rnmommy23

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1. New Job!

   rnmommy23 replied to rnmommy23's topic in Quality Improvement

   I'm sorry, but what is PDSA? I think an inservice is a great idea. I was thinking of maybe doing a monthly newsletter with nursing news and something educational, just something small. Thanks for...

2. New Job!

   rnmommy23 posted a topic in Quality Improvement

   Just a few questions. I was just made the QA nurse at our facility. This is a completly new job, there is no job description. Basically I'm making up my own job as I go. The DON and I have discussed...

3. Nurses targets for IRS?

   rnmommy23 replied to rnmommy23's topic in General Nursing

   Sorry, I tried to edit it, apparently it didn't stick. It specifically named nurses as more likely to be audited. I've been audited once about 5 years

4. Nurses targets for IRS?

   rnmommy23 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Ok, so I picked up a book at my MIL today. I'm pretty sure it was called Personal Finance for Seniors (she's not that old). Anyway, I was just flipping through and the tax section caught my eye. It...

5. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

   rnmommy23 replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

   Whenever I have pt's complain about the amount of tape on their person I say, Didn't anybody tell you it's hospital policy that you have to have at least a pound of tape before you can be discharged....

6. What is the silliest complaint someone has ever made aboutyou?

   rnmommy23 replied to SharonH, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Ok, I've got 2 first I got talked to because I was "mean" to a CNA because I asked her to get vitals on a pt that had fallen out of bed. Her comment was when did we start getting vitals on people...

7. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

   rnmommy23 replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

   Ok, I've got a few 1. This grossed me out more than freaked me out but... CNA emptied foley bag into urinal and then dumped it down the sink, the toilet was about 2 feet away 2. Actively dying hospice...

8. chiropractor vs doc

   rnmommy23 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Just looking for some opinions/advice on this. My family, almost all of them go to the chiropractor for everything. Some I can understand, my brother was in a car accident a few months ago and goes...

9. Best & Worst April Fool's Pranks

   rnmommy23 replied to Fran_Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

   We had a doc that would always come in the morning and look at his pt's catheter bags, checking urine color ouput... So, we took a new bag and hooked it up on a pt's bed, hid the real one and when...

10. opinions about epidurals

    rnmommy23 replied to Jayla's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I feel that being prepared for your experience makes a huge difference. I've had many friends say I'm gonna do it natural, but then take no classes or learn about the labor process. My first was a...

11. Please I need some help

    rnmommy23 replied to rnmommy23's topic in General Nursing

    That's exactly where my mind went was to something neurological. Also, I talked to our ADON about it and I read the note in the pt's chart last night. Really it just sounds like he woke this guy up...

12. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rnmommy23 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    ok here's one if you're gonna get breast implants, don't let the incision become infected and if it does don't let it become a wound large enough for the implant to fall out of and if it does happen...

13. How much is the salary for newly grad UTAH Nurses???

    rnmommy23 replied to Margot0222's topic in General Nursing

    RN or LPN? Long term or hospital or home

14. Please I need some help

    rnmommy23 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok, So, last night the nurse I was giving report to told me that after I left last week one of our patients was found unresponsive with pinpoint pupils and that I must have given him a narcotic or he...