Kitnurse

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1. Medical Team in Sports or Entertainment World

   Kitnurse replied to emt1983's topic in General Nursing

   Los Angeles is the best place if you want into any part of "the Industry" and if you look on Craigslist.com under medical you will find ads for set medics all the time. These are mostly EMTs but there is at least one agency out there that hires all ...

2. chronic pain patients: pain in the behind to care for

   Kitnurse replied to Tadpole's topic in General Nursing

   One way the physician I work for weeds out the potential "high" seekers is to change them from a short to a long acting opioid, going to Methadone from Percacet for example. I have seen several patients immediately object to this even though the Met...

3. chronic pain patients: pain in the behind to care for

   Kitnurse replied to Tadpole's topic in General Nursing

   I deal with chronic pain patients every day. Yes, some of them can be royal PITAs, but the majority of our patients deal, day in and day out, with pain that would bring most of us to our knees, and they are usually as pleasant and friendly as any ...

4. laser hair removal nurse

   Kitnurse replied to cshelly12's topic in General Nursing

   I was a laser hair removal nurse in beverly Hills back in 2001 before they decided to disqualify LVNs from doing it. I trained my 2 RN replacements and its not that difficult, the toughest part is determining the patients skin tone correctly. As for...

5. XRay cert for LPN?

   Kitnurse posted a topic in Ohio

   Is there a program available anywhere in Central OH that would allow me to take just the xray certification? I am an LPN and will have my IV cert in Dec, but I work in a pain practice and I would be much more useful to my practice if I could take a ...

6. RN school and tattoos?

   Kitnurse replied to DirtRoads's topic in General Nursing

   As a tattooed pagan person living in the midwest I tend to keep both my ink and my religion out of my professional life for the simple reason that I prefer to focus on my patients and thier care rather than discuss/argue/possibly distress them with ...

7. Question regarding narcotic addiction

   Kitnurse replied to bethin's topic in Pain

   I work in a pain management clinic with a multiple fellowship trained(pain mgmt and emergency) surgeon who uses that same analogy with our patients. We see daily patients in hysterics because some damn fool(pardon) with no concept of chronic pain to...

8. Meth is destroying communities

   Kitnurse replied to WVUturtle514's topic in General Nursing

   Another voice for compassion, here. We have no idea whats behind the situations we see in our clinics and hospital ERs, and on the streets. I'm no angel and prior to my nursing career I had my share of years that are now a blur due to meth, pot, alc...

9. No jobs for LPN graduates anymore?

   Kitnurse replied to Bala Shark's topic in LPN/LVN

   I was blessed to study under a dying breed, an old school RN who trained on site in a teaching hospital(in dorms and not allowed to marry, or even date, a medical convent). The first semester I was terrified of her, we all were, but by god we LEARNED...

10. OHIO Nurses what part of Ohio are you from and what kind of nurse are you/will you be

    Kitnurse replied to GrnHonu99's topic in Ohio

    I'm actually an LVN transplant from Los Angeles, living in Columbus. We moved here to help with a family emergency last year. I just started a new job last week in pain mgmt and I'm loving it! What a great field In LA, I worked in bariatrics, dual...

11. Rn Supervise Lvn In Pain Clinic?

    Kitnurse replied to jayliebean71's topic in Pain

    I just started working at a pain clinic, and with the exception of giving out narcotic samples, initial patient assesments and some of the more complicated and intricate OR assisting, I do everything my RN does. I assist the dr in the OR for minim...

12. LPNs who are jealous or resentful of RNs??

    Kitnurse replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    I've been an LPN since '97 in 4 different states. The only issue I have with RN's isnt professional its political. I've been seeing (as have most of us I imagine) a lot of the shifting tides between RN and LPN regarding scope of practice. It doesnt...

13. Online program that CA will accept???

    Kitnurse posted a topic in LPN-RN

    Hi, I am currently living in OH, working as an LPN. I'm originally from LA but moved here last year to assist with a family medical crisis(now over) I plan on moving back home to Ca within the next 2 years or so and wanted to get my ASN while I'm he...

14. IV certification?

    Kitnurse replied to Kitnurse's topic in Ohio

    I'll be starting a new position at a Pain Management clinic tomorrow. It is an office with just one doctor, not a large facility. They want me to get my IV certification but I had no idea where to get it. Thanks to above posters I have a few more pl...

15. No jobs for LPN graduates anymore?

    Kitnurse replied to Bala Shark's topic in LPN/LVN

    I've been an LVN/PN since 97 and am preparing to go back for my RN. From my experience in CA and now in OH there are jobs for LPNs but only in a very few fields such as geriatrics and home health. Jobs in clinics are few, far between and hotly compet...