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  1. Moving down in the world

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I think I'll start reviewing,

  2. Moving down in the world

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Well I guess it's how you look at

  3. Moving down in the world

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Taking NCLEX for LPN would be lead to a steady job...so it shouldn't be out of the question, I don't have much choice and I have 6 months to

  4. Moving down in the world

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Kaiser will not hire RN as LPN unless they have LPN

  5. LTC emergency...sorry no meds today

    garciadiego posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Ive mostly worked LTC, with a little med surg., I usually have about 30 residents on day shift, and all the tons of meds and Tx. that goes with it, some times Ill get floated to a 6 bed unit they call...

  6. LTC emergency...sorry no meds today

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Well thanks vintagemother...I'm reluctant to talk to DON, that's another topic. So the important meds are given and things like calcium get circled on MAR, I

  7. Keep the Sabbath

    garciadiego posted a topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I don't if this thread is of interest but I am nosey about what you all do or like to do or what you want to do in your free time? I try to carve out time for swimming, reading books by "Hans Kung",...

  8. Do you hop around?

    garciadiego posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Before I pass med on a new unit, I sit down with the MAR and go thru it and prioritize who will get meds first....residents with insulin, residents with more than one med time for the same med,...

  9. Nurse Manager Head Explosion

    garciadiego posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Patient on a PCA, infusing MS into a SQ site to her abd. The MAR reads change MS and tubing every day, change SQ site and tubing every 92 hours. I simply asked my head nurse if we change the MS tubing...

  10. Down time

    garciadiego posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    When there I down time and the only activity is gossip, what do you

  11. Nurse Manager Head Explosion

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Thanks Happy wife, you nailed it, he did have a lot on his plate. I have to call our

  12. Nurse Manager Head Explosion

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Does it make any difference that one piece of tubing is changed every 92

  13. Nurse Manager Head Explosion

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Come on, be nice. What is the answer? Does it make any difference if the entire length of tubing is not

  14. Murphy's law

    garciadiego posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm very slow and deliberate when I pass meds, having made a couple of dozzies in the past, since I move at turtles pace time is always an issue with me. I can't help thinking what would happen if a...

  15. Let's be honest

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Speed freak nurses, they are wonderful,they are also accidents waiting to

  16. Let's be honest

    garciadiego posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have 2 questions Is it possible in LTC, where you might have 28 residents, some would say that is a conservative number, most of these residents have more than 5 meds each, to follow the 5 rights...

  17. Murphy's law

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I think your a better nurse than

  18. Do you hop around?

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Tomorrow I'm going try the straight line

  19. Do you hop around?

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Your way sounds less

  20. Let's be honest

    garciadiego replied to garciadiego's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    This is so not right, what if we all slowed down and did our jobs

  21. More sterile questions!

    garciadiego posted a topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    When changing PICC line dressing and you have removed almost the entire dressing except that last part that is covering the site, don't you have to stabilize the line with your finger so it won't get...

  22. How you do that?

    garciadiego posted a topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    For a portacath flush/dressing change with no sterile syringes in the central line kit, how do you draw up ns/heparin and keep sterile? Syringes are not

  23. Which nurse called it?

    garciadiego posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    90 yo male is no code, he stops breathing, Nurse A says call a code, nurse B says don't call a code. Which nurse is

  24. WAKE UP!!!!

    garciadiego posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Do any of you LTC nurses who pass the same meds to the same patients day after day, and you probably think you have memorized which patient gets what med, inclines a nurse to med

  25. Is This Nursing?

    garciadiego replied to BoyNamedSue's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Perhaps a Exorcism would