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  1. Dealing with on call Doctors

    pickledpepperRN replied to dinkymouse's topic in General Nursing

    First I would get another staff member on another line and call that physician back. I would say, "I have someone on the line so I am clear about whether I explained this patients signs and symptomes...

  2. GREAT useful websites!!!!!

    pickledpepperRN replied to Nathalie's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you! These are great for us "old" nurses

  3. Rapid Response Team

    pickledpepperRN replied to Lukestar's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I will be interested in how it works out. The way you describe it sounds excellent. Perhaps for a small hospital in a state with ICU ratios a charge nurse, supervisor, or break relief nurse could fill...

  4. Study: Nearly 16 million insured adults lack adequate health coverage

    pickledpepperRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Right here in Los Angeles people get sick and die because they don't hace insurance. A neighbor just died of bladder cancer. He had had some blood in his urine that went away. He didn't have the...

  5. MSNBC/Connected and Arnold's Affair??????

    pickledpepperRN replied to barefootlady's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.calnurses.org/?Action=Content&id=1055 Tabloid's Deal With Woman Shielded Schwarzenegger By Peter Nicholas and Carla Hall Los Angeles Times Staff Writers August 12, 2005 SACRAMENTO...

  6. Diversity Awareness in healthcare

    pickledpepperRN replied to peacemover's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I want to thank hospital chaplains for their wonderful work. Over the years we nurses have been helped as much as our patients. At one hospital where i used to work we had a retired elementary teacher...

  7. Diversity Awareness in healthcare

    pickledpepperRN replied to peacemover's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thank you for this. Especially, We try to do this on our unit. That way when our assumptions are not those of our patients and their families we can do our best to meet their needs. If we don't know...

  8. North Carolina Professionals Against Medication Aides

    pickledpepperRN replied to VickyRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Please don't be sorry. You are right! When i was a certified nursing assistant i refused to give two Tylenol to a patient. The nurse who asked my was wrong. I once refused to irrigate a Foley because...

  9. Teach me about the National Right to Work Committee

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I forgot to add these links: http://www.nrtw.org/ http://www.calhealth.org/public/chpac/index.html...

  10. MEDICAID COMMUNITY ATTENDANT SERVICES and SUPPORTS ACT

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What do you think about this act? http://www.adapt.org/casaintr.htm http://www.knowonk.com/freeourpeople/ ADAPT's Free Our People March "The Journey is not over until Congress passes MiCASSA."...

  11. MEDICAID COMMUNITY ATTENDANT SERVICES and SUPPORTS ACT

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I know two women with CP. My good friend is in her fifties. She moved to Canada so she could work and afford healthcare. Here in the U.S.A her medicare was contingent on being disabled and unable to...

  12. Rapid Response Team

    pickledpepperRN replied to Lukestar's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Somewhat related to the topic of this thread; I responded to a near arrest in med-surg. An RN in orientation was quite upset when the physician intubated the patient. She told me she's been an RN for...

  13. Diversity Awareness in healthcare

    pickledpepperRN replied to peacemover's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I posted here a couple years ago about a patient who needed an intra aortic balloon pump (IABP) to perfuse his coronary arteries and support his blood pressure until he was sufficiently stable to...

  14. NJ staffing ratios due 7.24

    pickledpepperRN replied to tridil2000's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Can someone let un know what is going on? The NJSNA site doesn't mention posting the staffing on each unit. http://www.njsna.org/ It won't be ignored if organized nurses make news about it. The public...

  15. Will they make her cut her hair?

    pickledpepperRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    When my sister wants to cut my hair i answer that i need it long enough to put in

  16. Will they make her cut her hair?

    pickledpepperRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure you are quite professional at work. And STUNNING when you choose to

  17. Will they make her cut her hair?

    pickledpepperRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    I do wear my hair in a bun at work. Just got into the habit long ago. Most scrubs don't have collars any more. I agree with Leslie in principle though. No hair on the patient. My hospital decided on...

  18. Adminstering meds to geriatric patients

    pickledpepperRN replied to Gypsymoon's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. Notify the physician and DOCUMENT each

  19. RN-BSN Completion Advice

    pickledpepperRN replied to Stella-Ohio's topic in Nursing Career

    Your teen kids are a perfect age for a parent/student. I did a self paced RN to BSN program. I planned to finish in 15 months. Well for one semester i had to take statistics and two chemistry classes...

  20. Will they make her cut her hair?

    pickledpepperRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    I am with you both. I do want to be clear that the nurse with the beautiful long blond hair did not have dirty hair. It was a clean as hair can be (meaning bacteria ridden) until it swooped over the...

  21. Will they make her cut her hair?

    pickledpepperRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    I saw a nurses long blond straight hair graze a patients trach once. Yuch! No matter the gender or type of hair I think no member of the nursing staff should let their hair touch or hang over a...

  22. Will they make her cut her hair?

    pickledpepperRN replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    When my daughter was 10 she and her friends all got head lice. The metal comb used the remove the eggs (nits) has teeth with no space between them. There was no way to comb my daughters hair with...

  23. Rapid Response Team

    pickledpepperRN replied to Lukestar's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Here is the previous thread on RRT: https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92059 From article about Austin Hospital (Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia) and Baptist Memphis Hospital (Memphis,...

  24. Rapid Response Team

    pickledpepperRN replied to Lukestar's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I work registry sometimes and talk to the agency nurses who come to our hospital. I don't think this has come to LA (yet). CCU Nurse posted this about, I think Oklahoma University Hospital. It seemed...

  25. Why do unit nurses have bad reps?

    pickledpepperRN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    I remember when I was a med-surg LVN being upset with a float from ICU. She would only take four patients. The other RNs had 10 that 3-11 shift. When the dinner trays came she was still looking up lab...