CoffeeRTC

CoffeeRTC BSN, RN

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  1. Overdone with LTC....

    CoffeeRTC replied to PeacefulHeart's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    How about home health or hospice? or maybe agency work just to get out of the facility you are in and away from the facility bs? I sometimes worry about this too. I've been in LTC for about 13yrs...

  2. Oooh I could strangle the MD and NP!

    CoffeeRTC replied to evilolive's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Something like this should have at least come up at the quarterly review. Or now maybe they can make it a policy to check this stuff out more often. yrs ago, we had a problem with this and code...

  3. Care Plans - What does the Experienced Nurse Think of Them?

    CoffeeRTC replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to chime in from a LTC perspective. They could be a great tool for communication if they are actually utilized instead of just being written up and put in a bood that no one except the...

  4. How would you have handled it -- (spinoff from the "customer service" thread)

    CoffeeRTC replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    I would think that the L and D nurses would have dealt with this type of situation before. (my mother works in a womens hospital and the stories she tells..security is on standby alot). I think the...

  5. I just can't believe this one!

    CoffeeRTC replied to Scrubby's topic in General Nursing

    They have to protect their hands...they are surgeons. DUH! I would have started yelling at them

  6. Room mate acceptance - something I noticed?

    CoffeeRTC replied to Shenanigans's topic in General Nursing

    LOL....codependant...that is the word I was looking

  7. Room mate acceptance - something I noticed?

    CoffeeRTC replied to Shenanigans's topic in General Nursing

    Yeppers. Most of our rooms are semi private and we have a few 4 bed wards. They recently did some room changes and put some more alert and talkative pts together....Good for them, bad for us. We...

  8. how do you keep your sexy??

    CoffeeRTC replied to healthcarefome's topic in General Nursing

    You don't have to be a "plane Jane" at work, but you shouldn't be a "hoochie nurse" either. There are tons of nice scrub sets that you can get and different shoes too. Make up is okay as long as it...

  9. Anyone with small children?

    CoffeeRTC posted a topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    How do you do it? (DON or ADON) DH would become a SAHD, so that would be our major role reversal and we would have child care covered. But, just wondering how or if you do

  10. Anyone with small children?

    CoffeeRTC replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    But....a male nurse with a family could? We were discussing this again at work. If and when I would do FT work again, DH would become the SAHD and I would work FT. Right now, his job is kinda...

  11. Newly pregnant and working in stressful med/surg unit

    CoffeeRTC replied to laRN1's topic in General Nursing

    No matter where you go, you will be exposed to germs. MRSA, VRE, Cdiff, etc is everywhere. I can't speak about the difficulties of getting pregnant, since I'm on my 5th right now, but I imagine...

  12. Tips for upcoming "Nursery Observation"

    CoffeeRTC replied to Altered's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Gosh...I remember back to the obs that we did. I think it was only a day that we were in the nursery part. Not enough time...I was a nervous wreck. Kids/ babies were alien beings to me. I do...

  13. new nurse biggest mistakes

    CoffeeRTC replied to smtwinfalls's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Listen to and look at the patient not the machine or numbers you are getting. Sounds easy/ simple, but we often over look the pt lying in the bed because we get task focused. What do they look like,...

  14. Trach Question

    CoffeeRTC replied to sbostonRN's topic in General Nursing

    Me too. We keep extra trach supplies in the room

  15. Would you put your initials on verbal orders?

    CoffeeRTC replied to Thundercat's topic in General Nursing

    Every so often (besides the monthly checks) we do a chart review. Actually, medical records should do this and sometimes I would do it when I was an RNAC. I would make sure that the orders were...

  16. Need some extra money

    CoffeeRTC replied to pretty70's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    would you be making as much as you would as a nurse? is this within the same building? How about picking up prn

  17. FLUID PASS

    CoffeeRTC replied to gratefulmom61's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    OMGoodness...you wake me up just to make me drink and you will get that drink in your face! Offer me fluids when you are changing and turning me...maybe, but wake me up for that SRSLY. we make it...

  18. Lesbian L and D nurse

    CoffeeRTC replied to AudreyHurston's topic in Ob/Gyn

    As a patient...how the heck would I even know and why should I care? As a nurse.....How the heck would I even know and why should I care? Where I work, we don't sit around and talk of our sex lives....

  19. Would you put your initials on verbal orders?

    CoffeeRTC replied to Thundercat's topic in General Nursing

    I'm confused. Did they get taken off by a nurse when they were received? Every month we do a change over check and will intial the new MAR, TAR and Reorder sheet next to the med or order that we...

  20. Working with inexperienced CNAs

    CoffeeRTC replied to Virgo_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I find that I tend to teach alot when I'm in the room doing care or helping a cna. It just comes out of my mouth and for the most part, the new CNAs are appreciative of this and I have been told that...

  21. MD ordered placebo for pain PRN~would you give it?

    CoffeeRTC replied to beetlebailey524's topic in General Nursing

    Wow...I didn't know this happened in the real world. I'd be curious to know more about this pt and the docs reasoning. Now..I've been known to talk up a tylenol Extra strenght or a motirn that...

  22. Vericose Veins---in women

    CoffeeRTC posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    So.. alot of us have them and I get them even worse when I'm pregnant. I get them in TMI places, but since this is an OB board, I will mention it..labia/ vulvar region. Ouchies. My docs were...

  23. Wow...needles?

    CoffeeRTC replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    Well, for the most part, we are needless in my ltc, but still have to use needles on some

  24. Vericose Veins---in women

    CoffeeRTC replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in Ob/Gyn

    http://www.fembrace.com/ That is a link to the contraption. Looks kinda scarey,

  25. Need advice about nursing home placement for my grandfather

    CoffeeRTC replied to swirlygirl's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like he might need skilled care aka nursing home placement. From what I understand (at least in my area) assisted living is just for folks that need minimal help and won't need watched 24/7...