blinks

blinks specializes in Pain Mgmt.

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1. Do nurses really "eat their young?"

   blinks replied to Keko89's topic in General Nursing

   No, they don't. It is just a professional myth that people like to repeat because it is fun to say. Back in the day when nurses were handmaidens to MDs, the older nurses were burdened with resentment...

2. Nurses who refuse to give pain meds

   blinks replied to JellyBean1's topic in Pain Management

   Failure to treat pain is abuse. Failure to assess pain is neglect. If the management of your facility does not take this seriously, does not intervene on behalf of the patients/residents, you may want...

3. How many patients?

   blinks replied to sistasoul's topic in Medical-Surgical

   I work on a surgical unit (primarily G-I patients). We average 3-4 days and evenings and 5-6 nights. 2 CNAs days and eves and 1 CNA on nights. I think this is a reasonable load for

4. Mature Nurses over 50

   blinks replied to Su360's topic in Michigan Nursing

   After 10 years at a SNF, I returned this past year to acute care bedside nursing. When I left acute care at age 48, most of my patients were older than me. That was certainly the case in long term...

5. Evaluation Formats

   blinks replied to blinks's topic in Nurse Management

   Thanks. Sounds good. And I like the idea of peer reviews designed by a work group that I assume included line staff. Interviewing other staff as part of an evaluation is always dicey at best. This...

6. Evaluation Formats

   blinks posted a topic in Nurse Management

   Hi, I am looking for an effective evaluation format to be used for our line staff. I am an Asst DON at a 50 bed LTC/Rehab facility w/ about 60 staff to eval. We are interested in linking annual...

7. What's your story? Why did you take up nursing?

   blinks replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

   My first marriage was coming to an end and the local nursing program was converting from LPN to ADN curriculum and advertising for candidates. I thought nursing might be a good place to meet chicks....

8. diabetic leg ulcer and vac therapy

   blinks posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

   Hi, I have been treating a chronic diabetic leg ulcer with negative pressure since January. Initially, the wound presented with exposed tendon in a 3X5 cm woundbed following a failed autologous graft...

9. Mature Nurses over 50

   blinks replied to Su360's topic in Michigan Nursing

   and how cute is

10. Mature Nurses over 50

    blinks replied to Su360's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I am a 54 year old male RN (will be 55 in July). I spent the first half of my 20 year career in med/surg & oncology and the second 10 years in LTC. To be honest, I am finally getting tired of...

11. GETTING WRITTEN UP: What is the most ridiculous thing you have been written up for?

    blinks replied to greeneggsnham's topic in General Nursing

    I was once fired from a job as a CNA for filling in all the "holes" with my initials. The surveyors were coming and I thought I was doing the staff a favor. Terminated me for "falsifying

12. merit wage increases...inquiry

    blinks posted a topic in General Nursing

    hi, i am new to board. i come with a question. i have been working for the same company for 5 years. during that time i have been promoted from med nurse to day charge to clinical care mgr to nursing...