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  1. A gentle approach to dementia...

    nursemouse posted a topic in General Nursing

    OK, truth-in-posting: I'm preparing a presentation for relatively new nurses on dementia. I wanted to include input from the allnurse experts on creative ways that you deal with confused patients,...

  2. A gentle approach to dementia...

    nursemouse replied to nursemouse's topic in General Nursing

    Tied up this weekend, then came back to more great responses. Thank you for benefitting the nurses I'm teaching with your wisdom and experience. I agree that reality orientation is not as effective...

  3. A gentle approach to dementia...

    nursemouse replied to nursemouse's topic in General Nursing

    Tied up this weekend, then came back to more great responses. Thank you for benefitting the nurses I'm teaching with your wisdom and experience. I agree that reality orientation is not as effective...

  4. A gentle approach to dementia...

    nursemouse replied to nursemouse's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! Awesome responses, and many things I hadn't heard of before. Yes, I do work in an acute care facility. Gwenith, I hadn't heard of the scale you mentioned, but I'm going to the web to see if I...

  5. A gentle approach to dementia...

    nursemouse replied to nursemouse's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! Awesome responses, and many things I hadn't heard of before. Yes, I do work in an acute care facility. Gwenith, I hadn't heard of the scale you mentioned, but I'm going to the web to see if I...

  6. skunks on night shift?

    nursemouse replied to mednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Well, we didn't have skunks, but we had bats! And because we were on the migratory path of some "endangered" bat species, we couldn't kill them, either. Picture your security guards running down the...

  7. "Duties of the Floor Nurse-1887"

    nursemouse replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    My mother was a student in a diploma program prior to WW II, then served in the Army in multiple theaters during that war. I've treasured her "way back when" stories and shared them with my children....

  8. how do you keep a nursing cap on?

    nursemouse replied to PowerPuffGirl's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, this brings back memories (from about 20 years ago!). I was a bobby-pin girl too, and always getting demerits from my instructor because my cap would be lopsided or falling off the back! My...

  9. Embarrassing moments?

    nursemouse replied to canna42's topic in Nursing Humor

    I'd had one of those days where I'd been floated to "help out" to literally every floor in the hospital except the operating room! I was ending up in the ER, and I had to page a doctor overhead. My...

  10. PIE Charting

    nursemouse replied to Neon8's topic in General Nursing

    It's a little off-subject but: P: Nursing shortage resulting in poor patient care. I: Appropriate salaries for nursing faculty. O: Quality nursing faculty in adequate numbers recruited to excellent...

  11. Transportation of Telemetry/Stepdown Patients

    nursemouse posted a topic in General Nursing

    For those of you who work monitored telemetry or stepdown areas: when your patients go for inpatient testing, are they transported with a monitor and accompanied by an ACLS qualified RN (or other...

  12. Transportation of Telemetry/Stepdown Patients

    nursemouse replied to nursemouse's topic in General Nursing

    lee1, we're also dealing with this issue as well; 24/7 monitoring is hard to maintain. I really appreciate everyone's help with this issue and would certainly welcome more feedback. A separate...