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  1. Would this make you angry? Any words of wisdom?

    flashpoint replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    I love you Tazzi! Give Bundle a hug from her Aunty Mac! Hope she starts feeling better soon. I might e-mail you tomorrow night...have to update you on my world. :icon_hug: :kiss

  2. Nursing Home Nightmare

    flashpoint replied to aerinlpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Very, very

  3. Nursing Home Nightmare

    flashpoint replied to aerinlpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Yep...it is very typical...most nursing programs don't do a good job of preparing you for the real world...especially long term

  4. Nursing Home Nightmare

    flashpoint replied to aerinlpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    40 is pretty normal...the facility I work in now is small, but I've worked in places that are a lot bigger with pretty similar ratios. The place I worked at straight out of school had 100 residents,...

  5. Nursing Home Nightmare

    flashpoint replied to aerinlpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    This sounds pretty normal to me...I work in a 25 bed facility and we have 1 LPN, 1 CNA, and 1 med aide for the evening shift. It just takes getting used to, developing a routine, and learning the...

  6. **Alert**Our Right to Privacy as nurses???

    flashpoint replied to bchboy's topic in General Nursing

    The logic in Nebraska is that patients have a right to know who is caring for them...they have a right to know their name and they have a right to know if they have any disciplinary action against...

  7. Delivering lab specimens...what do you think?

    flashpoint posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work in an LTC 30 miles from my home. The town where the LTC is located is very small and they don't have a hospital, doctor's office, or medical lab...the closest is in the town I live in. People...

  8. Delivering lab specimens...what do you think?

    flashpoint replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    Of course the other nurses do it...I think they were all caught off guard and didn't think to say, 'no.' For routine labs, there is always someone who can run into town...for the non-routine labs,...

  9. Help!!

    flashpoint replied to banditrn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    That's one of the big reasons they started making the night shift do laundry! LOL...We toss laundry in before we make rounds, get it in the dryer after rounds, and get it folded before we make rounds...

  10. Delivering lab specimens...what do you think?

    flashpoint replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    Well...I've made it pretty clear that I am not going to deliver their specimens...they can either do it when they take residents into town for appointments or one of the salaried people like the...

  11. Help!!

    flashpoint replied to banditrn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Wow...a lot of yours posts seem to have a "bite" to them...pretty unfair to someone who is just expressing a concern! I've worked places that use all disposable peri care supplies and places that use...

  12. Rules for the ER (long)

    flashpoint replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    "Jokes???" I'm pretty willing to bet that there is a lot more serious reality in this than anything else...we couldn't make this stuff up.

  13. Rules for the ER (long)

    flashpoint replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    When I was in ER, I got more postive feedback on comment forms from our frequent flyers than any other nurse in the ER. Why? Because I treated them well...I fluffed their pillows, bent their straws,...

  14. **Alert**Our Right to Privacy as nurses???

    flashpoint replied to bchboy's topic in General Nursing

    In Nebraska, they can search using only your first name (especially if it isn't a really common name)...they can also serach and find all of the nurses in a ceratin town or county (small towns and...

  15. Need test to assess triage skills

    flashpoint replied to nanb's topic in Emergency

    If you search for START triage, you could probably find a few tests...I've found a few on their sites. They are a bit more EMS directed, but might get you

  16. Sometimes I wanna strangle people....goes along with the "Rules" thread

    flashpoint replied to TazziRN's topic in Emergency

    I always wonder what people really expect...should we neglect every patient inside to wait patiently for them to show up with grandma? I don't think

  17. Rules for the ER (long)

    flashpoint replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    Oh my...how quickly we get off the beaten path. I'm not in the ER anymore, but I do plenty of EMS, so here is my list... Please don't spit on me. I don't like spit at all and I like it even less...

  18. LPN orienting an RN?

    flashpoint replied to texascowgirl's topic in General Nursing

    At the hospital where I worked, it would have made sense to have an LPN do orientation to the basic patient care end of things. Most of the time the RNs spend so much time doing charge or working in...

  19. Delivering lab specimens...what do you think?

    flashpoint replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Taz!!! That's pretty much what I thought...their logic is that I am going anyway and it would just be nice of me to drop things off. I just don't want to do it...once my shift is over, it is...

  20. LPNs who are jealous or resentful of RNs??

    flashpoint replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds to me like someone has a bit of a chip on her shoulder! I have had problems with individual RNs (and LPNs and CNAs and housekeepers, etc), btu I can't imagine being angry at RNs in general....

  21. Rue vs. other colleges

    flashpoint replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    Rue isn't a college...it is a publishing company that helps you get through Excelsior's program. Make sure you talk to EXCELSIOR before you do anything. Also...Rue is very expensive...often you can...

  22. Nurses vs. Paramedics

    flashpoint replied to mingez's topic in General Nursing

    Call them para-gods...I hate that unless it is coming from someone who means it is a good natured way...cotjockey also gets on a lot of nerves...and AMBULANCE DRIVER is the ultimate insult!

  23. what would you have done??

    flashpoint replied to ajaxgirl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    More than likely, I would have called the doctor on call...that is one of the reasons you pay $75 for a 20 minute office visit...so they can handle your problems in the middle of the night too. (The...

  24. Tips on getting people to come to staff meetings

    flashpoint replied to asilmk's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked at the hospital I hated meetings...they always lasted about three hours (they were actually scheduled for three hours), most of the time they were just a lecture about what we were doing...

  25. I feel like such an idiot

    flashpoint replied to fifi2323's topic in General Nursing

    It happens to the best of us...I am a CPR INSTRUCTOR and I still get sweaty palms when I have to renew my BLS every two years. I can teach it without batting an eye, but when I have to prove that I...