healingtouchRN

healingtouchRN

Cardiac/Vascular & Healing Touch

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  1. How do you get into RN massage?

    healingtouchRN replied to angel21's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    just got accepted to a triple certification massage program here in AL. Starts in may & will take a year for parttime student like me. I am looking forward to the review in A & P &...

  2. Stories from the Edge (of sanity)

    healingtouchRN replied to Mushu's topic in Emergency

    some people just need a license to breathe don't cha think? These are same folks who can budge grandma, 90 lbs soaking wet from the car but can carry the chips & sodas into the bay area &...

  3. Any one care to share how much weight you have lost on Low Carbs?

    healingtouchRN replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

    please be careful! A friend of mine now has heart damage, aortic insuffiency, from the low carb diet. She is a lovely gal of 39. she may need surgery. The local cardiologists are seeing so many...

  4. Can a CNA take the ACLS???

    healingtouchRN replied to a_clay's topic in General Nursing

    hurrah for the

  5. Why all the fuss? Influenza.

    healingtouchRN replied to tgibson3770's topic in General Nursing

    luv the baby photo! my hubby has a look like this he gives me & usually gets his way when he does.

  6. Being a nurse for all the wrong reasons.

    healingtouchRN replied to tgibson3770's topic in General Nursing

    on this same note, I have an employee who is constantly irritable, by her nature, (a nice gal but just irritable) who fusses @ whomever...whether it's pharmacy tech on the phone, the operator...

  7. Why all the fuss? Influenza.

    healingtouchRN replied to tgibson3770's topic in General Nursing

    got my shot & gave about 60 others while volunteering in employee health in october. Glad I did. I really am onthe bandwagon about educating folks in the future. I'd be willing to give them in...

  8. Family Members of an Old Patient of mine....

    healingtouchRN replied to live4today's topic in General Nursing

    Walmart is the great equalizer, most everyone in this area shops there. I have taken care of the cashiers hubby when he had an MI. I have taken care of the other cashier's foot numerous times for...

  9. All night cramming....

    healingtouchRN replied to SarahCeleste's topic in General Nursing

    right on, cramming is not the way for the long run, but I did sit in car before a board cert I took last summer & found the answer to a question on the test in that period I had previously...

  10. Lazy, useless supervisor

    healingtouchRN replied to txtopaandback's topic in General Nursing

    document, document, document. I took photos of one our employees sleeping so soundly that the flashes (more than one photo) didn't wake her! Some folks are so

  11. Time Heals???????????(long)

    healingtouchRN replied to ladytraviler's topic in General Nursing

    ((((hugs)))) My grandma still cries every Dec 20th over the passing of her father in 1950. She becomes not a grandma, but a child of a father. My grandma still grieves the unborn child she lost...

  12. Can a CNA take the ACLS???

    healingtouchRN replied to a_clay's topic in General Nursing

    Indeed it will make one more marketable, as I'd be more likely to hire someone with it (current) than without....one less class to put them through in the first year. Yes, ACLS (as of the ECC 2000...

  13. Can a CNA take the ACLS???

    healingtouchRN replied to a_clay's topic in General Nursing

    wouldn't it be nice if all the nurses in the hospital would take ACLS &/or PALS? I think so, since so many nurses are afraid of the big red cart & anything to do with the defibrillator. I...

  14. Why patients abuse the ER...I'm beginning to understand

    healingtouchRN replied to marcicatherine's topic in Emergency

    you must work near me, because they are everywhere!!!! Esp on good TV nites, so they can sit in lobby & get cable for

  15. mottling?

    healingtouchRN replied to OKRN's topic in General Nursing

    it can also mean impared circulation, hypoperfusion to an area. But yup, I am also fair & mottle when I shower or get

  16. I Did It

    healingtouchRN replied to goverman's topic in General Nursing

    I commend you

  17. magnet therapy

    healingtouchRN replied to weezieRN's topic in Holistic

    I wear Nikken socks (as does hubby-he swears by them & wants more for x-mas) & use some of their products. I have the magnetic strips for pain mgmt with my hurt knee under my brace. My mom...

  18. Anyone practice Guided Imagery?

    healingtouchRN replied to icuabbie's topic in Holistic

    I have a support group that meets @ my home monthly for energy workers (Healing Touch practitioners & wanna be's). I open my group with some good guided imagery CD's I picked while @ Harvard in...

  19. Can a CNA take the ACLS???

    healingtouchRN replied to a_clay's topic in General Nursing

    yes, remembering that ACLS give one NO LICENSE to do anything, it's a class. Our CVT's (Cath lab scrub techs)& RRT's take it so they are comfortable with the rhythms, & better able to work as...

  20. disciplinary nightmare

    healingtouchRN replied to rosieposie's topic in General Nursing

    to cotjockey, great advise!! right

  21. disciplinary nightmare

    healingtouchRN replied to rosieposie's topic in General Nursing

    while working in the ER, I had a client tell me she was a nurse. I saw her paperwork saying she was an MA @ a doctor's office. I read her the riot act about nurse impersonation. NOT OK in this...

  22. 10/10 pain..venting!

    healingtouchRN replied to NYCRN16's topic in Emergency

    pain measurement using the Wong Scale is really for those who can't rate pain with numbers, or describe it as with children. But if some one can use the numbers or description then it is accurate to...

  23. Lasalle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    healingtouchRN replied to ava'smomRN's topic in General Nursing

    grrroooooovy!

  24. Too Much OT? Any regs

    healingtouchRN replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I know folks who work like this alot! They are single parents with ex's who won't pay child support. So they just trudge along. I hate it for the employee, clients & kids as well as those who...

  25. disciplinary nightmare

    healingtouchRN replied to rosieposie's topic in General Nursing

    I am so confused, how does one not know one is an RN or not? I mean this possibly can't be in the