KaroSnowQueen RN

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    Any hints for organization?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to rn4booboo's topic in General Nursing

    I take report on my cardex by making the following notations and filling them in as report progresses: *A&O:, Heart:, Lungs:, O2:, IV:, IVF:, PPP:, Ed (edema):, BS (bowels sounds, last BM, abd...
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    How often are the Dads prosecuted?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to LydiaNN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This is only a guess based on what I've seen in the past, that either A. the young mothers come from a family pattern of this, and no one bothers to make the fathers come forward and pay, either by...
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    I can't believe I let this man hurt me like this

    KaroSnowQueen replied to OHmom2boys's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am so sorry for the loss of your little babies. I do encourage you to get counselling. My son and his fiancee lost a baby at 18 weeks, and that has been a year and a half ago, and they are just...
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    Do the state inspectors ever show up on noc shift?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have came to work and night shift nurses frantic, state in the door at 4 am The same facility, the next year they showed up at 10
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    Is swearing normal??

    KaroSnowQueen replied to kimburlynn's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yes I usually in "real life" try to be pleasant and polite and please and thank you and yes mam no mam sort of person. :) Coming out of surgery, it's "I WANT A G--D--- Coke and get this M--F--ing...
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    A Nurse's Living Will/Advanced Directives

    KaroSnowQueen replied to rnmi2004's topic in General Nursing

    DNR here. Living will, no trachs, no colostomy, no %*(#%@$ feeding tubes!! My living will specifically states that if I cannot get better and "drink a Coke and read a book under my own power" to...
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    Pxyis Medication Administration

    KaroSnowQueen replied to Deb Howe's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    It's okay. We started it in March, and have been getting some glitches out. We haven't used carts in two years, we were all passing meds out of drawers in the med room (JACHO said our carts were a...
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    Back-to-back 12 hour shifts

    KaroSnowQueen replied to Tiki_Torch's topic in General Nursing

    The most I try to do is 2 in a row. Three are exhausting, I will spend half the 4th day in bed trying to recover. I used to do 6 in 7 days when I was younger but cannot imagine even attempting it...
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    $12 an hour?!

    KaroSnowQueen replied to HisTreasure's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I am an LPN, last nursing home job I had was paying me $16 an hour when I left. I now work hospital through agency,making 21.70. The hospital only pays the LPNs about $14 an hour. This is all in...
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    Parentheral applications with each other at school?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to gomedina's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    We only did one on another student, and it was a subq. This was twenty years ago.
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    Accuity Vs Staffing Needs: Are They Taking Us Seriously?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to Tadpole's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Acuity??? The last time I heard that word was when I was in nursing school twenty years ago!!!! The hospital we did clinicals in was staffed according to acuity, presumably, the nurses there seemed...
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    Family in room during a resusitation?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Yes, I would give anything if I had been able to be at my mother's side and hear her last
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    Has anybody heard of this? AVM & Brain Abscess.

    KaroSnowQueen replied to BBFRN's topic in General Nursing

    Let us know how he does! Is he at your hospital or somewhere
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    Agency nursing vs full time jobs; pros & cons

    KaroSnowQueen replied to marymary's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked agency exclusively for three years and love it. Higher pay, work the hours I want to, NO mandatory holidays, etc. Hubby carries the insurance, always has, since healthcare insurance...
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    Has anybody heard of this? AVM & Brain Abscess.

    KaroSnowQueen replied to BBFRN's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure about the brain abcess, but my son in law's mother had an AVM in her brain, had to have brain surgery to take it out, resect the veins, etc. She had surgery on a Monday, went home on a...
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    how much Indiana nurses make

    KaroSnowQueen replied to nurseluv9's topic in Indiana Nursing

    I am an LPN. LTC pays 12 to 16-18 an hr. Hospitals do not pay as well, around 12 to 14-15 hr. I have not worked office, but we had an RN quit a dr office and come to LTC, she was only being paid...
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    holiday pay

    KaroSnowQueen replied to harley_fan's topic in General Nursing

    I will have been a nurse 21 years this fall, and the job I have now, have been here 3 yrs, is the FIRST one nurse job I have ever had that paid holiday pay!!! Looking FORWARD to working next Monday to...
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    Recommend epidurals?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to lady_jezebel's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am 43 and have given birth to 3 kids. All of them I had an epidural with. I would never do it any other way. You can't get one until you are more than 5 cm dilated, but my Lamaze breathing worked...
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    Too Many Nurses?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to LilStudent's topic in General Nursing

    They were screaming "nursing shortage" twenty years ago when I was in nursing school and predicting a glut of nurses from those entering the profession in response to all the announcements of...
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    caths.question

    KaroSnowQueen replied to PCGrad06's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Both RNs and LPNs put in Foleys. Putting them in men is easy. The weird part is finding out all women are NOT made exactly like the sketches in the anatomy books, with urethral openings in the same...
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    I have to be bathed by my classmate???

    KaroSnowQueen replied to Saved_by_Grace's topic in General Students

    Yes, we stripped down to our bras and underpants and put a pt gown and our classmate bathed us. And if they went around the bed to get something they forgot, and left the side rail down, the...
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    have you had an abortion?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to cutecat's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I couldn't get the link in apoole's post above to work so I found the page and am reposting the link: http://www.ferre.org/workbook This site takes you through all options, keeping the baby, abortion,...
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    have you had an abortion?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to cutecat's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have not personally had one, although I came close about twenty some years ago. I found out I was pregnant when my baby was only six months old. I did not feel ready to have another baby...
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    Should new LPN grad go into Med/Surg right away?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to J Lynn's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Yes by all means go to med
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    Are u extremely organized and meticulous?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to susanna's topic in General Nursing

    I am very organized at work. Everything in it's place, got a routine that I do every day, charting done by x time, etc. At home. Well. It's better than it used to be but I am still not up for...