hoolahan

hoolahan ASN, RN

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  1. Holiday staffing

    hoolahan posted a topic in General Nursing

    OK, please tell how your unit decides who is working what holiday, and who is off first. In many places I have worked, we always started a wish list. Then the scheduler(s) usually plugged people in...

  2. Holiday staffing

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in General Nursing

    HI rad, Well, yes, I could make the calls from home, but here is what happens when I used to go in Friday night to pick up charts from Saturday. They ask me to call the pt's first. So, if someone...

  3. dilema

    hoolahan replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    I don't care if you are nice or nasty, the point has to be made b/c we are all pt advocates. Thank God you didn't allow that idiot to hook that TPN line up the line. Me, I take the nice appraoch,...

  4. Refusing an assignment

    hoolahan replied to essarge's topic in General Nursing

    I'll second that, way to go

  5. Another Forced into Charge Role

    hoolahan replied to Genista's topic in General Nursing

    Guys, she said $12 per SHIFT extra, I don'tthink $12 is herhourly or she gets $12 more per hour.HopeI read that right Kona. I think ICU Becky said it best, thevoice of one mostrecentlyin your shoes....

  6. home health magazine for nurses???

    hoolahan replied to lynndeeloo's topic in Home Health

    Karen, when I was a member, I got Home Healthcare Nurse Magazine, not Caring. Have they changed membership bennies? I thought my boss got Caring from the Hospital Association membership. Not sure...

  7. Can anyone give me pointers?

    hoolahan replied to BrandyBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Jayna, I thought I was the only one! Sometimes I think to myself "Use the force Luke..." LOL! It really works!! Except for me with abg's! I suck at them, and traded jobs with other nurses not to do...

  8. Question about Jackson Pratt Drains & retention sutures

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to everyone for their input. Very interesting reading. Just thought I would share this. I was searching thru our purchased version of P&P for Visiting Nurses Assoc of America last night,...

  9. Trach's in Home Care

    hoolahan posted a topic in Home Health

    OK, here is my question. I opened a case last weekend, a young man with a trach, a plastic Shiley type, placed for sleep apnea. So he says, I got a very poor history, and on the weekend, it is hard to...

  10. Trach's in Home Care

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    Welcome kids-r-fun, I hope you post

  11. Question about Jackson Pratt Drains & retention sutures

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the replies. A good mix so far. We seem to be in the minority Karen! It certainly seems easy enough, just want to be sure, so at least we know nurses have done it, maybe it is institution's...

  12. Nurses now responsible for unplugging toilets on their floors!!

    hoolahan replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    If he ever said that to me, I would manage to plug up at least one toilet everyday, immediately after he sat down to

  13. Trach's in Home Care

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    That's the thing about working weekends, I never find out! I did look for his chart, but never found it. I wondered which nurse they gave him to, but couldn't figure it out. I'd like to know

  14. surgery fear PLEASE ANSWER ME

    hoolahan replied to analucia's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in a PACU for a period of time, but not all pt's get a foley with general. BUT most pt's do recieve atropine as a pre-med to decrease salivation to prevent aspiration of oral secretions....

  15. ? about SN frequency orders on 485

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    These are my answers to the above sceanrios... New diabetic 1-3W9, and 4 prn for disease related complications Old diabteic 2W1, 5-7W2, 3-5W3, 1-3W3 (No prn as he would most likely need ongoing dailys...

  16. Trach's in Home Care

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    OK, so I'm not crazy then nur? That's good news! Glad you popped in, haven't seen you post in this forum before.

  17. CBL

    hoolahan replied to panda_181's topic in General Nursing

    Dare I say it? Sorry Brian, I just can't resist it. If it looks like crap, and smells like crap, guess what, it's crap! And it won't transfer? That is a real

  18. Trach's in Home Care

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    Great idea! I'll make a trach page. But I have had trouble downloading the software lately! Taking forever! I wanted to add a flag or ribbon, like Google's, but gave up after it took longer than 45...

  19. Trach's in Home Care

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    Lois, I found the standards on the ANA site, gotta buy them of course. I hope it's worth $12!! I like that, washing your undies! LOL! Karen, I am with you when it comes to the OB stuff. My motto is...

  20. Trach's in Home Care

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    THanks guys, and so prompt too!! Karen, I swear, you are a guru of HH! Thanks you for posting the name of that product. I was wracking my brain trying to remember it. Now, I asked my other pt about...

  21. first code blue

    hoolahan replied to tonia's topic in General Nursing

    Oops! Duplicate post. Trigger finger again,

  22. first code blue

    hoolahan replied to tonia's topic in General Nursing

    I don't even want to tell you about my first code. It was a nightmare!!! I felt so incredibly stupid. Nothing can prepare you for this in nursing school. It will get easier. If you haven't already,...

  23. Survey: Would you encourage your child to become a nurse?

    hoolahan replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I would not suggest it or encourage it, but if they came to me and told me it was what they wanted to do, then I wouls support them all the way. I am trying to steer them to business school. I figure,...

  24. subcontracting in home health

    hoolahan replied to KP RN's topic in Home Health

    Hi KP, welcome. Not a half bad idea. I see a few problems, in my area anyway. The current beef with my agency is the CM's are not getting to see their own pt's. We have lost many RN's and replaced...

  25. Nurse to patient ratios

    hoolahan replied to stellaCat4's topic in Cardiac

    Hi Stella, I haven't worked on a unit like that, in both hospitals I have worked in who do interventional procedures, the pt's always return to the ICU/CCU. The ratio there is never more than 3:1. The...