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Any footcare nurses out there?

They've been circulating this at work, thought I'd share.:smiletea: http://www.ismp.org/Tools/errorproneabbreviations.pdf

Anybody do this? I'm starting a course next week to learn how. Any footcare entrepreneurs out there?

Hello psych nurses! I hope that you can help me. I work in LTC and don't have a lot on psychiatric nursing experience. We have a resident that is very manipulative (has mild, fluctuating dementia) and is disrupting the unit as only a "borderline" p...

A Living Will When they say I cannot hear you, sing me lullabies and folk songs, the ones I sang to you. I will hear them as an unborn child can hear its mother's music through the waters of the womb When they say I can feel nothing press your face...

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so the orders usually call for ml's of the solution? How does the dosage in mg come into play? Maybe I'm having trouble picturing how the meds are supplued from pharmacy.

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What do you make of the recent trend against antipsychotics? There has been research which seems to be getting validated elsewhere that shows at those elders being given these drugs to treat behaviours causes mortality to go up significantly through...

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Holy cow how on earth can you bend down and do your work wearing a girdle?

On the issue of "sundowning", there is thought that this is more related to fatigue then the disease itself or the time of day. The person just cannot express what is bugging them so it sets off a host of behaviours. Schedualing afternoon rest peri...

"i want to go home" is usually Alzheimer's code for "I'm tired and uncomfortable and don't feel secure here". Looking into fixing any of these 3 issues will usually help. Distraction also sometimes helps but not if the person is pre-occupied with t...

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okay I don't know where you are reading into the situation that I was being inappropriate.

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it's one of those LOL cats thingies. I got it off of someone's facebook page.

wow you're giving me stress flashbacks Wouldn't it be nice if you could actually find respiratory supplies when you need them?