SarasLPN

SarasLPN has 3 years experience and specializes in LTC.

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1. NON HEALING stage IV pressure ulcer HELP????

   SarasLPN replied to NC29mom's topic in Wound

   I would just send a request/communication to the MD and then the DON really has no say in what is done. I work in LTC and the DON really doesn't say what we can and cannot do as far as making appts and treatments for people. We just ask the doctor an...

2. Kennedy Ulcer

   SarasLPN replied to SarasLPN's topic in Geriatric

   My resident is still hanging in there. Thank you for the links. I am going to look into the PAINAD? I haven't heard of this. THANKS

3. Is this common?

   SarasLPN replied to Finallydidit's topic in Geriatric

   At our facility SS starts at 200. Our medical director wants everyone on the same scale to help rule out insulin errors. However there are a few who have special orders.

4. Kennedy Ulcer

   SarasLPN posted a topic in Geriatric

   Any experience with kennedy ulcers? We've got a resident recently Dx with this and I know it's pretty much part of active dying but most of the literature I find quotes impending death 8-48 hours after finding this type of ulcer. Our resident is real...

5. Nurse's: Find your own replacement when ill

   SarasLPN replied to Leelee2's topic in Geriatric

   At the facility where I work when you are ill and "call in" you must find your own replacement or it will count as an unexcused absence which by the way there are NO excused absences unless the facility sends you home once you have arrived and undoub...

6. Resident Activity Ideas

   SarasLPN replied to msavlpn's topic in Geriatric

   Wheelchair exercise is kinda fun for some. You can take a pool/beach ball and bop it around, kinda like volley ball. You could do watermellon social since it's summer time. Most residents have a food holiday for food of choice. Listen to old music, g...

7. CMC Dallas and CHOA-Egleston

   SarasLPN replied to ECMOismygame's topic in PICU

   CHOA has a pretty large PICU and cardiac unit as well. I haven't worked there but had a child there for a good bit of time several times. I think the staff are excellent. I know that doesn't help much but it's an excellent place to be patient wise an...

8. Norwood procedure

   SarasLPN replied to Bruno Matos's topic in PICU

   here i am again posting on this old thread, i don't know where a lot of these hospitals are that are having such terrible survival rates with the norwood. hospitals like chop, choa, uofm....are having really good results. i think a lot of parents cho...

9. 'Moral values' and organ donation

   SarasLPN replied to wannabee's topic in General Nursing

   Yes hun, I am afraid that there will always be someone watching what you are doing as a nurse...there are many rules that you will have to follow it looks like to me that you are not a rule follower and therefore may need to re-evaluate your choosen ...

10. 'Moral values' and organ donation

    SarasLPN replied to wannabee's topic in General Nursing

    the goverment last time i checked could pretty much tell us as citizens of the united states what we needed to be doing at any given time. there is the constitution and all of that but when are all of those rules and regulations actually followed? i...

11. 'Moral values' and organ donation

    SarasLPN replied to wannabee's topic in General Nursing

    it is my opinion that if you are riding your motorcycle without a helmet and not wearing your seatbelt and boasting about not wanting "big brother" in your business maybe you are going into the wrong profession. i am all for the goverment staying out...

12. about that RN who set up unauthorized flu clinics in Washington

    SarasLPN replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    What I heard was that someone was giving out "flu" shots that turned out to be not flu shots but something all together different...what I am not sure.! I can't believe what folks will do to make money...

13. 'Moral values' and organ donation

    SarasLPN replied to wannabee's topic in General Nursing

    since your organs are taken out of your body after death...who knows what really happens to them anyway! you never know. i believe in organ donation. it is important because my child may need a new heart by her early teens or before if she is not a c...

14. MLT? Anyout here?

    SarasLPN replied to SarasLPN's topic in Safety

    Medical Lab. Technologist...you can get a bach., Masters, even a Dr degree in it. I think its pretty cool I love chemistry! Anyhow thats what it is ...

15. Grady Hospital

    SarasLPN replied to unknown99's topic in Georgia

    i was a pt at grady in 2002. high risk ob pt. their high risk maternity drs and staff were great. although when they induced my labor the two doctors i had been seeing were nowhere to be found. i was delievered by a student i had never met. there was...