VivaLasViejas ASN, RN

LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych

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    Pushing 50mg of IV Lopressor? Tell me no !

    VivaLasViejas replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Radiology

    FIFTY mg??!! I've pushed as much as 15 mg over a 15-minute stretch, but I'm afraid fifty would drop someone like a rock. WOW. I'm with you, Dutchgirl..........I wouldn't give that much Lopressor...
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    New Moderator on Board

    VivaLasViejas replied to nightingale's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    welcome jay!!!!! :w00t:
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    Is there anybody on here from Southern Illinois just curious

    VivaLasViejas replied to Iwannabeababynurse's topic in Illinois Nursing

    I'm not from there personally, but spent a good chunk of my childhood summers at my aunt's house in Hurst, Ill. One of my uncles was a professor at Southern Illinois University; another was a railroad...
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    Pt refused to leave!

    VivaLasViejas replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Beautifully said. Making generalizations about human beings is rarely appropriate and never helpful. Thank you for settling the discussion so
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    Is any moderator online now?

    VivaLasViejas replied to OPISTHONOS's topic in International Nursing

    Moving this to the International Nursing forum so you can get specialized help from Suzanne4, as well as other nurses who have gone through
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    Gloves Necessary For SQ Injections?

    VivaLasViejas replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Patient Medications

    Well, I would say the vote is overwhelmingly in favor of using gloves for ALL injections, SQ and otherwise. I stand corrected, and will change the policy & re-educate staff, as well as taking more...
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    Eugene/Springfield, Medford, Bend, K-Falls?

    VivaLasViejas replied to snowchaser1's topic in Oregon Nursing

    Winters are pretty mild here compared with much of the rest of the country. We get one or two significant cold snaps about every other year.........some with snow, some without. A couple of years ago...
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    Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, need help!

    VivaLasViejas replied to Connor....'s topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, but medical advice is beyond the scope of nursing practice. A relatively anonymous Internet message board is not really the proper place to seek answers, anyway; rather, your friend and his...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    VivaLasViejas replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    Excellent point..........consider it
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    We're having a heat wave.....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    Triage is right.........it's supposed to be upwards of 106 degrees here on Saturday, which, as luck would have it, is the day of my assisted living community's anniversary "hoedown"---all of which is...
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    Breaking the Code of Silence Share info re poor performance of health care employee's

    VivaLasViejas replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Agree with the above. For every Charles Cullen, there are probably a hundred nurses who are falsely accused of some sort of wrongdoing. Lord help them if this sort of information gets...
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    Elopement policy

    VivaLasViejas replied to L&DRNJenn's topic in General Nursing

    Ain't gonna happen. People have rights, and if a facility tries to restrict adults between the ages of 18 and 65 from moving about as they please, that facility's going to have charges of false...
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    Rescue 911---Staff Member Down!!

    VivaLasViejas posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just when I thought I had a safe, sane nursing job......... I was eating my lunch this afternoon when one of my staff members yelled, "Marla, you'd better come have a look at (name...
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    Are They Jealous?

    VivaLasViejas replied to pa0723's topic in General Nursing

    If the OP wants to "avoid getting into trouble", as she puts it, she would do well to lose the attitude and start seeing her co-workers as human beings, with their own places in the world and their...
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    Death of a favorite Patient...

    VivaLasViejas replied to Adam D. RN2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You are a wonderful and compassionate nurse! I hope that if ever I'm in ill health and full of misery, a nurse like you will be there for me.......a nurse who cares about me as a person, who has...
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    Becoming a nurse, but don't like (hate) the hospital setting

    VivaLasViejas replied to hawaiianflowers21's topic in General Nursing

    Do not---I repeat, do NOT---go into hospital nursing knowing you'll hate it. It's a hard job at best, even if you love it; it's impossible if you don't. Luckily, there are plenty of other options,...
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    Rescue 911---Staff Member Down!!

    VivaLasViejas replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    You know, the residents had shrimp for lunch yesterday, and even though my caregiver hadn't eaten anything since breakfast and has no known history of shellfish allergies, I have to suspect that....
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    What would a good national professional organization look like?

    VivaLasViejas replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in General Nursing

    I'm with you, Timothy.:yeahthat: Nurses need to have a voice that TRANSCENDS partisan politics......after all, our issues are humanity's issues, and I think we can reach an agreement on many of...
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    Rescue 911---Staff Member Down!!

    VivaLasViejas replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    That's what I was thinking.........I've discussed it with my administrator, and I'm going to write an incident report so we at least have a record of it. And no, they didn't give him a scrip for an...
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    Rescue 911---Staff Member Down!!

    VivaLasViejas replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    I'm happy to report that my staff member was at work this morning (against nurse's orders, of course) and I swear, my ribs are aching because he gave me some of the biggest hugs I've ever gotten in my...
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    Rescue 911---Staff Member Down!!

    VivaLasViejas replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, but I didn't really do anything other than direct traffic and bark orders at people.........I'm just glad I happened to be in the building at the time, because no one else who works there...
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    The Older Nurse in the Workplace

    VivaLasViejas replied to rpv_rn's topic in General Nursing

    I've got to hand it to anyone who can do Med/Surg nursing after about 45. My body pretty much gave out on me---my knees hurt, my feet hurt, my back hurt, my shoulders hurt, even places I didn't even...
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    Music with the dying patient?

    VivaLasViejas replied to zacsmimi's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Let me tell you about a resident I had who was on hospice for failure to thrive and chronic pain (which was probably from an undiagnosed recurrence of stomach cancer). She fought death for four solid...
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    silly question, can LPN's teach?

    VivaLasViejas replied to blardyblardyhelp!!'s topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I can help you here, as I'm an Oregon nurse. LPN's can do discharge teaching, e.g. medications, wound care, s/sx to report to the MD etc. under the general direction of an RN (emphasis mine). What it...
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    Interested in National Guard but have questions

    VivaLasViejas replied to sweetiepie, rn's topic in Government, Military

    ~sigh~ This confrontational stuff is getting old. The poster said he was not CURRENTLY in the military, not that he'd never BEEN in the military. And regardless of one's expertise, no one person has...