woody62

woody62 RN

icu, er, transplant, case management, ps

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  1. Disaster/Pandemic preparedness

    woody62 replied to LMonty911's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Personally I am taking my own steps to prepare for the possibility that I will have to care for family/friends outside the hospital. I recently "raided" a medical warehouse and came away with cases of...

  2. hostile ex-mother-in law being admitted

    woody62 replied to llisdog's topic in General Nursing

    The best thing to do is to ignore her. I know that this may be impossible but you must try. I doubt that she will stop her hostile behavior toward you. If she does talk to other patients and staff,...

  3. Nurse to Doctor

    woody62 replied to Caitlind89's topic in General Nursing

    I am not a midwife or a doctor. It depends on what you want to deliver. If you don't want to do high risk pregnancies and deliveries, a midwife is the best option for you. But there are a few...

  4. Patients on Medicaid

    woody62 replied to DiEd's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You have made a great point. And even those that we don't think get a tax break, such as the super rich, like Bill Gates, get tax breaks. He gets breaks based on his millions of dollars he donates...

  5. Alternatives to bedside nursing??

    woody62 replied to dap7699's topic in General Nursing

    Most of the suggestions offered are good ones. However, most of them require at a minimum one year of experience. And two or three years is much better and gives you a better depth of knowledge and...

  6. Florence Nightengale Pledge.

    woody62 replied to Diary/Dairy's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, I remember starching my cap in liquid starch and then slapping it on to a mirror to dry. And pinning my bid and apron together, and having it stand up, alone, overnight, before I put it on. I...

  7. Florence Nightengale Pledge.

    woody62 replied to Diary/Dairy's topic in General Nursing

    The last time I said it, was on June 22, 1964 at my capping ceremony. Ya, we even wore caps back then. Along with heavily starched bibs, aprons, collars and cuffs.

  8. "It must be nice to sit in front of a computer all day"

    woody62 replied to BluntForceTrauma's topic in General Nursing

    At worse I would have answered him by saying 'it must be, unfortunately I don't.' At best, I would have explained just what I was doing. One does neither nursing or patients or the facility they...

  9. RN question to CMA's (tell me it ain't so)

    woody62 replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm planning on a stop next summer when I go to Glacier National Park, via Amtrack. Unless there are no trains traveling to where I want to go, I'm no longer flying. Long distance travel on Amtrack...

  10. A surgeon's perception of nursing education.

    woody62 replied to Grandy's topic in General Nursing

    I found this doctor rather full of himself. He apparently wants to go back to the good old days where nurses were his hand maidens. And they saved his butt on numerous occasions. I've worked with...

  11. RN question to CMA's (tell me it ain't so)

    woody62 replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    Unless you CLEP some of the course or took it at a community college, none of the credits you received while studying to be a PN are accepted by any nursing program. They are not taken at a college...

  12. RN question to CMA's (tell me it ain't so)

    woody62 replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps in your part of the country but it is not true in upstate New York. I went back to Hudson Valley Community College in 2003. If you were a full time student, even in 2003, it was possible for...

  13. Sad conversation today

    woody62 replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    i agree with leslie. and the next time you see her, ask her about any pets she may have had. or funny things that her children, if she had any, did when they were younger. or ask her about her own...

  14. Patients on Medicaid

    woody62 replied to DiEd's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I also think there should be a time when noncompliant persons are removed from medicaid roles. I'm sorry but just who gets to decide who is noncompliant and what do they use to make this...

  15. incapable, helpless, unmotivated, unteachable pts who are unable to cope with life

    woody62 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I started my career, as a nurse, working nights on a general med-sur unit. There wasn't much opportunity to interact because most of the patients slept thru the night. And those that didn't, wanted...

  16. RN question to CMA's (tell me it ain't so)

    woody62 replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    I had no problem getting a license in 1980. Nor did I have any problem reactivating my license in 1996. And it didn't cost me much, either time. Now I have to jump thru hoops. But what really piss...

  17. Patients on Medicaid

    woody62 replied to DiEd's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The problem with health insurance companies is they are in business to make money. You don't make money by paying out too rapidly or by not denying various items and claims. And making the doctors,...

  18. Rich nurses?

    woody62 replied to tiij's topic in General Nursing

    I hate to say this but a new graduate, down here in SW Florida, starts out between $17 to $19 per hour. And in 2002, when I applied for a job, in Albany, New York, they started a new nurse out at...

  19. Can your license be revoked over assault?

    woody62 replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I think we have all gotten our collective legs pulled.

  20. Rich nurses?

    woody62 replied to tiij's topic in General Nursing

    I collect approximately $30,000 a year between my SSDI and my health annuity. According to some, I am grossly over compensated. Considering I made more then $85,000 the last year I worked, I am...

  21. Can your license be revoked over assault?

    woody62 replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Since all NPA have a morality clause, yes you can likely lose your license. And you can be criminally prosecuted. Suggest you pack your bag and leave the country.:trout:

  22. RN question to CMA's (tell me it ain't so)

    woody62 replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not posting this to pick an argument but you haven't met me or any of my classmates. I attended Hudson Valley Community College, from 1969 to 1971. That is just two years. And I graduated with...

  23. Pavarotti

    woody62 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I first began attending the opera in the Fall of 1971. I received free tickets to performances at Lincoln Center, NYC. I got to listen to Beverley Sills, who died several months a go, and grew to...

  24. RN question to CMA's (tell me it ain't so)

    woody62 replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    Until I moved to Florida, in 1980, I never had to worry if the person assisting the doctor was a licensed nurse or a certified P.A. It was only here that I found out how free and easy this state is...

  25. blood glucose levels

    woody62 replied to traumamomtx's topic in General Nursing

    I am a Type 2 insulin dependent diabetic. And I have been since 1990. TPN automatically gets finger sticks, as to anyone on IV steroids, and those post surgical, even if they are not yet diagnosed....