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    Help with care plan

    CT Pixie replied to mohd6411's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You should prioritize starting with actual problems (in ABC order) and then go to your potential problems/risk for, again ABC's first. Oh and his skin integrity is impared already, he has a surgical...
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    Classic II SE Question

    CT Pixie replied to jg24's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I don't recall my Littman being sticky. But what I really wanted to add are these points: 1. The oils from your hair and skin will ruin the tubing over time. So keeping it around your neck all the...
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    anyone had endometrial ablation lately?

    CT Pixie replied to BacktotheBeach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I know you said recently but I thought I'd chime in. I had mine done in 2003. I went from having periods that lasted up to 39 days long with bad clotting and heavy bleeding. I'd stop for a day or two,...
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    Preparing for Anatomy/Physiology 2

    CT Pixie replied to johnny depp23's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Well, we didn't ask you..you asked us. Ok let me get this straight in my old brain. You were the ONLY one to get an A in A&P I , you think people who think A&P is hard are just "lazy idiots"...
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    A & P 1 -- Fall 2010

    CT Pixie replied to 3rdgenRN2B's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Start Aug 30th. Only taking A&P for the fall semester. With a full time job and a family, I decided that taking A&P alone would be better for me. I might cave and sign up for a course I know I...
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    Calling briefs "diapers"....*vent*

    CT Pixie replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    The one thing I don't call them is diapers. I've been in health care forever and I don't recall what we called them back in the day, but I know it wasn't called a diaper. I normally call them briefs...
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    Easy and Fast Meals

    CT Pixie replied to yesitslaura's topic in General Students

    When I started LPN school, I picked up a few cookbooks for quick easy meals. I'm not a big fan of cooking, but a lesser fan of spending a ton of cash on take out. heehee. Check out the cooking section...
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    Question about drug administration

    CT Pixie replied to himynameis's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Oh hell to the NO! I would never give meds I didn't pull/pour/draw up
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    Name issues--legal issue?

    CT Pixie replied to CherryRed23's topic in General Nursing

    I have a co-worker who goes by a name other than her "legal" name ,she has a name she despises and does not fit her at all, Brunhilda. She goes by her nickname her parents always called her, lets say...
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    Questions for Veteran LPN's..

    CT Pixie replied to PfromFL's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Not a vet LPN (my 2 yr anniversary just passed as a matter of fact) however, I can only speak from my LPN schooling. We were taught and able to do basic skills in the very beginning of schooling (bed...
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    Anatomy and Physiology distinctions.. together? separate?

    CT Pixie replied to pennyep's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I haven't seen A&P offered as seperate courses in any of the schools I've looked into. Its always A&P I and A&P II (1/2 the book in I and the other 1/2 in
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    LVN schedule

    CT Pixie replied to Jessjaz's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I had no pre-reqs for my LPN schooling. Just pass their entrance exam, which consisted basically of a math section (general math) and English reading/comprehension. Other than that, no formal pre-req...
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    Do you still hold doors for women?

    CT Pixie replied to gtshin30303's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Funny this came up. I was in class yesterday and as I went to leave, some older "gentleman" was trying to come in the door that you should be exiting from (you know the rule, two doors to enter/exit,...
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    Do you still hold doors for women?

    CT Pixie replied to gtshin30303's topic in Male Nursing Students

    and this "chick" thanks all you men for being polite enough to hold doors for me. :) May I answer this post although I am not a man? I hold the doors for everyone. I don't care if it's an able bodied...
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    what's it like to be a LVN in LTC?

    CT Pixie replied to Kellyma's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I spend the majority of my 8 hour shift passing meds and doing treatments. My charting is minimal (we chart by exception) unless a lot of my residents have issues going on. I worked as a CNA in LTC...
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    pressure ulcer???

    CT Pixie replied to laina chow's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Speaking from a LTC perspective..pressure ulcers can go from a simple red area to an open area in MINUTES in some of our more compromised patients. We turn and position our patients at least every 2...
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    Just curious...You take BS and get 102

    CT Pixie replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    I had one brittle diabetic pt at my LTC. The BS ranges were unbelievable. Her "normal" blood sugar was around 250 most of the time. When she went to the low 100's..we knew she was on the way to...
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    missing fingers?

    CT Pixie replied to westheimer1234's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Well if its not "allowed" someone better tell one of my life long friends and the State that issued his RN license. He has a birth defect that affected his hands. He has only two fingers on one hand...
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    leaving office for ltc

    CT Pixie replied to shortscrubbs108's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I've worked in LTC since the day I found out I passed my NCLEX (2 yrs ago). Let me just say..it takes a special kind of crazy to work LTC :) 50-55 patients with or without a med tech (and ONLY 3...
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    Copying labs

    CT Pixie replied to wanabemurse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I can only answer from my clinical experience when I was in school. We could NOT make copies of anything from the patients chart. Nothing regarding the patient could have a copy made of it. That was...
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    LPN to RN vs. straight to RN

    CT Pixie replied to freepct's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Happy, just a quick question (apologies to the OP for hijacking). I wonder, if you don't have kids and don't have to worry about working, why do the ADN route if your ultimate goal is BSN? why not...
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    HELP new LPN positive drug test

    CT Pixie replied to star707's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I know this post is from 2006, but first thought was..how the hell does a nurse take a valium and think its a tylenol?? Even if you have never seen a valium pill before, I'm sure the poster had seen...
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    Geriatric UTI and Hallucinations/Psychosis

    CT Pixie replied to njmomstudent's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Delirium and major/minor changes in behavior is a huge red flag sign of UTI in the elderly. Lately I've had several pts who had been acting oddly for a few days. Lots of falls, some becoming violent...
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    Some help please

    CT Pixie replied to tinasmall's topic in Connecticut Nursing

    I work LTC in New Haven county and make $25 and change an
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    Med Surg - Boring Work in USA

    CT Pixie replied to Precious Pinay's topic in International Nursing

    Better to be bored and employed and have a good pay than what some of our THOUSANDS of unemployed new grads and/or nurses with years of experience are going through. Your bored and the job is mundane?...