MarcusKspn

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  1. Please help me think of a nursing-related name!!!

    MarcusKspn replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Dublicate

  2. Please help me think of a nursing-related name!!!

    MarcusKspn replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I.Sea.U. The

  3. Feeling worthless right now.....

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    OK, so right now I am feeling like a worthless piece of excrement. I just wanted to post here and let you guys know what happened to see what you think about happened. I also want to post this to...

  4. Feeling worthless right now.....

    MarcusKspn replied to MarcusKspn's topic in General Nursing

    I think that I remember that PT/INR is not a very good test that checks for the effects of Lovenox, but shouldn't we have been running some sort of test to see how the Lovenox that we gave for 30 days...

  5. Muslim, Orthodox Jews, Mennonites; How to care for female patients of "modest" faiths

    MarcusKspn replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that you have to uncover someone to examine the injury. But if you knew that it was an isolated leg injury you only need to uncover the leg to examine. You can do a "feel" exam through the...

  6. Any nursing tatoo's?

    MarcusKspn replied to MacERRN's topic in General Nursing

    I got this a couple years ago for my

  7. HELP!!! with ACLS Drugs!

    MarcusKspn replied to Town & Country's topic in Emergency

    Alex plays dirty every

  8. HELP!!! with ACLS Drugs!

    MarcusKspn replied to Town & Country's topic in Emergency

    I have heard conflicting information about whether or not Vasopressin can be given down the

  9. HELP!!! with ACLS Drugs!

    MarcusKspn replied to Town & Country's topic in Emergency

    When I did ACLS this week they taught me ALONE Atropine Lidocaine Oxygen Narcan

  10. Suggested Reading!

    MarcusKspn replied to alphafe's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I like the "Chicken Soup for the Nurses soul" Book, not really history or activism, but a good read about some of what it means to be a nurse I think. I've also read the book "Nurse!", which was...

  11. What are some of the strangest situations you have gotten into in home health

    MarcusKspn replied to lioneliz's topic in Home Health

    One of my patients was a young 19 year old girl who was recieving Vancomycin infusions via PICC. Her infusions were done and we were just waiting on the doctors orders to pull the PICC. She was...

  12. Glad I got malpractice insurance

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was having dinner with my wife at IHOP last night, and in the booth behind us a couple was having an interesting conversation. I didn't hear the whole story since I was having my own conversation...

  13. Preparing for Hurricane Frances..Any other Floridians out there??

    MarcusKspn replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

    More Prayers headed your

  14. AWOL-seen any patients using this yet?

    MarcusKspn replied to needsmore$'s topic in Emergency

    If they are using an Oxygen Concentrator like they show in the picture I would think this whole thing would be illegal. O2 is a medication and they would have to have a prescription to give it to...

  15. AWOL-seen any patients using this yet?

    MarcusKspn replied to needsmore$'s topic in Emergency

    This looks a lot like a regular O2 concentrator that they painted. Would you run a risk of aspiration after a whole night of nebulizing

  16. RN + Paramedic

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in Emergency

    Hello everyone, I'm an LPN working on my prereqs for getting my RN license. I want to end up working ER. While I'm taking my Anatomy, etc.., I'm also taking an Basic EMT class. I would like to get my...

  17. what does c=rn mean?

    MarcusKspn replied to 2ndbach's topic in General Students

    I know the Nursing program I went through you "only" had to have a C to pass, since that is one of the requirements that the Board of Nursing has in our state. But they also ammented the Grade Scale...

  18. When did we stop washing hair?

    MarcusKspn replied to LaNorteBellaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I know during my clinicals we had to give a pretty good reason to our instructors if one of our patient didn't get a bath or a shampoo. But of course as a nursing student you had a "heavy load" of you...

  19. Low/moderate stress nursing jobs???

    MarcusKspn replied to Genista's topic in General Nursing

    I am working in a Home Health office. 8-5 PM, no holidays, always a break, no call. But I always have the option to do evening and weekend visits, but only if I want to. That give me a chance to keep...

  20. One Handed Ostomy Care?

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello everybody, once again I am in need of your advice. My home health company has recieved a referral today to teach a one-armed man to do his own ostomy care. Our search on the internet has been...

  21. One Handed Ostomy Care?

    MarcusKspn replied to MarcusKspn's topic in General Nursing

    Never mind people, turned out this referral was a false alarm. All our intake department nurses were sick that day and one of our accountants was running intake. She failed to ask some questions...

  22. Just a story to share.

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    I talked about this storie in another part of the forum, the memory about it made me laugh so I thought I'd share it with people here. We had one Code in long term care where the wife was present. The...

  23. Family in room during a resusitation?

    MarcusKspn replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    I had one Code in long term care where the wife was present. The patient was coming back to the home walking from his car to the door when he collapsed outside. We called the code (Not ACLS, just BSL...

  24. Climara for control of deviant sexual behavior?

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everybody, I had a question for everybody: I have heard of Climara or other estrogen delivery systems being used to control sexual behavior in men. For example to control fondling of female...

  25. Do you ever turn off being a nurse?

    MarcusKspn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everybody, I was wondering if you guys are able to ever turn off being a nurse, or if you are always in "Nurse Mode". I went to a concert last weekend, POD and Linkin Park in case anybody was...