TonyaM73 ASN, RN

MED/SURG STROKE UNIT, LTC SUPER., IMU

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    Best online RN to BSN program....CHEAP?

    TonyaM73 posted a topic in Online Distance Learning

    I have been a RN for about 1 1/2 years now and am starting to look towards going back and getting my BSN. I need something online since I work full time and have children, but also something that is...
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    Can the DON make you stay for OT if the next shift doesn't show or is called off?

    TonyaM73 posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I work in a long term care facility as the evening supervisor. I just took this position a couple of months ago, but have noticed that we have A LOT of call offs. The DON told me on Tuesday that if...
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    Relocating to houston with 8mths of Med/Surg experience

    TonyaM73 replied to fafine's topic in Texas Nursing

    How is your search and relocation going? We are doing the same thing here, just have not completely decided to make the plung
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    FL to TX move

    TonyaM73 posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    My family and I am considering moving to Houston, TX from Jacksonville, FL within the next year due to decreased commercial construction jobs in FL and the fact that my hubby's employer looks like...
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    FL to TX move

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in Texas Nursing

    I have currently been working on a Med/Surg Tele unit that specializes in stroke to which I have been floor nurse and relief charge nurse, but am thinking of trying for ICU. Either one would be fine...
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    FL to TX move

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in Texas Nursing

    Thank you so much for the input. We have basically zeroed in on the Houston area due to the positive construction environment and the proxemity to the beaches. We don't want to be too close to the...
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    That nagging "Did I miss something?" feeling

    TonyaM73 replied to Cuddleswithpuddles's topic in General Nursing

    I had this recently myself. A pt I took care of off and on for over 3 weeks. Last shift I had with this pt, they didn't look good, but there was not much that could have been done since they were a...
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    Too many hats

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Thank you for putting it so well. I have always been stumpted by
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    Too many hats

    TonyaM73 posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Just to warn you, I had a hard day yesterday. It is impossible to wear as many hats as a med/surg nurse has to wear today. We need to be RN of course, but there is also MD, case manager, aid,...
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    Too many hats

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    That would be lovely. I don't think it will happen anytime soon with the job market the way it
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    Medi Tech...Who slept with Who? Vent.

    TonyaM73 replied to gcupid's topic in Nursing Informatics

    We have Medi tech also and it is such a pain. It took so much time to understand that you have to press enter here, but the next page to do the same thing you have to press control and don't get me...
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    Too many hats

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I have a friend of mine that I work with and we vent together. I really don't know what is to be done. I have gone to my manager about some of it and keep being told to keep a log of events and then...
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    Deathbed visions **UPDATED**

    TonyaM73 replied to ag_man's topic in General Nursing

    It is amazing all of the things we know that we don't know. I think God gives us the comfort that we need at a time when we need it the most. If this vision is comforting to her, then that may be...
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    What was the funniest/crazy thing you have heard another Nurse doing?

    TonyaM73 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    Speaking of trachs....had a trach pt at a LTC, I used to work for, that needed O2. Came in after shift report and found O2 mask over his nose?!?!?!?!?!?! HUH? Kind of had to let every other nurse...
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    Any tips with smells? Please!!!

    TonyaM73 replied to AML2007's topic in General Students

    I ALWAYS have cough drops in my pocket for just such occations. If you have a menthyl one in your mouth and you are breathing through you mouth, you won't really smell anything else. Anytime one of...
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    What is the weirdest thing someone has been admitted to the hospital for?

    TonyaM73 replied to SweetsRN522's topic in General Nursing

    small nose bleed to which the pt was in the hospital for 3 days with Dilaudid ordered 2mg q3 hrs.
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    What do I do after my clinical instructor told me I will never be a good nurse?

    TonyaM73 replied to starrys's topic in General Students

    I had the same thing. Yes, the clinical instructor told me that "You will never be a good nurse." I was promoted to evening nursing supervisor in my first job and they are talking about charge nurse...
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    Is LTC really a kiss of death for new grads?

    TonyaM73 replied to studentchar's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Depends on the nurse manager. I had to start off in LTC due to the shortage of new grad jobs after I graduated. I took every opportunity I could to learn and refresh the skills that I didn't use to...
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    Not a waitress or barista

    TonyaM73 replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    I had one that I was discharging the other day at around 11am and the husband actualy asked me, could we get an early lunch tray to go? Really??? I told him that we really do not do that here, but if...
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    Stubborn Docs, New Docs

    TonyaM73 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    oh boy and how! Usually their response is to belittle the nurse. I give them a blank face and read the order out loud so that everyone in the area can hear it and hope to get some comments on it or...
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    I got fired today

    TonyaM73 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    All the time. :) It sounds like it was for the best. It stinks being fired, but it would stink even more to work for someone you had a bad feeling about and they treated you like crud. You have...
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    So disgusted with everything

    TonyaM73 replied to JDougRN's topic in Emergency

    Oy, sounds like my day on Med/Surg the other day. Not as many as 9 pts at a time though THANK GOD! 3 on the verge of respiratory distress (Full code), 1 Conversion disorder, and 1 who I asked the...
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    Only 5 units of insulin per injection site??

    TonyaM73 replied to utah23LPN's topic in General Nursing

    This is crazy. I have given lots and lots of insulin and it absorbs just fine. Everyone has taked about the infection issue and the pain or multiple injections, all of which I was going to say, but...
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    documentation

    TonyaM73 replied to roxie144's topic in General Nursing

    I would bring a witness in each and every time I went into that room. I would quote pt's exact words and who you brought in with you. I will never understand the mentality to treat the people that...
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    Leaving AMA

    TonyaM73 replied to missjustice's topic in General Nursing

    Most of the people that want to sign out AMA for me are either: #1 They feel fine now and we are not moving quick enough for them to figure out what happend or #2 The MD dc'd their dilala and they are...