RN1989

Hey ya'll, need some help. I need links and/or names of places to call to get diabetic education materials, etc. I have the usual places like ADA, TX Diabetes Council, NDEP so I'm covered for brochures. What I could use is stuff like diabetes star...

i received the following email exchange and was asked to post here for other nurses/lncs to see. an ad appeared in nurseweek asking "tired of nursing?" and promoting an lnc course as a way to get away from practicing nursing. as experienced lncs kn...

You will NOT look like a jerk! You are so awesome! It takes a lot of courage to do what you did, particularly when you are not in a large facility where you can duck under the radar. If people think you were wrong and are ugly to you - they obvio...

Most facilities don't have a time period for something like that, compared to switching units. But there must be an open slot for you to take on another shift or day, etc. And often times there must be someone to replace you on that shift as well, as...

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Any advice YOU feel like giving this poster has nothing to do with MY specific experiences. You are free to give any advice you wish, whether it contradicts someone else or not. I don't desire to get into specifics with you regarding my personal expe...

Obviously nursing IS like this, or there would not be many posts on allnurses telling tales of this very nature. Perhaps you have not experienced it - but it is becoming the norm and no longer the exception. I have yet to see any employer give an em...

PCA/PCT is the name hospitals use for an untrained, unlicensed person that does CNA work. Working in a hospital/NH will give you more experience as far as the technical skills of caring for people's ADLs (activities of daily living - feeding, bathing...

You will find this type of situation repeated all over the country every day. You need to be very selective when you choose a job to be sure that you don't get in over your head and feel the need to keep quiting. This is real life, not nursing scho...

I've never heard of any "stipend" doing agency work. I'd want more info on all that, how it works, where does this thing come from? Considering that the last agency I worked for paid $26/hr at a horrible hospital.....I might go to to work for an age...

I have obtained some of the materials from other courses. While I found one book for the course to have good information in it and is a good reference book - I don't think that anyone could take that course and be ready to jump right in writing repo...

While I think Jolie has some good ideas, I still don't have a belief myself of how to fix this mess. Various hospitals that I have worked for, always had policies in place that had the bottom line numbers for surgeries, etc. for private pay patients....

Ours is way more than a measly $1K to keep it affordable. Such is the nature of healthcare today.

Yes, anything you take with you could be called into question (depending on what answers you give in questioning, if someone sees you with "something" they think they can use against you) and you could have to produce it - even normal purse contents....

Here in the US, insurance fraud is a big problem for many nurses. I have been asked to give treatments to pts that did not need them, simply because they were more expensive. I have friends who were told to lie about the care the patients needed in ...

The opposing side will always try to make you look bad. If they didn't - they could get sued for malpractice. Don't take anything with you except ID and anything they tell you to bring. Anything you take with you could be subject to being shown to ...

Someone was prescribing the sleeper. Just because one doctor didn't know about it doesn't mean that your grandmother did not see another doc to get the rx. And a doc obviously would have had to order it while she was in that swing bed. I don't se...

Don't these people have NTG ordered? Generally, NTG is given 3 times, 5 mins apart before calling 911.

As far as you wanting to be more natural and simpler - what you do at home is fine but as a nurse instructing the public - this doesn't fly. Hospitals practice Western medicine. Most doctors are not interested in anything other than "scientific" tre...

Never take originals, put the originals in a page protector to keep. You may need them later down the road as well. Take copies with you. Chances are you won't even need to give them out since most places will just drag you inside and ask you to ...

Perhaps if people would stop showing up wanting to be "cured", then treating the nurses like crap because they can't be cured but they don't want to admit it.....nurses would become less frustrated and would not seem so hostile. I think it is all par...

If you put xeroform on areas that are not broken down, the wetness of the xeroform will cause in increase in skin breakdown. If things are scabbed over now, it may be time to stop putting xeroform and simply a dry dressing to protect the scabbed area...

Just because the wound depth is shallow in your opinion does not mean that this wound cannot benefit from a VAC. The VAC will help keep this wound much cleaner than a regular drsg. With nec. fasc. hx, you don't want any crud buildup in there becau...

Sounds like this person has a lot of misconceptions/issues that are hindering care. With the significant illness/surgery she has had, the fact that the breast area is involved, refusal to take pain meds....this person needs to see a psychologist and...

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