Dixiedi

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  1. LPN as supervisor?

    Dixiedi replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    When I was young I learned a lot from the NAs (there was no such thing as a CNA then) that worked at the hospital I worked at. The two of them had done a lot of things over their years that I had only...

  2. Who are the Uninsured?

    Dixiedi replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    It is not the governments responsibility to provide health care to everybody. Nor is it the govs responsibility to require healthcare be offered to everybody. We are Americans. We choose to live in a...

  3. LPN as supervisor?

    Dixiedi replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Usually in a LTC facility the supervisor is for paperwork and communication. This is often an LPN. Sometimes when a RN is new to the facility or simply doesn't want the responsibility she/he will...

  4. do you ever get comfortable with nudity

    Dixiedi replied to bogeydog's topic in Nursing Career

    It's rare to stand back and view a total naked human. However, you will see every body part at fairly often the entire body completely naked. You will be up close and personal. It is kind of...

  5. 12-Step Coercion

    Dixiedi replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    I'd get a lawyer! Have a complete drug screen done and file suit against this hospital. It sounds like a witch trial and I wouldn't give them the opportunity to put me any more into the defensive. I...

  6. Do LPN's get the pay they deserve?

    Dixiedi replied to Pedsnrs2003's topic in General Nursing

    You do have apoint there. I don't know why, it could simply be that there are more RNs than LPNs but I too have noticed there seem to many more RNs lacking in common sense than LPNs. However, in many...

  7. Do LPN's get the pay they deserve?

    Dixiedi replied to Pedsnrs2003's topic in General Nursing

    I only make 2 bucks an hour less than the RNs I work with. Not hardly worth arguing

  8. Doctor's orders or Resident's rights???

    Dixiedi replied to mandykal's topic in General Nursing

    In one of the posts someone was referring to acute care pts (specifically a pre-op) that would not follow Docs orders and was discharged without the needed surgery. I was only pointing out that I...

  9. Med Not Available = med error?

    Dixiedi replied to findingmywayRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Most of the docs will give just about any order the nurse asks for. I've never had a doc in LTC or home care (matter of fact don't remember ever being turned down in acute care or corrections either)...

  10. 12-Step Coercion

    Dixiedi replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

  11. 12-Step Coercion

    Dixiedi replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    First let me say that I used "big mouth folks" as a broad generalization, if you are not one, it should not offend you. Yes, this country was built on religious freedom, freedom for ALL of us to...

  12. Home Care Treatment Sheets

    Dixiedi replied to Dixiedi's topic in Home Health

    Move it along please! That's the link I thought I hit when I started the thread, just dindt pay attention I

  13. 12-Step Coercion

    Dixiedi replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Bit it's only illegal because a few spoke long and loud and changed the way this country

  14. Med Not Available = med error?

    Dixiedi replied to findingmywayRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Hey, that's what I was told over 30 years ago when I was in school! Reality check... that's usually exactly what they are used

  15. 12-Step Coercion

    Dixiedi replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    And my point is that even though a few big mouthed folk who are too sorry to do that time found a way out of it! Fact is, even an athiest believes in something to explain the nature of this earth....

  16. 12-Step Coercion

    Dixiedi replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

  17. 12-Step Coercion

    Dixiedi replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    We are all painfully aware of how every mention of the God that this country was built on is being shoved under the carpet by a few godless individuals. As usual, he who speaks loudest or heard the...

  18. 12-Step Coercion

    Dixiedi replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Amen! Oh no, that's religious, or maybe not...maybe it just means we agree and that's the end of

  19. Is becoming a Nurse hard?

    Dixiedi replied to NA NA's topic in General Nursing

    Here's the right answer! And to add to that last sentence let me say, I left nursing for a bit. Tried out corporate America. I drove a truck cross country and after I broke my hip I started my own...

  20. Is becoming a Nurse hard?

    Dixiedi replied to NA NA's topic in General Nursing

    "Hard" has nothing to do with which program you are interested in entering. It's more like how much time can you spare before you have full time work that pays. LPN school is no "easier or "harder"...

  21. What would you have done?

    Dixiedi replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

    I took the "infuse the remaining amt" as being the bag from the woman who was getting the higher dose to "share" the bag with the lady who should have gotten the higher dose. 1/2 the bag would be...

  22. 12-Step Coercion

    Dixiedi replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    I just missed it. Prayer, as is commonly defined is a religious thing but with an open mind one can see that it can be no more than an individual or group asking for the inner strength to get through...

  23. How to get away from a patient

    Dixiedi replied to shel_wny's topic in General Nursing

    Many of the folks in your facility, even the "confused" ones, have more understanding of what's going on than we think. Be truthful with them. Tell them you would love to chat but time does not permit...

  24. IV in AC

    Dixiedi replied to webbiedebbie's topic in General Nursing

    Something must have changed since I last worked in hospitals. Granted I have done home care, correctional care and LTC facilities and took a sebatical since I last worked in the hospital.... However,...

  25. What would you have done?

    Dixiedi replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

    Forget the math! Are you willing to take a bag from one pts IV pole and hang it on anothers? I'm not even talking about plugging it in yet! I'm talking about taking a contaminated item from one...