horrorxgirl

horrorxgirl

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  1. Do you think male nurses get more respect?

    horrorxgirl replied to Meg88's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure exactly what you are referring to (admin, coworkers, etc), but it you are referring to patients respecting male nurses more for instance, sometimes I think they mistake them for doctors....

  2. When to call the Doctor regarding a fall?

    horrorxgirl replied to LStar's topic in General Nursing

    I would say the biggest reason it's different in longterm care is because falls are extremely commonplace. And because of this we go through other measures too, like chair/bed alarms, keep beds in the...

  3. When to call the Doctor regarding a fall?

    horrorxgirl replied to LStar's topic in General Nursing

    At the facility that I work at we have two ways to contact the doctor on shifts that he's not in office. We can either page him (which is what we almost always do) or we can call his telephone service...

  4. Lawsuit Against The College Network

    horrorxgirl replied to mdhammons's topic in Online Distance Learning

    An LPN I work with just recently mentioned using them to get her RN. And thanks to all the warnings on here, I was able to tell her NOOOOO WAY! Don't do it!! I hope she takes

  5. We Can't Use Tap Water for G-tube Meds? Only Sterile Water?

    horrorxgirl replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, so I can kinda understand the chemical arguement of mixing crushed pills together being different than mixing whole pills. But what about in a longterm care environment where sometimes the...

  6. LTCF quick med pass, plus all the other stuff

    horrorxgirl replied to destiny100's topic in General Nursing

    First and foremost, I don't believe that any new nurse should work agency. That is something you do when you have fine tuned your skills enough to be comfortable using an organization plan that you...

  7. Funny ER video!

    horrorxgirl replied to PureLifeRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not an ER nurse, but that made me laugh my ass off. "My hand is having a

  8. Sign announcing you're an RN on your car?

    horrorxgirl replied to Perpetual Student's topic in General Nursing

    My first thought is that maybe the person had recently passed their NCLEX and an overzealous friend or family member made the sign for them as an "attaboy/girl!" sorta thing. Like someone who had...

  9. Phlebotomy course?

    horrorxgirl replied to mlisk589's topic in General Nursing

    We had to practice drawing blood on each other one day in LPN school, so I had training in school. But really that's an on-the-job type of skill. The actual process of teaching what you are supposed...

  10. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    horrorxgirl replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes ladies, when I answered your call light and you asked for us to help your mother get out of bed for mass, I was truly honestly telling the truth when I informed you that her CNA was in with...

  11. Having another nurse check insulin doses & other med Qs

    horrorxgirl replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    See to me, this proves that the double-check procedure is not a good idea in a busy longtern care facility. Drawing up several insulin syringes at one time, even when labeled with tape in order to...

  12. nursing home

    horrorxgirl replied to firstyearRN's topic in General Nursing

    Another option is to while you work there and get some experience under your belt, perhaps pick up some partime work through agencies, if they hire in your area. They are EVERYWHERE around here. I've...

  13. Why????????

    horrorxgirl replied to Virgo_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I also work in longterm care, and I can't tell you how many family members would rather send their mother/father out to a hospital out of some fear of death, or feeling like they are doing them wrong...

  14. Having another nurse check insulin doses & other med Qs

    horrorxgirl replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    I know that I've worked in longterm care facilities where having two nurses check insulin doses would have been downright impossible. Witholding insulin for the amount of time it would have taken to...

  15. I just heard they will remove all LVN/LPN?

    horrorxgirl replied to Prado's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    yes i agree with this post 100%. longterm care, at least in my area is the area for lpns. there are hardly any functions in a longterm care facility that rns do, that lpns cannot. every floor rn that...

  16. I am content to be an LPN...is that wrong?

    horrorxgirl replied to KatieNoelLPN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I don't see anything wrong with that. Do what makes you happy. Here in PA there are tons of jobs available for LPNS and with good pay too, so there isn't much reason to seek a higher degree if your...

  17. Uniforms and dress codes

    horrorxgirl replied to inkedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Most of my pants are already hemmed and this still hasn't corrected the ring around the bottom of the pants problem. You just can't see it on my dark pants. And I don't dare wear white

  18. LPNs need co-signer for verbal orders

    horrorxgirl replied to KatieNoelLPN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I live in PA and I am able to write verbal orders without an RN cosign. However, when I first became an LPN around 8 years ago it wasn't even legal for LPNs to take verbal orders over the telephone....

  19. Uniforms and dress codes

    horrorxgirl replied to inkedRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've heard a couple rumors that this could happen at my facility, and personally, I'm not against it since I'm not one to wear many printed scrubs. However, I am terrified of the thought of being...

  20. CNA's and Fire Power

    horrorxgirl replied to newtress's topic in General Nursing

    "vote off the island" is a phrase I've never heard used before for these circumstances but quite accurately describes what happened to a nurse I know. He was a nurse I had worked with on and off for a...

  21. LPN to RN and agency work

    horrorxgirl posted a topic in Agency Nurses

    Ok, here is something I am curious about. Right now I am an agency LPN. I've been a nurse for five years. I've worked agency 4.5 of those years, so I am a pretty confident agency nurse. BUT I really...

  22. Do LPNs with bachelor's degrees make more $ ?

    horrorxgirl replied to mikeyk's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    But like mentioned above, this is an administrative job. Working on the floor as an LPN will not get you any extra on your salary just because you have a Bachelor's. Once you take an administrative...

  23. Crazy stuff can happen

    horrorxgirl replied to gt4everpn's topic in General Nursing

    I'm an agency nurse now, but when I was a staff nurse we had this odd agency nurse come in one night. She was having trouble getting a GT feeding pump to run, so she called another nurse up from a...

  24. Cliques in nursing field

    horrorxgirl replied to lizzyberry's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well all jobs that are predominently women have the chance of becoming catty. It all just depends on the group of women you work with. I don't think one type of job is more cliquey than

  25. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    horrorxgirl replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    When I had only been a nurse for a couple months, I was put as a charge on a floor in a nursing home on midnight shift. I was told in report that I had a patient doing very poorly and was expected to...