acosenza2

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1. What is in your first aid kit?

   acosenza2 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello fellow nurses, Just curious what everyone has in their first aid kits? Do you have a smaller, personal kit that you keep with you for those just in case moments? Do you keep a larger family kit? Keep a big one in your car? Or did you pick on...

2. The Affordable Care Act - Strengthening Medicare

   acosenza2 replied to Joe V's topic in Activism

   The graphic provided was from the White House website, so we can expect it to be biased. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the Affordable Care Act is taking millions from Medicare in order to pay for other parts of the ACA an...

3. I get worried about my career choice....

   acosenza2 replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

   I graduated from nursing school in May and have been working in a LTC facility for about 2 months. It is hard work but I love it and I think that has as much to do with the work as it does with the culture of the facility and the nurses that I work ...

4. Allowing Pt's Parent to Take Meds Home

   acosenza2 replied to Juan-RN's topic in Medications

   The order was given, and the medication dispensed, in order for you to give them in the hospital so that is what should have been done. I understand the feeling of being a parent, but you are also a nurse and when you are working you are a nurse fir...

5. Just started new job and then finds out it's downsizing????

   acosenza2 replied to jodyangel's topic in Career Support

   My advice, go agency if you are having a hard time finding work. I have a few friends that are nurses working for agencies and some of them have a regular schedule of 60h/week while others have decided they only want 30h/week. I found nursing work ...

6. Why don't people take LPNs seriously?

   acosenza2 replied to Hellostudentnurssee's topic in LPN/LVN

   I am a newly graduated RN and I work with a lot of LPNs. Honestly, there are very few things that I can that they are not allowed to do. According to our State Board LPNs are supposed to only care for stable clients with expected results etc etc bu...

7. How clean is a "bathed" patient?

   acosenza2 replied to tiredtech's topic in Technicians

   When I was a nursing student my definition of bathed was what I would want for myself. A Few washcloths with soap everywhere and then a few washcloths with clean water to wash it all off and then dry them, really dry them. I would certainly expect ...

8. Visiting nurse slapped with a parking ticket :-/

   acosenza2 replied to PinkRNBSN's topic in Relations

   If an ambulance pulled to that same spot to provide services it would not have received a ticket. You really are no different. You provide much needed medical services.

9. What are your thoughts on patients who request no male nurses taking care of them?

   acosenza2 replied to Mike A. Fungin RN's topic in Men

   As a nurse, that is also a man, I have had this request before and I usually take no offense to it, but it is not always possible to honor that request and if that is the case I ask the charge or super talk to the patient. In my opinion, a patient i...

10. In nursing school clinical did you experience discrimination / bias from instructor?

    acosenza2 replied to biltz's topic in Men

    I feel sorry for the guys that have felt discriminated against in nursing school. My class graduated with 3 or 4 guys and my clinical group always had at least 2 guys, and at one time we were 50% guys. I never felt discriminated against because of ...