RNanne

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.

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

This is just my opinion: but when we pick up the slack for others, the management or administration never notices that someone is not pulling their weight. They think that everything is just swell. When everyone quits taking up the extra, it will b...

I am very creative and wish that I had majored in art instead of nursing! LOL:p I had a dancing school for 13 years where I taught ballet and jazz. Had a tap teacher that I hired. I have had a dolly pattern business and made patterns and took the...

When I worked home health and had a patient such as this, I would cover the skin opening with a hydrogel pad, which will absorb drainage and applyed an unna boot. Unna boots will help with the edema and the weeping. Also needs diruresis big time.

P_/RN-- Yes, and all the fathers got home at the same time and after supper all the folks came out in the yard and everyone visited and the kids played. Such an innocent peaceful time. And only the women that wanted to worked. If you didn't want ...

Oh yes, I do remember the endless summer days. Rounding up all of the animals in the neighborhood, dressing them up and having a circus that all the moms came to. Pushing the cat around in the dollie buggy. I remember when the whole neighborhood wa...

The story of the guy with the bow and arrow reminds me. We had a guy come in from hunting. He was taking a poo sitting on and over a log. As he was sitting there, picture it. Some hunter took the vision for a deer and shot the guy in the butt. I...

I had the shingles, related to stress. Only had a few spots but the pain was unbearable. I didn't know what was wrong. I just had a side ache and it got so painful that I ended up in the ED. I was given antiviral, but the pain went on for about 6...

Brownie, I live in Spokane and was working for an agency. I had a wonderful repeating position at a facility here in town. Of a sudden the state came around and found that the DON was not a registered nurse. Just curious if this is the same one. ...

As far as I know, it is Christmas that we celebrate. It is a Christian religious holiday. My word you are testy! We can mention every thing else but Christmas. When everyone has rights, no one will have any. Everyone is entitled to their own bel...

Cheerfuldoer Have you noticed that they are even saying "Happy Holiday". or your "Holiday Shopping instead of Christmas.??? Where has our moral compass gone.?? It is Christmas, for crying out loud. grrrr.