santhony44 MSN, RN, NP

FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed

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    Insults to the midlevel professions

    santhony44 replied to emtneel's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I agree with elkpark, I think that ad is for an office nurse, period. I don't think the person writing it has a clue. "Clerical?" "Housekeeping?" Pitching in is one thing. I think it's the...
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    Funny Names

    santhony44 replied to nurserynurse55's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    The only Elvis I've actually known was born a good few years before Mr. Presley. He went by his middle name, which wasn't
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    Pointers for an Epi Pen speech

    santhony44 replied to skittlebear's topic in General Nursing

    Could you get a "dummy" or even an expired an epipen or two and demonstrate the use? It helps to know which end goes where. I know a nurse who once got it reversed and gave herself the epinephrine in...
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    Truth or Myth: dairy increases mucus?

    santhony44 replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    The "milk myth" I always heard growing up was that you couldn't drink milk with fish. I haven't heard it in years and have no idea where it came from. I don't know what milk and fish together were...
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    I've been a nurse for......

    santhony44 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulations! I reached 25 years last month, but I realized I'm not sure what day. It's not on my diploma and I sure don't
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    positive drug ua with perscription

    santhony44 replied to mdm106's topic in General Nursing

    If you have the scripts in your name, then that should not be considered a positive screen, based on my experience in occupational nursing where we did hundreds of urine drug screens. Whether you...
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    Cleaning up Other's Messes-long, sorry

    santhony44 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    All I can think is, it's possible she isn't even thinking straight. Maybe she's just in a complete fog. Is it possible she's up to her eyebrows in Xanax or something? I'd be willing to bet that she's...
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    Curious...using the title "Doctor" for a DNP...

    santhony44 replied to justme1972's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I worked at one teaching institution where almost everyone who was entitled to use the title "Doctor" did so. Physician, PharmD, psychologist, and so forth. One one unit, it was common for patients to...
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    Interview this AM

    santhony44 replied to TRINI_RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    :yeahthat: I agree completely!! Let us know when you
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    Does this concern anyone else?

    santhony44 replied to handyrn's topic in General Nursing

    "Back in the day," more than 25 years ago, when I was a nursing student, we didn't wear gloves for bathing for just that reason. We'd never heard of MRSA, nor VRE, nor of several other things we've...
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    please tell me what this is...

    santhony44 replied to LVNwannaBE2007's topic in General Nursing

    It's called a Nissen. Don't call it a "Nissan." I once did that- a slip of the tongue- and had a doctor walk away muttering about "little
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    Curious...using the title "Doctor" for a DNP...

    santhony44 replied to justme1972's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    In graduate school, I had one instructor who was a FNP with an EDD. She did not use "Doctor" in the clinical setting because of the "confusing the patients" reason. I plan to get a DNP one of these...
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    NP Fellowship?

    santhony44 replied to emtneel's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    $12.50/hr? You gotta be kidding me!!! I think I may have made something like that as an LPN, starting out, years and years ago. Maybe. Used. Definitely, used. I think he thinks that he's come up...
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    Nurse to Doctor

    santhony44 replied to nrsman1's topic in General Nursing

    I've known a few physicians of whom you could say the same. Or, if they knew what they didn't know, they wouldn't admit
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    Nurse to Doctor

    santhony44 replied to nrsman1's topic in General Nursing

    I've known several physicians who had been nurses. Most of them are great to work with and have a wonderful bedside manner. I do have to say that one of the rudest physicians I've met in recent years...
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    Working Alone on a unit

    santhony44 replied to lauron9's topic in General Nursing

    A few years ago, I worked on a small epilepsy monitoring unit. When we didn't have many patients, we would sometimes work with just one nurse and a CNA. We also had a monitor tech in the back. One...
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    Alzheimer's book

    santhony44 replied to JoAnnS's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    If you're interested in reading about caring for someone with Alzheimer's from the point of view of a spouse, there is a little paperback book called Alzheimer's Case Behaviors Journal by Ruth Lyde....
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    Peeves at work

    santhony44 replied to november17's topic in General Nursing

    People who tend to other people's business. Do you own job and let me do
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    santhony44 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't put more than $1 or $2 in each can, Leslie. Someone's family member will steal it!!! And put your picture on it so they know who it's
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    What to wear?

    santhony44 replied to miko014's topic in General Nursing

    A suit, if you have one. Business dress. Dress as if you plan to be the office
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    Ever have a day like this???

    santhony44 replied to at your cervix's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Personally, I've never grasped the concept of childbirth as a spectator event. If you weren't there at the conception, I didn't want you there for the delivery, unless you were medically necessary. I...
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    Scratching your head in wonder!

    santhony44 replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    I remember years ago as a student, remarking to a nurse that the bright yellow IV fluid reminded me of some sort of drink. She told me about a patient who was NPO and kept asking for something to...
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    A prime lawsuit

    santhony44 replied to xoemmylouox's topic in General Nursing

    I agree completely. You make the best decision you can with what you have at the time. It's a lot different when you're the one under the gun with someone's life in your hands. I've had my share of...
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    To all the "Old School" Nurses

    santhony44 replied to TiggerBelly's topic in General Nursing

    I think the old concept of "my right to swing my arm ends where your nose begins" has been lost by a lot of people,
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    You Know the patient is going bad when...

    santhony44 replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

    Wonder why the doctor chose to highlight the fact that he was an idiot. He should've been the one congratulating