PoodleBreath

PoodleBreath

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  1. Educating Teens About Long-Acting Birth Control

    PoodleBreath replied to FNP2writer's topic in Advanced Practice

    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...

  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...

  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...

  4. APS reporting and then termination

    PoodleBreath replied to Heart_nursing's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    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...

  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....

  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...

  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...

  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...

  9. How to work with LPNs on telly floor?

    PoodleBreath replied to Candy999's topic in Nursing Career

    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...

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

    PoodleBreath replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    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...

  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...

  12. Epic HIPAA violation

    PoodleBreath replied to EmNightShamala's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    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...

  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

  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...

  15. Floor Staff Pre Pulling Medications

    PoodleBreath replied to NurseEe1's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    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...

  16. Best Shoes for Nursing

    PoodleBreath replied to curlygirl898's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I love my Danskos. I've tried other shoes and always come back to them. They are a little on the heavy side, but I feel grounded in them and can definitely run in them - although it's an acquired...

  17. Patient Yelled At Me And I Feel Stupid

    PoodleBreath replied to RowRN_8855's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Nothing happens in a vacuum. You were most likely the most available target on this patient's long list of gripes, grievances, and inappropriate anger issues that started long before you entered the...

  18. Is this a confusing MAR order? And moral dilemma

    PoodleBreath replied to Cclm's topic in Patient Medications

    The Dr. wants the daughter to call the ambulance if the patient is agitated? What is his rationale to send an agitated elderly patient to the ER in the middle of a pandemic, where she will be stuck in...

  19. I’m Disgusted and Disturbed

    PoodleBreath replied to angeloublue22's topic in General Nursing

    This is horrific. Psych patients are so vulnerable, dismissed, discounted, degraded, with no resources to advocate for themselves. I feel so grateful to know that there are nurses like yourself who...

  20. How to deal with rude & demanding patients/residents?

    PoodleBreath replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds like a lot of nursing home patients I've worked with and I may be missing something but am not quite understanding the level of abuse that would warrant talking to the ministry of labor....

  21. Job Offers

    PoodleBreath replied to suturethis's topic in General Nursing

    It would be helpful to know why you're looking for a new job. Both of these options are a drastic change of pace, and I'm wondering what's driving that. The first option you won't even be a...

  22. Forgot to call doc after lab called

    PoodleBreath replied to Brittney Johnson's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If this is your real name you need to remove it. You may not lose your license for a mistake but you could definitely end up in a world of trouble, if a current or future employer tracks down posts of...

  23. ER and schedule VS hospice and schedule?

    PoodleBreath replied to justanurse19's topic in General Nursing

    Going to weigh in as an 8-5 hospice nurse. It's not uncommon to work 9-10 hour days, sometimes without breaks. The culture is kinder and more forgiving and you can step out for family issues but you...

  24. RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    PoodleBreath replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The whole thing about being splashed with COVID has a very erotic subtext, and I'm wondering what is actually being splashed and why the OP feels so blessed about

  25. This is a RANT

    PoodleBreath replied to nurseguy213's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Of all the reasons for B/P to be high or fluctuating noticeably, most likely is that B/p meds need to be adjusted and its no one's fault, patient's needs change. Have you followed up with the...