kimmie4476

kimmie4476 ASN, RN

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  1. What do you do when the CO's won't take action?

    kimmie4476 replied to katkonk's topic in Correctional

    As a former CO (and now Nurse) I am shocked that they would knowingly allow an inmate to keep a weapon like that on his person if for nothing else than the CO's own safety. Especially since all he...

  2. Staying late to complete your work

    kimmie4476 replied to sunnycalifRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know how your day goes, but maybe you could start your summaries and PIE's in the am when you first come on shift, even if all you are doing is writing them down on a piece of paper and...

  3. Why do LPN's get so disrespected?

    kimmie4476 replied to Health-Nut's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Having been an LPN for a couple of years before finishing up my RN, this kind of thinking really ticks me off. I work in a hospital where it would be me and an RN only on the floor. I did the exact...

  4. Swine Flu Vaccine Creators Refuse To Take Vaccine

    kimmie4476 posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://atomicnewsreview.org/2009/08/28/vaccine-creators-refuse-to-take-h1n1-vaccine/

  5. Swine Flu Vaccine Creators Refuse To Take Vaccine

    kimmie4476 replied to kimmie4476's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I kind of thought the same, I did get the vaccine, I figure the benefits outweigh the risks, but everyone at work was talking about this video and saying they didn't want the vaccine, so I thought it...

  6. Struggeling New Grad working in the med surg floor.

    kimmie4476 replied to Mochafrap_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You are absolutely NOT stupid!!! It sounds as though their orientation process is stupid. Even though I only had 3 days of orientation, it was with ONE nurse. and I was her only orientee. How can one...

  7. Struggeling New Grad working in the med surg floor.

    kimmie4476 replied to Mochafrap_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It will get better I promise! I'm a brand new RN, working at the same hospital that I've been an LPN at for the last 2.5 years. No orientation of course since I've been here (I only got 3 days of...

  8. Horrible hospital experience!

    kimmie4476 replied to southernbeegirl's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks AYVA, you hit the nail on the head regarding the intent of my post. I was most certainly not making excuses for the attitude, just trying to show the process of when a patient is returned to...

  9. Horrible hospital experience!

    kimmie4476 replied to southernbeegirl's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, as a med-surg nurse let me tell you the process for getting a patient back from recovery. I can agree with some of the things and totally disagree with others (namely the attitude they all gave...

  10. Pearsonvue Trick Is this TRUE? Does it work every time?

    kimmie4476 replied to brichielpn08's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I took my NCLEXRN today at 1:15 pm, tried the trick about an hour ago and it told me that I had an open registration and could not re-register. No one else had posted anything like this. Under the...

  11. Tips on landmarking IM injections

    kimmie4476 replied to frankmitch's topic in General Nursing

    I divide the butt into quads, then in the upper outer quad, I divide it again into it's own 4 quads then give in the upper outer of that one (My preferred site is the outer thigh though, pretty rare...

  12. Can anyone help a lost student?

    kimmie4476 replied to jwannab's topic in General Students

    Is your LVN program a certificate program or a step of the nursing program? (mine after two semesters of the RN program you can take your LPN) If it is a certificate program, maybe do that. I have...

  13. Dimensional Analysis problem

    kimmie4476 replied to ICAN!'s topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I got .25 for an answer, using 5 mEq as your starting factor x 20mEq on the bottom and 1 ml on the top but I could be

  14. every LPN in my hosp was laid off today

    kimmie4476 replied to FlowerbuddRN2B's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Psychnurse, I make 15.00 per hour, while the RN I work with makes 28.00, which is why I said for the bargain price of almost half as much. Now do you see where I am coming from? And recently, our...

  15. every LPN in my hosp was laid off today

    kimmie4476 replied to FlowerbuddRN2B's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    What I don't understand, is why it is a budgetary issue in the hospitals to have LPN's around? I can do everything an RN can including starting IV's, hanging IV meds, foleys, passing meds...everything...

  16. No She/he Did Not!!!

    kimmie4476 replied to Maggie in NC's topic in General Students

    After being an RN for more than 10 years...... Oh no she did not just ask me "how do I make the needle go slower?" when taking a manual BP Another one with just as much experience..... Oh no, she did...

  17. ebooks free download??

    kimmie4476 replied to bhudz's topic in General Students

    If any of your textbooks are from the publisher Evolve, go online at evolve.elselvier.com and register your textbook . The site will then let you read quite a few textbooks online (I use the careplan...

  18. How can I explain to a LOL

    kimmie4476 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok everybody, I am at my wits end with this pt of mine :banghead:and could use some ideas. This LOL is a classic pink puffer, came in to the E.R. with COPD exacerbation and was admitted to the floor....

  19. How can I explain to a LOL

    kimmie4476 replied to kimmie4476's topic in General Nursing

    Hi all and thanks for the replies. The LOL IS on ativan q4-6 as well as buspar (sp?) We also keep getting conflicting orders on her (she's been here a couple of weeks) One day it's DON"T LET HER SATS...

  20. Have you ever said something so dumb...

    kimmie4476 replied to 1jazzynurse's topic in General Nursing

    It's at least once a week for me.... like the time I was reviewing orders the Dr had just written. She wrote "FSBS ac and hs with mild sliding scale" Yep you guessed it I asked "you don't want them...