Xbox Live Addict

Xbox Live Addict

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  1. Morphine doses while dying?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Medsurg Mama's topic in General Nursing

    I have personally been in situations where the physician raised the order for Roxanol at the will of the dying patient's family, even though the patient was respiring easily and sleeping well. Not...

  2. What is the diff. btwn DKA and HHNS??

    Xbox Live Addict replied to kirsteen0926's topic in General Nursing

    I saw a few patients (as well as personally knew someone) whose blood sugars were too high to register on their glucometers (most of them had glucometers that would only accurately register up to 600...

  3. Getting a job at a hospital that you owe money to

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Shannon82's topic in General Nursing

    If you refuse a credit check, they can't run it... but they can also refuse to hire you if you won't submit to a credit check. It's like what has been said about SSAN's being used as a personal ID...

  4. What is the diff. btwn DKA and HHNS??

    Xbox Live Addict replied to kirsteen0926's topic in General Nursing

    Ketone bodies are formed in the bloodstream from the metabolism of fatty acids to support cellular respiration, since the body does not have the insulin required to effectively utilize glucose. Hence,...

  5. Help!!! Insubordinate CNA!

    Xbox Live Addict replied to nursejent245's topic in General Nursing

    Yep. Management can only throw away so many Employee Counselling Forms, and it will look bad if this aide does something that puts the facility in jeopardy, and they didn't investigate previous...

  6. Nursing Fun!

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Williss2's topic in General Nursing

    I just got back from a wonderful vacation that spanned Phoenix, San Diego, and Los Angeles. The weather in those areas is awesome at this time of the year. My favorite places in the US are the...

  7. Nursing (RN): One of Quickest routes to a six-figure jobs

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Dallas_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses make less than $44K in Oklahoma, period. Pay scale is horrible and is not adjusting to the rising cost of living. Oklahoma also has one of the worst nursing shortfalls in the US, some of the...

  8. Venting about a CNA calling in sick...GRRR!

    Xbox Live Addict replied to flashpoint's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I agree. Every facility I've ever worked at, you had to call and talk to the on-call at least 2 hours in advance of an absence, barring a true emergency, and you had to do your own dirty work, not...

  9. Nursing (RN): One of Quickest routes to a six-figure jobs

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Dallas_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Only administrative/executive nurses who do not work in bedside care positions make the $44,000 MINIMUM quoted by Yahoo! On our pay scale, you couldn't possibly make $144,000 a year even if you worked...

  10. If MRSA gets on our clothes easily, why don't more of us become colonized?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to RNfaster's topic in General Nursing

    I am colonized, and I have had a MRSA skin infection which required 30 days of 2 antibiotics. I had worked with MRSA (+) patients for several years, mostly with UTIs but some with respiratory MRSA,...

  11. full time requirement for part time

    Xbox Live Addict replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

    Generally, it's the other way around: many companies have only limited full-time positions and will generally promote part-timers to those positions as they become available, the expectation being...

  12. Hourly rounding... I have the time

    Xbox Live Addict replied to DebRN06's topic in General Nursing

    Yet, they can't get adequate nursing staff in these places to do things, like, I don't know... get medications passed on time? PM care? Infection control? Here's my own personal opinion on "5-star...

  13. How can a workplace cause you to lose license?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to WVStarFish's topic in General Nursing

    If one cannot provide safe care due to minimal staff available to handle the acuity of the patients, the state BON isn't going to cut you a break. I had the exact same thing happen one night shift...

  14. Ripped Off

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Price 2002's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, thank you! When we had to walk a MILE from the main school parking lot under threat of the dean writing us up, when we had to use cramped, dusty classrooms under construction while dental tech,...

  15. Do YOU answer call lights in a hospital?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to JHansen's topic in General Nursing

    If I'd had to work with nurses like that when I was a CNA, I'd have bailed too. "Knowing your place"... most managers who said something like that at work would be explaining themselves to THEIR

  16. Do YOU answer call lights in a hospital?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to JHansen's topic in General Nursing

    In LTC it is different; the staff is mostly made of CNAs, 2 to a hall (usually) with a LPN or RN over 2 halls, so those nurses are responsible for 50 patients EACH. If I'm in the middle of an insulin...

  17. Stool sample for Micro class?????

    Xbox Live Addict replied to RXtech's topic in General Students

    When I was a kid, I always swore I'd NEVER handle anyone else's bodily wastes. Didn't even want to change a diaper. So what do I do for a living? After years of poop and suppositories, I now look at...

  18. Ripped Off

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Price 2002's topic in General Nursing

    Although it sucks that you're having to pay your own way to get the ceremony you worked for, after already having paid and paid, it sounds like you guys are planning a wonderful ceremony of your own...

  19. Ripped Off

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Price 2002's topic in General Nursing

    You did get ripped off. You paid for the school and the ceremony after all. But to me, it's not the rescheduling so much - yes, things do happen - it's the whole hateful attitude of "if you complain,...

  20. Substance abusers disillusion me...

    Xbox Live Addict replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    We are not angels; we are not

  21. Scheduled meeting with manager, HR and union rep

    Xbox Live Addict replied to meadow85's topic in General Nursing

    That disturbs me that a professional governing body could discipline someone over a labor issue rather than a practice issue. It seems to me like hospitals could use this to exercise absolute...

  22. Stool sample for Micro class?????

    Xbox Live Addict replied to RXtech's topic in General Students

    I have heard of microbiology professors that had students bring in stool and urine samples for lab, but I did not have to do this myself. We used specimens prepared by the professor for class, and...

  23. Hemostats

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Eirene's topic in General Nursing

    We use them to clamp lines during setup of a plasmapheresis machine until the connections are made. It supposedly keeps sterile air inside the tubing, and in any case, makes it easier to juggle them...

  24. Substance abusers disillusion me...

    Xbox Live Addict replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree completely. They can and do attempt to get YOU in far too much trouble. I was robbed by a friend of my wife's children who had a nasty drug habit this spring, and was angry when they continued...

  25. Im a nurse! Not a doctor!!!

    Xbox Live Addict replied to ObamaRN08's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Was the drug in question a vasoconstrictive drug such as dopamine? I would think if this was the case, the doctor would be highly concerned. But it sounds like OP covered her bases as best she could...