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1. Quick Question about comfort measures

   bernadettes replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

   skrainbow is right. If the patient askes for water, give her a sip, but parenteral fluids will prevent the comfortable dehydration that helps dying patients achieve a peaceful comfort from endorphin release.

2. LPN assessment in LTC

   bernadettes replied to Sersey's topic in Geriatric

   Here in New York, LPNs are not allowed to assess. According to the scope of practice, LPNs take and record data - it is the RN who assesses the data.

3. monthly summaries in LTC

   bernadettes replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric

   At our facility, the LPNs do a quarterly summary that addresses all goals and how the res is doing related to the goals on the careplan. They are scheduled to be done right before the quarterly MDS assessment. The RNs do monthly assessments - a chec...

4. ethical dilemma

   bernadettes replied to crnaethics's topic in CRNA

   Let's see...Just completing a bioethics course: the rules are do not cheat. You both participated in cheating. The consequences for revealing the cheat will probably get her kicked out of school and you will have no real consequences except maybe a l...

5. RN assessments

   bernadettes posted a topic in Geriatric

   Our nursing home completes an RN assessment monthly in addition to the quarterly MDS assessment. Do any of you also comple monthly assessments in addition to MDS? Any reply would be helpful!

6. Skilled LTC facilities that don't want to perform any "skills"?

   bernadettes replied to ceecel.dee's topic in Rural

   You guys are all missing the boat. While skilled nursing is certainly given to residents who reside in Medicare reimbursed facilities, there is no mechanism to get reimbursed for services such as mentioned in this thread. Our state's reimbursement is...

7. nursing image

   bernadettes replied to bernadettes's topic in General Nursing

   thanks, everybody, for your thoughtful responses! I, too, am not sure that I want to be called Nurse Smith! But I will remain open-minded....

8. nursing image

   bernadettes posted a topic in General Nursing

   I just read an interesting chapter on presenting ourselves as nurses that encourages nurses to act in the following ways: 1. Introduce ourselves to patients using both first and last names and identify ourselves as that patient's registerd nurse for ...