MIA-RN

hi all. I'm an RN looking at a position as MDS coordinator in a 200 bed LTC nursing home. Does anyone have an idea what the average salary is? I live in Upstate/Western NYS. thanks!

my tattoo artist told me that most ink allergies are to the reds. maybe that has something to do with it?

Looking for ways to make the daily heparin injections easier on my patients. Some are pretty bruised and one cried the other day. I do everything the way I should but it hurts them so much; I don't think its my technique as much as the medication i...

These are my thoughts: superficial scar tissue: New and delicate tissue, easily injured and more susceptible to sunburn and damage. It doesn't cause cancer but is way more susceptible to damage/injury and therefore cancer. seborrheic keratoses: I thi...

1. how many years have you been a nurse? a few months short of 3 years. i have been a nurse in the ed for just over a year. 2. what is your educational background and/or specialty certifications do you hold? i have an aas in nursing. 3. what is t...

I avoid this by not pushing meds too often. I never push narcs either. I am always interested in what meds are compatible. I saw an empty IV bag in the garbage that a nurse had labeled 'toradol' and 'zofran'. I wonder if they are really compatible?

I work in the ED and I never try to hold a patient. Shift change doesn't matter in my ED...we get patients as we empty rooms. It's not uncommon to come into a shift in the ED and have a couple 'established' patients and then have a few more that were...

Hi everyone! I am looking for suggestions/recommendations for a pocket-sized lab reference guide. I am looking for something that lists lab tests, normal values, critical values, and what may cause the labs to be out of the normal ranges. I KNOW thes...

Thanks! I am going to check the site out now!

oh. my . god. I am so embarrassed--I have this book and forgot about it! Thank you so much!

Remember that you just earned your degree in 'textbook nursing'. You are now going into 'real world nursing' and there will be a conflict at some point between what you learned, and what is done. Remember that there is often more than one right way, ...

When I am Charge (which is usually) I take a full assignment, room patients, try to finagle moving patients to the floors, check with triaging issues, help the other nurses, be sure everyone gets their break and cover accordingly, keep a general flow...

I remember being a very young child in the early 70's and every time I went to the doctor's, the nurse pricked my finger. She would then draw the blood up in a pipette held in her mouth. I remember being scared that she was going to suck out all my b...

I think that even working as a tech, you will be held to the standards of a nurse. Meaning that if you find something wrong with a patient, say vs or bg or something, you have to do something about it, other than report it to the covering nurse. Not ...

Here is another question along these same lines... After drawing up the meds with the filter needle, do you have to change out the needle before injecting the meds into a 50cc bag? I switch out the needle, but nurses that I work with have told me tha...

Having just sliced my finger a few days ago on an evil ampule of dilauded....I am none too happy that we are using them again. The pharmacy does not have any ampule openers. I am not a happy camper.

I've had a couple viral meningitis patients and my understanding is that its a common virus that just happens to infect the meninges (please correct me if I am wrong). So you need the same precautions for viral as you would for a cold...good old stan...

I was thinking TIA as I watched it but he is so pale, as someone else mentioned. It could have been some kind of syncopal episode, related some internal bleeding we don't know about, that led to a faint. If not for his color I'd say TIA as well.

I havent counted the beds exactly, but where I work its around 90+ adult beds, not including peds, which is maybe 40--dedicated to peds only, with its own staff of peds nurses and providers. We see over 95K visits a year, and are a regional trauma ...

Unless there was blood in the mucous, you don't need to worry too much. Even a needlestick @ work is only a very small risk. Go to the doctor but don't lose any sleep.

How does this affect nurses who are required to take a certain number of on-call hours? Will they do away with call time?

We are like others here in that we are divided into two groups, and the holidays are divided up fairly. It is pretty much every other holiday and if its Thanksgiving you also work the day after, if you're on Christmas you work Eve as well, and NY is ...

I was a girl scout until about 6th grade. Later, during nursing school, I was a co-leader for my daughter's junior troop. We did some nice community service in our troop, but once I got my first nursing job, I had to stop with the troop--too worn out...

You rock! And you sing better than I do, FWIW. Keep it up, man! :)

If you come into the hospital complaining of stomach pain and we give you protonix and pepcid, you are not allowed to get angry that we didn't give you morphine. ESPECIALLY if your nurse catches you eating hot wings w/ bleu cheese that your wife snuc...