londonflo

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  1. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    londonflo replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    You have a start of a great nursing Ghost story. Write it up as a short story....just like you did here. Ghost story compilations are made up of these short stories. Have her put her finger to her...

  2. Got The Worst Score On Quiz In My Class

    londonflo replied to FutureMaleNurse9722's topic in General Students

    No ball caps, sodas and we provide the pencils, All belongings put in the front of the classroom with phones turned OFF. It is so distracting to hear an unanswered phone continue to ring. Students...

  3. Community health experience bad experience

    londonflo replied to adamastor's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I truly hope the OP realizes what the world is like for the elderly who do not have spouses or family to provide meals. We all want to be in a hurry to get to where we want to be....but if we miss the...

  4. 100 miles an hour to nowhere

    londonflo replied to MBar1's topic in Nurses Recovery

    None of these activities have actually ever defined the character of the nurse unless you have read about these characteristics in Florence Nightingale's books. Here is a short blog:...

  5. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    londonflo replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I am an avid reader of Ghost Stories. At least 2 centuries ago, ghost stories were a tradition to be told on Christmas Eve Night. In the last century Charles Dickens wrote his story of Scrooge that...

  6. Community health experience bad experience

    londonflo replied to adamastor's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    If you are not seeing the participant, what patient assessment data are you putting in your

  7. American Sentinel University FNP

    londonflo replied to DermNP2Be's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I have also said on AN I don't know how any school would have succeeded with educating nurses with out the internet during Covid. But I don't think what works when times are impossible to hold a...

  8. Fastest Cheapest DNP Program without a MSN requirement

    londonflo replied to SleykRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    When I read...... Fastest, Cheapest I think of a hamburger chain we had in our city that failed.

  9. Interpret This Order For Me Please

    londonflo replied to guest1143647's topic in General Nursing

    I apologize, you are not at fault at all. I truly am sorry for what I

  10. Siena college of health

    londonflo replied to rosebud44's topic in LPN to RN

    Total pass rate for NCLEX from 2019 to 01/21 = 13.33% https://floridasnursing.gov/forms/2021-q4-NCLEX-4-pn.pdf Scroll down to find

  11. Interpret This Order For Me Please

    londonflo replied to guest1143647's topic in General Nursing

    This is malpractice. I am thinking tha AM labs would show if this was productive (but NOT if it started 9 hours late.} When did pharmacy send up the

  12. Okay to wear traditional nurse uniform to work?

    londonflo replied to Elliebeanlovesmisterbubbles's topic in General Nursing

    DON is not the BON. I am old. We wore white dresses all the time on the floor. The length was important when doing activities and wearing appropriate underwear was important. In one state we...

  13. Should hospitals inform patients and family that COVID positives nurses and staff may be working on a unit?

    londonflo replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I believe you are too young to actually know about the AIDS epidemic first hand. I am old enough that I lived through it through the terms of 'GRID' and other terms used before HIV and AIDS became...

  14. Why is finding preceptors so hard?

    londonflo replied to Kalibear17's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I retired at 62. I had always had an antiques business until I married. My husband thought I was nuts to resurrect the business. Well we have limited ourselves to books. We are very disciplined to...

  15. Body Odor

    londonflo replied to Lbarba84's topic in School

    I worked at a Boys Club.. now they are Boys and Girls Club. We met them as they were, did dental education through a media presentation, gave them floss and toothpaste. I inspected their mouths and...

  16. RN Claims to Be An LPN To Avoid Certain Tasks

    londonflo replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    About 10 years ago, the ANA offered name badges that would attached to you work badge that said (I am a registered nurse.) The print was large so that patients could read it, I mean REALLY read it. I...

  17. Can't work two jobs?

    londonflo replied to themanz's topic in Canada

    You definitely did the right thing by notifying your #2 employer you were exposed to Covid. I am a US registered nurse (although retired) and am so surprised you cannot pick up extra shifts at job #1...

  18. Med Error

    londonflo replied to Rada's topic in General Nursing

    At the schools I taught in (over 40+ plus) nursing theory was an hour or two. Not anything like I had in graduate school. Usually nursing theory was used as a framework for care plans. We did spend a...

  19. Reported to the BON for cellphone usage?

    londonflo replied to Lady_Leijing's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    What happened with the new

  20. Med Error

    londonflo replied to Rada's topic in General Nursing

    Education at the moment would have been beneficial. A lot of nurses have recommended additional programs on the treatment of hyperkalemia and given you links. What have you done to increase you...

  21. Reported to the BON for cellphone usage?

    londonflo replied to Lady_Leijing's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    You had a job so many people want! Listen on you own time! . Can I turn to TV to Wheel of fortune for confused patients? Let them should out letters! Heck they don't know what is on the TV, How about...

  22. Med Error

    londonflo replied to Rada's topic in General Nursing

    The OP purposely used a milliliter syringe to draw up 9 ml instead of an U 100 syringe to draw up 9 units. And did not realized the difference from what was being delivered versus what was ordered....

  23. What is your final "goal" for nursing? What if I don't have one?

    londonflo replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    . Why did you go into nursing? Any insight for "why and when did 'professional nursing' figure into your career plans at all?" You took up a coveted space and when your grandparents, parents,...

  24. What is your final "goal" for nursing? What if I don't have one?

    londonflo replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    I guess 'caring for others' is not in your vocabulary for a job; but I do have to ask... why and when did 'professional nursing' figure into your career plans at

  25. Reported to the BON for cellphone usage?

    londonflo replied to Lady_Leijing's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Nor looking up medications, procedures...just listening to a podcast. Leave that to the mother when the baby gets home. Instead croon or talk to the baby. You have been caught