LydiaGreen

LydiaGreen

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  1. Please give me advice and tricks to overcome gagging from smell

    LydiaGreen replied to sunnyone's topic in General Nursing

    You will get used to most smells over time (after three years of clinicals in nursing school, very little grosses me out). There are a few smells that you will likely never get used to... it's...

  2. patients smoking

    LydiaGreen replied to spitfire's topic in General Nursing

    We have an outdoor smoking area at our hospital (where I do clinical placement and will be working after graduation). It is for visitors, staff and patients. Staff does NOT accompany clients who...

  3. How do YOU feel about nurses striking?

    LydiaGreen replied to LydiaGreen's topic in General Nursing

    PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE? I really need to obtain the opinions of working nurses. And I need at least 100 votes on the poll to be able to utilize the results. Thank you in advance and sorry to be...

  4. To all the nightshifters

    LydiaGreen replied to katie345's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I would find it impossible to sleep wearing a mask. My father worked shiftwork all of his adult life (police) and gave me some pointers. You can buy room darkening shades that block out...

  5. How do YOU feel about nurses striking?

    LydiaGreen replied to LydiaGreen's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for the responses so far. I am truly interested in what NURSES have to say on this issue. I grew up in a pro-union, pro-strike household. My father was the president of his local for 18...

  6. Clinical Instructor Didn't Show Up

    LydiaGreen replied to geekymomma's topic in General Students

    Good

  7. 2 Nurses needed???

    LydiaGreen replied to BrandieRNq's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Alright Coag, perhaps in your opinion I am only a lowly student, but it is POLICY at the hospital I have done placement in for three years and will be working at when I graduate in May, to have a...

  8. I Don't Think So!

    LydiaGreen replied to Town & Country's topic in General Nursing

    Are you a member of a union? In Ontario, we are not allowed to strike (essential services law) but we are allowed to arrive for our shift and refuse to work if we feel the situation is unsafe,...

  9. lidoderm for pain control?

    LydiaGreen replied to longtermcarern's topic in General Nursing

    For chronic systemic pain, I have personally only seen fentanyl used in patch form. I would communicate to the physician the signs that are telling you she is still having pain and then ask for a...

  10. Best area to work in???

    LydiaGreen replied to skybirdrising's topic in General Nursing

    After five semesters of clinical placement in the same hospital... I can tell you there is no answer to that question. You need to find your best "fit". There are nurses who absolutely love the...

  11. Scrubs

    LydiaGreen replied to coffeejavule's topic in General Nursing

    Our instructor is awesome. Our school's policy on scrubs is solids that don't clash. After we started second year, our instructor said we could wear the prints, etc. Whatever we wanted as long we...

  12. Clinical Instructor Didn't Show Up

    LydiaGreen replied to geekymomma's topic in General Students

    Well, I certainly hope you don't have to make up the time. That was a ridiculous excuse, "overslept". And she's late on a regular basis!?! Is your school aware of this? If you have to make up the...

  13. Seasonal Affective Disorder

    LydiaGreen replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    I am not sure what the light therapy costs per unit but I do know someone with SAD who uses one. She has her's in the kitchen and she uses it every morning while she has her coffee and reads her...

  14. Concerned for Friend... Please help

    LydiaGreen replied to Bonnie Rabbit's topic in General Nursing

    From a nursing point of view... I can offer you no advice... I am still in nursing school and have only ever had one placement in maternity and there were NO babies that week (bummer). From the point...

  15. Clinical Instructor Didn't Show Up

    LydiaGreen replied to geekymomma's topic in General Students

    I agree... a half hour was not long enough to wait for the instructor. Perhaps she was just late due to a flat or something similar as an earlier poster stated. What if she arrived five minutes...

  16. IM injections

    LydiaGreen replied to ragingmomster's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in my final semester of nursing school and, correct me if I'm wrong, but you draw back to get an air bubble in the needle to insure that you are correctly placed in muscle tissue and not in a vein...

  17. How long is your preceptorship?

    LydiaGreen replied to CarolineRn's topic in General Students

    What semester are you in? We do two 12-hour shifts per week x 11 weeks in our final semester before preceptorship a.k.a. pregrad where we are required to work 600 hours over 16 weeks in order to...

  18. @#%*!! (long.....sorry)

    LydiaGreen replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    In Ontario, (don't know about the rest of Canada or the States), students in their final year of study are responsible for their own conduct. We are bound by the same scope of practice as the...

  19. malpractice?

    LydiaGreen replied to mednurse's topic in General Nursing

    The goal is likely closure. How that is achieved is not really for any of us to judge. It is truly up to the family involved. Whatever direction you chose to go in, good luck to you, I hope that it...

  20. What does CHF NOS mean?

    LydiaGreen replied to dosamigos76's topic in General Students

    Whenever you see NOS on the end of diagnosis... it means that the client doesn't necessarily have all of the normal pathophysiology seen with the usual cases but that this is in fact the illness that...

  21. My teacher humiliated me in front of the class

    LydiaGreen replied to twintoo's topic in General Students

    I don't know where you go to school, province, state? In Ontario, every patient, in every institution (hospital, long-term care home, etc) receives a daily bath... whether that be a shower, tub bath,...

  22. diploma vs degree

    LydiaGreen replied to petunia's topic in International Nursing

    Diploma RN's graduating in April/May of 2004, will be the last diploma RN's in Ontario until the Ontario government realizes how fool-hardy the decision to faze out diploma RN's is. Manitoba tried...

  23. "Stupid Nurse Tricks"

    LydiaGreen replied to mistersleepy's topic in Nursing Humor

    One of my classmates was so nervous giving her first IM injection (vit B) that as she wound up for the jab she closed her eyes! The instructor was assisting the student with her placement. The...

  24. Canada wages

    LydiaGreen replied to bellasalsera's topic in International Nursing

    I guess the dollar amounts and the value of them all depend on where you live and the cost of living there. Before returning to school to become a diploma RN, I was a stay-at-home mom. We have...

  25. Hey Canadians--Are there any nice places to stay in Ontario??

    LydiaGreen replied to askater11's topic in International Nursing

    Sunset Country is gorgeous and tourism is our second major industry. Sunset Country is Northwestern Ontario - just above Minnesota, right next to the Manitoba border. Fishing, hunting, camping,...