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  1. What made your jaw drop

    jodispamodi replied to DextersDisciple's topic in General Nursing

    Totally agree, what was the lockout dose on the

  2. Anyone Knowledgeable Here About Medicare/Insurance?

    jodispamodi replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    Thats not exactly true, I've done alot of training r/t and your patient should talk to an experienced elder law/estate planning lawyer. Also many people who go past the 100 days either self pay for...

  3. better days

    jodispamodi replied to Ambersmom's topic in General Nursing

    Good for you! Sometimes good things come from

  4. Geri-Psych Admissions: Where's the Line?

    jodispamodi replied to sideshowstarlet's topic in Psychiatric

    when I worked on geri-psych we took patients with dementia all the time, it seemed if someone with a medical dx had a comorbidity of dementia they ended up on our unit. But each geropysch unit has...

  5. Annoyed by commercial

    jodispamodi posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just venting... I heard a commercial this morning that aggravated the heck out of me. My state will be voting to add safe staffing measures to the upcoming ballot. The commercial was to the effect of...

  6. "Dancing Doc" Video....Just When You Think You've Seen It All...

    jodispamodi replied to Sarah Matacale's topic in General Nursing

    It would be interesting to know how many patients were referred to her by other doctors, and how many patients self-referred, I'm sure some who saw the videos probably considered her as a "down to...

  7. Don't trust my FNP

    jodispamodi replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Find another doctor... Has he had any exposure to ticks? may be worth testing for tick borne

  8. "Dancing Doc" Video....Just When You Think You've Seen It All...

    jodispamodi replied to Sarah Matacale's topic in General Nursing

    I trained and worked as a Surgical Tech, and very interesting that if the people who were gowned and gloved in the 10 seconds of video I saw were actually involved in the surgical procedure because...

  9. Annoyed by commercial

    jodispamodi replied to jodispamodi's topic in General Nursing

    And it also has to be factored in that patients ard much more acute than they were years ago. These days, and in the span of my career, unless you'rd a self paying plastics patient, you have to be...

  10. Annoyed by commercial

    jodispamodi replied to jodispamodi's topic in General Nursing

    In my time on my current unit I can count on one hand the number of lunch breaks I've

  11. What would you do if nursing staff refuses do carry out your request?

    jodispamodi replied to Saflanut's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I agree with Libby, checking her back and neck would have taken at most a couple of minutes, just lifting the shirt and hair, but that also would not have been a thorough check... The original tick...

  12. Gloves required for ALL oral meds.

    jodispamodi replied to Leonardos's topic in Patient Medications

    At my facility we wear gloves when giving meds, but one pair as the package is opened into the med cup. OP your hospitals policy is excessive and makes me think that either they have a pending lawsuit...

  13. Annoyed by commercial

    jodispamodi replied to jodispamodi's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly... and my facilty has required staffing levels BUT I wouldn't call them SAFE staffing levels... BTW, the poster who wrote about nurses making gads of money. I've never broken over the...

  14. Annoyed by commercial

    jodispamodi replied to jodispamodi's topic in General Nursing

    If I had the millions of dollars required to produce, make, and air a commercial?

  15. Annoyed by commercial

    jodispamodi replied to jodispamodi's topic in General Nursing

    I think the terminology I saw was "chronically understaffed hospital" and relates to the CoPs through medicare and medicaid. Just google medicare and chronic understaffing, it should bring links that...

  16. Annoyed by commercial

    jodispamodi replied to jodispamodi's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure about links, I'll hunt around. What I have seen clearyly with my own two eyes were notices put up at several hospitals in the "legal info" area (where they put required labor notices from...

  17. What's the nicest compliment you've gotten as a nurse?

    jodispamodi replied to NurseNinja1990's topic in General Nursing

    This is one from my rescue days. We went mutual aid to another town and an older lady had ruptured varicose veins in her leg and had lost a huge amount of blood, because of our department then having...

  18. What's the nicest compliment you've gotten as a nurse?

    jodispamodi replied to NurseNinja1990's topic in General Nursing

    My favorite compliment came from a coworker who was a total type A, perfectionist, anal, kick-♧♧♧ nurse. One day after a long hard in the trenches sort of shift he said to me "I...

  19. Can you give a lesser dose than prescribed without an order?

    jodispamodi replied to Faith1234567's topic in General Nursing

    If the order does not have a range, such as give 1 to 2 tablets per patient request you cannot give it, that would put you in the realm of prescribing the med and unless you have prescriptive...

  20. Annoyed by commercial

    jodispamodi replied to jodispamodi's topic in General Nursing

    Its crazy... I'd love to see those nurses have to work a month on a busy floor with the current staffing levels, they'd last maybe a week and complain about their full bladder, yet its a reality that...

  21. Annoyed by commercial

    jodispamodi replied to jodispamodi's topic in General Nursing

    But when I worked here in LTC/subacute we might have 40 or 60 patients per

  22. Annoyed by commercial

    jodispamodi replied to jodispamodi's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know. My speculation would be they don't want "official legislation" muddying the waters, such as a government body deciding what is a safe level. I'll research

  23. Annoyed by commercial

    jodispamodi replied to jodispamodi's topic in General Nursing

    The sad thing is medical/nursing errors ard NOT seen as preventable, but are accepted as status quo. I can say I felt I was a much better nurse with 4 patients (high acuity unit) than I was with 5, 6,...

  24. Annoyed by commercial

    jodispamodi replied to jodispamodi's topic in General Nursing

    I think that is what annoyed me, the commercial would lead the average person to believe that staffing levels are decided on the floors by the nurses doing the care. Yet medicare is reducing payments...

  25. Hiring manager offered position, HR said no and won't tell me why.

    jodispamodi replied to MiloRN's topic in General Nursing

    one other thing to think about if you have a common name or an easily misspelled name (as is my case) that its possible they could have googled or something and came up with the wrong info... But the...