lisaloulou

lisaloulou

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  1. Help with getting pts to accept death

    My humble opinion: this is an internal process, some people never come to "acceptance" Personally, I think you just support the person where they are.
  2. Worthless medical insurance

    You can always make a consumer complaint to your state's insurance commission.
  3. Inappropriate relationship with pt?

    I generally feel that relationships with patients are a bad idea due to the fact that staff members have "one up" on them during an illness. However, there may be instances where a relationship develops that is mutual. Unless one person is mentally i...
  4. Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    Is Medicaid abused? YES Can citizens who have temporarily fallen on hard times qualify for it- often not. Can women come from anywhere in the world and give birth and have their child qualify for the best in medical care,PT,OT,medications,home healt...
  5. New OSHA Needlestick Fact Sheet Validates Adhesive Anchors

    Unless it becomes manditory to use them, hospitals will not fork out the money to purchase them. (just like the needleless systems) regardless of the fact it will safeguard workers. sad but true.
  6. help hep c

    And a liver transplant should be considered because......?
  7. NICU nurses resistant to holding babies?

    Back in my Nicu days, I'd always take the opportunity to hold the stable babies. After all the poking and prodding and painful procedures,I felt that contact that didnt involve a sharp object was very therapeutic. I disagree that you can "spoil" a si...
  8. Scripts

    My favorite is the mom dripping in gold jewelry who hands over the baby's script and medicaid card, then pulls out her cell phone to chat while she waits. Wonder if she wants to take the cell phone bill directly out of my paycheck too.
  9. Moving to NC

    From a house in Pfafftown that we looked at to work would only be around 10 miles or so, of course it depends on exactly where the house you are looking at is. :) Are you going to be working also? If so, mention my name and they will give me $100
  10. Moving to NC

    WELCOME TO NC shortly! Yes, Wake Forest Baptist. I dont have kids in school, so Im not sure about that. Do check out Old Salem, the Ardmore district and the West End for old houses with character. If you want to save mucho on taxes, check out Pfaffto...
  11. Lethal Injection

    I would have paid to "do" Timothy McVeigh.
  12. Moving to NC

    Come on over to Baptist Hospital!!!! As a matter of fact I need some help!
  13. Hairy Situation

    He should also consider being evaluated for heart transplant.
  14. Good or Evil?

    Well, you are right about the "FRUIT" part. As in fruit loops.....
  15. Read this and Weep....

    If you save 1 million dollars for your retirement, you will be able to privately fund 12 years of nursing home care,medications and medicare co-pays. For that you will have a semi-private 10x12 cubicle. Your daily meals wills cost the nursing home le...
  16. Cna someone answer this question?

    Another reason for not being placed on the list: not far enough along in disease process, condition not severe. The very saddest thing about Mickey Mantle was that he had cancer at the time of transplant. The immunosupressants caused it to go into wi...
  17. Tornado alley

    PS Tornados are usually in the spring. In the summer, it's so hot and dry, if you spit out your window, there will be a gopher with a dixie cup. I miss home..... in an odd sorta way hehehehehe
  18. Tornado alley

    After living in OK for years, I figured out why housing is so inexpensive.... All homes are potentially mobile :rotfl:
  19. Well Here I go again

    I lived in OK for many years(Bethany and Norman) Im a bit homesick except for those twisty winds. Next time anyone drives by Baptist beep your horn and wave for me. :)
  20. Problem tech- she keeps telling pts she's a nurse.

    Call the Board. This person is dangerous.
  21. Tell me about your journey...

    I started out at 18 as a NA in Psych. From there I was a NA in Ortho. The LPNs I worked with encouraged me to go to school so I did. I was a LPN for 10 years in Psych,CCU,Heart Cath and NICU. At that point there was a lot of discussion about "getting...
  22. Secretary with chronic cough

    erase the word "underhanded" and insert.......ummmmmmm well I dunno but what i meant was going directly to the person instead of around her and it sounds like you already have. Hopefully she has her own phone :rotfl: No flame intended. I used to wor...
  23. Dreading Work Again!

    Time to alternate your pressure areas and do something different. Consider something like heart cath lab,endoscopy or another area where you'd mostly have patients 1:1 If you were here, I'd suggest working with me in Interventional Radiology where it...
  24. Secretary with chronic cough

    Tweety, if I were you, which I'm not....but if I were... I'd approach her again with my concerns as a friend. To me, going to someone else is kind of underhanded even if the reasoning is that you are worried about her. CHF can most certainly cause a ...
  25. Need some advice, please

    As a former LPN for 10 years, my advice would be to skip it and go for RN unless you are entering a program that articulates with an RN program. I did the same job as an RN would for all those years for a LOT less pay.