arelle68

arelle68

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  1. LPNs working unsupervised in nursing homes

    arelle68 replied to mdfrey2010's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a new RN and the LVNs supervise me. They are awesome. They have made a nurse of me over the last several months. I really need their help. We say I am supervising them, but everyone knows it's...

  2. Did you always want to be a nurse?

    arelle68 replied to Divest's topic in General Nursing

    I really wanted to be a scientist and conduct experiments in a laboratory. I still do. Hey!? Can nurses do THAT? What would it

  3. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    Others can learn from your wisdom and experience. This thread was thought-provoking for many, even if it got a little intense at times. And don't forget, God can speak to us through each other. And...

  4. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not offended. I just realize that I ran to the wrong place for comfort, peace and perspective. What I need, allnurses can't do for me. I do apologize for the tone of my last post. I don't...

  5. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    One thing I've learned from this situation is that I can't always count on allnurses to make me feel better about what is happening. I'm thinking I'll just pray next time. Praying is a lot more...

  6. Body cold on one side but hot on the other.....

    arelle68 replied to PopeJane3rd's topic in General Nursing

    Drug induced body sensation hallucination, tactile illusion, or somatic hallucination. Psychosomatic delusions. Hypochondria. Wanting the doctor to give him something else, maybe. Who knows? We...

  7. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    This is why we place it near the center of her back, and low enough that she can't reach it. That is where we found the patch that was dated with a date some 10 days prior. The patch was to be...

  8. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    a lot of this flack i'm catching is because everyone is paranoid and freaked out at the thought of losing their jobs right now. they've found a safe way to express that...picking on me on a website...

  9. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    This situation was the final straw for the fired nurse. Not the only straw. One straw of very, very

  10. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    End-stage Alzheimer's unit. Cognitive impairment of a catastrophic

  11. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    southernbeegirl, You asked me what my coworkers think. This seems to be the general consensus: They are relieved not to have to be covering up this nurse's mistakes all the time anymore, and say that...

  12. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    you don't report med errors to the supervisor? wow! i thought i was doing what i was suppose to do. what should i have done, ruby? i didn't think it was innocuous. it wasn't a tylenol, or...

  13. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    maybe i should have done it that way. i'll talk to some of my mentors about it, and see what they say. i didn't think this nurse would get in any trouble at all after some of the things i've seen...

  14. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    i didn't know that i was supposed to do that. i'm just an ignorant new grad. no one told me. what could she had done, anyway? she couldn't go back in time 5 days, and put the patch on. she...

  15. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    the policy is that the family is to be notified that the error was made. i followed

  16. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    I called the nurse manager first. Was instructed by the manager to file an incident report. The family was then called as part of incident

  17. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    I am a very new nurse, and didn't know about the unwritten protocol of calling the other nurse first. When things come up, and I don't know what to do, I call my manager. That is what I did on this...

  18. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    not a happy situation for me,

  19. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    i didn't know what to do. i wasn't in charge. i was acting on my manager's orders. i did what she told

  20. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    The write up was not at my discretion. It is required that we write up every med error we find as an incident. I called my RCM about it, and she told me to do it, and to save the old patch for her...

  21. Who controls nursing?

    arelle68 replied to phillipsrn's topic in General Nursing

    Neither. It's the big money corporations that control nursing, much to the detriment of nurses and

  22. Passing clinical exam after lpn to rn online course

    arelle68 replied to Irishgirl99's topic in General Nursing

    I got my RN through Excelsior, also. It is a great education. If you can pass the Nursing Concepts exams, you'll have no trouble with the NCLEX because they are designed in a way to prepare you for...

  23. I feel so stupid. What should I have done?

    arelle68 posted a topic in General Nursing

    A CNA came to me and told me that one of my residents was walking fine yesterday, but couldn't walk today. I went to assess her, and had the CNA's lay her down. She was screaming and sobbing. I...

  24. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    BP was elevated, but corrected within a couple of hours after applying the new

  25. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    i've been given to understand that this is not her only