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cmyersRN

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  1. Patients and their crazy requests

    cmyersRN replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Re: Patients and their crazy requestsI have to be honest here don't shoot me...but I have PIH and was 7 months pregnant and there wouldn't be a parking spot for blocks except for the numerous...

  2. Patients and their crazy requests

    cmyersRN replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    My craziest request in the last few months came from the mother of a 23yo male who had been admitted to our floor following a lap appy. She was one of those OCD mothers who demanded a private room for...

  3. Colour-coded hospital bracelets

    cmyersRN replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

    At my hospital we utilize color-coded hospital bracelets for a few different things. Standard patient bracelet is blue and the allergy bracelet is red. If they are DNR they get a purple bracelet that...

  4. DONS working the floor in LTC?

    cmyersRN replied to sparkles_2221's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    In the LTC facility that I work at, if we have call-ins and no replacement can be found and the DON has to cover anything, she usually covers charge nurse so that nurse can go cover one of the wings....

  5. LTC nurses - I need a reality check

    cmyersRN replied to LakesideRN's topic in General Nursing

    I work as an LPN in a 100 bed facility. We have four wings with 25 residents to a wing. For Day and PM shift there will be four wing nurses and a charge nurse and usually (hopefully) three aides to...

  6. The Names are changing

    cmyersRN replied to egglady's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Hmmmm......Evelyn, Eleanor, Helen......and Marion seems to be really common right now.....we have several Dorothys too, but two go by Dottie. Richard and Kenneth are our most common male...

  7. How do you waste medications?

    cmyersRN replied to WondeRNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm currently an LPN in a LTC facility. Right now, anything that is not a narcotic is sent back to the pharmacy if it needs to be wasted (resident deceased, discharge or med discontinued or changed,...

  8. Written Up Again?? what's wrong with this picture??

    cmyersRN replied to gt4everpn's topic in General Nursing

    I'm an LPN at a LTC facility. In the medex Warfarin is on a separate page just as Accuchecks and insulins are on their own page separate from the rest of the medications. The next INR draw date is on...

  9. Have you expierenced this?

    cmyersRN replied to missnurse1's topic in General Nursing

    Hahaha.....this reminds me of a CNA that works at the LTC facility I work at. I was doing med pass and my cart was just outside the tubroom in the hallway where one of the CNAs was putting a resident...

  10. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    cmyersRN replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    Thought of a couple more......:typing ...when you realize that you are compulsively staring at everyone's arms and hands and mentally deciding if they have "good" veins. ...when your four-year-old...

  11. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    cmyersRN replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    ...when you are at the doctor's office getting swabbed for influenza (I work in LTC) and you're asking for procedure tips as the nurse is sticking the "probe" down the back of your nose. ...you can't...

  12. LPN Starting Salary

    cmyersRN replied to pat8585's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Hi, I'm in an ADN program and will graduate with my RN in December. I just got my LPN license this month and moved into a LPN role in the nursing home I was working at as a CNA. I get paid $15.50/hr...

  13. Do I need a CNA certificate to become a LVN?

    cmyersRN replied to Sally1's topic in General Nursing

    I am too, under the impression that the Wisconsin technical college system has a "state-wide" curriculum, so most requirements for entry should be the same. I double-checked the website of my school...

  14. How much per semester did you nursing school cost?

    cmyersRN replied to 5860TomCat's topic in General Nursing

    Let's see, I have one year left of my ADN program and I've averaged around $1300-1400 in tuition per semester depending on how many credits the class is for (some of our nursing theory classes are 2...

  15. Do I need a CNA certificate to become a LVN?

    cmyersRN replied to Sally1's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a RN student at a technical college in Wisconsin and I know that successfully passing the CNA course is required for entry into both the LPN and RN tracks. We however, are not required to get the...