daisey_may

daisey_may

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About daisey_may

daisey_may specializes in med surg.


Right now I go to work and school...not much time for play!

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  1. HIPAA Question. Appropriate?

    My 2 cents is that is not a HIPAA violation... (you're generally able to give the condition of a patient to a family member if the patient does not say it's not okay) but I do know of someone who was fired because in an email, one employee asked anot...
  2. I have to agree with icyounurse about nursing as on-the-job training. I might have learned just as much being an aid on the floor I worked as a nurse as what I learned in clinicals. Plus, there are specialties that school just doesn't have time to ...
  3. What states allow RN's to pronounce death?

    It surprises me that it is so different in different states and facilities!
  4. What states allow RN's to pronounce death? And under what circumstances? Does anyone have any websites or any lists? Thanks, Daisey
  5. Young student

    I was 17 when I started the nursing program and 19 when I graduated with my ASN and started working as an RN. I will have just turned 21 when I get my BSN and I was told I was one of the youngest that the school had ever had. I was by far out of th...
  6. Advice For The New Nurse Entering Med-Surg

    Hello all, I'm a new nurse and have been working on a med-surg floor for a few of months. I'm still working on prioritizing and delegating. I go to my preceptor for help ALL the time. I make hundreds of notes. I love looking up strange dx's and ...
  7. Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    This happened the other night and it still makes me laugh when i think about it. I work on a med/surg floor. Sometimes our patients require telemetry and there are monitor techs that sit upstairs to watch our patient's hearts. The other night, the...
  8. Hi, I am currently starting a project for my BSN that will hopefully be able to made policy at the hospital I work at. At the hospital where I work, there is no policy about offering any pain alleviation prior to an IV start. Many of the hospitals...
  9. Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    Oooh! I have another one. This one wasn't me either, it was a co-worker. I was on orientation still and had a hispanic patient who spoke Spanish and could not understand English. Her husband was with her, but he did not speak or understand English...
  10. Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    I graduated high school two years ago and can not take the blame for this one: During a senior debate class, a girl who was notoriously not very bright was asking me about what the cold war was. As I started to explain it, she quickly interrupted me...
  11. anxious about being the only nurse on the floor

    I would personally be nervous being responsible not only for 42 patients, but 42 acute patients alone. Remember if you are uncomfortable, it's probably not right. It is your license that will be on the line. I would speak to someone about having m...
  12. Clinical Question

    For us we have: purple arm band: DNR red arm band: Latex allergy yellow arm band: fall risk, along with a yellow sheet above the bed and a yellow leaf outside the door for fall risk we also have different yellow bands for lab that have 10 or stickers...
  13. Full-time w/ dreams...

    For me, my RN-BSN is mostly online, which I found working a lot of hours easy to work around. But, if you have class time or clinical time that you need to do, then it may be beneficial for you to cut back your hours at work. It will definitely dep...
  14. anxious about being the only nurse on the floor

    Welcome! Why are you embarrassed that you feel anxious about being a charge nurse? And I'm curious--where do you work where you are the only nurse for 42 patients! My stress level would be through the roof! You have a lot of responsibility for so m...
  15. made to feel bad after refusing to push iv meds

    It sounds to me like maybe some education is in order. Especially if you are worried about this happening again, I would speak to the manager or maybe just the charge nurse about what is within the LPN's scope of practice. I know only because I jus...