? Most Facilities have a Nursing Supervisor for these types of Issues. If your facility does not then I would be looking for an...

5. Sweating Bullets

   stutl2ep replied to stutl2ep's topic in Psychiatric

   Passed the final!!! Yes...now on to the last semester, finally...whew I'm so glad that's over with for now anyway. Thanks to each of you for your help. stutl2ep

6. Sweating Bullets

   stutl2ep replied to stutl2ep's topic in Psychiatric

   I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who responded and helped. I took the final today, whether I passed or not only GOD knows. The results are supposed to be posted tomorrow, I'm praying that I did not miss more than 24 questions on this miserab...

7. Staffing a telemetry unit

   stutl2ep replied to ShayRN's topic in Cardiac

   On this Telemetry floor we try to keep a 1:5 nurse/patient ratio, we consider ourselves lucky if we have 2 CNA's. Sometimes if/when someone calls in the ratio may be as high as 1:6 but never no more than that. Telemetry isn't exactly a place where a ...

8. Sweating Bullets

   stutl2ep replied to stutl2ep's topic in Psychiatric

   Thank you both for your replies...Thunder, I'll see what I can do to get some example questions. And Nurse Ratched, the areas that tend to give me the most problems are Depression, Schizophrenia, and Anxiety those three areas seem gray and confusing....

9. Sweating Bullets

   stutl2ep posted a topic in Psychiatric

   In Spring of 2005 I took Psychiatric Nursing for the 1st time and ended up with an average of 75 in the theory portion. I passed clinical portion without any problems. I am now repeating the theory and I'm still struggling w/these questions on our te...