IamVickiRN

"Maybe nurses are not all interchangeable as administrations sometimes like to think." Shout it louder for the folks in the back!! It is not true that "A nurse is a nurse is a nurse".

Does anyone have an easy, understandable way to decipher ABG's? Metabolic acidosis/alkalosis vs. Respiratory acidosis/alkalosis? This stuff is looking like a foriegn language to me!! Then they throw in this Compensated and uncompensated?? I'm tot...

I have just the opposite problem! I work in a clinic that the patients think is an ER! They come in to us for chest pain, stroke symptoms, etc and get MAD when we tell them we are calling an ambulance to take them to the ER! Its unreal the things ...

Hi everyone. I work in an income based clinic where 90% of our clients are no isurance/under insured. I have a case with a client that has cellulitis on her leg and desperately needs unna boots but can't afford them. I used to work in the VA where ...

I don't know if it was ADM? Maybe they meant ADN? Thats Associates Degree in Nursing as opposed to a diploma nurse or BSN? Just a guess... I don't have any other ideas. Vicki

All I want is a refill on my Xanax and Vicodin, why do I have to see the doctor for that?? Can't you just call them in for me?? I hear that at least 5 times a day in my clinic!

Thats funny, I've always said we put the FUN in dysfunctional. Maybe it really is more the FUNK!! I can relate to your post immensely. My mom would take healthcare advice from dog if he could talk before she would listen to me. Fortunately for m...

Hey, Just curious, how does licensing work with travel nurses? You still have to be licensed in any state you work unless its a VA, right? Vicki

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ask for help! Any nurse you are working with should understand that school does not teach you all the things you need to know. I went through a very similar situation, I graduated LPN in May, started at a LTCF with the promise ...

Too funny!!

SMOKING! My mothers' best lines... 1. Smoking after a lung resection: "Please God, don't let it be cancer, if its not cancer I'll stop smoking!" DX: Histoplasmosis. "Well I've smoked all these years and its not cancer, the cigs must not be as bad a...

Title: LPN LTC, First job out of school: $20.50/hr Indiana

You will have to be fingerprinted and backgrounded in IL. They are real buggers from what I understand. I am licensed in Indiana because I live here, but since I live on the state line, I am considering getting my IL license so I have more freedom ...

LOL, ain't that the truth!!

So my day in clinical sorta sucked. My patient is actively dying. My care consisted of comfort measures; more so for the family than for him. He was an interesting learning experience. I got to do a few things that I had not done before so that wa...

Good ol Vaseline!! Run your hands in warm--NOT hot-- warm water for a few minutes, just to soften them up, SLATHER on the vaseline and put on a pair of cotton gloves. Go to bed. Sleep well and wake up with soft and hydrated hands. Its a little aw...

Whoneedsashot: If you private message me I think I may be able to help you out. Vicki

We were taught that vesicular is just a fancy schmancy way of saying Lung sounds are clear.

Thank you, I started flipping the PaCO2 after I read this and it does make more sense to me by having them on the same sides.

AMEN!!

I currently work in a toxic environment similar to what you have described. I was a brand new nurse, so new that the ink was still wet on my license! I started in July and had no orientation. The nurse I was supposed to "orient" with called in and...

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I'm an LPN in Indiana and I make $20.50 straight out of school.

Hi, I work in an LTC and I recently had a patient that is elderly (frail, 91 but able to ambulate, communicate, eat, and toilet self) with several disease processes, none of which are necessarily life threatening. Patient is a DNR. I found my reside...