cmyersRN

cmyersRN has 1 years experience and specializes in LTC, Med-Surg.

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1. Patients and their crazy requests

   cmyersRN replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

   Re: Patients and their crazy requestsI have to be honest here don't shoot me...but I have PIH and was 7 months pregnant and there wouldn't be a parking spot for blocks except for the numerous handicapped spots near my classes.... So I did contemplate...

2. Patients and their crazy requests

   cmyersRN replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

   My craziest request in the last few months came from the mother of a 23yo male who had been admitted to our floor following a lap appy. She was one of those OCD mothers who demanded a private room for him and then proceeded to live there until his di...

3. Colour-coded hospital bracelets

   cmyersRN replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

   At my hospital we utilize color-coded hospital bracelets for a few different things. Standard patient bracelet is blue and the allergy bracelet is red. If they are DNR they get a purple bracelet that has DNR printed on it. If they are a high fall ris...

4. DONS working the floor in LTC?

   cmyersRN replied to sparkles_2221's topic in Geriatric

   In the LTC facility that I work at, if we have call-ins and no replacement can be found and the DON has to cover anything, she usually covers charge nurse so that nurse can go cover one of the wings. This is rare, but I've seen her do it before. Fort...

5. LTC nurses - I need a reality check

   cmyersRN replied to LakesideRN's topic in General Nursing

   I work as an LPN in a 100 bed facility. We have four wings with 25 residents to a wing. For Day and PM shift there will be four wing nurses and a charge nurse and usually (hopefully) three aides to each wing, if no one has called out. On nights, ther...

6. The Names are changing

   cmyersRN replied to egglady's topic in Geriatric

   Hmmmm......Evelyn, Eleanor, Helen......and Marion seems to be really common right now.....we have several Dorothys too, but two go by Dottie. Richard and Kenneth are our most common male names.........the most original, never seen before name we have...

7. How do you waste medications?

   cmyersRN replied to WondeRNurse's topic in General Nursing

   I'm currently an LPN in a LTC facility. Right now, anything that is not a narcotic is sent back to the pharmacy if it needs to be wasted (resident deceased, discharge or med discontinued or changed, etc) and we flush the narcotics. Two nurses have to...

8. Written Up Again?? what's wrong with this picture??

   cmyersRN replied to gt4everpn's topic in General Nursing

   I'm an LPN at a LTC facility. In the medex Warfarin is on a separate page just as Accuchecks and insulins are on their own page separate from the rest of the medications. The next INR draw date is on the warfarin page with the med order. On PM shift,...

9. Have you expierenced this?

   cmyersRN replied to missnurse1's topic in General Nursing

   Hahaha.....this reminds me of a CNA that works at the LTC facility I work at. I was doing med pass and my cart was just outside the tubroom in the hallway where one of the CNAs was putting a resident on the toilet with the stand lift. After she got h...

10. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    cmyersRN replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    Thought of a couple more......:typing ...when you realize that you are compulsively staring at everyone's arms and hands and mentally deciding if they have "good" veins. ...when your four-year-old starts repeating back the characteristics of various ...

11. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    cmyersRN replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    ...when you are at the doctor's office getting swabbed for influenza (I work in LTC) and you're asking for procedure tips as the nurse is sticking the "probe" down the back of your nose. ...you can't sleep the night before your "poke a peer" day in s...

12. LPN Starting Salary

    cmyersRN replied to pat8585's topic in LPN/LVN

    Hi, I'm in an ADN program and will graduate with my RN in December. I just got my LPN license this month and moved into a LPN role in the nursing home I was working at as a CNA. I get paid $15.50/hr with a $1.15 PM/weekend differential. This seems t...

13. Do I need a CNA certificate to become a LVN?

    cmyersRN replied to Sally1's topic in General Nursing

    I am too, under the impression that the Wisconsin technical college system has a "state-wide" curriculum, so most requirements for entry should be the same. I double-checked the website of my school (Western Technical College, La Crosse, WI) and it s...

14. How much per semester did you nursing school cost?

    cmyersRN replied to 5860TomCat's topic in General Nursing

    Let's see, I have one year left of my ADN program and I've averaged around $1300-1400 in tuition per semester depending on how many credits the class is for (some of our nursing theory classes are 2 credits and Microbiology or any Anatomy/Physiology ...

15. Do I need a CNA certificate to become a LVN?

    cmyersRN replied to Sally1's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a RN student at a technical college in Wisconsin and I know that successfully passing the CNA course is required for entry into both the LPN and RN tracks. We however, are not required to get the certification through the state unless we want to.