Ilithya

Ilithya

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

    Ilithya replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

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

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

    Ilithya replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Alberta. They live in Grande

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

    Ilithya replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  4. Emergency Nurse Relief Act 2009- Update

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

    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...

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

    Ilithya replied to kmarie724's topic in First Year After Licensure

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

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

    Ilithya replied to TXRN02's topic in Nursing 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...

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

    Ilithya replied to kmarie724's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...

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

    Ilithya replied to lovegoddess1977's topic in Nursing 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...

  9. What is your Nurse to Patient Ratio

    Ilithya replied to dRN1's topic in Medical-Surgical

    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...

  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

  11. new grad struggles

    Ilithya replied to nursing6207's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...

  12. What do you consider your anniversary date?

    Ilithya replied to eandgsma's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I would consider it the date I started

  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...

  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

  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

  16. Patient choking on food

    Ilithya replied to rejoyce's topic in General Nursing

    Firstly know your hospital policy, at my facility you pick up the phone in the room and dial 2 numbers to connect you to the emergency line of the hospital operator, who will then send in the...

  17. What is your beginning of shift "routine"

    Ilithya replied to NorthTexasNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Firstly let me just say that I'm a day shift nurse so Im not exactly sure on what all of your duties are but I hope this helps anyways I show up at work at 6:30 (Im supposed to be in report at 6:45)...

  18. Going Off Orientation

    Ilithya replied to Melinurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My only suggestion is to ask questions, even if it seems stupid. I usually ask the charge nurse, but everyone I work with is great about helping each other out and answering all my

  19. The teacher from hell!

    Ilithya replied to keno138's topic in General Nursing

    My year when had a student walk by a code blue, the doctor told her to get an IV pole so the student takes off finds an IV pole and runs back to the code with it, our teacher stopped her, took the IV...

  20. The economy and your job

    Ilithya replied to StephanieS321's topic in General Nursing

    My hours have been cut, but we got hit by Ike so two of our floors are yet to reopen, all our shifts that would give us overtime are cut and given to the nurses from those

  21. Is one year of med/surg necessary?

    Ilithya replied to Lpn1997's topic in General Nursing

    Why are we pointing out things to spark more

  22. Is one year of med/surg necessary?

    Ilithya replied to Lpn1997's topic in General Nursing

    You've had plenty of experience, not as an RN, but its really not that different knowledge

  23. Shut up when I am giving you report...

    Ilithya replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with interleukin. I often ask questions when they come up because if I don't I'll probably forget. I probably would ask you if the JP bulb had been changed, not to condemn you for not doing...

  24. Working Full-Time while going to school?

    Ilithya replied to Zalan's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I got a loan for 1 year of school to get my LVN and I didn't work. Now Im working full time while getting my pre-reqs for LVN-RN transition, and when I finish them (this semester) I will continue...

  25. What is the diff. btwn DKA and HHNS??

    Ilithya replied to kirsteen0926's topic in General Nursing

    Your tissues are still getting some sugar so you don't need to break down ketones. Your blood sugar gets so high because your body is trying to compensate and trying to compensate until it simply...