VANurse2010

VANurse2010

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  1. Wound assessment when the bandage change is not due

    VANurse2010 replied to EarthwormRN's topic in General Nursing

    Your coworker needs some education on proper

  2. I'm Stuck - Need to Make a Quick Decision

    VANurse2010 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    It's not entirely accurate to say that all RN progams require clinical hours. That is certainly true of initial licensing programs but *Not all* RN-to-BSN programs require clinical hours. In fact,...

  3. Damned if you do/don't

    VANurse2010 replied to Nursey1108's topic in General Nursing

    They do have the right, and they should be referred to the patient's physician. OP, you're in for a short, painful career if you play things like you have in this

  4. New Nurse PICC line question

    VANurse2010 replied to Josephkey14's topic in First Year After Licensure

    What you did was pretty disgusting - don't EVER do something like that with a CVC especially. Yes you should have at least changed the tubing, and no it's not a definite that your patient will get an...

  5. Keeping LPN practice current

    VANurse2010 replied to Jennifer78's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Tell us what you think, or do your own

  6. Inane scripting

    VANurse2010 replied to Jedrnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Who made you the arbiter of what constitutes "acting like a

  7. Never been in a code?

    VANurse2010 replied to maybug's topic in General Nursing

    I worked 2 years of messy telemetry and almost 2 years of ICU before it happened to me - in a patient with a balloon pump and swan through the groin. Assisted in quasi codes before then, but never...

  8. Terminated

    VANurse2010 replied to sdugan07's topic in General Nursing

    This type of unprofessionalism is common if not the norm in LTC, but it's hard to really judge without knowing what you actually

  9. Discouragement

    VANurse2010 replied to dec2007's topic in General Nursing

    For what it's worth, not all hospitals allow their doctors to act like this - or at least not to that

  10. I think I will give negative feedback

    VANurse2010 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'll go against the majority a bit here and say that while it's not the wisest thing to do in front of patients, IMO it hardly ranks in the top 20 or maybe even top 50 unprofessional things that can...

  11. Respiration counting

    VANurse2010 replied to AMMLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I interpreted it differently from you, and since this is something open to interpretation I'm allowed to give my

  12. Respiration counting

    VANurse2010 replied to AMMLPN's topic in General Nursing

    The character of one peripheral pulse is pretty meaningless without checking both sides, uppers and lowers, and checking other physical assessment

  13. My professor is an LPN in a BSN program

    VANurse2010 replied to Chadnurse's topic in General Students

    Unless she is supervising the clinical practice of RN students, I don't see the problem. Most nursing instructors have never worked in

  14. Is LTC a predictor of the kind of nurse you will be in a hospital setting?

    VANurse2010 replied to SaltySarcasticSally's topic in General Nursing

    The workload in a hospital is typically much less than in LTC. Your material and human resources will also be much more

  15. High BP but Low HR... Which med will you give/hold?

    VANurse2010 replied to gelman's topic in Patient Medications

    Cardizem can definitely slow heart - it will have have far more effect on HR than

  16. Clinical Judgement Call...Not sure if I did the right thing

    VANurse2010 replied to AvaRose's topic in General Nursing

    You clearly don't know how LTC

  17. Quitting while on maternity leave

    VANurse2010 replied to j0yegan's topic in General Nursing

    I believe you have to exhaust your PTO before you can use

  18. Nursing home responsibilities for RN

    VANurse2010 replied to Jdr8908's topic in General Nursing

    You may or may not have a second nurse or aid to pass meds, but probably not. Mostly likely you'll be doing the exact same job as every LPN in the building - meaning passing meds and doing...

  19. When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    VANurse2010 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen a couple nurses who wear caps, but never worked with any who wear the entire traditional

  20. To run infusion with CVP or not... That tis the question..

    VANurse2010 replied to kmarieCCRN's topic in Critical Care

    I would only do intermittent infusions with CVP (like antibiotics or electrolytes), not drips. CVPs are of dubious validity under perfect circumstances, so I would avoid monkeying with

  21. No 12 hour shifts in Southern California LTC?

    VANurse2010 replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

    I've never seen a long term care facility routinely do 12 hour shifts. It must be

  22. Taking critical patients to tests

    VANurse2010 replied to nseller52's topic in General Nursing

    We took a tackle box of supplies, but the only meds we had were two amps - one of epinephrine and one of atropine. I suppose the presumption was that in 3-5 min. a code team could bring a real cart if...

  23. Central line compatibility

    VANurse2010 replied to mfarmer88's topic in Critical Care

    NO, you were not wrong. The fact that they would question that makes me seriously question THEIR competence. I would file an incident report against them. If there is some backward facility policy...

  24. So, what's it like?

    VANurse2010 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    IABP doesn't need to be singled unless unstable (but usually if they're *that* unstable they are going to need something more invasive than IABP). We did our timing/waveform checks every hour along...

  25. holidays... sick call...

    VANurse2010 replied to imsickagain's topic in General Nursing

    I have no issues with reading comprehension - but whatever happened last year is still irrelevant. Do what you want, and good luck with that next job