woody62 RN

I just finished reading a newspaper article about three ICU nurses, in Texas, who were fired for refusing to take on three patients. One of the nurse's complained that she was assigned a fresh CABG, that was located some distance from her other two ...

I do not know. When I reactivated my license, here in Florida, in 1996, they asked for a diagnose, medications and when I had been last hospitalized. My psychiatrist wrote a letter stating he felt I was stable and saw no reason to restrict my licen...

There is no simple answer to the question. Even if the minor is emancipated, most physicians and hospital administrators would not accept a request. At the very minimum, two or more psych evaluations. And if parents appear, it would be a hard row ...

I would choose the answer which had the 5PM included in it. I very rarely take regular insulin. And I generally take it on a sliding scale because of my use of steroids to help control my asthma. And most Type 2's who do, take the combination, which ...

Many of us insulin dependent Type 2's, nurse and non-nurse, are well educated in the symptoms of hypoglycemia. We know when we start to experience the early symptoms, enough to check our blood sugar. And if it has only dropped a little, to continue t...

I am sorry but I believe none of these answers are correct. I take NPH and occasionally regular insulin with it. I have to watch for a hypoglycemic attack at the time at which my NPH begins to peak, six to ten hours. And if I have to take regular ins...

When I first started in nursing, we had an ethics committee to decide when to take a patient off a ventilator and DNR him. Unfortunately, it seemed the committee took more time then the patient did to decide to die. I have informed my daughter her ...

In an attempt to answer the OP's questions. We have been allowing facilities to import foreign nurses to shore up the almost continuous shortage of nurses. We began losing young people entering nursing programs in the 1970's when more and more fiel...

I have a Living Will and a Health Care Proxy. My daughter is named as my proxy. She and I have had numerous talks about what I want done if I am no longer able to voice my choice. I have also discussed this with my PCP, who is aware of my feelings...

No, I am a sixty-three year old grandmother, not a grandfather. If anyone thought I meant for someone to take an upset individual off into a secluded room, you have miss understood what I was attempting to say. But neither would I have this discuss...

I would take a different route from what many have suggested here. It is not pleasant to be berated by a family member, especially in front of others. But this gives you an opportunity to use all those excellent communication skills you learn in yo...

nursesteve2004, if I had been an employee and received the lecture you state all employees did, I would have been looking for another job. No one is forced to stay with an employer that they feel puts them and others in jeopardy. If anyone stays wi...

I am sixty-three years old. I have no savings, no retirement, no property, about $30,000 in medical debts that I have been slowly paying off, no credit cards. I live on a fixed income, which after paying all my expenses for the month, generally lea...

A few questions, please. How do you wash your hands between patients? How do you wash your hands prior to giving a treatment. How do you remove dressings and apply fresh ones? How to you pass an NG tube or a foley? I agree with the other poster....

Back in the mid1990's I was on a fentanyl patch. I suffered no lethargy, so I think hers may be due to something else. Second, one gets a measured dose. Putting on a new patch does not give a patient a boost of medication. I would have removed th...

I wonder what the DON would do if surgeons said their patients were to received pain medication regardless of HER rule? I can understand it not being given then a patient being asked to sign for consent immediately or shortly after receiving it. I ...

What do youmean you could keep up with your paramedic classmates? I was an undiagnosed bipolar during my nursing program and it was a struggle for me. I was diagnosed in 1976 and went on medication with very good effect. I came off medication duri...

I am outside of your perimeters but I think I have some insight. How much of a down-payment can you make? Most banks are requiring a higher down-payment then they have in the past. What type of interest rate can you honestly afford? What will you...

I realized after I had posted the confusion. Most of the posters, on the ADA board, advise the person who is experiencing false hypoglycemic attacks to initially treat their false hypoglycemia but to work at lowering their blood sugars. Despite wha...

What drugs is good depends on the type of staph infection that the individual is suffering from and the results of their culture and sensitivity. Broad spectrums are generally started initially. MRSA or VSRA is the worse and hardest to treat becaus...

I am a Type 2 and on NPH and metformin. When my blood sugar drops, which it does rarely, I have advised my roommate to call 911 and make sure I continue to breath. I want no one but a paramedic attempting to elevate my blood sugar. But there are T...

I haven't worked in a number of years but I worked as a staff nurse, a staff relief nurse and Nurse Manager. Counts had to be correct before anyone, anyone could leave the floor. I have never had the experience of a medication being missing that no...

Interesting. Back to the original question. Most certification exam organizations will investigate reports of 'mis-steps' on their applications. I believe it was unethical for her to take the exam. I would have made a phone call. Woody:twocents:

When I wqorked nights, we had a turn sheet that had to be signed every two hours, after a patient had been turned. I was in ICU for twenty-one days and I was turned every two hours. Did they wake me up sometimes? Yes. But I managed to fall back t...

Hand washing, hand washing, hand washing. The two infections I yhad, both post op, were staph. Someone missed somewhere in washing or changing my dressings. Woody:twocents: Now going to watch the :heartbeat:heartbeatfemale gymnastics team:yeah::hea...