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  1. Mandatory night rotation - legal?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to tineann's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Some people are put together to work nights, others couldn't do it if their lives depended on it. I suspect hospitals that require night rotations will change their policies with the first hurt or...

  2. What is your Nursing Philosophy????

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to hbncns35's topic in General Nursing

    My philosphy is to improve the quality of life of my patients by being professionally responsible, warm and caring; by bringing my integrity with me to work; and by being as positive a member of my...

  3. **Organ Donation**

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to sirI's topic in General Nursing

    I'm always curious when someone is as passionately against something that might help someone live....If the donor is dead, what difference does it make whether his organs help someone else or just...

  4. what is telemetry?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Kay28's topic in General Nursing

    You spelled it right....! It's a technique of monitoring heart rhythms from a distance, usually just from the patient in their room to a central location usually in the nurses' station. For a better...

  5. Question about background check

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to jsta_grl83's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Probably they just want enough detail that they can assure themselves that you are not a violent person, and that you are not violently impulsive, especially. My suggestion would be to be as honest...

  6. Medicated Patient for Husband's Sake?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    This was my thought too. If she could communicate about her marriage and (maybe) about her being hungry, she could decide if she wanted more meds.I bet she wanted to be "there." I too am glad you...

  7. How Do I Approach This?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Meerkat's topic in Psychiatric

    We have a psych ER in our facility (PCSU = psychiatric crisis stabilization unit), and a wonderful set of docs who rotate through so that somebody is there all the time, sometimes two of them.One in...

  8. Chancellor's Help

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Chipola's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I bought the whole shebang, used it for the first exam in its entirety, and less for each successive exam.The narrator makes so many errors in pronunciation that it was distracting. The material is...

  9. **Organ Donation**

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to sirI's topic in General Nursing

    I decided not to wait until I was dead, although I am and have been since it was an option, an organ donor. I donate tissue--platelets now, whole blood when I started a little over 20 years ago, and I...

  10. Puke, cough, hack, wheeze, i gotta work (rant, graphic)

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a great idea--unless it is just for show. I've found that a good bit of what admin likes to trot out to interviewees and orientees is just that. Then I learned that the best thing about...

  11. Do you make a difference??

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to mtorado27's topic in General Nursing

    Every shift I know I make a difference. In psych there is a lot of spiritual misery. Talking to my patients, making eye contact, holding their arm gently when I scan their ID for the EMAR, teaching...

  12. What field of nursing ??

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Rivs's topic in Men in Nursing

    I agree in general with the med surg setting to start. You may love it! I work in psych and work with a number of nurses who are men. They are wonderful with the patients and seem to enjoy their...

  13. How to handle the docs

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to blueyesue's topic in General Nursing

    No one likes to be put in their place. A doc who is rude is probably not going to react well to that, and one who is not rude doesn't need to hear it.I always treat people respectfully whether they...

  14. Been a nurse 11yrs and can't find job

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to NurseeNanceeLee's topic in Nursing Career

    The problem could very well be a perception that you will only be minimally available once you are oriented.... How about applying for prn positions and maybe finding a way to be more available during...

  15. Anyone work at Medical City in Dallas????

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to mjbsn2006's topic in Texas Nursing

    I work next door at Green Oaks (a psych hospital) which is also an HCA facility. You are talking about "weekend doubles." You work two eight hour shifts on Saturday and two on Sunday (back to back)....

  16. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    By definition, one must have had ADD or ADHD (or ADD-H as it is called now) prior to age 7 whether or not there has been a diagnosis made by that time.There was a name for it when you were a child,...

  17. No More Demerol?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Ummm, I think dilaudid is pretty popular with addicts too, isn't it? (High street value, last I heard.)I think your point is well taken. Pain meds are always going to be risky for habituation. If...

  18. Hospice patient receiving TPN ?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Blackcat99's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I didn't think hospice patients were codable, but I sure thought we could feed them. TPN is total parenteral nutrition, isn't it? Keeps the body fed so that the patient doesn't experience hunger?...

  19. I was proud of my nursing judgement last night!

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to christvs's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't know which feels better, seeing that we are competent after all, or the blessed relief that comes from not having to check everything fifteen or twenty times terrified we missed something. Way...

  20. 4 year old needs HELP please

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to dawn112's topic in Pediatric

    Anemia in and of itself is not indicative of abuse or neglect. Anemia is pretty common and is easily treated.Wanting to help your son get custody of this child is a separate issue. Your best bet...

  21. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    It looks like it is similar to an MAOI, an antidepressant involved with inhibiting monoamine oxidase reception, except some of the sites I found said it was first in a new class of antidepressants...

  22. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I'm pretty sure he or she was referring to my post. I answered the question "how can dyslexia make a nurse dangerous." I didn't diagnose anybody either, but the poster himself or herself stated that...

  23. Name that part. Words patients use for their own anatomy.

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to JEHORAPHA's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe because it had parted a red sea? (sorry, just couldn't help myself with that

  24. Nurses with ADD/ADHD?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to Metron's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I see that this has already been addressed by others, but since you asked....Dyslexia causes one to turn letters and numbers around, or jumble them in other ways. It makes life very difficult--street...

  25. Why a C-Section?

    chris_at_lucas_RN replied to edj02's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Actually, some of that stretching is going to be permanent, but you can do Kegel exercises (clenching and relaxing the muscles in your perineum--much like starting and stopping a stream of urine), and...