Mammy1111

Mammy1111 has 9 years experience and specializes in ER, Urgent care, industrial, phone triag.

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1. How are you spending your retirement?

   Mammy1111 replied to Grace Oz's topic in Retired Nurses

   I totally agree....once a nurse, always a nurse. I advise family and friends, advocate for them and many others, and read nursing related information and articles all the time. If somebody is in an...

2. Can nurses with MRSA work?

   Mammy1111 replied to JennieO's topic in General Nursing

   The problems with MRSA colonized and/or infected Nurses or HCWs. 1. you can spread disease with either condition 2. you don't have infected family members but are constantly exposed to MRSA on your...

3. How are you spending your retirement?

   Mammy1111 replied to Grace Oz's topic in Retired Nurses

   I am using my knowledge to run my home business educating people on the harmful environmental toxins they have in their homes and the effects it has on their health. Even though I am not actively...

4. Unsafe Nurse - what can be done?

   Mammy1111 replied to PiperLPN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   In 40 years as an RN (not all of them working years) I have reported 2 nurses. One was showing up on the job at midnight, drunk. It wasn't her first time but it was her last time when she came to...

5. The Failure of the Joint Commission

   Mammy1111 replied to abbaking's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   The Joint Commission is a membership club with heavy dues. They do inspections and all of the facilities managment teams get in a twit about perfecting things while the inspectors are there. So,...

6. Conditions in hospitals getting worse

   Mammy1111 replied to JDougRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   I'd love to challenge the management to come and work a shift in our shoes, and see them try to flounder through the 12 hours of endless paperwork and crap that they tell us we have to do.It sure...

7. Why did you retire or become inactive?

   Mammy1111 replied to dlatimer's topic in Retired Nurses

   That is awesome! I would love to travel all over like that. Maybe

8. How are you spending your retirement?

   Mammy1111 replied to Grace Oz's topic in Retired Nurses

   Do nurses ever really retire? Once a nurse, always a nurse!! I'm not talking about money either. I am talking about how we all end up being resources of info for our families and neighbors. I am...

9. Hiring a nurse that's a carrier of MRSA - Can that happen?

   Mammy1111 replied to Halla17's topic in School

   Please contact me through email.

10. MRSA colonization

    Mammy1111 replied to Mammy1111's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I certainly hope the hospital is screening for MRSA for the purpose of prevention rather than escaping blame. If patients are screened on hospital admission they can be isolated or cohorted and...

11. MRSA legislation in Maine

    Mammy1111 replied to Mammy1111's topic in General Nursing

    Your question is exactly the problem. Until ALL hospitals adapt a single effective and standard approact to MRSa prevention, MRSA will prevail. My belief is that ADI is the method that will...

12. MRSA colonization

    Mammy1111 replied to Mammy1111's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Have your residents been screened or was the one patient diagnosed in a

13. MRSA colonization

    Mammy1111 posted a topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Could any of you who work in LTC facilities tell me what perecentage of your residents have either MRSA infection or colonization. I am working with a prevalence test in Maine and trying to find...

14. The worst code you've seen?

    Mammy1111 replied to jesshopper12's topic in General Nursing

    A 20 something male who arrested after seizures, a very long code with no response, then a heroic effort of opening the chest, in the ER, and doing manual massage of the heart. My opinion was that it...

15. Anyone done breath analyzer testing as a nurse?

    Mammy1111 replied to Otessa's topic in General Nursing

    If you are talking about alcohol breatholizer testing, yes, I have done it as a nurse. It is a simple certification process and simple testing. I did it as an employee health nurse and we did random...