sunnygirl272

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  1. My Favorite Things

    maalox and nose drops and needles for knitting, walkers and handrails and new dental fittings, bundles of magazines tied up in string, these are a few of my favorite things. cadillacs and cataracts and hearing aids and glasses, polident ...
  2. Safety Devices For Blood Collection

    has anyone found any decent butterflies for blood collection? these are the ones we currently use: I do not like them, nor do any of my co-workers who have an opinion. we have now pitched enough of a fit about not being consulted on which devices w...
  3. Home Health Nurse Safety

    Hi, Julie! Welcome to the board! I work in home care also. Luckily, I do not have to do beeper call. I do assigned visits on my weekends. Let me ponder the topic a bit, and come back to it.. ~SunnyGirl
  4. Partial Birth Abortion

    curious where people's thoughts are.
  5. Top Ten Signs That This Case Has Been Going WAY Too Long. . . 10. You start making crank calls from the phone in the operating room. 9. You figure out how to reprogram the new EKG monitor and have now set a new world record score for Pong. 8. Using d...
  6. V Codes

    We don't have a coder either...it's VERY hard to get into this Vcode mindset now that we are SUPPOSED to use them. ugh.
  7. MI symptom debate

    My mother (also a nurse) never had any Sx that she attributed to cardiac....until she coded at work...thrombolytics failed...after a day or 2 int the unit, and finally being transferred to a Syracuse hosp,(local hosp doesn't to caths...)...the cath s...
  8. what qualifies?

    it's medicare. venipuncture alone is not a skilled nursing need. you may feel the client needs continuing monitoring...but medicare will not allow payment for monitoring a stable client just in case something ges wrong..even though you know it will ...
  9. Girl gives birth in chatroom,talking to me!

    just think...she (or he) now has your address, and directions to your door....
  10. Strange things that you saw when you were a student

    Saw a dermoid cyst during my lab rotation...
  11. tips

    We had an obese bipolar client w/hep c....she would've given you the shirt off her back, but who knows when that shirt had last been washed, or the back she took it off of, either.... she had a bird of some sort, used to fly freely through the house....
  12. Typical Day For A Home Health Nurse | Life of a Nurse

    1) yes, stick it.... 2) couldn't she have been admitted for rehab? shoulda been soon enough after hospital d/c to still get in , right?
  13. tips

    food i accept...whether or not i consume it depends...if ya know what i mean..... i nevernevernever accept money.....
  14. Typical Day For A Home Health Nurse | Life of a Nurse

    bump
  15. Hypothetical Question re: prn meds

    OOOhh...that's a toughie....will await replies.... i would want to give the other 1mg....but dunno if that flies......maybe call the md? we know they love it when we call them....
  16. Total knee and drain question......

    ConstaVacâ„¢
  17. Did I do the right thing?

    screams of chf...ya done good, sweets....
  18. Two 5 year olds

    seems to me to be normal curiosity... why are you upset that a little boy wanted to do this, but not upset that a little girl did? why do you feel you are required by your license to do something? I would definately talk to the other mom though....
  19. Don't Tell Mom/dad/wife

    i can see if the patient is demented...in those cases, they aren't really gonna get the jist anyhoo...but it is just so wrong to not tell an adult pt their own diagnosis/prognosis. pssssttt.....hipppaaaaaa?
  20. Any nursging Schools affected by SARS

    I do not understand this....???????? also welcome to the board!!!!
  21. Do prereqs "expire"?

    depends on the school...i am just returning to school and all my credits were accepted..and some are 12+ yrs old!!!
  22. Stiff Neck

    ok..i trued to google and find a pic of a sexy masseur..but found this and it reaklly struck me funny...:
  23. Injection Question

    methotrexate is nasty...
  24. Injection Question

    Hmmmm....it should be IM, does she aspirate to confirm that she's NOT in a vessel? I would advise she see her md....
  25. irritable bowel syndrome?

    almost as gross a thought as watching the dissection of a dermoid cyst...