yadda_yadda_yadda LPN, LVN

yadda_yadda_yadda has 32 years experience as a LPN, LVN and specializes in LTC, SCI/TBI Rehab,RX Research, Psych.

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1. PeriCare question

   yadda_yadda_yadda replied to yadda_yadda_yadda's topic in Men in Nursing

   Thank you for your reply--I know that this was a very odd / atypical question. I appreciate the insight.

2. PeriCare question

   yadda_yadda_yadda posted a topic in Men in Nursing

   Serious question to all male caregivers/ nurses. I'm a "mom"--my son (caregiver/ in nursing school) came home from work telling me about an unusual event at work. A male RN told him that he,...

3. Need validation ASAP!

   yadda_yadda_yadda replied to yadda_yadda_yadda's topic in General Nursing

   Wow--a bit presumptuous in regard to your statement, "Maybe you aren't really the right person to take the reigns of any facility" So sad that those comments are made within health-care....

4. Vaccine Hesitancy

   yadda_yadda_yadda replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   @ChickenHealer-- Good to finally hear from a recipient that a symptom tracker/ diary IS being done. I'm not a conspiracy theorist by ANY means...but the dangerous deceit I experienced with...

5. Vaccine Hesitancy

   yadda_yadda_yadda replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Most educated people (nurses or not) are opting out because this is NOT a vaccine, in the sense that we know vaccines to be...It is a Phase 1a product...this is a CLINICAL TRIAL. What alarms me,...

6. Need validation ASAP!

   yadda_yadda_yadda replied to yadda_yadda_yadda's topic in General Nursing

   Thank all of y'all for your insight & supportive views. Yesterday / the day after this gentleman returned to the community from a 5-day hospital stay, Hospice care had been initiated. The assigned...

7. Need validation ASAP!

   yadda_yadda_yadda replied to yadda_yadda_yadda's topic in General Nursing

   NOTHING was documented...NOTHING...I had 2 skin sheets, saying, "Please check xyz...it is getting bigger" (which indicated (to me) that someone had seen/documented some sort of care...nope. The ED has...

8. Need validation ASAP!

   yadda_yadda_yadda posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been an LVN/LPN since 1993, with vast experience in geriatrics. Last week, 3/31/2020, I started a new role as "the lead nurse" over an assisted living facility. One Day #3, I had cause to check...

9. The Worst Interview of My Life! Ever!

   yadda_yadda_yadda replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

   Wow! A topic I can really contribute to! I live in WA State..Had left a long-term gero-psych position & took some 'me time' before jumping back in to finding a job...Interview #1 - Advertised as a...

10. Disappointed LPN

    yadda_yadda_yadda replied to Dee0123's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Being floated can definitely freak you out; however, we all have to take a deep breath and remember that we work for the company...not the unit/ hallway/wing, whatever. I agree that being floated away...

11. New nurse feeling incompetent

    yadda_yadda_yadda replied to LindzTS92's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Oh, my goodness! Y'all are just baby nurses...you are NOT incompetent. You are BRAND NEW. Give yourselves a break. I've been a LVN/LPN since 1993...and remember feeling like the new kid on the...

12. Nurses With Low Self-Esteem: Please Seek Help

    yadda_yadda_yadda replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    SO true! We've got a supervisor that has a select % of the staff as 'FaceBook friends', and actually talks about this in front of the others...and wonders why the morale is as it is. The 'friends', of...

13. Funny ways little kids describe how babies are born

    yadda_yadda_yadda replied to shhhh's topic in Nursing Humor

    I:heartbeat these stories! My boys are now almost 24 & 21. When I was expecting my youngest, his brother was only 3 years old. He had the whole collection of questions, like all of these stories...

14. Doing real CPR as a student.

    yadda_yadda_yadda replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    I couldn't help but to post---this very thing happened to me in 1992 as a student. We were told to line the wall of the ER room & watch only.---The physician running the code did his "YOU..come...

15. Clogged feeding tubes

    yadda_yadda_yadda replied to Phillygryl's topic in General Nursing

    Have your ward clerk or Central Supply person order you some "G-Tube Decloggers". Seriously---that's what they're called...they're long, flexible 'probes' that you insert into the lumen of the G-Tube...