LouBean

LouBean

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About LouBean

LouBean has 1 years experience.


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  1. Duke MSN 2018

    Yup! BSN to DNP applicant here. Got my acceptance email for the MSN portion. Hope the DNP folks send theirs out soon! Congrats y'all!
  2. Psych NPs and COPD/CHF/CKD/etc clinics

    Aaaah! That's the lingo I was missing. Awesome. Thanks!
  3. Out of curiosity, is anyone familiar with any clinics/programs for chronic physical conditions that really do a great job of incorporating mental health services? If so, any insight as to the nuts and bolts of how they go about it? I'm doing some clu...
  4. Cannot seem to pass skilled portion of BLS

    I second this! Put the damn body on the floor. I'm 5'1 on a good day, and even with a stool I have some difficulty.
  5. Sliding scale insulin

    SSI is its own order set. Low, medium and high. (For example, the low SSI would be 1 unit novolog for a blood glucose of 150-200, 2 units for 201-250, etc. With blood glucose of 351 or higher, give 5 units and notify provider.) The order set includes...
  6. Dressing changes????

    Aquacel Ag surgical dressing. MD is the only one to touch, but part of the ortho post-op order set is to reinforce with abd/tape if needed. If necessary, doc will change it on rounds during hospital stay. Otherwise, patient is sent home with an addit...
  7. Working at VA

    I don't know much about how PRN shifts work other places, but we have a couple intermittent RNs. They don't have a set tour, although actually one of them does do nights only. Now that our unit is fully staffed, they usually only get scheduled one or...
  8. Working at VA

    There is a saying in the VA -- if you've been to one VA, you've been to one VA. In other words, it depends entirely on the hospital in question. I work on a med/surg/tele unit and love it. We have a great team. The ICU is the plum job at our hospital...
  9. Sunday Service and Weekend shift

    Is it that you want to specifically attend *your* church service on Sundays? Or is the priority simply to be able to worship on Sundays? If you are working in a hospital setting, there may be services offered in the chapel. Even at my tiny hospital w...
  10. This is such a worthy conversation. I'm enjoying reading the lively responses almost as much as I'm enjoying this glass of wine. As I research PMHNP programs and their curricula, I find myself emitting loud sighs at an alarming rate. As previously me...
  11. Research patient or see patient first?

    I'm with most of the other folks here. I take report, go see my patients and say: "Howdy, I'm LouBean, I'm going to be your nurse today, let me write my name up on the board so we can both remember it. How are you feeling? Are you hurting anywhere? C...
  12. Accelerated BSN?

    *waves* I just graduated from Bellarmine (in Louisville, KY) from their 12-month accelerated BSN for second-degree students. I will copy and paste what I wrote to another poster on here a couple days ago. They had a couple specific questions that I a...
  13. Bellarmine University Accelerated Nursing Program

    Hello! I just graduated a month ago from Bellarmine's accel program. The requirements aren't that unreasonable (Admission Requirements) and the impression I got in the admissions process was that if you met the requirements, you were pretty much in. ...
  14. What is the downside to the VA?

    I have not started my position at the VA yet (three weeks away ), however, I would encourage you to contact a nurse recruiter and ask about shadowing opportunities. From what I have gathered (both from peers and from posts on this forum) VA hospitals...
  15. Worst/Best thing a nursing instructor ever said to you?

    I had a wonderful instructor for critical care. In my final clinical eval, she looked me right in the eyes and told me I was going to be a "safe nurse". Maybe that sounds like a weird thing to say, but it was so reassuring and it was said with such c...