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    Need Advice... Nurse stealing non-narcotic medication

    BrandonLPN replied to JSSCELI's topic in General Nursing

    I've given stock Tylenol to staff who say their back hurts or something. Or a little cup of maalox or something like that. The stock meeds aren't billed to any resident. I guess you could make a case...
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    Hospital Errors 3rd Leading Cause of Death

    BrandonLPN replied to sapphire18's topic in General Nursing

    I'm skeptical. People who go to the hospital are already sick, obviously. Is failing to "cure" this sickness considered an error? Failure to diagnose it properly? When people hear "hospital error"...
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    Sorry state of Nursing ...

    BrandonLPN replied to Howardhughes's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmmm.... I will have to agree with the whole "cheese with your whine" argument. At least to some extent. The only way your facility (or nursing as a whole, if you wanna get all dramatic) is going to...
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    Are nurses allowed to have facial piercings?

    BrandonLPN replied to cascadingbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    It's entirely dependent on the facility you work at and what their policy is. I've worked for facilities that make you cover your tatts and take out facial peircings. I currently work at one where...
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    Stage 2 wound...

    BrandonLPN replied to MessyMomma's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    My facility has had good results from placing an alginate (sp?) or aquacel dressing cut to size in the wound bed, covering it with a 4x4 and a transparent cover like a tegaderm. Our doctor explained...
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    Disrespectful

    BrandonLPN replied to martymoose's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think there's a special circle of Hell set aside for the people who develop the customer service surveys for
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    Don't look at the charts!

    BrandonLPN replied to green34's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    When I worked in the hospital, I saw several aides and nurses get fired for looking at electronic charts of patients not on their
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    Documenting for another nurse?

    BrandonLPN replied to Barnstormin' PMHNP's topic in General Nursing

    I'm betting your facility is engaging in unecessary and redundant documentation policy. Whoever makes the policy there ought to check with the BON on this. LPNs can complete their own documentation....
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    RN License plate

    BrandonLPN replied to esrun00's topic in General Nursing

    Well, if a LPN got a plate that explicitly implied he's a registered nurse, yeah, that's fraud. But some of the plates people on this thread are calling "RN plates" simply say "I'm a nurse!" and have...
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    Frustrations of an older student

    BrandonLPN replied to suzilks1's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I can't believe schools don't have some sort of statute of limitations on these things. After 15 years, one should just be given a clean
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    Infection control question...

    BrandonLPN replied to luvmy2angels's topic in General Nursing

    The only person I've ever seen wearing gloves in the dinning room during meal time is our cataclysmically OCD 90 year old
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    RN License plate

    BrandonLPN replied to esrun00's topic in General Nursing

    I also have zero interest in vanity plates of any kind. I think they're kind of silly. But then, I find bumper stickers and American Flags hanging on car windows to be a tad tacky and silly as well....
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    RN License plate

    BrandonLPN replied to esrun00's topic in General Nursing

    The real question (as it applies to the OP) is does the so-called "RN plate" explicitly say "RN" on it? One of the plates posted on this thread simply said "Be a Nurse" and had a picture of a...
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    Med Passes

    BrandonLPN replied to kcdunlap's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Maybe I'm in the minority, but I prefer med carts with all the pills in bottles as opposed to those stupid blister packs. With all the bottles in the stock drawer, try writing "ASA 81" or "TYL 325" on...
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    Professionalism 101

    BrandonLPN replied to lpnpgh123's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I heard my grandma say a variation of it a few times, but the place I read it first was in a Laura Ingalls Wilder book, too. Laura's Ma writes it in her yearbook after Laura gets into a hot mess after...
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    Professionalism 101

    BrandonLPN replied to lpnpgh123's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    My sense of humor leans toward the dark and the sarcastic as well. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't make these kinds of comments/jokes with like-minded co-workers. And, let's be honest, many of...
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    Medication management in long term care/ assisted living

    BrandonLPN replied to XcrMat's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Administring medications to 30-40 LTC residents from a Pyxis would be a nightmare. It would actually be very unsafe to try and do so. Since nurses in LTC have so many residents to pass meds to, they...
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    Question from a third shift nurse....

    BrandonLPN posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have a question about the third shift role in LTC. Why does first shift veiw us as their personal "prep team" whose main purpose is to get everything ready for them? I know all LTC facilities have...
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    Smokers need not apply?

    BrandonLPN replied to RainMom's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    You're right, darn Obamacare for forcing employers to provide heath insurance for their employees. The obese and the smokers were so much better off
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    Dismissed from nursing school...fought back and won in court!

    BrandonLPN replied to 28studentsfailed's topic in General Students

    Oh, and I want to add that the first thing I noticed in that link was that the plantiff said something like "If I had passed the nursing program, I would have been entitled to a nursing license." No,...
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    Dismissed from nursing school...fought back and won in court!

    BrandonLPN replied to 28studentsfailed's topic in General Students

    I think for-profit schools and their shady grading practices is a legitimate and important topic. The OP's school certainly sounds shady from what little we know. I went to a for-profit PN school and...
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    Question from a third shift nurse....

    BrandonLPN replied to BrandonLPN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Yes, but you have to realize, there's only so much that can be done between 6am and 7am. Especially with the skeleton crew on
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    Smokers need not apply?

    BrandonLPN replied to RainMom's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have to admit, I get annoyed by some coworkers who smoke. I work with so many CNAs that smoke it isn't funny. (for some reason, there's always way fewer nurses who smoke) and I've noticed that LTC...
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    Can they force me to work weekends during jury duty???

    BrandonLPN replied to luv2dive's topic in General Nursing

    There's a big difference between sick leave and taking time off to perform your civic duty. We live in a society. The needs of the society transcend the needs of the staff scheduler at Xyz
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    Can they force me to work weekends during jury duty???

    BrandonLPN replied to luv2dive's topic in General Nursing

    It's all about civic responsibility. Just as citizens have a civic duty to report to jury duty, so do employers to accommodate employees who are called up. Forcing an employee who just spent Monday...