CapeCodMermaid RN

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    Fired within 90 days... advice?

    CapeCodMermaid replied to blue_belle9's topic in Nursing Career

    I have a long employment history since I've been a nurse since dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Consequently, I have a long resume'. I've stayed at some places for less than 90 days so those I listed on...
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    Only 5 units of insulin per injection site??

    CapeCodMermaid replied to utah23LPN's topic in General Nursing

    You could repost this in the Oops Things That Make You Go Huh!? thread. It's good practice to know your facility policy and not follow the suggestions of someone who quotes a relative which is the...
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    New DON

    CapeCodMermaid replied to fulzgold's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Fulzgold, I think we might have worked for the same company. I worked at one place where the admissions people were told not to consult me, the DNS, before admitting someone if census was low. Mind...
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    Ops! Things that make you go huh!

    CapeCodMermaid replied to 9livesRN's topic in General Nursing

    Gotta love spirited discussion. In you and me fever might kill bacteria, but in a 94 year old woman with orders for No IVs, NO antibiotics, NO hospitalization.....it was the only thing we had to use...
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    Considering LTC in the future

    CapeCodMermaid replied to iwillact's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I find your post to be highly insulting. I didn't become a nurse to make money and I didn't work my way up to be a DNS for the bonuses. I love what I do since every day as the clinical leader of the...
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    Ops! Things that make you go huh!

    CapeCodMermaid replied to 9livesRN's topic in General Nursing

    I recently had a nurse tell me we shouldn't give a resident Tylenol for a fever because fevers kill the bacteria in a sick person's body.
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    Ops! Things that make you go huh!

    CapeCodMermaid replied to 9livesRN's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed.
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    "Alphabet Soup" After Nurses' Name?

    CapeCodMermaid replied to Arianna727's topic in General Nursing

    What bothered me in my last job was the vp in charge of clinical affairs. He had plenty of initials after his name but had never worked a day on the floor. He was clueless about real life
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    Ops! Things that make you go huh!

    CapeCodMermaid replied to 9livesRN's topic in General Nursing

    The last post makes me go "Huh??"
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    giving iv argumentin

    CapeCodMermaid replied to obonye's topic in Pediatric

    Did you Augmentin or is there a new drug to give when people argue? Call the pharmacy with any question about a
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    Need a Cranial Deimpaction of the Writing Kind!

    CapeCodMermaid replied to clinicalteach's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    How about (and don't flame me) spelling DIS-IMPACTION the correct way! I had a friend who was a great nurse. Poor thing couldn't spell to save her life. I was reviewing charts one day. She wrote on...
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    Considering LTC in the future

    CapeCodMermaid replied to iwillact's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I wouldn't hire someone as a supervisor who didn't have experience as a staff nurse. Not every facility is short staffed with or horrible. If you want to work in LTC, find a good one and work there....
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    Pre-authorization position.

    CapeCodMermaid replied to Been there,done that's topic in Case Management

    I don't think your background has as much to do with your capability to do this job as does your understanding of the insured's coverage. Each company and each plan within that company has many...
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    Quick question to all the nurses out there regarding thank yous

    CapeCodMermaid replied to RADIATION_RN's topic in General Nursing

    What a perfectly lovely idea! I'm sure all the nurses would appreciate
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    Just when you thought you'd heard it all

    CapeCodMermaid replied to mizfradd's topic in General Nursing

    My son got the chicken pox before there was a vaccine. All the moms in the neighboruphood sent their kids to my house in the hopes the kids would get it and be done with it before they started school....
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    Cover your mouth....the right way!

    CapeCodMermaid replied to IslandRae's topic in General Nursing

    My kids were taught in school more than twenty years ago to always cough and sneeze into their elbows. There is a DVD available called Do It In Your Sleeve. It should be mandatory viewing for any...
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    CapeCodMermaid replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was re-writing policies at one facility. I looked at the DNR policy. One of the choices was Do Not Incubate. When I changed it a bunch of them wanted to know what was wrong with the original...
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    How to stop visitors from using empty bed???

    CapeCodMermaid replied to AJPV's topic in General Nursing

    Visitors lounging on beds, kids who are visiting popping wheelies in the wheelchairs in the halls, screaming brats allowed to run helter skelter through the building. It's all just an extension of the...
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    Pharm Sales Reps? Where to find them?

    CapeCodMermaid replied to TheOracle's topic in General Nursing

    So they can hand out drug samples but aren't allowed to give me a pen with the name of the drug on it? What a
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    sneaking meds in food

    CapeCodMermaid replied to playforever's topic in General Nursing

    I've had family members who were e HCP, invoked, tell me to hold down their faimily member if necessary to get their antipsychotic meds into them. Health Care Proxy or not, I am not holding anyone...
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    Needy, needy, needy... vent please.

    CapeCodMermaid replied to rksgray13's topic in General Nursing

    I really really hope you're
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    Pharm Sales Reps? Where to find them?

    CapeCodMermaid replied to TheOracle's topic in General Nursing

    Check the regs. I think what they can and can't give you has been
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    sneaking meds in food

    CapeCodMermaid replied to playforever's topic in General Nursing

    Carolmacca...we in the States are NOT allowed to force anyone to do anything in LTC and we certainly are not allowed to hurt them. And, yes, I've been hit ,kicked, and a resident tried to choke
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    sneaking meds in food

    CapeCodMermaid replied to playforever's topic in General Nursing

    Nope. Not a good going to do. Why force morphine on someone? It's a fine line and we don't allow it in my facility POA or
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    Please Help Make Retractable Safety Needles Mandatory

    CapeCodMermaid replied to LRB79's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I worked for a company that used retractable syringes. Apparently, they then thought the cost was too high and I got a memo to cease ordering them. I refused and presented statistics which showed...