csason

csason

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  1. Best way to get rid of visitors

    csason replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    I took report on a homeless client (who somehow had managed to have girlfriend who was visiting) who had come back from a three day battery of testing, which just happened to include various and...

  2. Best way to get rid of visitors

    csason replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    If it is anything beyond passing routine meds, or mini-assessment, such as dressing changes, etc.. I have always assembled my stuff outside the door, and drag it all in.. If they don't get the hint,...

  3. Passed my boards Saturday

    csason replied to csason's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulations.. I hope you passed.. I will say a little prayer for you. I dropped out of nursing, and hadn't really had much patient contact for the last few years.. I am anxious to get back into...

  4. Passed my boards Saturday

    csason replied to csason's topic in General Nursing

    I'm no lady...!! HA HA Male nurses rulz !

  5. Roll Call

    csason replied to Tweety's topic in Men in Nursing

    I am sitting for my LPN boards on Saturday..(again, for re-licensing) so I have 'cram juice' coming out of my ears.. Don't know if I posted in the testosterone section

  6. Can't find dorsal pedal pulses

    csason replied to Tolle_lege's topic in First Year After Licensure

    When I first started, it helped me when I looked on hypertensive patients first..then I was able to find it easier on normal patients. Unfortunately, a lot of the 'sicker patients' are the ones that...

  7. PCA with no Training/Experience

    csason replied to D.C.Guy's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I automatically qualified as a CNA by my the time we had made it to clinical. We were given the test and rec'd our certificates soon after. Even if your school does not do that, I am sure by the time...

  8. Wow Amazing thing..The Innerwebnet

    csason posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    This is really amazing.. very nice. When I first went to school, one of my dread fears..(1993-94) was that my history prior to my decision to becoming a nurse would prevent me from gaining a license....

  9. Wow Amazing thing..The Innerwebnet

    csason replied to csason's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Better make that more like 15..(in my post I was referring to where I was when I started school...) That was a while back. I actually stopped counting..it was very important for a while, now I just...

  10. Interviewing with IPN restrictions

    csason replied to KD CVICU-RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Sort of sounds like you answered your own question.. The angst I sense is that you aren't sure when to drop the bomb..on the other hand, in the scenario you laid out, you feel more confident about...

  11. PCA with no Training/Experience

    csason replied to D.C.Guy's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    PCA and CNA positions, at least here..do not include sterile gowning..perhaps gowning for isolation patients, or dealing with negative pressure, but beyond that, I could see some difference between...

  12. recently quit pot-marijuana surprized about withdrawl.

    csason replied to perfecthairforever's topic in Nurses Recovery

    A few years ago, I wasn't working in the field ( I can't remember squat if I am smoking pot) and I had started smoking pot in the morning with a co-worker..the work we were wasn't very demanding, so I...

  13. found a pill/not given....

    csason replied to mel1977's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Sounds like me.. I used to be assigned to one Doc in a cardiology practice, and he always had me carry nitro, I liked to carry flush and occasionally, on those really busy days...I'd have a...

  14. Hurricane coming: evacuate or stay and work?

    csason replied to FroggyMama's topic in General Nursing

    Wish I knew how to send a PM, I got one.. but cannot find the reply button. So..lieu of that: Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 9:06 PM Storm Report! Beauvoir House OK For the Time Being!!! 3:00 PM CST...

  15. Hurricane coming: evacuate or stay and work?

    csason replied to FroggyMama's topic in General Nursing

    I stay in fairly frequent contact with the some of the people who are responsible for Beauvoir, and aside from some tree branches downed and such, it is my understanding the old place is

  16. Hurricane coming: evacuate or stay and work?

    csason replied to FroggyMama's topic in General Nursing

    I was contracting to the utility companies, and lived in Lakeland for Frances Charlie and Jeanne..The eye of all three passed right over my house. I am sorry you had such a hard time, all of those...

  17. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    csason replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I was a carpet-layer. One sunday morning in September (27) 1992, my 34 month old daughter was awaiting my special cheese toast breakfast, when she cried "My eye is hurts" . I rushed to her, and she...

  18. Hurricane coming: evacuate or stay and work?

    csason replied to FroggyMama's topic in General Nursing

    Katrina I have had to re-live over and over and over...and it sickens me each time, and the thirty thou I paid last year in taxes went to a government that promises to build a stand alone shelter...

  19. Hurricane coming: evacuate or stay and work?

    csason replied to FroggyMama's topic in General Nursing

    Sure didn't mean to rile anybody up... My grandfather told me about the big one in '23 or it may have been '19, regardless, it was before the dike was built around Lake Okeechobee, and tens of...

  20. Hurricane coming: evacuate or stay and work?

    csason replied to FroggyMama's topic in General Nursing

    This will be my first post ..I am a fourth gen. Florida native. I have been through dozens of 'hurricuns' including Donna as a child, and then Andrew (where we were sent down to help out) and then a...