LobotRN BSN, RN

I found that the material on Koi Lindsey wasn't very sturdy and they would last maybe 9 months with regular washes after every shift. My personal fave is the Youtility Gen Flex by Dickies. I think they wear like iron, the colors stay true even when u...

I work(ed) acute care (Hey Commuter! Congrats) and my rule for refusals was this type of assessment and documentation: "Pt refusing (shower/bedbath/pericare/turns). Pt assessed for (pain/disorientation-delirium/LOC/mentation, etc). Pt educated for r...

Exactly elkpark. Go to bankrate.com and look at their debt calculators. If you know the loan amount and interest rate, you can create all the scenarios you are asking about and see what the numbers look like. Its not a mystery. Don't go into debt if ...

(FUNNY!) But on a more serious note, How long post op? Immediately after I vote hemorrhagic complication. A day or two later, I vote sepsis. What is the WBC? Lactate? This can really be a chicken-n-egg situation...either way its shocking!

Yes, yes we are. Why thank you blondy! And to the OP, I have been IDDM since I was 2 years old. Now on a pump with continuous glucose monitoring for the last 15 years. As far as your employment physical may go, your A1c says it all. Way to be a self...

This is a bit of a vent, but a timely one. I love working with a very diverse team on a busy med/surg floor. As we are now in Spring, we have many new orientees and again I have been asked to bring a few of them along as a preceptor. Every year it ...

Hmmmm. I'm starting to think bathing and lift fairies aren't real?

How do we get it done? I am looking for ideas on how to address patient hygiene issues in acute care. It is essential nursing care in my book, I am all for it, I try my best to get it done and help our CNAs to get it done. I'll absolutely MAKE it ...

No, we use disposable basins. In fact if we lowered the volumes of those, it would offset the bath wipe costs. I don't wanna even think what a reusable basin would culture out ewwwwwwwwww

THIS! A few months ago I tried to get a trial of the Medline bathing wipes, which are AWESOME, but was told it wasn't cost effective. Reallllllly? Single use items reduce infection rates, and it would take less than 10 minutes to bathe a patient (f...

Ahhhh. I was hoping to find the bath fairy out there, somewhere. Seriously, thanks for the comments. But what it is seeming to boil down to is that we actually need to 1) have a culture shift that setting up a patient to do some self care with a ...

In a nutshell, it can still affect you. Virtually any licensure application in any field has some verbiage to the effect of, "have you every had any publicly issued license revoked, reprimanded, or suspended?" That means if you were a licensed home...

My Uncle works for the FDA. His response is cost re: glass ampules. Medications that are single use and that can be batch created and group sterilized, thus low cost production. And the glass ampules are impervious, so longer shelf life. This work...

^^^Exaaaaactly Ruby! Incidentally, we are paid for time in those ancillary meetings. However! Being forced into it and the impact it has on work life balance is horrible. Be on Shared Governance, sure it's only 2 hours for the monthly meeting. If ...

So we have about 4 different programs in our greater area in which one can pursue nursing education and RN licensure. But What to make of this? Really? For a good laugh or slap to the head, view one our illustrious programs gush about "front offic...

At Acute HD, they must have candidates qualified for entry into a BON approved program, and that means science, English, and math, right? So then they can charge for that, too. Here's a good read on the subject: These are the schools driving Americ...

Surprisingly their pass rates are 91% + for 2014 and 2015, and they deliver about 75 or so candidates per calendar year. I just wonder how many enrollees make it to the end and can sit for boards? They pay tuition regardless, and none of the standa...

That's a good one!

I think it does look warm and fuzzy like kindgergarten.

Aaaaaaand then there is this, actually on the advertisement and on the local website for them: Reno Campus - 14,680 square feet - 1 faculty member rescues turtles - 2 MA faculty members are graduates of Carrington - 600+ years of combined experience ...

Just the bedroom scene, Acute HD . And to clarify, this facility does have MA and RN programs. They have their own prereqs (for which one must also pay!) that allow them to teach nursing and create candidates who can sit for the NCLEX per our stat...

I guess I'm just sensitive, lol! I really object to the beginning sequence that shows the "host" in bed, under covers, with a mannequin (the patient!!!), saying you learn "front office and back office" procedures. I just cannot believe the marketing ...

I propose that anally on September 7th we have a grammer and speling-free day that requires all posts to have at least one atrocity in either category. What will the winner get?

Agree with above....and I know that there are times when I am precepting that instead of saying, "stop! you're going to make a mistake that way" I have instead opted to say, "oh, hey, come out here with me for a second, I needed to show you something...

I remember a ways back in nursing school that a good nursing plan starts with the end! Advice that was given to me by some wonderful instructors and a great preceptor is to let the patient know the conclusion right from the get to. When I meet my p...