knotizer12

Hey, I know I am very late to the party, but can I ask a few questions about the LPN-BSN program? 1) How hard, on a scale of 1-10 (har), were the classes? 2) How much did the program, in total, cost? 3) Was it difficult to juggle school, work, and li...

I'm a bit late to this party. I work at a hospital in WA state in an ambulatory surgery clinic. I was hired at the beginning of 2018 as a temporary employee and have since moved on to permanent status. I was told upon being hired that my clinic was n...

So I work at a surgeon's office as my main job. One of the duties we have (the LPNs and MAs) is signing the surgical consent forms as witnesses. After we room the patient, we fill out some basic stuff on the form and leave it for the provider. Usuall...

I agree. I just mean in terms of asking "do you have any other questions?" and being able to tell the doctor to go back and speak to them or give them a call later. Not just sign as a witness and forget about it.

I think one of the reasons this issue is so "near and dear" to me is because, for the most part, the clinics do not hire many nurses. At wound care and primary care, you have a handful of RNs to do the actual wound care and phone triage but at my cli...

I guess it's facility vs facility. Actually this is a very good question. Why do we need witnesses at my facility? I can ask around.

I'll tell a little bit about my clinic. So we are a specialty surgery center connected to a hospital. We actually mainly provide colonoscopy consults and colonoscopies. Before anyone asks, the risks and benefits of colonoscopy are explained to the pa...

I live in a rural area of Washington State. ADNs and BSNs hired for acute care at our hospital. I think they (of course) prefer BSNs but they take what they can get.

I'm asking questions because I do NOT want to assume anything. And you're accusing me of "speaking for you" or "assuming" things yet you're doing the exact same thing to me. Where did I say that I am blaming "society's or men's fault" for discrimina...

So what extra duties are my female coworkers doing for me? Why am I going above and beyond for them? If you're doing the "heavy lifting for them" then of course they appreciate you but are you getting paid extra? If not, and they are not repaying you...

Except I see so many people on this board, and in real life, going on and on about how increasing the number of men in nursing IS about increasing wages because "women get paid less for the same work". Why aren't we addressing the issue of lateral vi...

I will let y'all know how the meeting goes and what conclusions we came to!

My point was: isn't the best way to assess if the patient understands the procedure, barring asking them, to be present in the room while the provider explains everything? I guess if you can't actually be in the room for the explanation, asking the p...

Ok so here is how I handled this case: I called the patient and asked him if he felt he was provided adequate information regarding the procedure. He said he was and denied having any other questions and was able to describe it to me. I felt comforta...

Not sure as to the reason, but our surgery scheduler informed us that they cannot act as their own witness.

I think this is a great response. OP, did you explain the procedure when you went in? I know you said the doctor explained everything, but you never know if the father was even paying attention. Maybe he was scared and just kinda nodded his head and ...

Although there is so much I want to reply to, I am going to address the OP's article. In my nursing class, there were 3 dudes including myself. In our first fundamentals class, we had a section where we discussed men in nursing and guess which 3 stud...

So I work in a LTC facility on the weekends. One of my residents had a blood sugar of 94 at around 1930. She gets scheduled Lantus 20 units at 2000. Would you guys give her a snack at HS? The nurse coming on to night shift was kinda passive aggressiv...

I have a resident who gets, among other things, scheduled digoxin and metoprolol during his 0800 med pass. Both meds have a parameter on them to hold if AP is less than 60. His Apical was 61; I gave his metoprolol and held his digoxin. My rationale i...

I'm an LPN in WA state. I passed my NCLEX this January so I am pretty new. I work at a LTC facility and I had a question about how y'all feel about providing OTC meds like Tylenol and Tums to CNAs and other coworkers while on the clock. The reason I ...

I work in a surgeon's office. M-F 8:30 to 5. No weekends, no holidays. Although I miss that sweet holiday pay.

It mentioned nowhere in this resident's MAR that she was to be offered a snack at HS; the reason I bring this up is because I have seen on other resident's MARS that they are to be offered a snack. Therefore I am unsure if I need a doctor's order or ...

I am very aware of this; my point was that our hypoglycemia protocol ONLY says we can give a simple sugar and/or snack if the resident is hypoglycemic.

See I really should have asked that. I was just wondering if any of my more experienced nurses would have just given a snack. Her chart/MAR mentioned nothing about giving her a snack at HS.

I'm not sure if that night nurse was aware that I gave Lantus (even though I specified Lantus); she may have thought I gave a short-acting and was negligent enough not to offer a snack.