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  1. What/How do I delegate to the CNA?

    WVStarFish posted a topic in Nurse Management

    I have only been a nurse a couple of months and work in a LTC home. I've had basicly no training there, but hey, I can pass meds like crazy. I absolutely dont know what I am to expect from the CNA's....

  2. Digoxin Error, How should it be handled? Worried for a Pt.

    WVStarFish posted a topic in General Nursing

    In short, I was orienting for a week as a new LPN at a LTC home. On day one, a certain pt's AHR was only 50 so I held his Dig. On day two, I noticed that the MAR and the doctors order called for...

  3. Pts who assault, is there any protection or policy?

    WVStarFish posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I don't work in a hospital, the MI pts I see live in the community and walk in to our center, kind of like a doctors office. Or we use our vehicles to transport them ourselves. Our pts are the same...

  4. Throwing out Med Bottles, What else can I do?

    WVStarFish posted a topic in General Nursing

    After sitting for almost an hour using a sharpie to black out names on pharmacy bottles, I'm wondering if there is a better way to dispose of patients medicine bottles with their names on them. Where...

  5. How do I learn "charge nurse" skills???

    WVStarFish posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've only been a nurse a couple of months and took a job in LTC, hence I'm a "charge nurse". My nursing school was excellent but we werent taught ANY leadership skills. I'm not assertive, and I'm...

  6. What jobs have the highest satisfaction for nurses?

    WVStarFish posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was wondering what area of nursing tends to have the happiest nurses? Surely there's been a study on it? And in contrast, I wonder what area of nursing tends to hold the most unhappy...

  7. Can I be rejected for a job over the meds I am prescribed???

    WVStarFish posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am assuming I was just offered a job, pending background check and drug screening. That's what a background and urine usually mean, I hear. Both checks will be fine, but two of the meds I take are...

  8. Can I be rejected for a job over the meds I am prescribed???

    WVStarFish replied to WVStarFish's topic in General Nursing

    Well, the person who hired me actually IS the person doing the urine collecting. I don't know why I'm embarrased, I guess because it's proof I'm not as awesome as I appear to be. hahaha But I really...

  9. Digoxin Error, What should have been done?

    WVStarFish posted a topic in Patient Medications

    I had another question that is bothering me to no end. I have been "orienting" at the LTC home and have been pretty much passing meds on my own. There is a situation where one day, I had to hold a...

  10. Sleep deprivation, why does it make ME so sick?

    WVStarFish posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    In short, I'm a new nurse and just had to stay up all night to work. Anytime in my life, staying up all night or not getting more than a few hours sleep, I am so sick and it takes the whole next day...

  11. Working alot of hours on NO sleep, and a Dangerous CNA. Moral support PLEASE

    WVStarFish posted a topic in General Nursing

    my biggest problem is how do I tell a crazy lazy psycho CNA that she needs to prioritize, she cant be leaving the floor all the time, she needs to not up the O2, she ... oh hell, I jsut dont know how...

  12. Working alot of hours on NO sleep, and a Dangerous CNA. Moral support PLEASE

    WVStarFish replied to WVStarFish's topic in General Nursing

    I have talked to two different people in the DONS. Ya think anything has happened? Nope. And I had no idea we could write up CNA's. Now, I just need to "grow some" and do it. Oh, I finished the shift...

  13. Working alot of hours on NO sleep, and a Dangerous CNA. Moral support PLEASE

    WVStarFish replied to WVStarFish's topic in General Nursing

    The thing with calling off, every single day for the past few weeks, SOMEONE is mandated on a shift. Then they call off or quit. Hence, a cycle. Because the call off isnt in due time, agency doesnt...

  14. Working alot of hours on NO sleep, and a Dangerous CNA. Moral support PLEASE

    WVStarFish replied to WVStarFish's topic in General Nursing

    Just wanted to add that I have done doubles and such before w/o any difficulty, I can work sun up to sun down and be just fine ....but forcing myself to stay awake all night when my body is used to a...

  15. How can a workplace cause you to lose license?

    WVStarFish posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a brand new nurse and I keep reading and hearing things like "I'm not going to work in a place that's going to make me lose my license" Also, how can what the CNA's do affect my license? I've been...

  16. What/How do I delegate to the CNA?

    WVStarFish replied to WVStarFish's topic in Nurse Management

    I get along great with them, I'm just not used to being "in charge" of anything. And I have no idea what to expect from them. But as for getting to know everyone, we all get along great for the most...

  17. Crushing Ecotrin for G Tube, Isn't that wrong?

    WVStarFish posted a topic in Patient Medications

    I'm a new grad who just starting working at a LTC home and first let me say, I love my job so far. There is alot that I was taught in school that isn't done at the facility and it bothers me to not...

  18. I was SURE I failed, but I passed!

    WVStarFish posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    After taking the NCLEX PN, I was positive i failed. Nothing on there made sense to me, I felt as if the questions were written in Greek. Thank you to everyone who encouraged me! It really helped...

  19. How do you not get caught up with long winded patients?

    WVStarFish posted a topic in General Nursing

    I absolutely do not mean to sound cold, but I have just started working in LTC and most of it is a very long med pass. While doing the med pass, I have found that alot of time is "wasted" (I really...

  20. Why am I not using ANY precautions with MRSA?

    WVStarFish posted a topic in General Nursing

    I know that MRSA in the sputum is a contact or droplet precaution. Either way, here is my problem. In this LTC facility, we admitted someone who is + sputum for MRSA. There are no precautions being...

  21. Concerns about routines

    WVStarFish replied to Joni's Mom's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm new too, and working at a LTC home. My "orientation" consisted of taking on the med pass for whatever nurse I was with that day. A few days before I was put out on my own, another nurse did show...

  22. Why am I not using ANY precautions with MRSA?

    WVStarFish replied to WVStarFish's topic in General Nursing

    I do know that the dx of MRSA is recent, as in the day before coming to our facility. As for being colonized...I didn't check or know how to check on that. I got all the discharge papers from the...

  23. need answers about working during clinicals...

    WVStarFish replied to unsure4now's topic in General Nursing

    i wasn't able to handle work and school because i don't have family to rely on to help with the kids, so i was able to get help from the state. it was a *****, and it felt like i was going insane with...

  24. How do you not get caught up with long winded patients?

    WVStarFish replied to WVStarFish's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for the really helpful replies. I am such a "nice" person who never wants to hurt anyones feelings, so it really is going to be a challenge for me to kinda cut someone off...I just have to...

  25. Just took NCLEX, Anyone else feel totally lost and disappointed??/

    WVStarFish posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    first let me say that i have always been very good at test taking and school work. i made it through a tough lpn program here and rarely had to study. so, of course i felt ready for the nclex today....