tothepointeLVN

tothepointeLVN LVN

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  1. The young eating their young

    tothepointeLVN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Obviously the topic of old nurses eating young nurses comes up a lot here. The problem is I've never actually experiences that. What I have experience is young nurses eating younger nurses OR younger...

  2. The young eating their young

    tothepointeLVN replied to tothepointeLVN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There is no notch to dial down. I posted the issues I wanted to discuss in a seperate thread rather than bring the original thread off topic. The first thing you did was jump over here and demanded to...

  3. The young eating their young

    tothepointeLVN replied to tothepointeLVN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Honestly I'm going to take any comment you say with a big tub of salt since I class you in the same category as the aforementioned. The fact that you had to come over to this thread and ask if it was...

  4. The young eating their young

    tothepointeLVN replied to tothepointeLVN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm going to give you an example of what behavior I am talking about. I'm an agency worker and right now primarily do hospice staffing for 24/7 continuous care for actively dying patients. On one case...

  5. The young eating their young

    tothepointeLVN replied to tothepointeLVN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It is a combination of points brought up in your post and some behaviour I have noticed amongst my coworkers and in nurses in general. So no this is not directly about

  6. help please! morphine side effects!

    tothepointeLVN replied to missnurse2012's topic in Patient Medications

    Unfortunately I see a lot of orders like this for Roxanol / MS where the volume is stated rather than the

  7. The young eating their young

    tothepointeLVN replied to tothepointeLVN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I should clarify I mean young in primarily in nursing years though actual age also plays a

  8. College Algebra

    tothepointeLVN replied to Mama_Cashew's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    My mantra is always is not difficult its just that I don't know how to do it yet. Get a problem book ( I love the enormous book of algebra problems) and just do a bunch. You learn math by doing

  9. help please! morphine side effects!

    tothepointeLVN replied to missnurse2012's topic in Patient Medications

    So the person who informed you of the mistake was in fact mistaken? Ahh the

  10. help please! morphine side effects!

    tothepointeLVN replied to missnurse2012's topic in Patient Medications

    From what I can understand of the first post it was MS 10mg/mL The bottle had 30mL in it before it was opened. The first nurse gave whatever dose she gave then documented that there was 29mL left in...

  11. She got fired...

    tothepointeLVN replied to StL_Momma27's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah it was all point and no

  12. Nursing listed as 4th on a list of fun jobs.

    tothepointeLVN replied to DizzyLizzyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Having been both being a "fashion designer" is about as unfun as nursing is. Though nursing is way more serious and intellectually rewarding. So what was number 1

  13. Is 31 too old to start a nursing career?

    tothepointeLVN replied to dannygurl84's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I didn't break my hip until 33 so your still

  14. Students nursing during EMR go-live

    tothepointeLVN replied to jappey17's topic in General Nursing

    Hmm interesting maybe thats the VN/RN difference most of the stuff within our SOP we can do without much supervision but we were always expected to take at least one of our own patients often times...

  15. dilemma regarding antipsychotics

    tothepointeLVN replied to evanpatten's topic in Psychiatric

    Try working psych see if you like it. If not move on. I wouldn't base your position on that article alone. The patients themselves can usually tell you if they think the medications have helped their...

  16. Students nursing during EMR go-live

    tothepointeLVN replied to jappey17's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm interesting. I'll being to my bridge soon and for that would feel arkward slowing someone down when they are NOT being paid to teach me. On the rare occasion 2-3 of us were paired with a staff...

  17. Recommended Stethoscope for STUDENT!

    tothepointeLVN replied to tammy_zeidan09's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    LOL and being accused of being a drama llama to boot. I should add that steth stealing student would steal the isolation steths too and the med cart steths at the nursing home. No steth was safe from...

  18. Students nursing during EMR go-live

    tothepointeLVN replied to jappey17's topic in General Nursing

    Just a question. When I was at LVN school our instructors did all the med passes with us not the staff nurse. In general we did hardly anything with the staff nurse except report and coordinating...

  19. Students nursing during EMR go-live

    tothepointeLVN replied to jappey17's topic in General Nursing

    Not an EMR go live per say but when I was in school our local county hospital moved from their old building to the state of the art new one. All the nursing students from all the students were still...

  20. She got fired...

    tothepointeLVN replied to StL_Momma27's topic in General Nursing

    But it's fun to work out the implausibilities of a falsehood and on the same vein. How does a vein rupture exactly? Like a volcano. Oh and I always keep a mend it kit in my locker for just such an...

  21. Liability Insurance after retirement

    tothepointeLVN replied to onetiredmomma's topic in Retired Nurses

    If your insurance company does over you for the period where you were paying for coverage then it begs the question why get coverage at all if you have to be covered both a) at the time of the...

  22. She got fired...

    tothepointeLVN replied to StL_Momma27's topic in General Nursing

    What about the spoonful of sugar that my mum gave me to stop

  23. She got fired...

    tothepointeLVN replied to StL_Momma27's topic in General Nursing

    But I even did the special extra credit intensive couture tabour beading seminar with the lady from the Lesage school of embroidery. They do the beading for Chanel and Dior. The seminar was entirely...

  24. Hospital Won't Hire Obese Workers

    tothepointeLVN replied to chevyv's topic in General Nursing

    Yes of course spell check is not the be all and end all but I DO find that it makes me more careful overall. It shows me I made a mistake here so I'll check everything. Most of the time. I have been...

  25. Liability Insurance after retirement

    tothepointeLVN replied to onetiredmomma's topic in Retired Nurses

    The information I have been told is that if say a patient sues you for an event that occurred in 2004 and you had valid malpractice insurance in 2004 then whatever insurance you had should cover it. I...