Isabelle49

Isabelle49 specializes in Home Health.

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1. I Must Be Missing Something

   Isabelle49 replied to DallasRN's topic in Home Health

   It is that agency and those particular management personnel. Leave that agency. Find another one that respects you. Keep doing that until you find a happy medium. Remember, respect is number 1...

2. Kicked out before even starting

   Isabelle49 replied to Confused_nurse2b's topic in General Students

   Geeze!!! Why not call the dean of your school or a counselor. I can't imagine why you got kicked out. You could have had the word done at a slow lab and that wouldn't have been your fault. Take...

3. NG Tube Salem Sump

   Isabelle49 replied to BSN_Studnt's topic in General Students

   If the pigtail is left open to air, you would have this connected to continuous suction. If the pigtail is closed, should only be connected to intermittent suction to prevent damage to the gastric...

4. Post-test reviews

   Isabelle49 posted a topic in General Students

   Do any students here attend a nursing program that does not provide a Post-Test review, where you are provided with a rationale as to why one answer to a question is correct and the others are not?...

5. I Must Be Missing Something

   Isabelle49 replied to DallasRN's topic in Home Health

   Start looking for another HH company to work for. You are working for a bullying tyrant. Don't put up with

6. LSUHSC or Delgado Charity

   Isabelle49 replied to NOLAMOM's topic in Louisiana Nursing

   Wondering if you made the cut for Charity-Delgado. I have recently learned that the school no longer offers post test review to the 4th level students who are very close to graduating and taking the...

7. Does your nursing school offer test review

   Isabelle49 posted a topic in General Students

   I'm a long ago graduate of Charity Hospital School of Nursing. We had a wonderful education at the time, and included test review with rationales for answers to questions. I understand students are...

8. syringe pumps and mechanical slack

   Isabelle49 replied to afc40's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   32 years ago in NICU, we manually primed tubing before connecting to stringe pump, but things may have changed as awareness of potential problems become evident. All I can say is, remember every...

9. Its 5 months and still no update on NCLEX Results

   Isabelle49 replied to gorgeous_me's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   That's crazy!!! I hope you post an update. In Louisiana results are in during the same week the NCLEX was taken. I think I would contact NCLEX

10. new grad RN Ochsner NICU

    Isabelle49 replied to abbielu13's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    I see you posted your message on my birthday in 2017!!! 32 years ago I interviewed for a position in Ochsner's NICU as a new grad too. I got the job and the main campus on Jefferson Hwy (that was the...

11. January 2018 Nclex

    Isabelle49 replied to RNkarlaaaa's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Imagine this: 32 years ago we sat for 2 days to take the board exam. It was a pencil and paper test where you colored in the dots to the correct answers!!! Just think what the outcome would be if one...

12. how does potassium affect blood pressure and heart rate?

    Isabelle49 replied to bailyoneohnine's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Considering the effect hypokalemia has on the heart muscle, causing a decreased output, initially a person may have hypotension. Remember, there is a feedback mechanism for just about every...

13. Slow flow nipple?

    Isabelle49 replied to RNLAC's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I think it is a big problem that this baby spills so much feeding from the mouth. You know it doesn't spill out until the mouth gets too full. This baby is at high risk for aspiration!!! Sounds to me...

14. Horrific news item

    Isabelle49 replied to Coffee Nurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I read about that. The nurse involved is on leave. Have discovered through FB that the nurse is a he, hoping his license will be

15. Requiring paperwork after I left

    Isabelle49 replied to ErnBlz's topic in Home Health

    Is the paperwork for patients you were seeing or were you working in the office? If it is for patients you were seeing, the company can report the undone work to the board of