LR59

LR59

ICU Telemetry Med/Surg

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About LR59

LR59 has 22 years experience and specializes in ICU Telemetry Med/Surg.


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  1. Veteran Nurses...

    I agree there is much to be learned in LTC and I am not knocking it. However if you are honest many nurses and management look down on LTC staff.
  2. Veteran Nurses...

    This was my personal experience. I have been an RN nearly 22 years, 13 years in a cardiac ICU. Due to needs of my family I left the hospital went to LTC with acute and long term care rehab. After 4 years situation again changed I wanted to return to ...
  3. Employment with VCU? Pay?

    I worked for the VCU-MCVH sysytem for 17 years, starting as anew grad on North 5,then to Tele SDu, then to cardiac medicine ICU. This was a wonderful place to work, good pay, great benefits. When Iworked there and I believ it still to be so if tyou ...
  4. what color uniforms does your school use?

    Ah Youth WE had white dresses with blue and white pinafores. White shoes, hose no makeup earrings wedding ring only please. One of our instructors measured the hem length with a yardstick.No runs in your hose, no perfume, hair back or in a bun, at le...
  5. Homeowners Vacancy Insurance

    This sound bogus. I moved from East to West last year,my home is vacant because we refuse to give it away in this market. Our insurance co. knows it and has never said anything.
  6. Night shift- when do you exercise?

    We walk at work The lab tech, the radiology tech, admissions and nurses all walk in groups of 2-3 on our breaks Our facility is a square that you can do laps on. On good nights we can all get 15 minutes cardio walking done We have even tried some zum...
  7. Dx: Paralysis secondary to hospital admission

    I once cared for a young man 26 years old, 758 lbs. whose mother and girlfriend did everything even feed him We told him he needed to assist us by feeding himself, using his urinal, brushing his teeth, washing what parts of his body he could reach. ...
  8. Speaking foreign languages

    When my Mother was in a LTC where nearly all staff nurses were filipino it was very difficult to communicate my Mothers needs to them. They smile said yes and did whatever. My Mother disliked it because she felt they were speaking badly of her.
  9. Scope of practice ?

    When someone passes at our facility, we get 2 RNs to check for signs of death and verify it. We then get a verbal order from MD to pronounce them deceased if they are DNRs only. Otherwise we have to involve local authorities. On our death certificate...
  10. This Does Not Make Sense - But happens anyway!

    At my facility we cannot access the kitchen refrigerator for food such as sandwiches only snack type stuff. I am also the copier repair person, plumber,tv repair. Also because of reported diversion of lasix we now have 2 nurses to count pyxsis daily?...
  11. When we float to L&D it is to care for post partum Moms and babies. we also had orientation to unit and duties. We do not care for laboring Moms. It is good to stretch our horizons especially in this job market, make ourselves more employable.
  12. Where are u located? I work in a small rural hospital am floated to L and D occasionally.
  13. Just when you thought you'd heard it all

    I agree with the previous post. Back in the day if chickenpox,measles,mumps etc came to town, parents exposed their kids for several reasons. 1. all kids could be sick at the same time, it was supposed to be a milder case, also their was a worry abou...
  14. If I see one more post titled....

    I realized that I had been at one hospital too long when the attendings had been the med students that we nurses taught to be docs!! The comment about someone rolling their eyes kills me. A new RN on our unit was sitting at nurses station texting wh...
  15. wierd/scary craigslist job

    My husband replied to a job for a position in sales ,they beganto ask for a lot of personal info looked like it was a scam to get info