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Hi Nurse Practitioners! Was wondering what, if any guidelines you use to treat PCOS patients? Currently there are five guidelines by different associations and I'm not sure which one is most followed,or endorsed by AANP or ANCC. Thanks!

THank you! i found a number of national guidelines and they all have pretty much the same recommendations. Just curious, do you see PCOS patients? what is your recommendation for follow-up and monitoring?

Hello all! I'm an ICU RN taking a community-based nursing course for my BSN and have to interview a home health nurse for my class (I know, I know). I interviewed a girlfriend of mine who was a home health LVN, and not until I was done did I realize ...

so your office only has 2-3 RNs for 80-100 clients? how does that work? is it because the RNs only do supervisor visits? is there a ratio in place (i don't know about home health ratios in california, but i do know in hospitals we have them) how man...

hey lpncal...thanks so much! this is an interesting field, so i'm learning. i had a couple more questions, if you have the time. so mainly your patients are underprivileged, uninsured. are they geriatrics? what is the typical problem (if there is on...

@caliotter: well, when i interviewed her, she had limited examples of nursing routines/activities (she didn't do admissions, assessments, you know, stuff RNs can do), she didn't know the roles of other team members, nor did she take part in coordinat...

why not a hotel room? you won't pay for utilities that way!

I have the same thing; I went to my dermatologist who prescribed a topical steroid to use prn. of course the medicine works, but then I'm back to work, washing, geling, drying my hands out all day and the rash comes back. I'm not sure what the soluti...

do you and i work on the same floor?

thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks. when i realized i had done it, i immediately got palpitations and had to sit down. it was an incredibly intense moment, i'm sure we've all been there, but i'm not sure why i reacted in so negatively to that.

busy day the other day, accidentally ordered the wrong urine test (tox screen instead of culture)...repercussions? urine culture had already been ordered the day before, too late to cancel urine tox. thoughts?

un, nothing, all negative. patient was 80+ years old. that's called, not paying attention! but could i get in trouble, like placing an order; practicing medicine without a license sort of thing?

who's going to write a closing argument on this case?

could be!

thanks! people need to lighten up!

actually, it's part joke. but it means a small quantity of something. so it means what i think it means. please don't change the subject.

please don't make assumptions about my modicums

so the housekeeper has grounds to sue for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

i completely agree with you, i'm afraid we'd be making an assumption though in thinking that she feels no shame. who knows?!?!?!

what are you talking about, me leaving my purse out for her to steal from?....are you trying to give me perspective? stealing sucks, we all can agree on that. forgiveness does not mean being foolish. look, i'm taking issue with everyone's knee jerk ...

no worries, i never thought we would agree, i just like to hear other peoples' opinions/thoughts.

is the student getting off scott-free though? she has publicly embarrassed herself, is subject to discharge from her nursing program (which will probably be the case) and has to live with herself and her poor behavior. sounds horrible to me.

okay, if someone came in off the street and stole from me, i would find it necessary FOR ME to find forgiveness. you've heard the saying about resentment being like a poison that we take and waiting for the other person to die...it can't go on foreve...

i really can't say that i'm repulsed by the student's actions (disheartened, dismayed, unnerved: yes) . in all honesty i don't like all the high and mighty attitudes i'm reading about making someone suffer, branding them with a scarlet letter, teachi...

look, you're talking about making someone "suffer" and i'm now repulsed by the conversation. i was originally suggesting the OP take a different approach towards this yucky situation, and maybe have a healing and forgiving attitude instead of staying...