pielęgniarka

pielęgniarka RN

Hem/Onc, LTC, AL, Homecare, Mgmt, Psych

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  1. Advice Re: job interview with Davita

    pielęgniarka posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I have always been fascinated by dialysis. Recently I applied for, and now I am going to be interviewed for, an RN position next week with Davita. What are some good, specific questions to ask the...

  2. Will Traffic ticket warrant prevent me from being hired?

    pielęgniarka replied to spider woman's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I think it will prevent you from getting hired. Right now the place I work at needs some nurses. W'e've had a handful of job applications come in. So far, the applications I have seen have a...

  3. Got written up today

    pielęgniarka replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Did the other nurse lie and say the medication was given when it wasn't and then "fixed" the count? If you helped cover up a diversion or lie I could see the write up. But seeing a problem and...

  4. REALLY bad hair day

    pielęgniarka replied to katieusa's topic in General Nursing

    I had to look but couldn't bring myself to click on the links for a closer view! Is a bezoar a fermented or petrified hairball removed from inside a person's stomach????!!!??? From a psych

  5. Are med techs allowed to do blood sugars when there's no RN or LPN on the property?

    pielęgniarka replied to vicksext's topic in General Nursing

    At the LTC I work at, med techs are not able (per policy) to check blood sugars or draw up or administer insulin. If you were without a licensed nurse your director of nursing should have been...

  6. Advice needed...how to survive the night shift commute...literally.

    pielęgniarka replied to NeoPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    I hope you are not driving around when I am, and especially not when my children are taking a bus to school. I admire that you are looking for help but you really need to quit driving like that before...

  7. Maintain Nursing Licence

    pielęgniarka replied to kittagirl's topic in General Nursing

    For my state in the US: the RN must participate in 24 contact hours of continuing education. I get continuing ed. free through my workplace. At the end of that two year period the nurse must renew...

  8. cpne failures

    pielęgniarka replied to moodychick's topic in Online Distance Learning

    The CPNE is totally do-able if you can memorize the critical elements in the study guide. They tell you exactly what you can or cannot do. I envisioned myself a robot, doing things the EC way during...

  9. Schedule issues.

    pielęgniarka replied to Forever Sunshine's topic in General Nursing

    You poor thing-- So this just got sprung on you? By all means go talk to your staffing person & ask for a couple days off-- That is not right. Then find out what exactly the block of days are that...

  10. Are there really RNs that need a job?

    pielęgniarka posted a topic in General Nursing

    The place I work at has SIX of our nurses going on maternity leave over the next three months. From all shifts. It is ridiculous. We have had ZERO job applications from RNs and I cannot understand......

  11. Are there really RNs that need a job?

    pielęgniarka replied to pielęgniarka's topic in General Nursing

    What a clever group, thanks for the answers,

  12. Major career and life crossroads

    pielęgniarka replied to dthfytr's topic in General Nursing

    I used to know this gal that worked as a telephone triage nurse. Her husband was a pilot and gone a lot, she wanted to be around when the kids came in from school. So this was her day job at home,...

  13. Are there really RNs that need a job?

    pielęgniarka replied to pielęgniarka's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I enjoy working for this company very much and have been here a long time. I've been lamenting to my few nursing friends, regrettably they are all well established & working somplace else!...

  14. What do I do? Quit?

    pielęgniarka replied to HelenLouise's topic in General Nursing

    I can identify with your post-- I am sorry to hear you are having a bad time right now. I was at the point once where I couldn't stop thinking about work, what kind of crap I would have to deal with...

  15. Okay I have a vent about the business of LTC

    pielęgniarka replied to NCRN2010's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Don't badmouth LTC, lots of places have bad business ethics. I do not think it's strange that you didn't get a raise after you put in your notice. I am kinda on the same path as you, 10+ years I...

  16. Working while pregnant

    pielęgniarka replied to Nightingale11's topic in General Nursing

    Small meals, saltines, enough water and plenty of rest. Slow deep breathing through your mouth (not the nose!) Those tips may helped manage but not cure my nausea. I had morning sickness off and on...

  17. Minnesota LPN vs BSN program-can't decide which to choose

    pielęgniarka replied to mbmn's topic in General Nursing

    My vote- Go for the BSN!!!! Get it done with! Instead of working your way up slowly over 10 years... CNA, TMA, LPN, ADN now trying to figure out how to work in BSN in my busy

  18. How to deal with negative comments about Excelsior

    pielęgniarka replied to ltsgnn's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I would occasionally get silly questions like... you're so lucky you don't have to do clinicals! or... do you get to keep your notes with you when you take a test? For some reason people thought I...

  19. When nursing staff ask for medications

    pielęgniarka replied to dblpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Did you know that there is an ativan topical (gel)? A hospice nurse was telling me about it. I would love to keep THAT on my cart... in a pump bottle... offer it to everyone walking by... can you...

  20. Started a new job, and wondering if these are signs of bad things to come

    pielęgniarka replied to 2010NewRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think the purpose of alcohol wipes is to sterilize but just to "clean" ...If you wiped off the top of a vial of insulin with a alcohol wipe to clean off some dust or dirt, and then used that...

  21. what are the conservatee rights in SNF?

    pielęgniarka replied to tankee's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I don't think you will find reference

  22. Given another patient's medication to satisfy MAR.What do you do? Orientee

    pielęgniarka replied to rn_nxt_dr's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I wouldn't report it to state or ombudsman. Go to your director of nursing with your concerns first and foremost. Obviously the policy on nursing's role in reordering meds needs to be reiterated. Or...

  23. what are the conservatee rights in SNF?

    pielęgniarka replied to tankee's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The following kinda describes a policy where I used to work, may not be the policy where you are at: If the pt is a danger to self or others and nonpharmacological interventions are not effective,...

  24. Medications that make you helpless and psychotic for nursing students

    pielęgniarka replied to Elsarap's topic in General Nursing

    I wasn't given any drugs..... In the classroom once we put eyeglasses on that had vaseline smeared on the lenses. We had ear plugs in. We put tape on our fingertips and played a game of cards. Or...

  25. charts on plain sight--HIPAA violation?

    pielęgniarka replied to cebuana_nurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We have pager systems for our call lights. At the LTC I work at the NAR's are the expected to be the first ones responsible for answering call lights-- they get the page the minute the resident's...