k.lvn.mom

k.lvn.mom

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  1. Help w/ goal/outcome

    k.lvn.mom posted a topic in General Nursing

    fluid volume excess r/t generalized edema AEB +1 bilateral tibia pitting edema. 24 y/o F post op- c-section thank

  2. Help w/ goal/outcome

    k.lvn.mom replied to k.lvn.mom's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for all your help, you really simplified things for me to understand. I went to the bookstore today and bought the book of NANDA definitions and classifications. I think that it will...

  3. Help w/ goal/outcome

    k.lvn.mom replied to k.lvn.mom's topic in General Nursing

    Ok Daytonite, this is prob the stupids question you are going to hear from a student about to graduate LVN school in 7 weeks. But since i go to clown school for nurses, i obviously don't know the...

  4. Nicknames your pt's give you

    k.lvn.mom replied to Cmariehart's topic in General Nursing

    I love alzheimer's residents, and so whatever comes out of there mouth I answer too... these are just a few... Keep in mid my name is kristi Gracie, lucy, shelly, cili, Big girl, blondie, nurse, miss,...

  5. Say What??????!!!!!!!!!!

    k.lvn.mom replied to gt4everpn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Was with a client for a long time (mos), and I worked 12 hrs on sat & sun with her, in her home, with her husband. As i was getting ready to assist her with her shower she says " My pubies are...

  6. Paranoia

    k.lvn.mom posted a topic in General Nursing

    as a nurse i know that you never want to do anything to put your license on the line. but as a new nurse you have a highten paranoia about it, i know that in some cases you may not say something that...

  7. Is it wrong to do the right thing? (long)

    k.lvn.mom posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been reading some post about "whistle-blowing" and bringing certain things to supervisor's attention and that it was the right thing to do but some how the nurse faced some retaliation. And...

  8. What kind of error puts a license at risk?

    k.lvn.mom replied to MelodyRNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I thought that this meant for the patient not the nurse....oops! Thanks for

  9. What kind of error puts a license at risk?

    k.lvn.mom replied to MelodyRNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Why is

  10. Paranoia

    k.lvn.mom replied to k.lvn.mom's topic in General Nursing

    Found the thread, thanks tazzi. I am learning

  11. Paranoia

    k.lvn.mom replied to k.lvn.mom's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah I don't know where it came from.... How strict is the board, like what are some examples of things you have to do to get reveiwed by the board? Some things that you know other nurses have done...

  12. Rendering Aid

    k.lvn.mom posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was wondering what the policy on rendering aid while in nursing school. Nothing medical was performed other than checking pulse and talking to the person. I'm in Texas and I am an LVN

  13. Rendering Aid

    k.lvn.mom replied to k.lvn.mom's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks

  14. Rendering Aid

    k.lvn.mom replied to k.lvn.mom's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. I have CNA/Med Aide certs and I am in my last sem of nursing school, so I think that vitals and talking to a pt are within my guidelines. But I was just wondering if there was anything that...

  15. Is it worth it?

    k.lvn.mom replied to Jogirl's topic in General Nursing

    I am in nursing school now, but have been in the field of nursing for 5 years now. And I have never once thought until recently (in nursing school) that i did not want to be a nurse. And those are...

  16. Nursing student in distress...Please Help !!!!!

    k.lvn.mom posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok, So i am in my 2nd level of LVN school.... And I am currently taking MED/SURG 2. and I just don't get it. I can't tell you why I don't get it but I don't. My grades are not that bad, and I am not...

  17. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    k.lvn.mom replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    Worked in an AL facility and was a med aid, 87 yr old woman calls me to her room, she had just got done watching CNN, and she asked... Can you tell me what oral sex is? I am not kidding, I must have...

  18. Sometimes I Miss Being a CNA

    k.lvn.mom replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a CNA now for a home care agency but for a couple of years before med aid school and then nursing school. I worked in an AL facility as CNA and then Med aid, and I loved it. I worked in the Alz...

  19. Nursing student in distress...Please Help !!!!!

    k.lvn.mom replied to k.lvn.mom's topic in General Nursing

    Thank yall so much. I needed that encouragment cause I was really thinking that I needed to go be a farmer somewhere. And Lori, I might have to take you up on that

  20. HELP! I DON"T WANT TO GO THROUGH CNA first...

    k.lvn.mom replied to lookingforward's topic in General Nursing

    I worked my way from CNA, to med aide, and then to nursing school. And let me tell you that the work that I did and the time that I spent with my residents as a CNA was the best time that I have ever...

  21. I didn't get into UTSAHSC BSN program..

    k.lvn.mom replied to kea6783's topic in General Nursing

    sorry to hear that. That program is very hard to get into. I did not get in either, but I am doing my LVN at St. Phillips and then you can do the transition from LVN to BSN at UTSAHSC. Good Luck to...

  22. Nursing School Blues??

    k.lvn.mom replied to Nili927's topic in General Students

    Count me in! Last semester was my first semester of nursing school, and I study my butt off until we got to Thankgiving break, and when we came back to school, we still had 3 wks of school, and 1 wk...

  23. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    k.lvn.mom replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Good Luck, I know that I will need it in Aug when i take

  24. What's your favorite pair of nursing shoes?

    k.lvn.mom replied to changeofpaceRN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Oh you are going to love them. They are great. And depending on the ones that you bought, you can wear them with anything, mine actually look better with jeans than they do with scrubs. But i wear...

  25. LVN Job Discription

    k.lvn.mom posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a 2nd level LVN student and I graduate in August. I currently work for an agency and have in the past worked for ALF, LTC, and private duty. I have met several LVN's that do alot more than what...