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  1. Changing LTC residents @ night

    gizzy76 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi! Just curious to know how often your residents in LTC are changed during the night. At my facility, they are changed at 0100, 0300 and 0500hrs. I think this is ridiculous unless they are...

  2. Faking having cancer, can you imagine?

    gizzy76 replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    There was a case not too long ago around Edmonton, Alberta where a lady had led her community to believe that her daughter had some sort of Cancer, I think it was leukemia. Anyway, she would shave her...

  3. Florence Nightingale Pledge

    gizzy76 replied to Teresa76's topic in General Nursing

    The only time I ever said the pledge was at graduation. We had a candle lighting ceremony at our banquet and read the pledge in front of our friends and family. Not sure if others do the same. It was...

  4. hosp vs ltc

    gizzy76 replied to slp's topic in General Nursing

    I am an RN and have worked in both and can say that I prefer working in an acute care setting. I just worked the last 6 months in a LTC facility with 72 beds. The stress was high and there was a lot...

  5. Id Badges

    gizzy76 replied to tatoome33's topic in General Nursing

    Any facility that I have worked in has only required my first name and title to be on my badge. When I was in my nursing training, we had our first and last names on our school badge and they were in...

  6. How many use needle system IV's still?

    gizzy76 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Any hospital I have been in during my training or through working this past year has used needleless systems of IV's. I have just started a new job and voila...needle systems! I'm scared of them! It's...

  7. How many use needle system IV's still?

    gizzy76 replied to gizzy76's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in Alberta, Canada...they tell me at the hospital that there is not enough money in the budget for a needless system yet...but they just got a brand new hospital and many new things in the...

  8. How long is your shift report?

    gizzy76 replied to gizzy76's topic in General Nursing

    Well, the report is supposed to be taped but they never seem to get to finishing it so they do it verbally a lot. For example, a couple of days ago I followed the nurse I was orientating with into the...

  9. False Charting

    gizzy76 replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    I can't stand it when people falsely chart. I find things a lot in my LTC facility. I'll have changed a dressing and the previous charting comes up to help you out just incase something hasn't...

  10. Chest Pain in LTC

    gizzy76 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just wondering what those of you do in LTC when you have a resident c/o chest pain...I know it's not the same sort of ER protocol you'd do if they were coming in off the street into an Emergency Room....

  11. Shoes again....Birkenstock vs. Dansko

    gizzy76 replied to hoppermom3's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't worn the Dansko but I am on the market for shoes too. For the past year I have worn Birkenstocks, but personally, I don't think they're all that great for my feet. The last pair of shoes I...

  12. How many times did you apply to the Nursing Program?

    gizzy76 replied to lunakat's topic in General Nursing

    When I applied, I got in immediately. Although I can't say the same for the class after me...it's much harder for them to get in now (this is in Alberta). They'll have approximately 250 people apply...

  13. LTC Screamers

    gizzy76 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi, I was wondering if anyone here works with LTC residents who have a habit of screaming? In our facility we have one woman who calls out continually for help that it sounds as though she is being...

  14. LTC Screamers

    gizzy76 replied to gizzy76's topic in General Nursing

    Didn't want to revive this thread seeing as it's been a few weeks since the last post...but.... the issue of this woman was brought up by a concerned staff member today and we had a candid talk about...

  15. new grad needs help with documentation tips

    gizzy76 replied to peaceful2100's topic in General Nursing

    One small piece of documentation information I found was If you fill out an incident report, do not record it in the patients chart. Also, do not put on the incident report that it is recorded in the...

  16. Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

    gizzy76 replied to nilepoc's topic in General Nursing

    Last year, the hospital I was doing my practicum at didn't get the staff anything, but the doctors brought loads of candy and goodies for the nurses and left it in a drawer for "snacking on". I...

  17. LTC Screamers

    gizzy76 replied to gizzy76's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that a team meeting is needed, but there have been many others in the past. Unfortunately this family is very wishy washy about what they want at times. One minute they want things this way,...

  18. LTC Screamers

    gizzy76 replied to gizzy76's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, will try some of these techniques. I think our unit tried giving her a piece of gum once and it worked for about an hour because she was busy chewing. Unfortunately though, even when we're all in...

  19. LTC Screamers

    gizzy76 replied to gizzy76's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the reply, I was just sitting here trying to recall what other medications she's on. I don't think Risperdal is one of them. I will check tomorrow at work. Thanks

  20. Pain scale

    gizzy76 replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Pain Management

    I was taught that you have to take the patients word for it because you don't know what the worst pain they've ever experienced is. For example, like the joke with the bricks. If the worst they've...

  21. Preceptor Gift Ideas?

    gizzy76 replied to jfpruitt's topic in General Nursing

    My preceptor in my rural rotation at the end of 3rd Year was male and I racked my brains out from the beginning of my 6 weeks to figure out what to get him. By the end I knew him well enough to know...

  22. What Freaks You Out?

    gizzy76 replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    The grossest thing I have ever seen (and I put it on another post as well) was this little ol lady on the LTC unit where I work who takes out her glass eyes and washes it in her mouth! Meanwhile,...

  23. What Freaks You Out?

    gizzy76 replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    The grossest thing I have ever seen (and I put it on another post as well) was this little ol lady on the LTC unit where I work who takes out her glass eyes and washes it in her mouth! Meanwhile,...

  24. Lazy Student Nurse Preceptors!

    gizzy76 replied to jfpruitt's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in my final practicum last fall my preceptor tried to teach me things but it was so busy in the ER sometimes that I was an extra pair of hands available to them (i.e. free labor). It really...

  25. Faking It

    gizzy76 replied to l.rae's topic in General Nursing

    Thought I'd add my two cents in here...I've only encountered one person so far in my nursing career that I have thought (as well as others) was a faker. A middle aged man came in with abdominal pain....