leslymill

leslymill

Med/surg,Tele,PACU,ER,ICU,LTAC,HH,Neuro

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  1. What medical term do you dislike the most ?

    leslymill replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

    Transitional Unit....... They are mostly vent dependent, DNRs. (veggies, another one I hate) I feel like I am transfering them to heaven in a slow code

  2. A little scared....anyone feel this way?

    leslymill replied to ConfusedStudent3's topic in General Nursing

    Older people tend to have lots of arthritis type pain and stiffness. Until you know how to move them or get them premedicated,it is best to have two of you do the repositioning or moving, till your...

  3. Gifts FOR Patients

    leslymill replied to EmilyUSFRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think it is appropriate. I think getting him a guest tray is appropriate and making him comfortable. You really don't know him. You don't know if he has food allergies or the restraunt you...

  4. I don't know if you are here or not

    leslymill replied to msdr's topic in General Nursing

    You truly renewed my calling. That we can heal this

  5. Which nursing skills do you dread?

    leslymill replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    Dis-impacting is definitely one I think you all avoid. When I worked agency, I got an assignment on a skilled unit where most where on tube feedings. I had to dis-impact almost every patient. It was...

  6. Nurses that write their own orders

    leslymill replied to Kanani_Ikike's topic in General Nursing

    Okay..I do remember using one of those in my travel nursing days. I have used one of those in travel nursing,,,, You chec for residual urine with it? Yeah, you check after each void. I bet they do...

  7. iv bolus injections HELP online video?

    leslymill replied to amerkhan's topic in General Nursing

    I don't shake the vial , I rotate and roll it then let it sit while I do other things till it dissolves for a few minutes. If green needle is a 21g needle that is standard. The syringe to administer...

  8. What do we do...

    leslymill replied to DTCC PreRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am on your side. She has fallen too many times, she is gonna burn down the neighborhood and sleeping in a WC is not good on the hip. I don't know what is wrong with her hip and what surgery they...

  9. Two Questions

    leslymill replied to zenman's topic in General Nursing

    no it wasn't. i didn't make myself too clear. .. lol call me a mystic christian when it comes to native americans. basically i wanted to point out that thunderwolf's statement was a sad thing to hear,...

  10. Comfort care med protocol??

    leslymill replied to starcandy's topic in General Nursing

    You could ask for an order to titrate up to 4mg of Ativan Q4 hrs. so if less does the trick you can hold

  11. Senior Practicum Placement

    leslymill replied to flamingomama's topic in General Nursing

    I would do Med-Surg. It will give you the experience and all around skills to tackle anythting you would want to specialize in later. Is NICU neonatal or neuro. If you want to work with infants than...

  12. Fired from longtime job, too much LOA r/t cancer, deaths in family. Not Fair.....

    leslymill replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Your response is the single most total reason for the need for mandatory healthcare...period. I do blame the facility. I refuse to call patients client anymore. Pt's have become demanding consumers...

  13. sexual harrassment

    leslymill replied to ChristinaV's topic in General Nursing

    Does your state have whistle blowing protection? I would have him arrested after documenting all the groping vile behavior. If the company retaliates. Get the news and unions involved...lol Or you can...

  14. Feeling Lost (and kinda lonely).

    leslymill replied to CNFSD's topic in General Nursing

    I vote Hematology. I think it would give you a stronger foundation. FIrst you say it is a harder job to get and your already approved. Second you say they are more supportive. Till you have been on...

  15. Have you ever reported your coworker to the supervisor and got the person fired

    leslymill replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    I reported a NA for telling me had done some things I had requested. I didn't follow up and charted them. I found out later he lied to me and what I charted was false. I went to my DON. I really just...

  16. Fired from longtime job, too much LOA r/t cancer, deaths in family. Not Fair.....

    leslymill replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was called to this profession after I became a Christian at the age of sixteen. 15 of the 27 years I have had a license I told the Lord. "You must have gotten the WRONG

  17. Nurses that write their own orders

    leslymill replied to Kanani_Ikike's topic in General Nursing

    That is falsification of records. Careful that kind of behavior will threaten licenses. Had an ER chart and order Visteril IV I called it to there attention and charted such. The supervisor came up...

  18. Need as much advice as possible-considering leaving nursing program.

    leslymill replied to ANurse2be's topic in General Nursing

    Your under stress and you can't even remember why you wanted to be a nurse right now. Remember the adage when the going gets tough the tough getting going. Just because you have lost focus doesn't...

  19. first med error and feeling burned out

    leslymill replied to chuckc's topic in General Nursing

    The first med error I remember making was just as I was starting to gain some confidence. We were giving Nubain IV for comfort to a DNR patient with the family there 24/7. For the whole time I had...

  20. what you think about this???

    leslymill replied to lilcajunnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Well I don't know how abusive it was for them. A doctor told me something like that "abusive, intolerable," can't remember. He did say the word vacation. I HAD asked if he thought our treatments...

  21. what you think about this???

    leslymill replied to lilcajunnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Well you guys are lucky you only have a few frequent fliers that abuse the system these days. In the 1980s, before DRGs, and the upgrading of pain management protocols, you would have a whole house...

  22. I can't stand needles, help!!

    leslymill replied to SEANurse2b's topic in General Nursing

    I fainted in nursing school after seeing my first incision in Labor and Delivery Rotation. It was an episiotomy and it wasn't the incision that had my slapped against the delivery room wall cringing....

  23. Nurses that write their own orders

    leslymill replied to Kanani_Ikike's topic in General Nursing

    Never seen the little portable thing on wheels. Hospitals don't charge for v/s, but a bandaide might be jacked up to 500.10 to cover those cost. Exagerating here. So I am talking about a trip to a...

  24. Two Questions

    leslymill replied to zenman's topic in General Nursing

    Gone are the days where local homesteaders ran screaming from the great white doctor and his bag or leeches to the local Native medicine

  25. You be the judge

    leslymill replied to Cmariehart's topic in General Nursing

    I agree you should talk with your facility. Returning it without their involvement may hurt and interfere with the family's way of dealing with the grief they are experiencing. They just really want...