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1. new grad having trouble w/ icu personalities

   greenbean replied to extraordinary067's topic in MICU, SICU

   Sigh. I don't use this site as much as I should, but when I looked today and caught site of your thread, I had to reply. Where I work, second to understaffing/being overtaxed with work, the hardest...

2. advance directives for hospice pts.

   greenbean posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

   My family is currently in the process of getting my stepdad in hospice care. We had a nurse from VNA Hospice come out to the house a couple days ago and one thing she said I can't believe, and it...

3. heplock needle size

   greenbean replied to greenbean's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for the quick replies. I wasn't suprised the advice was somewhat varied, and I had already planned on asking my supervisors this week what they would do (& what policy is). To clarify,...

4. heplock needle size

   greenbean posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been an LPN for a little over a year and just recently finished IV cert. class. This morning in report I asked the LPN I was giving report to why a certain pt. had a #18 heplock--he was only...

5. lpn's in hospice?

   greenbean replied to greenbean's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Thanks to those who replied. I found it very helpful. I do intend on contacting a hospice in my area (NE Ohio), though I hope to be moving back to Tucson AZ next year, and I'm curious about Florida...

6. lpn's in hospice?

   greenbean posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I am a fairly new LPN (July 2005), though an older one (I'm 45). I have wanted to work in hospice for at least a few years, and was a volunteer for a while a few years ago. I've had a lifetime of...