Gabe's GirlLVN

okay, we have the chart what you could if you could get away with it thread so this is my curious question because well read for yourself.... pt's family member said "he doesn't breathe well with out his nasal cannula." in response trying to leave o...

obese pt's in tx are usually hard sticks. after a couple of nurses attempts and a charge nurse attempt we called the house supervisor who got it on the second try just last week. keep having faith in yourself.

med surg days 7-7 load 4-6

for example lets say the pt has on a button down shirt. after taking out one arm put the new shirt on that arm. you can do that for pull over t-shirts too. pull the shirt over the head leaving an arm in one sleeve then put the new one one and at t...

Pt has a right to refuse a med, but not a right to change a dose. In TX what she did was illegal because she changed a dr.'s order. But at my hospital insulin requires 2 licensed signatures. Look up your nursing practice rules and regulations for ...

I've never seen a nasal swab for MRSA where I work. We culture the wound. Interesting

a nurse asked me to waste morphine with her so we went to the med room. she showed me a syringe, no vial, and put the syringe in the sharps. i told her i could not waste with her and that she knew better. she's ****** at me but she'll live. pleas...

I guess different places have different needs. At my hospital as a new LVN you cannot go to the OR, ICU, or ER.

I knew I should be a nurse in the first semester of nursing school. The more I learned about the body's mechanism's to keep it in balance the more interested I became. Also at my first clinicals I had an elderly pt that had suffered a CVA. She cou...

No I'm thinking med-surg a new graduate is not going to get a job in the OR

I just think that there are 2 many nursing jobs out there to be somewhere you are unhappy, best of luck to you.

***LVN recorded FSB of 35 at 1400 gave orange juice in crackers. Asked me why FSB is not in normal range at 1415 looked at her stupid walked off administered D50 per standing order 1430. Can we please verify ***'s license.

oh and make sure if she can't turn herself to turn her q 2 hours, and i would go with the powder to absorb the moisture.

it is definately possible this is due to the antibiotics and that she has gotten a superinfection. if the area is constantly moist then this is going to persist and get worst, the fungi love the moist areas. she most definately needs more air exc...

i don't know where you get your information from either. a gvn base pay in houston is $25 an hour the 1:8 ratio is unheard of for me. i think if you got into nursing for the soley the money then you're in the wrong field and might want to take up en...

Some babies don't take milk, my baby had to be on soy because even though I ate healthy, breast milk made him constipated. Your first priority is your pt and you are going to have to accept what they say and seperate your beliefs from theirs. As far...

I just graduated at the end of August and got a job on med-surg floor before I graduated. Stay busy on the floor, show initiative and ask your nurse often if there is anything you can do. Many nursing students study during clinicals but I recommend...

The main suggestion I can give you is to learn the medications by class, not individual names. Also remember that some classes have names that are very similar, for example beta blockers end in "lol" and thyroid medications usually have "thy" somewh...