healingtouchRN

healingtouchRN

Cardiac/Vascular & Healing Touch

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  1. Have you ever given report to the next shift...

    healingtouchRN replied to askater11's topic in General Nursing

    We have written report sheets that I try to rewrite daily, so they are clear, they stay on the clipboard with the MAR. If some one is so rude, I just say, "read about it" . I don't tolerate the...

  2. How many of you are married to or date someone in the Medical Field?

    healingtouchRN replied to echo*echo's topic in General Nursing

    wish my hubby understood more about my stresses in the work place. I married a Dilbert, who works for a military contractor. He doesn't want to hear it after my bad nights. Thank good ness for work...

  3. Bccvn

    healingtouchRN posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Has anyone out there taken the ANCC BCCVN exam (for BSN's)? I will sit for this exam soon, & need advise. I have the book & flash cards, but any other info would be greatly appreciated. I...

  4. Bccvn

    healingtouchRN replied to healingtouchRN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I am also Certified as a Healing Touch Practitioner (5 in Alabama). Healing Touch is a form of Bio-energy Therapy used for relaxation, pain management, promotion of wound healing, anxiety reduction,...

  5. Bccvn

    healingtouchRN replied to healingtouchRN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    go to nursingworld.org/ancc/certify & see what you get. I have it saved on my favorites so hopefully you'll get thru. Best

  6. Bccvn

    healingtouchRN replied to healingtouchRN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    thanks so much, Jenny P. I have the CCRN review books & have taken several reviews, but I sat for this exam 1) because it's local, 2) my background in CV, 3) few people have this one. I would...

  7. LPN with Battery Charge on Criminal Record-Help

    healingtouchRN replied to 14yearLPN's topic in General Nursing

    sassy is back talking, smart aleck, & disrespecting elders. Not okay around here. Answering yes or no, without saying "ma'am" & "sir" gets the same

  8. LPN with Battery Charge on Criminal Record-Help

    healingtouchRN replied to 14yearLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I was waiting for this. Tuff situation to be. Yup, I've been slapped by mom too, while in nursing school, I might add. Being sassy & being raised in the area of the country, that is what mom's...

  9. LPN with Battery Charge on Criminal Record-Help

    healingtouchRN replied to 14yearLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I'll say prayers for you sweetie. My best friend is going thru similar. Kids are so hard to handle. I am sorry this happened to you. Take

  10. Bccvn

    healingtouchRN replied to healingtouchRN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Board Certified Cardiac Vascular Nurse Exam, through the American Nurses Credentialing Center, (go to nursingworld.com for more info). A hard test, that cost me a bunch of money. You know we make...

  11. Nurse is a nurse is a nurse

    healingtouchRN replied to Dayray's topic in General Nursing

    I loved that!!! I do the same when these newbies breeze in & order 25 demerol IM on a cardiac! uhh, NOOOOOOO!! try again! or shall I call the chief resident on call? The docs have the nerve...

  12. Nurse is a nurse is a nurse

    healingtouchRN replied to Dayray's topic in General Nursing

    I am a Certified Nurse (in Cardiac Vascular nursing) but the CNA should have been upfront! She/he was riding that horse!!! (oh, I was a CNA in college as well & proud of

  13. nursing and s e x

    healingtouchRN replied to lgreen's topic in General Nursing

    after 70-80 hours a week I just want a back rub & someone to make my meal & give me the remote. I get that sometimes. We went to supper last nite & it was nice to laugh & not have...

  14. Bccvn

    healingtouchRN replied to healingtouchRN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I passed!!!!!!

  15. Promethazine IV Question

    healingtouchRN replied to PMercier's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    must dilute per policy @ my place. I often find the tell-tell signs of someone not diluting when I go out to the med-surg floor (when super says "can you start another IV on so & so?") I ask the...

  16. 2 Nurses needed???

    healingtouchRN replied to BrandieRNq's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    safety first, I know how tired I get & it keeps me

  17. Who transcribes med orders?

    healingtouchRN replied to AHarri66's topic in General Nursing

    what unit sec? not one in our budget....I guess I'm

  18. have you ever "written up" yourself in an incident report?

    healingtouchRN replied to l.rae's topic in General Nursing

    yup, knowing that incidence report or PI's as we call them, are a sorce of tracking human error & preventing them in the future. I am all for someone learning from my mistakes!!! I know there is...

  19. Please share your knowledge of cultural diversity

    healingtouchRN replied to Gator,SN's topic in General Nursing

    well I 've been taking some cultural classes lately on Korean culture since they are opening an automotic plant here soon. I know the males have a high incidence of alcholism, since entertaining...

  20. Nurse is a nurse is a nurse

    healingtouchRN replied to Dayray's topic in General Nursing

    do ya rent this one? is it on

  21. Nurse is a nurse is a nurse

    healingtouchRN replied to Dayray's topic in General Nursing

    I often tell my clients the amount of education I have (BSN, & a CHTP), (people really don't know), & I don't brag or anything... I am just factual and forthright about how much cont. ed. I do...

  22. Nurse is a nurse is a nurse

    healingtouchRN replied to Dayray's topic in General Nursing

    oh my goodness, where is your state nurses association, nursing home assn, & any one else who is looking out for the well being of these clients? They have no liability but the nurse in charge...

  23. Nurse is a nurse is a nurse

    healingtouchRN replied to Dayray's topic in General Nursing

    I know what ya mean about people who say they are nurses but are NOT! I had a gal last year come into my ER with her attitude & tell me she was a nurse at the doc in the box up the street from...

  24. Being Charge

    healingtouchRN replied to longforseaair's topic in General Nursing

    To shoelace, thanks for the reply. We have a high turn over rate, I am one of two experienced people on nites, with 5 new grads in a busy 12 bed CCU (with CVI overflow). So I do what I do to keep...

  25. Nursing as a customer service profession?

    healingtouchRN replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in General Nursing

    I dislike the word "patient". I prefer client, which denotes someone who has input & a choice about what is happening to them, who has