chipper

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1. Dr.s responsibility?

   chipper posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

   This just happened last night on my shift, (7p-7a). A resident that is IDDM had an BS of 522 @hs. We are to report to the Doc if this one is over 500. It was a Friday night, followed protcol and order...

2. Shift to Shift Report

   chipper replied to QnJdy's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   We also have a 24 hour report. But at the facility where I work, thereis a large book calender at the station where we put things like... a new lab or if a resident is going to LOA for a time. We have...

3. How Rude!!!

   chipper replied to stella123 rn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   It was a very rude statement on his part! Ignorance is never very becoming on a person. I hope that his daughter doesn't let her Dad bother her with his ignorance and goes and becomes a nurse with...

4. Thoughts on Flu Shots

   chipper replied to colleen10's topic in General Nursing

   I just went for a check up and it was posted @ my Dr.'s that the Flu shat was available. I have gotten one for the last 8 years. I have not been sick, but I hadn't been sick prior to those 8 years...

5. spooky spooky spooky

   chipper replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

   when the gentleman first came to our N.H., He was pleasant, happy man. He would get up at night to talk to us night nurses. In the course of a month, he became cranky, hard-to-get-along-with guy that...

6. Elderly patients: First name or Mr/Mrs?

   chipper replied to laurasc's topic in General Nursing

   I try to call them Mr., or Mrs., but in the facility where I work is small, 65 residents, with the majority having dementia/ alzheimers, they like to be called by their first name. I really dislilke...