mehitabela

mehitabela

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  1. LPN goin beyond scope of practice

    mehitabela replied to SweetheartRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Anonymous doesn't make it

  2. LPN goin beyond scope of practice

    mehitabela replied to SweetheartRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I know exactly what you

  3. LPN goin beyond scope of practice

    mehitabela replied to SweetheartRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    What state is this? Our LPNs have access to the accudose as well. I hadn't realized things were so extremely varied from state to state! This makes me want to look up what precisely is the scope of...

  4. Press Ganey and Medicare?

    mehitabela replied to nowIamRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! Everyone knows people only talk about bad stuff! Which would you be more likely to do...rave to all your friends about the good service you got at...

  5. LPN goin beyond scope of practice

    mehitabela replied to SweetheartRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    When an LPN admits and assesses a new patient at my work, they chart on it. I have to cosign in the chart but they do everything else. They also make their own care plans and consult with physicians...

  6. LPN goin beyond scope of practice

    mehitabela replied to SweetheartRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Where I work LPNs not only assess and discharge patients, they also admit them. Do you work LTC because the parameters are different there...at least in my

  7. HR recruiter sending me friend request on FB??

    mehitabela replied to Emile's topic in General Nursing

    Just because "social networking" has become a catchphrase for FB and other sites like it doesn't change the fundamental meaning of the phrase. If a bunch of people decided that "purple" was the new...

  8. HR recruiter sending me friend request on FB??

    mehitabela replied to Emile's topic in General Nursing

    Since when has "society lived without social networking"?? It may not have been FB but ever since the have been people, we have networked. It's just not only by word of "mouth" anymore! The farmer who...

  9. I'm seriously considering buying a ipod I touch for my career

    mehitabela replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    I have an iPad and my hospital has free wifi. I use it to look stuff up all the time...I also have used it to entertain my patients on occasion! They love the talking Tom app. I had it sing happy...

  10. If we are supposed to be promoting gender equality in nursing

    mehitabela replied to LPNweezy's topic in General Nursing

    As a female, I generally don't think about how hard it still can be for male nurses ( and aides), but just a few nights ago something happened at work that illustrated perfectly( at least to me) why...

  11. Why do nurses feel the need to put RN on their license plates?

    mehitabela replied to 3dayRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    How about SRTASBR for a college

  12. Why do nurses feel the need to put RN on their license plates?

    mehitabela replied to 3dayRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't think having a vanity plate or personalized plate that's work related is an indicator of a person deeply entwined in nothing but work. Let's face it, it's a helluva lot easier to fit RN on a...

  13. Advertisement I just saw that made me mad!

    mehitabela replied to handyrn's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    OMG! I think that made me pee a

  14. Why do nurses feel the need to put RN on their license plates?

    mehitabela replied to 3dayRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Whoa! Wasn't going for the jugular there, were ya! I DO, in fact, notice that this is, as you say, a nursing site. Did you notice that when someone assumes that a joke is made at their expense instead...

  15. Why do nurses feel the need to put RN on their license plates?

    mehitabela replied to 3dayRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So far I have seen MD, DD, LAWYR2, VETDOC, and of course RN. I have a bumper magnet on my car that says "proud to be a -insert hospital name here- nurse" because I AM proud of...

  16. Sick and tired of the AAS BSN debate

    mehitabela replied to Natingale's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I graduated from a two year diploma program with no prereqs and got a job five months later at a hospital making a whole 85cents an hour less than ADN and a whopping 90 cents an hour less than a BSN....

  17. Advertisement I just saw that made me mad!

    mehitabela replied to handyrn's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Woops, you're absolutely right! I had some cruddy run ins with BSN students that has probably tainted my view. I'm sure there are excellent BSN students out there....the ones I base my opinion on were...

  18. Advertisement I just saw that made me mad!

    mehitabela replied to handyrn's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Honestly, I went to a hospital affiliated diploma program and in our clinical rotations we always ran into other students from BSN schools and while they may have been more book learned, when it came...

  19. Reprimanded for giving glucagon?!!!

    mehitabela replied to dblpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Hell no you weren't wrong! Way to use that nursing judgment! I am a firm believer of patient first. It's got me in hot water with the DON a couple of times but the physician on my unit always backs me...

  20. How would you handle this?

    mehitabela replied to DroogieRN's topic in General Nursing

    Or how about we pour some mucomyst in the pockets of his nice lab coat so he smells like the butt head he is!

  21. Nurses, CNAs, Techs, if you could affect change, what would it be?

    mehitabela replied to wildboo's topic in General Nursing

    I would make management understand that a LTC unit in the hospital gets a much more acute brand of "resident" than a regular LTC, and then have it staffed appropriately. It simply is not safe for two...

  22. Foot remains in chocolate.

    mehitabela replied to LPNweezy's topic in Nursing Humor

    The following statements are said to have been written by various health care professionals, and found on patient's charts during a recent review of medical records. "The baby was delivered, the cord...

  23. A disgruntled ex calling the bon on me.

    mehitabela replied to smartnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

    Remember the FBI fingerprinting? If the fibbies don't care...neither will the BON! Safe, sane, and consensual has nothing to do with your job as long as no patients are involved. Putting yourself...

  24. Calling all Nurse Mamas... Please help me!!

    mehitabela replied to punkydoodlesRN's topic in General Nursing

    Boy, all of you are so nice and accommodating! Personally, I'm MUCH more of a $&*ch! I told my husband when I began working that he had to man up and get it done. I did buy him a crock pot and we...

  25. Reasonable Nursing School GPA?

    mehitabela replied to bearscrubs75's topic in General Nursing

    The trouble with nursing school tests is that you can be a stellar multiple choice test taker, A+ average in previous grad school and still bomb if you don't remember that you are not really being...