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I had a pt that said she was allergic to an antibiotic, (I don't remember which one) when I asked her reaction to it, she told me she gets a yeast infection when she takes it!

Most of our peds rooms are connected to a monitor at the peds station and in our icu for increased monitoring. A few are not and we have to use a portable sat machine to monitor that is not easy to hear. I always tell parents that if it is going off...

I'm on another forum for moms, somebody posted a thread called "What they DO NOT tell you about labor and delivery that you wish they would have" After reading several comments (some about nazi nurses..) I have to wonder from a nurses point of view ...

Last week I had to call the dr twice on the same pt, first time bp's 240/110 and c/o headache. Dr says "I'm not really worried about that" what?! so I used my nursing judgement and gave his BP meds early!! Brought it down. Later that night (2230) the...

I feel the same, it always upsets me when we get a kid in with resp distress, known asthma and the parents come in reeking of cigarette smoke and can't fiqure out why their child can't breathe (huge pet peeve!!) Also this thread reminds me of the pt...

In the peds unit that I work, we weigh it and chart it under urine/stool or mixed diaper so the docs know it was both.

Where I work the RN is partnered with either a LPN or CNA and on evening shift we usually have about 6 patients per team, of course sometimes 7 or 8 depending on the amount of admissions and who the charge nurse is, (one will not put anyone over 7 an...

I just read this article and thought it was great, what do you think? http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060516/LIFE02/605160389&SearchID=73244932162411

My husband was the only one in the delivery room, (the hospital only allows 2 anyway). Most of the rest of the family waited it out in the waiting room. My mother-in-law couldn't be there because she had to go to BINGO that night (she is a bingoahol...

The facility I work at just changed how we do care plans due to being cited for each pt only having one care plan for the primary diagnosis. Now they are all on a computerized flow chart, you go down to whatever your nursing diagnosis is and click o...

I am also a new grad, June this year. I worked in the same hospital I am at now as an LPN for 2 years, so making the transition has been a little easier,(note easier not easy!!) as I am already familar with the staff and the routine. I also have a ...

We have a Dr. that has ordered coffee enemas for pts that are addicted to caffeine and are NPO

In the hospital that I work at, one of the questions in the intial interview is what do you prefer to be called, so right away you know how to address them, then this information gets passed on to the next shift.

I think its great to have a forum for us Iowa nurses. I live in Marshalltown and work at the hospital here on med-surg. I am an LPN and am currently in the ADN program at MCC. (and I am ready to give birth to my first child in about a week or so y...

I have been an LPN for just over a year and I love it. I chose med-surg so I could really get some real life experiences. I have found that a lot of what I see at work helps me now in the ADN level with understanding and applying what I've learned....

At the facilty I work at we have taped reports, but they have just instituted a policy that only RN's go to report which takes 30-45min then they have to find time to give report to the LPN they are working with. The idea is that the LPN can go ahe...

One of the best nurses I have ever encountered, in fact helped inspire me to become a nurse, was a lady that took time with her patients. My father had been admitted to the surgical floor for a BKA (diabetes), anyway the night before his surgery thi...

I think in some cases yes at the last place I worked the first few months I felt like I couldn't do anything right even when I was; if I reported something someone else had to go double check. When I had an evaluation my supervisor mentioned that I...

I am impressed by so many stories of families who are willing to let their loved ones go. At one facility I worked at we had a gentleman who had a severe head trauma from falling off the roof. This man is being kept alive with a vent, and a feeding...

I am 28, many in my class are returning students, which I think makes it easier, we are there to pursue our dreams so we work harder and take it more seriously than some (not all) of the fresh out of high school girls.

I am currently in my second semester of LPN, as a student the teachers who do the best are the ones that care. If the teacher shows a genuine interest in me and my classmates, and makes it interesting, I have no problem learning the information. On...