RNanne

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1. LPN job duties from 10,20,30 years ago to the present.

   RNanne replied to fuzzball's topic in General Nursing

   LPNs in the 60's were like nurses' aides. In an emergency they could administer medications and give injections. Mostly they did the work that the CNA's do today.

2. Candidates Must Address Healthcare Crisis

   RNanne replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism

   A valid point, but does not address my statement about the lower middle class as soldiers. We have a volunteer army. My sons are soldiers and both have college degrees. Sorry if you did not get my point. You quote me and completely go off on anoth...

3. Candidates Must Address Healthcare Crisis

   RNanne replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism

   I thought that we had an all volunteer army, don't we, not comprised of lower middle class children??? I don't agree with this war either, but we are there and must see it finished one way or another. Just didn't want to let this comment slip by. ...

4. Candidates Must Address Healthcare Crisis

   RNanne replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism

   Edwards made his fortune suing OB docs for causing babies to have CP. This is probably not good science. The percentage of C-sections used to be 6%. Now with all the litigation, the percentage is 26% and there has been no decrease in the number of...

5. Incomptetnt instructors (a rant)

   RNanne replied to NP2BE's topic in General Nursing

   Boy, can I relate with this subject. There was an instructor with students doing clinicals at the facility where I was working. She asked me why was there coloring in the tube feeding of a certain patient, where did a suprapubic catheter go and wha...

6. Cute things manager's say

   RNanne replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

   I once worked for the manager from hell. A real "company" man. Screw the nurses! He was a pathological liar and never came out of his office unless he wanted you to do something for him. I finally put in my resignation. The staff threw me the bi...

7. Any one care to share how much weight you have lost on Low Carbs?

   RNanne replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

   Heck, I can remember when the food pyramid had seven food groups and now there are four, so dieticans change their minds just like everybody else. In this society we are becoming ever more obese, unhealthy, eating fast food etc. I don't believe tha...

8. Any one care to share how much weight you have lost on Low Carbs?

   RNanne replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

   Angel Bear: We eat the waffles and syrup from the Atkins line and breakfast meats. Eat a lot of broccli and cauliflower. I wash the juice off of canned pears and grate cheese over to make salad. Cool Whip is low in carbs so I use that to make frui...

9. Any one care to share how much weight you have lost on Low Carbs?

   RNanne replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

   I have lost 10 lbs in 6 weeks. I am never hungry, I have so much more energy and I will never go back to any other way of eating. It has become a way of life. Over Christmas and New Year's I ate any darn thing I wanted and then returned to the lo ...

10. Where's a pretty place to live?

    RNanne replied to Dixen81's topic in General Nursing

    Come on out to the Pacific Northwest into Eastern Washington. Not far from God's country in Idaho and Montana. You will think you died and went to heaven. Four seasons, relatively low cost living, glorious scenery, skiing, boating, swimming, lakes...

11. In One Sentence; if you weren't a nurse, you'd be a ________

    RNanne replied to OCCHCanada's topic in General Nursing

    I would be a costume designer for a ballet company or a textile designer. I would be a famous artist!!! LOL:roll

12. Geriatrics and constipation

    RNanne replied to dragonfly954's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, the medicare paperwork is awful. I would admit a client and do a 17 page assessment and write the goals and careplan. During assessment I would find that the client needed to be readmited to hospital. So I would write a hospital transfer (for...

13. Geriatrics and constipation

    RNanne replied to dragonfly954's topic in General Nursing

    Having worked Homehealth for a number of years, I know that constipation is a problem. I found it in the geriatric population as well as those on pain medication. Lots of the geriatrics have "institutional" bowels in that they have taken laxatives ...

14. I really need help!!! SENIOR NRSG PROJECT

    RNanne replied to military girl's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked in LTC quite a bit. Why not try depression in the elderly or pain management. Depression is so common and not always identified or treated. They have so many losses a lot of the time. Also have a lot of pain issues that do not get p...

15. Help!!!!! Placed in an uncomfortable position

    RNanne replied to deadend's topic in Geriatric

    Boy, can I relate. In LTC : Have had to quit two jobs for new DON's. And one for a new ADM. One DON was sooo nice to the managers and was really only picking their brains for the scoop on everybody and everything. What a snake she turned out to b...