aila49

aila49 has 18 years experience and specializes in ER, ICU, Acute, Rural Nursing, Travel.

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1. Validated Fall Risk Assessments

   aila49 replied to psych nurse's topic in Psychiatric

   I am not a psych nurse. I work acute care med/surg in a rural hospital. We have gone to computer charting. One of the interventions is fall risk, but we do not have a screening tool for this. I have found two different screening tools, but have not f...

2. Tattoo's on Nurses

   aila49 replied to gentlemother's topic in General Nursing

   I have five tattoos. Two are on my upper arms. They have never presented a problem for me. In fact, when one does flash, people lift the sleeve and look at them. I have never had a bad comment about them. I have a mouse with a rose in it's mouth on m...

3. Governator kicks nurses butts!!!

   aila49 replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

   Triage RN_34, I am a WA State nurse who is currently in CA on travel assignment. I work ICU, so there is always a set number of patients to care for, which is two. Here we also have the tele patients, which is another set ratio of three. I sometimes ...