morte

morte LPN, LVN

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  1. Help me with this situation

    when you asked your preceptor why she shared your confidence with the other nurse, what was the explanation.? I would decline to participate in any further conversations with the problem nurse, as...
  2. yours is a variation on the martyr mary syndrome, the patient waiting to be fed is not nurses' fault, but a result of understaffing. Big
  3. Vent! PEG tube replacement

    How do you check for placement? You either need radiographic check, or at least check to see that the return is an appropriate pH for stomache
  4. Vent! PEG tube replacement

    Has your tongue ever gone thru your cheek?? loved your
  5. Can't contact Ohio BON

    perhaps try your state
  6. accu checks in ltc

    because the prior dose of Lantus will have worn off by the time the next dose starts to take effect. If the patient is symptomatic, take the ,blood sugar. You hold the long acting, you are likely to...
  7. Nurses laid off - Thanks to Obamacare

    If I could like this more than once, I
  8. Mag Sulfate

    Homework?
  9. Lidocaine with Rocephin?

    and you are absolutely positive that all these patients were irresponsible? And not the mates of the
  10. Abdominal IV

    yup, put a 24 in a superficial upper chest vein once. and you know that vein that goes over the first knuckle of the thumb? if the hands are good size, that'll
  11. Paying for Course syllabus?

    even copyrighted can shared.....just not copied,
  12. Nurses laid off - Thanks to Obamacare

    junior senator may well be correct. and freshman. jr. being the lesser experienced, & freshman being his first
  13. Have you ever really heard a doctor say this?

    perhaps they are confusing couldn't with
  14. Nurses laid off - Thanks to Obamacare

    Thanks, Muno, I'm not tuned into the names, but I knew it was
  15. Nurses laid off - Thanks to Obamacare

    Amy, just because they say it doesn't make it true, no matter how much you may wish it to be so. Reread, It says "in part" , and the electronic med recs was already required---not Obama's
  16. High Cost Medications

  17. Cursed at a patient-fired

    Since I haven't worked adolescent psych. I will defer to the two posters that have already explained that this is common on such a
  18. Cursed at a patient-fired

    Dishes...the pat. wasn't denied food, the rules were in place that the patient missed the opp. to eat, by his/her own
  19. High Cost Medications

    You left off the last
  20. Cursed at a patient-fired

    this was floor policy, with docs knowledge. reread. was left to the client, if they wanted to eat, get up in time to do
  21. Blue port on NG tube leaking

    If it is kept at an appropriate level, it can't
  22. medication mismanagement?

    typewriter/Word...
  23. yah, hmmmm, the places mine have
  24. Giving magnesium w/o a BMP

    from a fair amount of reading, a fair % of USArs are mag def. and, as the anti supplement group likes to point out, it wouldn't work if it weren't