reneemcsquared

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1. Has anyone heard of Western Governor's University?

   reneemcsquared replied to StillHoping's topic in Western Governors

   I"ve seen several articles touting Western Governor's University as an affordable, excellent, accredited college. Here's a link from us news and world reports http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/33394 and Time magazine ran an ...

2. How do you protect your identity?

   reneemcsquared replied to mcknis's topic in General Nursing

   Having working in a jail, hospital, and ambulatory care for a number of years, I have always displayed first and last name on my name badges. I have had one occasion when a patient called me at home and asked me on a date, otherwise no problems. Doe...

3. Help when a non-nurse steps over Nursing bounds!!!

   reneemcsquared replied to mizzou_ivy's topic in General Nursing

   I think the facility might be at risk if they are, in fact, letting her give medications. Can she discuss care with doctor? Why not? She doesn't have a nursing license so she is not playing by the same rules you are. If your accrediting agency or sta...

4. Not sure what to think!

   reneemcsquared replied to Little Panda RN's topic in General Nursing

   the doctor could take anyone off the street, without a nursing license, and teach them anything he would like and as long as he is comfortable and his malpractice insurance carrier agrees, he can do that. as a nurse, you need to know your scope of pr...

5. What Is the Problem With These Nurses?

   reneemcsquared replied to Sheri257's topic in General Nursing

   I still remember my first clinical as a student nurse. The charge LPN chastised me in front of the group because I didn't give her temperature, pulse, blood pressure and respirations in the "right" order. Years later, I was her nurse when she was in...

6. Need for restructure of Family Practice office

   reneemcsquared replied to Barbie Lou's topic in Ambulatory

   I agree that training secretaries to only transfer urgent calls to nurse is important. I have seen great success with systems where the secretaries take calls (prescription refills, request for home care, lab results, etc) and take all information, a...

7. What's the weirdest baby name?

   reneemcsquared replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Quadayle. I never knew if this was some strange abridgement of Dan Quayle and never asked.

8. entering nursing, but can't handle vomit

   reneemcsquared replied to evbella's topic in General Nursing

   When I entered nursing school, they had us fill out a card of what we were worried about. Mine said something like, "I don't like blood,it makes me feel like I am going to pass out. I don't like vomit, even the smell makes me gag. I don't like sputum...