Pixienurse123

Pixienurse123 has 14 years experience and specializes in ortho, med-surg, LTC, hospice, Quality.

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1. Differential for Floating

   Pixienurse123 posted a topic in General Nursing

   All of the nurses on my unit feel like we are being used as the hospitals own staffing agency. At least 2 of us are pulled to other units almost every day-we are wanting to get together and ask for a "float diff". I would like to know if anybody rece...

2. Nurse/Physician Conflicts

   Pixienurse123 replied to MissRNstudent10's topic in General Nursing

   I was doing home care hospice a few years back-admitted a man who had lung cancer with spinal mets-had been on IV Morphine in hospital (fairly sizable doses if memory serves) but sent home on Lortab. By the time i drove out to the home and did the ad...

3. Things I have learned in Nursing

   Pixienurse123 replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

   nursing has taught me that if something does not feel right-it usually isn't!!

4. Wildest lab values you've ever seen?

   Pixienurse123 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in General Nursing

   years ago i had a hospice patient with INR 48

5. I don't think I should return to nursing

   Pixienurse123 replied to LovebugLPN's topic in General Nursing

   I finished nursing school 13 years ago and 7 months pregnant. I did not want to work a 12 hours shift on a hospital med surg floor. I took a job at a nursing home with a plan to go to med surg in a year or two. I ended up staying in LTC and Hospice ...

6. Ok I dont like ortho

   Pixienurse123 replied to Sirapples's topic in General Nursing

   Give me a couple total hips, a couple total knees, an open tib-fib, PCA pumps, skeletal traction, and CPM machines and I'm a happy gal!!! You can even throw in a little old lady who fell and broke her hip who is now trying to crawl over the siderails...

7. New DON cleaning house

   Pixienurse123 replied to trimm's topic in Geriatric

   I was the DON of a 120+bed LTC facility. I was hired to "clean house". There had not been a permanent DON in over a year. I tried to improve the performance of most of the staff, but unfortunately there were several who really needed to go-too many b...