Smokey9283

Smokey9283 specializes in Emergency, LTC, Med/Surg.

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1. Question for RNs please

   Smokey9283 replied to hollyandsky's topic in General Nursing

   There is nothing wrong with doing your LPN first then obtaining you RN. The benefit is you gain nursing knowledge and experience while you are working towards your RN. And you can take a little longer to get your RN too. Why would I want to take a...

2. How to: Become a nurse manager or Director of Nursing

   Smokey9283 replied to TJSbaby's topic in General Nursing

   I think that a good nurse manager needs to have at least 10 years experience in med/surg staff nursing. Nurses that go straight into management after school tend to not have a realistic appreciation of what it's like to work in the trenches. You al...

3. LTC-Is it that bad???

   Smokey9283 replied to bluemorningglory's topic in General Nursing

   Lots of work, not enough people, but rewarding and at the end of the day I love feeling like I earned my money and helped someone. Some of the posters say that they don't get to take their breaks. Well here is the deal, studies have shown that peop...

4. Is Nursing school that hard??

   Smokey9283 replied to Back2Nursing09's topic in General Nursing

   oh yeah

5. Cna challenge lpn boards

   Smokey9283 replied to marineswife0809's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   LPN's can do a lot more than a CNA can, They can do head to toe systems exam, then can insert foleys and tell you why they are inserting the foley and why it's a sterile procedure, they take orders from doctors, they go to nursing theory classes, pha...

6. Albuterol and CHF

   Smokey9283 replied to voraciousj's topic in General Nursing

   Nothing makes me angrier than EMS coming into my LTC facility and telling me that how I'm doing my job is wrong. One incident I had was when a Paramedic came in after I called 911 because I had a resident acting unusual, slurred speech, increased an...

7. My new "Urgent Care" job is like ER lite--anyone with the same experience?

   Smokey9283 replied to pennyg1's topic in Emergency

   The Urgent Care that I work at is attached to the ER and we have problems as well. The triage nurses will sometimes triage a patient to Urgent care because they refuse to go to ER even if the triage nurse feels that they are more appropriate for ER....

8. My wife is having a Whipple!!!!

   Smokey9283 replied to Smokey9283's topic in General Nursing

   FYI:THIS IS NOT REQUEST FOR ADVISE!!! My wife has already made the decision that this surgery is going to happen.

9. My wife is having a Whipple!!!!

   Smokey9283 posted a topic in General Nursing

   My wife is undergoing a partial pancreatectomy. The MD is unsure if they will be doing the Whipple, Mesopancreatectomy, or Distal pancreatectomy. My question is, Have any nurses on this forum seen a good outcome with the Whipple, I really would li...

10. Nursing Responsibilities

    Smokey9283 replied to oldfashionedlove's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto: it is every nurses and nursing staff's responsibility to perform all basic nursing care.

11. would like opinions on this letter please

    Smokey9283 replied to kermitlady's topic in General Nursing

    Perfect

12. would like opinions on this letter please

    Smokey9283 replied to kermitlady's topic in General Nursing

    When any nurse in the ER sees "Breathing problem" or "Difficulty breathing" they tend to react pretty quickly. So I truely believe that if those had been the chief complaints that service would have been faster. Additionally in those complaints Br...

13. would like opinions on this letter please

    Smokey9283 replied to kermitlady's topic in General Nursing

    The "potential" is always there.

14. would like opinions on this letter please

    Smokey9283 replied to kermitlady's topic in General Nursing

    No one is perfect 100% of the time. The point of triage is to visualize your patients during the time of assessment. The system certainly isn't perfect either. When the triage nurse needs to see 20 patients it's not always easy to determine the fi...

15. LPNs and RNs---does your hospital see a difference?

    Smokey9283 replied to Riseupandnurse's topic in General Nursing

    As an LPN I know that I take my direction from the RN. Regarding not knowing what is going on with a patient, it is the opposite in our hospital. The LPN's float the floor and do various tasks for each RN ie, hand IVPB, dressing change, insert IV, ...