NurseStyles

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1. What did SANTA bring YOU this year????

   NurseStyles replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

   Wow! I am soo jealous. I guess if you don't ask for things, you don't get them. Actually, our pipe in our house broke Sunday morning. Our entire house/carpeting/floors flooded. So on Christmas Eve and...

2. Have you ever taken care of a celebrity?

   NurseStyles replied to BarbPick's topic in General Nursing

   I agree that sometimes HIPAA is taken to far. I have been trying to find out more info on providing info over the telephone. People refuse to give out info over the telephone to family members who may...

3. migraine faker at the ED!

   NurseStyles replied to z's playa's topic in Emergency

   First of all, We are not to judge a patient's pain. A patient can most certainly be able to fall asleep and have horrib le pain. I had a cancer patient woman with cervical CA with mets who had a...

4. Nurses, Would you go into nursing if you had to do it all over again?

   NurseStyles replied to 4everpeace's topic in General Nursing

   I could not imagine doing anything else besides nursing, but I am frequently told by patient's that it takes a special person to be a nurse. I do have several patients who tell me that some nurses are...

5. CNA's in Med-Surg

   NurseStyles replied to FutureRNMichael's topic in Medical-Surgical

   Our CNAs do vital signs, ADLs, enemas, urine specimins from foleys, collect stool, sputum specimins, some put on ointments and cremes (although I don't believe that is within their scope of practice)....

6. Is it time for this nurse to retire??

   NurseStyles replied to nursenatalie's topic in Medical-Surgical

   we have several nurses on our floor in their mid 70s. They are vey efficient. That is a tricky situation. Did anyone ask the pt. who was to have received the dilaudid if in fact he remembers receiving...

7. Cooling blanket placement

   NurseStyles replied to javajunkie's topic in Medical-Surgical

   We do not use cooling blankets on our floor. I have never used

8. Frustrated!!N/M probs

   NurseStyles replied to NurseStyles's topic in Medical-Surgical

   I forget sometimes that I am talking to nurses all over the country/world here. In California, LVNs cannot administer any IV medications or tpn or do anything involving a central line. They do not do...

9. Frustrated!!N/M probs

   NurseStyles posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

   I really need to vent here. I have been a med surg nurse for 4 years. Up until about the last 6 months, I have pretty much enjoyed my job. I do have a couple of concerns that really piss me off, and I...

10. Hospital industry seminars advise administrators how to evade RN ratios

    NurseStyles replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in California Nursing

    I need to clarify my concern. The CNA website q and a page says that it is not legal for an LVN to have 6 patients and the RN to have her 6 plus the LVN's 6 because that would give the RN 12 patients....

11. Hospital industry seminars advise administrators how to evade RN ratios

    NurseStyles replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in California Nursing

    Spacenurse: How do you interpret these articles? To me they seem a bit vague. I would appreciate your input. From the CNA Q and A webpage: The minimum, baseline ratio of 1 RN to 4 couplets represents...