morte

morte LPN, LVN

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  1. Opinion, how would you have handled this?

    morte replied to beeker's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ah, anthropologically, being pregnant explains some of your ...hmm .. allowing yourself to be dumped on. Yup, the first word out of your mouth when she said medicate her patient should have been...

  2. Using PPS rating correctly-chairfast vs. bedfast

    morte replied to juniper111's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I understand the funding point, but wouldn't that be

  3. Should I stay with my parents or move closer to the campus?

    morte replied to Sabreen's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Networking.....when you start school, ask around to find out who is staying "in town", perhaps you can make arrangements to stay over a specific noc or nocs if classed run late on those specific days....

  4. HeLp!!! RA & sepsis -->stumping me on my care plan

    morte replied to TBRN2013's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I can understand the OP's response to Green.....I think Green can be uproaringly funny, when you get to know he/she. But in this case Green did come on a little heavy handed, in my opinion. I think...

  5. Too smart for my own good... :-/

    morte replied to AndrewSRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That was his point, it is already slow, how much slower ya wanna

  6. What song describes your workplace environment?

    morte replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Hank Locklin - Wikipedia, the free

  7. Plan of correction: Pressure, infection, falls

    morte replied to Shell5's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    is the excess pyschotropic use tied in with increased pressure areas? Also, make sure to dif a pressure area from a shear injury. If patients are refusing inerventions, docuement...you know, the...

  8. Glucometer to use on multiple patients

    morte replied to CrunchRN's topic in General Nursing

    It isn't just the blood, anything else in their enviornment, c dif spores etc. Sometimes i think it was proposed by the machine makers or wipes makers...just to make more money. Were I work, they...

  9. What song describes your workplace environment?

    morte replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! by Napoleon XIV (Jerry

  10. Best complaint you've heard?

    morte replied to ColleenJune's topic in School

    this is not entirely unusual with

  11. 4 weeks notice?

    morte replied to eileeny21's topic in General Nursing

    check you employee

  12. Glucometer to use on multiple patients

    morte replied to CrunchRN's topic in General Nursing

    if you can "stick" them within an hour of eating, you may get a "truer" picture.....It has been known for years that a fasting is no longer the gold standard. Good

  13. Glucometer to use on multiple patients

    morte replied to CrunchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Makes sense, but state policy in LTC requires it. If you put the meter down on a questionable surface,

  14. Glucometer to use on multiple patients

    morte replied to CrunchRN's topic in General Nursing

    No, you and I are in long term care, where this is standard. I don't think Crunch

  15. What is the first thing you do when you put a fall-risk pt in the bed?

    morte replied to Tyris's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The rail needs to swing to the head of the bed, if it doesn't perhaps it is on the wrong side? Had that happen once with split rails, dementia patient managed to get himself up between the rails....

  16. What is the first thing you do when you put a fall-risk pt in the bed?

    morte replied to Tyris's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    any side rails, in LTC, can be considered a restraint. It has to be documented that the upper rails are for patient mobility. Against the wall, don't know if that is a restraint or some other issue,...

  17. No, I'm Not a Beauty Shop!

    morte replied to mysixlittleones's topic in School

    If you are serious???? Boundaries,

  18. Glucometer to use on multiple patients

    morte replied to CrunchRN's topic in General Nursing

    remember the meter must be thoroughly cleaned with bleach cont. cleaner between patients and allowed to air

  19. Multi Use Vials

    morte replied to soozabel's topic in Patient Medications

    OP spec. stated multi dose

  20. Nursing school and my biological clock...pls reply if you can

    morte replied to RN2Be77's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    please remember that your fertility is already declining. (stat speaking) your friend that said women has bio clock, nursing school doesn't is so totally

  21. IV removal etiquette?

    morte replied to pa715's topic in General Nursing

    You might want to check into that.....I was taught that any needle adaptable syringe had to go into the sharps container, to prevent theft. The only reason I can think of to put the IV cath in there...

  22. Difference between midwife and whnp

    morte replied to Ryokufan's topic in Ob/Gyn

    A midwife is NOT necessarily a

  23. CPR question

    morte replied to Sand_Dollar's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    you need to remember that juries are not medical persons..If the lawyer can get an "expert" to say the person would have been saved by appropriate

  24. You can't make these things up

    morte replied to TopazLover's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    oh

  25. CPR question

    morte replied to Sand_Dollar's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    but wooh, would you really want to go to court on that