Alnitak7

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    What if a patient is too sick to manage their own healthcare?

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm wanting to hear that this actually
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    Do you think there's a power struggle?

    Alnitak7 replied to HisTreasure's topic in Private Duty

    When a nurse or caregiver is in a client's house, they're a team. The combination of the nurses training and experience and the family's knowledge of their loved one requires all to have humility and...
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    What is the most nightmarish medical bill you ever saw and how did it get payed?

    Alnitak7 posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    In times past I have heard of people who lost their homes because of medical bills. The Affordable Care Act offers a plan that would reimburse a patient for 90 percent of their bill while they...
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    Workplace Bullying-Nursing or 7th Grade?

    Alnitak7 replied to rbs105's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    One of my charge nurses was constantly telling me to say, "please," every time I talked to my residents. Even this can be a form of bullying. Most of these people don't care if you're not saying,...
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    What is the most nightmarish medical bill you ever saw and how did it get payed?

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm sorry to hear that. This brings the question of how someone can actually protect their estate from the medical profession. I do know of people who have done this. I guess what I'm trying...
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    How many minutes for each patient?

    Alnitak7 posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "She needs to complete her patient care in a timely manner." After a few years of patient care I learned to take this advice with a grain of salt. I tried taking care of four patients every hour....
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    Workplace Bullying-Nursing or 7th Grade?

    Alnitak7 replied to rbs105's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Incident reports? This has never been suggested to me before. I remember leaving notes on the DoNs door and being discouraged from doing this. Telling the charge nurse can be hard when they're...
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    i'll probably get flamed to the moon and back for this but..

    Alnitak7 replied to elijahvegas's topic in General Nursing

    What irritates me is when groups of people get together with the attitude that No one cares except for us. They know how to efficiently block the way for people who would like to be helpful and...
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    What is the most nightmarish medical bill you ever saw and how did it get payed?

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in Activism, Healthcare

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    Fired from first job. Now what???

    Alnitak7 replied to TrulyBlessed13's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think sometimes it helps to work for a nursing agency and to have only one patient at a time. It also helps because you can have more control over how much work is piled on
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    Any LPN's in informatics?

    Alnitak7 replied to Mef118's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I want to know also about where you could find accredited programs for
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    Does working in an informatics position make you an informatics nurse?

    Alnitak7 replied to CraigB-RN's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I think also there are various levels of this in the same way that there are C.N.A.s, LPNs and R.N.s. Please correct me if this is wrong. I've checked out the following link.
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    i'll probably get flamed to the moon and back for this but..

    Alnitak7 replied to elijahvegas's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes the caregivers who say, "I love them all," can turn right around and call a patient "a jerk." The "jerk" might be having pain but so what though. I've felt like telling them, You're not...
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    Is this neglect?

    Alnitak7 replied to mikasa's topic in General Nursing

    The patients have to be changed every two hours even if no one wants to do it. I think you could tell if a non-verbal patient wants to be up by watching them. This is not customary and is not...
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    Obamacare and Nursing.. what do you think?

    Alnitak7 replied to OKNurse2be's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Why It Is So Difficult to Kill the Death Panel Myth -
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    What are your pet peeves?

    Alnitak7 replied to forgop's topic in Emergency

    In school, I noticed that the ambulance crew called the hospital before they took someone in. This was so they could take them to whichever hospital was had the least number of clients. Maybe...
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    Obamacare and Nursing.. what do you think?

    Alnitak7 replied to OKNurse2be's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Let's suppose they get rid of all the health insurance fraud. If this is possible then do you think they might be able to get health insurance down to a lower price than it is right
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    Nursing Imposters

    Alnitak7 replied to Irish_Mist's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I worked in a place once where a confused patient was refusing her pills so they got one of the male R.N.s to pretend he was the doctor and she would take her pills when he was there because she...
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    You don't have time to do that

    Alnitak7 posted a topic in General Nursing

    One of the things that sparked off my anger when I was new on the wing is when I would go to wash someone's face or give them a drink and other things that are part of good care and someone would show...
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    jobs in informatics

    Alnitak7 replied to MissRN11's topic in Nursing Informatics

    http://www.ahima.org/education I found this website
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    Nursing Imposters

    Alnitak7 replied to Irish_Mist's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think an aide would have to be doing something that is an LPN procedure with no nursing order and when it is not legal in their state to get in real trouble. Laws vary from state to state....
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    Have you ever had an accident driving to work in a snow storm?

    Alnitak7 posted a topic in General Nursing

    My heart really goes out to the children and families of all those caregivers who are bullied into driving during this time of dangerous driving weather. Their patients who sometimes do not really...
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    Have you ever had an accident driving to work in a snow storm?

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    http://www.psi.uba.ar/academica/carrerasdegrado/psicologia/sitios_catedras/practicas_profesionales/610_clinica_cuadrosfront_psicosis/material/dsm.pdf I have read and understood what's listed above....
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    Have you ever had an accident driving to work in a snow storm?

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds good to me. I don't mind an even
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    Have you ever had an accident driving to work in a snow storm?

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    From what I know of it, the facility gets fined if they're short-handed. If it's a private care client in a facility and you don't show up, then I do not know how that