LydiaNN

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    Medical emergencies with no land line

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, not making sure he didn't have his cell phone was irresponsible. Wonder why I didn't say that in my first post? Oh
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    Medical emergencies with no land line

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure I'm seeing the relevance of adults making a choice not to have a land line to leaving 2 young children overnight with a sitter without ensuring that some type of telephone is available,...
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    Medical emergencies with no land line

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    But leaving alone the supervision issue, the bottom line is that we open ourselves up to trouble when we give up our land lines and either don't make sure a cell phone is available or the one that is...
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    Medical emergencies with no land line

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    That's not what the article said, though. It specifically said he went into his daughter's room while the boys played a few hours on the X-box. Honestly, in all my babysitting and childrearing days,...
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    Medical emergencies with no land line

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    Once again, the issue isn't cell phone or land line, it is cell phone or NO PHONE. That; plus a mother who takes off without ensuring there's a way to reach her. What difference does it make that...
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    Family Style Meals Head Start!!

    LydiaNN replied to kwagner_51's topic in General Nursing

    I'm of two minds here. The first is, yuck, a bunch of three year olds messing with each other's food. The second is, as pointed out a few posts above, they spread those germs all day, passing food...
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    Medical emergencies with no land line

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, that's my point, that Mom never should have left the house without making sure the sitter had some means of communication. Back when all we had was land lines, we didn't need to worry about...
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    Medical emergencies with no land line

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    No, not all situations will be ideal. This family got lucky this time. That shouldn't stop those of us who are interested from having a discussion about the advisability of not having phones...
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    Good Googly Moogly They All Quit!

    LydiaNN replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Home Health

    You know, just the fact that you would have to ask the question ''why when I leave at night does my schedule change by the next day?'' makes it pretty obvious that the answer will be ''because we say...
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    Medical emergencies with no land line

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    It didn't sound like it from the article, but maybe so. What point is a pre-programmed cell phone if that isn't one of the numbers it is programmed to call? Even if I could understand how Mom could...
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    Medical emergencies with no land line

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know, I guess I just think it is the responsibility of a Mom leaving town for a weekend to ensure that whoever she is leaving the children with has ready access to reach her in case of any...
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    Medical emergencies with no land line

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    But in this situation, there was NO phone, cell or land line, that was available to call 911. Luckily there was the old cell phone programmed to dial Mom's number, but even that wasn't all that...
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    Pill That Eliminates the Period Gets Mixed Reviews

    LydiaNN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Someone earlier in the thread we shouldn't think of our periods as being horrible things, but I believe that they are and always have done. I hate them very
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    NO VISA for LVNs!!!

    LydiaNN replied to makisig2007's topic in California Nursing

    I don't know any of the details here, but one question you could possibly ask one of the immigration attorneys is if it is possible for you to be sponsored, assuming you could find a facility that...
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    Visitor from He**

    LydiaNN replied to BBFRN's topic in General Nursing

    The nurse is assigned to the patient. Family centered care doesn't extend all the way to providing nursing services for visitors. Using the word ''our'' instead of ''his'' implies a sense of...
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    Visitor from He**

    LydiaNN replied to BBFRN's topic in General Nursing

    I like the way you answered- I'm his nurse. I might have been tempted to say ''are you feeling ill? Do we need to admit you?'' but like you declining to call the lady on the orange nails, would've...
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    I cannot UNDERSTAND lazy people!

    LydiaNN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't most job descriptions include terms like ''including but not limited to'' and ''other tasks as delegated by supervisor" or "other tasks as needed". Those terms are in the description of every...
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    Guess what RN's, you didn't need that college degree!!

    LydiaNN replied to welnet66's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    There are still some good diploma programs left in PA. What surprised me was the dental hygenist. I thought they had to have a 4 year
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    leg cramps in my sleep.. help!

    LydiaNN replied to Bluestem's topic in General Nursing

    I get them but for me the only thing that resolves them is to get up and walk on it. That stretches the muscle out. It typically resolves in a matter of seconds. Caffeine exacerbates my leg cramps,...
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    My turn......paycheck problems

    LydiaNN replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    Dastardly! I hope this gets straightened out soon. Once my employer, a huge university, didn't direct deposit my paycheck and told me I had to wait 6 days for them to issue an ''emergency'' check....
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    Why do nurses eat their young?

    LydiaNN replied to cinthern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Why do any nurses think of themselves as anyone's ''young''. Come on, now, we're all grown ups and shouldn't be thinking of anyone other than our parents in a Mommy and Daddy sort of way. If veteran...
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    when they know the reason for weight gain

    LydiaNN replied to healthinfomgrmp's topic in Psychiatric

    Perhaps therapy to treat the underlying issue would be more effective initially than attempting to deal with the consequences. That treatment may mean a number of different things, but chances are,...
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    Opinion about autism

    LydiaNN replied to pat8585's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm... when I get tired of a discussion, I leave
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    Opinion about autism

    LydiaNN replied to pat8585's topic in General Nursing

    According to figures released by the CDC in Feb, 2007, the prevalence is actually 1 in 150 children, but 6 in 1000 children would result in the figure she cited of 1 in
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    Opinion about autism

    LydiaNN replied to pat8585's topic in General Nursing

    Oh well, Rosie gets on my nerves, too, lol! Really, the 1 in 166 figure is barely out of date, so the only reason it bothers me that these 2 would use it is because they both like to speak so...