PoodleBreath

PoodleBreath has 18 years experience and specializes in Hospice, LPN.

Latest Activity

1. Educating Teens About Long-Acting Birth Control

   PoodleBreath replied to FNP2writer's topic in Advanced

   The AJOG article was written in 2020 and the NPR article was written in 2017. So no link there. The author of the AJOG article is a researcher with The Turnaway Study, which is an organization that advocates for access to abortion. The point of the A...

2. Unlicensed Personnel Taking Jobs in LTC

   PoodleBreath replied to BC Roberts's topic in General Nursing

   The BON sets regulations and defines scope of nurse practice at the various professional levels/degrees, ensures that nursing professionals practice safely, and investigates and disciplines violations of the nurse practice act. They have nothing to d...

3. Anyone encountered this before?

   PoodleBreath replied to Della4's topic in General Nursing

   If residents are consistently making accusatory statements they should be care planned so there is documentation that it is a known behavior and how the facility is working to manage it. The social worker should definitely be brought into the loop be...

4. APS reporting and then termination

   PoodleBreath replied to Heart_nursing's topic in LPN/LVN

   Are you sure you want to stay at this job? Sounds like a nightmare and since you are the wound care nurse, when State does their survey they'll be pulling records on all your patients. Even if you've gone above and beyond, and your documentation is p...

5. Have you ever been looked down on because you don’t work in the hospital?

   PoodleBreath replied to happyhippo's topic in General Nursing

   I just read yet another article about the toll of the pandemic on healthcare workers that centered on the idea that nurses only work in hospitals. It's frustrating and depressing to feel so invisible. The toll of the pandemic has been intense in my f...

6. I Want Decent Health Benefits! Is That Too Much to Ask?

   PoodleBreath replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

   Was agreeing with you. The system is a snake that eats it's own tail. The fact that this happens in healthcare and on top of that to a healthcare worker in that very hospital makes it all the more appalling.

7. I Want Decent Health Benefits! Is That Too Much to Ask?

   PoodleBreath replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

   The irony is that the hospital sells those debts to collection agencies for pennies on the dollar. By the time that your friend ended up in collections the hospital no longer owned the debt, they had cleared the slate. They couldn't reduce the debt b...

8. A Sticky Wicket

   PoodleBreath replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

   It doesn't sound like any of them are firing on a full set of pistons. If this is the end result of their investigation- if you could call it that- can we know if any of the information they say they have is based in reality at all? Or did they run f...

9. How to work with LPNs on telly floor?

   PoodleBreath replied to Candy999's topic in Career Support

   I worked telemetry as an LPN but I also had my ACLS and am IV certified. The monitors were also at the nurse's station and we additionally had an ACLS telemetry unit assistant who did nothing but monitor the monitors and notify RNs/MDs of problems. L...

10. Arrested: Two Nurses made $1.5 million off fake vaccination cards

    PoodleBreath replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Headlines

    Agree. It wasn't just the fake card, it was the $900,000.00 cash in the house, a ledger detailing where the money came from, and a data trail showing they had fraudulently entered the information into the State system. This is the plot of a madcap ca...

11. Natural Therapies

    PoodleBreath replied to Mary3010's topic in General Students

    Some herbal therapies can interact badly with meds, or can have unanticipated effects if the person recommending them is not really knowledgeable. But fostering a therapeutic mind-body connection is a huge part of health and recovery - if patients ha...

12. Epic HIPAA violation

    PoodleBreath replied to EmNightShamala's topic in HIPAA

    Did they notify the coworkers whose information was accessed? This is a pretty serious boundary violation, if it were me I'd be advocating for the employee to be fired. That's the kind of thing that will follow your friend around forever through the ...

13. Diploma and Associate Degree in Nursing

    PoodleBreath replied to LasercopyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    It's late for me and my brain is in snooze mode, or it could be the original post just isn't making a lot of sense, but is the poster asking the internet to do their homework assignment?

14. I got a counseling letter because I refused to help another staff member with her personal problems?

    PoodleBreath replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with others questioning the logistics of this conversation. How many floors does this building have that the elevator ride was so long? If it was both end of shift and break time, why did no other staff get on or off the elevator? Why did the...

15. Floor Staff Pre Pulling Medications

    PoodleBreath replied to NurseEe1's topic in LTC Directors

    I've been in facilities where this happened. It's incredibly bad practice and could sink a nurse and a facility. And I've seen nurses get fired for that.Terrible safety issue, especially if the patient has things like b/p meds with hold parameters, o...