vernonleon

vernonleon specializes in Public Health, Med Surg, HIV Care.

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1. Lovenox question.

   vernonleon replied to LuVnLpN08's topic in General Nursing

   of course there is all kinds of great information posted in response to the ops question, but i've got to throw in my little bit that's a bit of a tangent but still on the topic of lovenox. make sure...

2. Code Blue...

   vernonleon posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   One of my patients coded during my last week of orientation, then another nearly coded my second or third week off of orientation. Today one of my co-workers patients coded. As is the usual case both...

3. HESI exit exam

   vernonleon replied to The_umph's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Does anyone think this might be nothing more than a way to artificially boost a schools NCLEX pass rate? At my school we had to do ATI every semester, then we had an ATI comprehensive exam at the end....

4. How to Report Graduate-Entry MSN on Resume

   vernonleon posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   I just finished my M.S.N., and I'm one of those accelerated non-RN to M.S.N. people. I don't quite know how to report this on my resume. To date, I've written in M.S.N. as my only nursing education,...

5. Question on Bipolar Phases

   vernonleon replied to Melinurse's topic in Psychiatric

   BTW, cyclothymic/cyclothymia is a disorder unto itself. It describes a disorder in which an individual has never had a major depressive episode or a full-blown manic episode, but who has had both...

6. dating someone with schizophrenia

   vernonleon replied to dipsett08's topic in Psychiatric

   My mother had schizophrenia. She was lucky in that it was very episodic; knowing what I do now I think it's possible that she was actually bi-polar, but who knows. The whole thing with schizophrenia,...

7. You know your a Louisiana nurse when...

   vernonleon replied to MissERN's topic in Louisiana Nursing

   'k, I'm an ignorant Californian, so I must ask: What is

8. Is Nursing in NOLA Really That Bad?

   vernonleon replied to cpkRN's topic in Louisiana Nursing

   Which of the hospitals in NOLA is the community/public hospital? I'm thinking about moving to NOLA from San Francisco, and I have no idea about the hospitals in NOLA, beyond a couple of names. Also,...

9. I have a IV insertion question :-)

   vernonleon replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

   It also seems like this would decrease the time to the catheter clotting-off from having the blood flow into, rather than around, the catheter. In an emergency situation with no other option at the...

10. Indian Health Service (IHS) Facility Locator

    vernonleon replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    If you have a license in any U.S. State, you can work for IHS (or any part of the federal government, i.e. VA) that you want

11. Do you always have an RN waste narcotics with you?

    vernonleon replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

    What about in a community setting? I'm a very green RN and witnessed for another nurse who was disposing of meds that one of our clients brought in for disposal. I did not witness the chain of...

12. Held Down and Forced to Take The FLu Shot

    vernonleon replied to Nurse_FF_EMT's topic in General Nursing

    Not that it matters, but in CA RNs can administer vaccines without physician oversight. At any rate, I honestly have trouble believing this. If it's true, I'd send your mom in with a hidden camera...