Ilithya

Ilithya specializes in Med/Surg/Pedi.

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1. Canada's healthcare saved her; Ours won't cover her

   Ilithya replied to blue note's topic in Activism

   Im not sure. I don't even know what a health card is...

2. Canada's healthcare saved her; Ours won't cover her

   Ilithya replied to blue note's topic in Activism

   Alberta. They live in Grande Prairie

3. Canada's healthcare saved her; Ours won't cover her

   Ilithya replied to blue note's topic in Activism

   Thats fine and dandy but where my parents live in Canada they cant even get a family dr to accept them because they all have to many patients they have to PAY to go to the clinic $35, much like I would if I were to go to a clinic here. Where I live i...

4. Emergency Nurse Relief Act 2009- Update

   Ilithya replied to Ginger's Mom's topic in Activism

   I disagree completely, if Australian nurses are getting better scores than we need to find out what they are doing differently and then teach our nurses whats lacking. It is imperative that our country hires American nurses for the survival of the co...

5. Am I the only new nurse who doesn't hate my job?

   Ilithya replied to kmarie724's topic in New Nurse

   Hahaha we should have an "optimistic nurses" or "happy nurses" forum for all of us who need a break from negativity

6. Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

   Ilithya replied to TXRN02's topic in Humor

   One time I was at work and we currently do bar code scanning for medication administration so the nurses have computers on wheels that we use which of course are slow as molasses. So usually when avaliable I try to use the grounded computers (they ar...

7. Am I the only new nurse who doesn't hate my job?

   Ilithya replied to kmarie724's topic in New Nurse

   I've been nursing since August and I went through a maybe month or two period around month 6 of hating my job, even to the point where I put in applications elsewhere. However, I am really glad that I didn't get hired because now I am at a point whe...

8. The nastiest story that I have EVER heard! It happened to me!

   Ilithya replied to lovegoddess1977's topic in Humor

   Hahahaha we are so desensitized as nurses. My mother is also a nurse and at family get togethers we are often scolded for our choice of dinner conversation... and of course people are always amazed by the things you can watch/ say and then immediatel...

9. What is your Nurse to Patient Ratio

   Ilithya replied to dRN1's topic in Med-Surg

   Six to one, we are ALWAYS staffed for 6 to one. We all start the day with 6 if they can help it They do not call in another nurse where I work until not a single nurse can accept patients and if they can give one nurses patients to another so they ca...

10. 200 Medications, can someone please expound???

    Ilithya replied to puppyrules's topic in General Nursing

    We did have to memorize those in my program. I didn't write my cards though. I bought Mosbys drug cards off of amazon.com. Saved me a lot of time

11. new grad struggles

    Ilithya replied to nursing6207's topic in New Nurse

    My question is have the CNAs given you any reason to think that they wouldn't know when to report a vital? I don't know about your facility but at mine the CNAs are great. If your not sure than talk to them about parameters to report to you. You can'...

12. What do you consider your anniversary date?

    Ilithya replied to eandgsma's topic in New Nurse

    I would consider it the date I started working.

13. Can I do nursing school with full time job??

    Ilithya replied to PopeJane3rd's topic in General Nursing

    I would say no, the people who can work full time and make it all the way through are very special, although rare people. I would suggest getting a loan to cover finances, thats what I did. Of course my plan was get my LVN (done) and then go online t...

14. Alaris pca pump...most annoying IV pump ever!

    Ilithya replied to lmc512's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My facility still uses Baxter... but lucky us were training to switch over right now...

15. Flu Shot ??

    Ilithya replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

    I got the flu shot yesterday. My facility provides them for free, so really its a win win.