nanceinmypance

nanceinmypance

HH, LTC

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About nanceinmypance

nanceinmypance has 4 years experience and specializes in HH, LTC.


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  1. Extra Nurse Duties

    This is the luckiest problem I have ever seen addressed on this site!!!! you guys will figure it out for sure, dont worry. Good luck we are envious!!!
  2. NICU Pet Peeves

    Speaking of ID bands, when my twins were in the NICU one of them had a label from the chart with the name, barcode, etc, stuck to his back and covered with a tegaderm!!!! it actually worked fine until i had to peel it off at home three weeks later:wi...
  3. Mthfr

    I actually have this and from what I have researched on just my own there is really not much. Maybe take folic acid, and when I was pregnant I had to take heparin TID and be on coumadin for a while after delivery, but otherwise not much. I did have a...
  4. LTC CPR on pt with rigor mortis and lividity

    This makes me CRAZY!!!!! it is the same at my job. if they are full code we have to start cpr no matter what!!!! even if they are stiff and pooling until EMS comes. Yes I feel like an idiot because obviously it is not going to do any good and just ab...
  5. New LPN starting LTC, what "things" are needed

    A sharpie!!! or seven!! to date feeding tubing, o2 tubings, etc. and mark med cups if needed. I cant work without one. I recommend the push-end ones without caps, they are faster and you cant lose the cap this way. good luck- it will take a while to ...
  6. what kind of information do you report to the next shift?

    Agree commuter. I also work LTC and it depends on who I am giving report to. If they worked that floor the day before I just go through and say "Jim is ok, Jane is ok". and report anything unusual and maybe when their last pain med was. If they have ...
  7. Heartwarming story for all... Bring a kleenex!

    That is what I love about being a nurse. The frustrations and the bad stuff dissapears when you realize that YOU have made a difference in someones life or day. Sometimes small, sometimes HUGE, as you did. Congratulations, and thank you. Those hours ...
  8. Classic Patient Statements

    In the LTC care facility I work at we have an annoying family whose wife has been here for over 2 years. Trach, G tube. He frequently and repeatedly will tell me that she needs to have more water or she will be ANEMIC!, and that she needs to go to th...
  9. Best-smelling liquid meds!

    I love the smell of lactulose too!! I think it smells like butterscotch and black licorice mixed together. I tried to drink some once and it was so thick i could hardly even swallow it!