kate45

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1. How do you wash your scrubs?

   kate45 replied to gumby1411's topic in General Students

   I washed my scrubs in cold water since I dont work in the hospital, I worked in a long term care facility and I only give medications.So I'm not really concerned about the germs in my scrubs. And I wanna preserve the color of my scrubs, so I washed i...

2. Blindfolding: Is this an intervention or abuse?

   kate45 replied to dicecream's topic in CNA/MA

   We have so many residents in our facility who has behavioural problems likes hitting the staff,naming and swearing at staff and racist residents who really hate black people. Most of my staff are black people and we have this resident that swears an...

3. Highly disturbed today at Clinical...

   kate45 replied to cookiesandcream22's topic in General Students

   I think it is consider as an abuse to the residents and should be reported. In our facility, we make sure that we provide privacy to all our residents when doing care and eventhough we have a ratio of 1:8 , we make sure that we give quality care to e...

4. Having another nurse check insulin doses & other med Qs

   kate45 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

   I am an LPN and I worked in a long term care here in Edmonton, Alberta .I have 36 residents to give medications to and I have 5 residents with insulin and yes we have an RN who is covering 4 other units who will have to check with me everytime I with...