Blackheartednurse

Blackheartednurse

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  1. Do you tell your family members you visit patient in the bad neighboorhood.

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah my patient is in really bad shapes.The house is totally devastated;floors are rotting,no hot water,toilet is not working,many bugs crawling on the floor.My patient has a bad constipation and...

  2. Do you tell your family members you visit patient in the bad neighboorhood.

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Wow scary story.Thanks for sharing.My patient's floors are also rotten,and there are bugs everywhere and I mean

  3. Do you tell your family members you visit patient in the bad neighboorhood.

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    I would never WALK in this neighborhood-there are drugs,prostitution,battery,street robberies,sexual assults,and verbal assults,I have a pretty good intuition also,can read someone's else face...

  4. Do you tell your family members you visit patient in the bad neighboorhood.

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    I told them how important this job is for me right now.I need this job for experience and reference.They think that once I make the boss that I dont want this patient anymore he will start assigning...

  5. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    Blackheartednurse replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    In my mind I always diagnose,only in my mind though.I always label 80-90 something patients with a slight dementia and a heart failure regardless of MD

  6. Do you tell your family members you visit patient in the bad neighboorhood.

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately as of now this is my only job and I depend on this income so I cant afford to be picky.Once the market improves and and once I finally land a "regular" job I'm planning to choose my...

  7. Do you tell your family members you visit patient in the bad neighboorhood.

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Also would you drive to a bad neighborhoods for a job? Just curious of what other have to

  8. Do you tell your family members you visit patient in the bad neighboorhood.

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    I think from now on I'm going to keep where I'm going to see my patient to

  9. Having trouble hearing one of my pt blood pressure.

    Blackheartednurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Usually I dont have a problem with hearing my patients BP.But I have this particular patient older (87),he is very skinny,it is nearly impossible to feel his pedal pulses and also it is very hard to...

  10. Employed '09 and '10 grads: Are you where you wanted to be?

    Blackheartednurse replied to Lovely_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I thought that I would have a one year of hospital experience under my belt by now.I graduated more than a year ago on May 2009.Passed my board on August 24.I work as a home health nurse-part time.I...

  11. new grad with unknown HH agency, complicated pt case

    Blackheartednurse replied to jerzie0820's topic in Home Health

    Hi can you sent PM your outline.I'm a new grad doing intermittent visits,mostly I assess,take vitals,check BS,take weight,teach about meds,very rarely I do catheter or

  12. Do older adults tend to have slower pulse rate?

    Blackheartednurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    and I mean like 90 years olds,around this age.I'm seeing a patient who has a slow heart beat (in

  13. Do older adults tend to have slower pulse rate?

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    According to the agency I work for RN suppose to notify the MD if the pulse

  14. Do older adults tend to have slower pulse rate?

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Well my patient takes EXPIRED Reglan (yup!) and some fiber supplements from over the counter.All his other meds are totally expired and I told him to stop taking them automatically (Colace) His main...

  15. What kills me..... (VENT)!!!

    Blackheartednurse replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    oh yes they do..my first nursing job (magnet hospital) was a terrible experience.i work in home health now,and never even came close to what i have experienced in the magnet hospital...people at my...

  16. If you cant read my writing I dont know what to tell you.

    Blackheartednurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok so I have noticed an influx of nurses who have a hard time dealing with doctors...I recently (actually yesterday) had a phone confrontation with a doctor.Ok so I called him to clarify new orders...

  17. If you cant read my writing I dont know what to tell you.

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Well I looked up the caused of bradycardia. Too much iron in the body can cause

  18. If you cant read my writing I dont know what to tell you.

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Could constipation/impaction caused a

  19. I want to leave nursing....now what do I do?!

    Blackheartednurse replied to np7797's topic in Nursing Career

    How about a nursing job in the office.Doing paperwork.I know some nurses who do that and they are

  20. If you cant read my writing I dont know what to tell you.

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Ok this is what I think has happend.I definitely think that the lady was experiencing constipation due to her iron.I really believe that she run out of her benefiber (she was taking it for her...

  21. B12 injections,can you give it in the arm muscle?

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in Patient Medications

    Oh dont worry my patients are safe-today actually I have gotten a compliment-I was substituting for an experienced nurse and her patient told me she is sorry that I wont be her permanent nurse cause...

  22. B12 injections,can you give it in the arm muscle?

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in Patient Medications

    I thought it was actually opposite.I thought that the shot in the buttocks hurts more.When gave my patient the shot in the deltoid today he said it didnt hurt him at all..I always though that gluteal...

  23. B12 injections,can you give it in the arm muscle?

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in Patient Medications

    Thanks for the clarification.I gave 1000 mcg/ml of Cyanocobalamin (B12).So would vastus lateralis be considered as large as the gluteus medius and

  24. B12 injections,can you give it in the arm muscle?

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in Patient Medications

    In theory you can if you administer the shot too high.But I worry more about the sciatic nerve-especially since I dont have too much experience with IM shots.I mean the deltoid and vastus lateralis...

  25. B12 injections,can you give it in the arm muscle?

    Blackheartednurse replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in Patient Medications

    I wonder if there are meds that cant be given in the