gomernurse

I CANNOT SEE I CANNOT PEE I CANNOT CHEW WHAT CAN I DO? MY MEMORY SHRINKS MY HEARING STINKS NO SENSE OF SMELL ...

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what the hell happened. Any day above ground is a good day.

I think most new grads start out with the Crusader Rabbit Syndrome...as did I back in the days when dinosaurs roamed freely. Doesn't take long to understand that book-knowledge is a poor substitute for the real world. They come around.

You might also try "smoking" a cinnamon stick. Yikes! Don't light it! They're about the same size as a cigarette, and you get the psychological satisfaction of hand-to-mouth and inhaling.

Need some of your expertise. Have a gent with a nephrostomy tube and an ileocystostomy tube. The neph tube I can get a mental picture of, but where, inside his body, is the ileo tube?

Thanks twice suzanne. Gotta visual! Needed to teach myself so I could teach my NAC's.

Thanks, Suzanne.....so the tube is in the remaining part of the bladder?

Thanks to all for your input. Certainly makes sense to ME to have a bit of human instruction instead of a one time video. Guess I'll have to start a little rabble-rousing.

The lab our facility contracts with has decided that the nurses will now be doing most of the blood draws. This encompasses both RN's and LPN's. Most of us have been "certified" in venipuncture procedures. We will be learning how to do blood draws...

I am trying to devise a succinct, comprehensive, informative transfer form to replace our current form which no one fills out anyway. When I send you grampy/grammy who is in trouble, I need to know what YOU need to know. Granted, trying to make sen...

Thanks so much for your input. Incidentally, I have room 225 reserved for myself, but I'll be glad to share if you don't snore, burble, gurgle, or talk to people I can't see.

Well, I took one of PilotJim's perfect pills last night before going to bed. Must have been the wrong strength. Woke up this morning still stupid, still weak-minded, and still smoking. Bummer.

One of my LTC residents was scheduled to be discharged home the following morning. In addition to the routine DC paperwork as to precautions s/p hip surgery....next office visit, etc, my bubbly young assistant had written a note to the family statin...

Hooray for Angus!!

31 years.......my feet hurt!! lol

Family member with severe social phobia/depression. No doc, no insurance, unable to work. After much research, Paxil from online Mexico. Literally saved his life.

My dear......personally I'd give about as much credence to what you have to say as I would the little old lady pushing lattes and chocolate chip cookies in the lobby.

I have a wonderful staff of NAC's at the LTC I work at. If they have perfect attendance for l month, the admin. orders them pizza delivery.......if one of them has done something I consider over and above, I get them a "new car" (matchbox series).....

medline.com. good info about lots of stuff.

9...LTC

RN..30 years...LTC...swing charge...$25/hr...Washington state.

A 68 y.o. female in our LTC has made an informed decision to discontinue her 3X week dialysis treatments. We, of course, are supporting her and her difficult decision. I am assuming she will begin to have some confusion and edema. She is already o...

Thanks all. There is a hospice consult, but it frequently takes several days for them to take over. As we're big into palliative care for our folks, Roxanol and Ativan have been ordered. And this from an on call doc!!! I've been doing nursing for...