TalldiNY

TalldiNY

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  1. Education for Nurses:Bowel Management

    TalldiNY replied to ngingi's topic in Patient Education

    In our rehab unit I worked with SCI and brain injury so you can imagine we were as bowel obsessed as elderly people. Everybody without exception was on a bowel prog. We did however ask what the pt...

  2. Diabetes makes people more vulnerable to TB, study says

    TalldiNY replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    Just thought I would mention that in the 70's I worked on both of the Chippewa reservations in the upper peninsula of Michigan. There was a TB outbreak and it spread like wildfire. It was traced back...

  3. Dipoma Nurse and Proud!

    TalldiNY replied to nurse4117's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I too am a diploma RN, for 35 yrs now. Still working although the body is beginning to break down (lots of arthritis). I started at a time when the BSN programs were few and far between. Do I feel...

  4. Online Medication Teaching Handouts?

    TalldiNY replied to Julie, RN's topic in Patient Education

    Medlineplus.com Excellent resource on drugs and topics. Easy printout for handouts. Also the Carenotes system is good

  5. I Dislike Nursing:

    TalldiNY replied to Barlan's topic in General Nursing

    There are so many areas of nursing, from interventional radiology to neonatal, labor and delivery, to psychiatric. There are visiting nurses, 1/2 way home, group home, assisted living I could go on...

  6. Well, it finally happened after 2.5 years...

    TalldiNY replied to Sue Damones's topic in General Nursing

    I always let family help me but insist on doing it with instruction on how to do it properly ( I work in acute physical medicine and rehab) as they will need to do it at home. I also give handouts on...

  7. Tired of impaired nurses

    TalldiNY replied to epipusher's topic in General Nursing

    Well at least if she is a drug addict shes doing it on her own time and without hurting people. Have also run into this in the last 35 yrs. Also

  8. Do you need to carry your personal cell phone while at work?

    TalldiNY replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    My husband is a heart transplant pt. If they try to take it away I will go to Americans with Disability, my state obudsman and/or whomever it takes. We have the right to remain in contact with those...

  9. feelings about double rooms

    TalldiNY replied to starryx2's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You answered your own question. Research TCAB rooms. They are the latest innovation. Unreality floats like the Titanic in nursing. It's unsinkable and it sinks. Ilove

  10. "Granny-Dumping" in Psyche Unit

    TalldiNY replied to Town & Country's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yes, except grandma ends up on a medical unit because there is no psych unit or the psych unit says it's dementia not a psychotic break. Either way equally

  11. Playing secretary and receptionis during med pass??

    TalldiNY replied to SoCalif1979's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You need a new job. you are doing the right thing and you could even report your employer to the health

  12. how do you deal with drug seeker pts in med surg?

    TalldiNY replied to vickynurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I like the ones who tell you what pain medications they will or won't take. Then proceed to tell you when they are so stoned the words are barely comprehensible that they are still in pain, in between...

  13. Understaffing and burnout

    TalldiNY replied to cherishlpn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Chronic under staffing inability to give good quality nursing care due to the above. being floated to everywhere but your assigned unit due to the above. going home feelingdispirited and unfulfilled...

  14. is re charting legal

    TalldiNY replied to capability's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I would never give her the original. It can be used against

  15. Offended by Prayer

    TalldiNY replied to CCU NRS's topic in General Nursing

    If I am dead and you are praying you are praying for yourself, I have already met my maker. Also 'thee' is used by the quakers as well as the mennonites, amish and a few other fundementalist christian...

  16. Rude and crude RN

    TalldiNY replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked in the past with men who look like that and they were behind bars for rape and pedophilia. Anyone who can lose themselves in sexual fantasy in the middle of a conversation is more than...

  17. afraid of losing my liscense

    TalldiNY replied to nursecatnfl's topic in Correctional

    I smell fresh fish... Make sure you work in a hospital for a few years before you even think about working in corrections. Yes, they are human, but they are all without exception antisocial...

  18. Pxyis Medication Administration

    TalldiNY replied to Deb Howe's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I have used pyxis for narcs and some stats, but I wonder if the same problems we had with getting the new narcs entered by the pharmacy would continue to be a problem? also, the pharmacy was /is...

  19. Spinal Injuries

    TalldiNY replied to Kath Barra's topic in Rehabilitation

    The anatomy remains the same of course...lol But seriously, having worked in a few US states I would have to say program content varies from facility to facility. Diff meds, diff ways of doing...

  20. help needed

    TalldiNY replied to Zinnia's topic in Rehabilitation

    I hope that you have had him in intensive rehab and have the team recommendatrions for further out pt rehab. He should still be going to out pt speech and cognitive therapy. No idea how old he is...