Pepper The Cat

Pepper The Cat BSN, RN

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  1. Dementia/Alzheimer's reading list suggestions?

    Pepper The Cat replied to AriesPanda's topic in General Students

    The 36 Hour Day is a great book. I can't remember who wrote it but it should be easy to find in any bookstore or book

  2. LTC nurses--tell me about bed alarms...

    Pepper The Cat replied to mustlovepoodles's topic in General Nursing

    Of course you are! I can't even begin to imagine what you go through every day and night to care for your son. I think people like you have a very special place in Heaven waiting for

  3. Happy Flippin' Nurse's Day

    Pepper The Cat replied to tencat's topic in General Nursing

    We're being asked to give to a food drive. To "give back to the community" like we don't give enough of ourselves

  4. LTC nurses--tell me about bed alarms...

    Pepper The Cat replied to mustlovepoodles's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe a trundle bed? He could sleep on the main bed and then have the trundle part pulled out for

  5. LTC nurses--tell me about bed alarms...

    Pepper The Cat replied to mustlovepoodles's topic in General Nursing

    I'm with the mattress on the floor. Bed alarms are OK - but they are prone to false alarms too, if the person moves around alot. I am assuming that at 15 he probably moves around in bed at night. A...

  6. Hospital/HR calls but leaves no message

    Pepper The Cat replied to Guest321574's topic in General Nursing

    What does your answering machine message say? Maybe they don't think they have the right number. Is your machine working correctly? Are you getting other messages OK? Maybe its broken and not...

  7. Pill crusher Evidence Based Nursing

    Pepper The Cat replied to jbluehorseh's topic in General Nursing

    canadian - no surveyors! hospital based. other units liked our solution so much that they do it too now! we do have an "real" pill crusher too, but no one uses it because the rocks are so much

  8. Pill crusher Evidence Based Nursing

    Pepper The Cat replied to jbluehorseh's topic in General Nursing

    We go really high tech. We have a couple of rocks. We keep the pills in their unit dose packages and crush them with the rock. For narcotics that aren't in unit dose, we put them in a paper towel and...

  9. Major Vent

    Pepper The Cat replied to LouisVRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yes. This is it. Esp in Canada, where health care is provided for them. We get a lot of non-English speaking pts. Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, Farsi, Tagalog, Punjabi and German are our most common....

  10. Major Vent

    Pepper The Cat replied to LouisVRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I agree! We are actually starting to see 2nd Generation families with limited English - Cantonese and Mandarin as the mother tongue. Very, very frustrating. And access to the phone interpretor isn't...

  11. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    Pepper The Cat replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This! I had a pt threaten to sign himself out when he didn't get a private room. He changed his turn when I slapped down the AMA form and started to take out the IV that took the ER nurses 5 attempts...

  12. Daytonite has passed away...

    Pepper The Cat replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Very sad news. Hi Brian? Could we make a sticky called "The Best of Daytonite" with some of her best advice as a tribute to her? That way, future students could benefit from her

  13. Tube delivered meds

    Pepper The Cat replied to makes needs known's topic in General Nursing

    I had pharmacist who couldn't understand why I kept asking for non-enteric coated ASA. She said we should just "drop the pill down the tube whole". I had to walked away before I laughed in her

  14. Tube delivered meds

    Pepper The Cat replied to makes needs known's topic in General Nursing

    I put them altogether with warm water and give them all at once. I don't have time to give them one at a time! I flush the tube with water before and

  15. what is bedflow?

    Pepper The Cat replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in General Nursing

    Bedflow is moving pts through the hospital. Lets say a pt in ER needs and ICU bed. ICU needs to move a pt to a Medical bed. Medical unit needs to discharge a pt or move a pt to a sub-acute unit....

  16. Patient asks my opinion...what's appropriate???

    Pepper The Cat replied to jorla9903's topic in General Nursing

    You really need to reflect the question back to them. "What do YOU think/feel?" Or discuss the pros/cons of each. Don't say "I would do this" - because if they do that and it doesn't work for them,...

  17. Duragesic patches

    Pepper The Cat replied to leonurse's topic in General Nursing

    We use

  18. Aye "Dummie". Excuse Me!

    Pepper The Cat replied to determine2brn's topic in General Nursing

    If you are aware of this habit, I suggest you stop it now. There is nothing funny about that statement, even if you say if with a laugh and a smile. I work with a nurse - 10 years ago her 16 year old...

  19. RPN's in Toronto Hospitals ?

    Pepper The Cat replied to suziecue40's topic in International Nursing

    Markham Stouffville Hospital in Markham! I just checked our website and there is one posting. And I know there are a lot more that are just being posted internally. Go to : msh.on.ca Feel free to PM...

  20. Should nurses with long hair be required to wear it up?

    Pepper The Cat replied to dura_mater's topic in General Nursing

    My apologies. I interpreted your statement to say that you don't like to put your hair up because it gives you a headache, so you leave it

  21. Should nurses with long hair be required to wear it up?

    Pepper The Cat replied to dura_mater's topic in General Nursing

    So you are aware that your hair may contaminate a sterile field, or may end up dragging in something but you still won't put it up? Maybe you should look into getting it

  22. Who does this stuff? Really, you can't make it up!

    Pepper The Cat replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    We had a similar family for a while. Pt was a very dense stoke - flacid on one side. Family would want pt to sit on commode. We tried a couple of times. With her lack of control she leaned very badly...

  23. Should nurses with long hair be required to wear it up?

    Pepper The Cat replied to dura_mater's topic in General Nursing

    You know, there used to be requirements - hair off collar, short fingernails. And then they started to ease off, expecteing nurses to be able to use their common sense. And the result was long...

  24. Scabbies

    Pepper The Cat replied to Zhanna D'ark's topic in General Nursing

    Afraid not. You can't punish a patient for having a medical condition you do not like. That is why we have

  25. Do you LIKE every patient that walks through your door?

    Pepper The Cat replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    Ah yes. The pt that if-I-go-into-the-room-one-more-time-one-of-us-isn't-coming-out-alive pt? Been there. Done that. Got the