she.lpn

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1. do you allow fetal demise infants to stay with mother in her postpartum room?

   she.lpn replied to unikuelady's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I'm not an OB nurse but experienced a neonatal loss my son was 18 days old. I would not want a nurse who couldn't or did not want to deal with loss. Even after having him the post-partum nurse was great my baby stayed in the NICU so even that feels l...

2. Curious to hear NICU nurses perspective--23-wkr, NEC m

   she.lpn replied to wannabeL&D's topic in NICU

   I found more of the Blog that I think was cut out here: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=79481063&blogID=164112043&MyToken=8bdc119f-2ea7-4fb5-a863-a7ccde6dbec4 This kinda makes it sound even grimmer. Feel so...

3. Curious to hear NICU nurses perspective--23-wkr, NEC m

   she.lpn replied to wannabeL&D's topic in NICU

   WOW! What a heartbreaking situation. While I am not a NICU nurse. I am a nurse and a parent of a preemie who may not of had the same situation but in the end I had to let him go. I can't say the parents or the hospital is right. But how can the hospi...

4. How to say thank you to NICU nurses

   she.lpn replied to she.lpn's topic in NICU

   Just wanted to update. I decided to send cards and pictures of him. I was going to send one card to the whole staff with pictures, one to each of the 3 nurses who took care of him after he whad NEC and one to his neonatologist. Its hard to decide wha...

5. LPN Jobs in the Denver area

   she.lpn replied to mel1977's topic in Colorado

   You can work at Denver Health medical center as an LPN and St Joes which is an exempla hospital. those are pretty much the only hospitals in denver. if you want clinics try Kaiser great insurance

6. University of Phoenix in CO, LPN to BSN

   she.lpn replied to committedtonursing's topic in School Programs

   I was enrolled last spring and dropped due to family problems. Yes UOP does have a LPN-BSN program here in denver at the lone tree campus I am not sure who the contact is now for admissions but will ask my councelor. most of my credits transefered in...

7. How to say thank you to NICU nurses

   she.lpn posted a topic in NICU

   Hi I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this but here I go. I am a med-surg nurse and had a baby august 16th a 27 weeker he was taken off of life support on september 3rd after doing great for 2 weeks and developing NEC and lossing m...

8. comments about patient's w/ IV's?

   she.lpn replied to johnson0424's topic in Med-Surg

   where work many of our frequent Dialysis patients who come in once a week because they are illegal/no insurance and can not recieve outpt dialysis do not get an IV when they are on Tele. The docs who know them during admit write for it. But even if ...

9. Pregnant new grad in the ED?

   she.lpn replied to lovethechaos's topic in Emergency

   As a pregnant floor nurse this is my first baby and I am exhausted! I'm 5 months and haven't had any problems except terrible back pain, lifting restrictions. Your first year is hectic as by itself, your first pregnancy is scary and exhausting. Give ...

10. When to tell work your pregnant?

    she.lpn posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure this has been asked before but was unable to find it in my search. So my question is I work on a busy med-surg floor lots of MRSA, VRE, C-diff and any other infectious disease you can think of. when should I inform work I'm pregnant? I'm ap...

11. Does nite shift make you fat?

    she.lpn replied to badabinggirl's topic in General Nursing

    I acutally lost weight due to night shift I think. (too much red bull). But my advise is say NOOOOOO! to the vending machines and ordering out. get a pedometer and try to walk the halls if you ever get any "free" time:roll

12. Is Ativan 10 mg po per dose too much?

    she.lpn replied to lorster's topic in Safety

    WOW! that would be alot of ativan. I've seen 2mg q 2hr but never 10mg po. I question anything that takes more than a couple pills to get the dose. though I have given 5 or 6 pills of methadone to get the right dose but thats a little different. Doc s...

13. My 16-year-old wants a navel piercing

    she.lpn replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I've had mine peirced since I was 15, it's been done 3 times due to various things that would make me take it out but only the "bottom" of the hole has healed the top has never. ugly scar! I had a friend who kept hers in through her whole pregnancy ...

14. How many Pt do you take care of?

    she.lpn replied to Franlpntorn's topic in General Nursing

    Med-surg max 5 patients.

15. What exactly is a 'weekend' anyway?

    she.lpn replied to MIA-RN1's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work Weekend is considered Sat & Sun or after midnight on friday if you work nights. the everyother weekend thing would probably start after orientation or the following weekend after you start.