OttawaRPN

OttawaRPN

acute care med/surg, LTC, orthopedics

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  1. Pain Management - Is It An Important Focus Of Medical Care?

    Yikes, I have no idea who you are or if even a health professional but there are many different kinds of pain which need to be identified before effective pain management can be initiated. Somatic...
  2. what's on your whiteboard?

    This whiteboard business is new to me, I work at 3 hospitals and have yet to see one in a patient's room. But with all the above info. clearly visible to everyone who enters the room, does that not...
  3. Patients and the race card

    This is way over the top. It's statistically proven that certain health conditions are more prevalent in certain ethnic populations and though the majority already know this, they'll still look for...
  4. LVN (in CA) moving to Vancouver, BC

    I can only answer #3 for you by providing a link to the provincial college for LPNs for you to start your application process. For IEN, they will individually determine additional educational...
  5. Lung sounds and breasts

    Nope, the gown is there for modesty, warmth etc. 'cause our species doesn't walk around naked anymore like the monkeys do. Gloves are supposed to be used for contact precautions and way too many...
  6. In LTC the flow sheets the HCAs fill out is sufficient for the ADL stuff, and the MARS for any meds but any progress notes I did was by exception only. Never chart for anybody else, remember these are...
  7. Lung sounds and breasts

    Well, I can't argue with that
  8. Lung sounds and breasts

    You specified listening through the gown was a time-saving factor for you and since abnormal breath sounds nurses pick up during auscultation can sometimes make the difference b/t life or death for...
  9. Lung sounds and breasts

    If you find touching a bare breast creepy when performing an assessment then you are viewing them as sexual organs and behaving quite unprofessionally. Not only is this a huge disservice to your...
  10. Lung sounds and breasts

    Strip all your patients NAKED to auscultate heart/lung sounds? Now that would be sexually inappropriate so I'm assuming you're just exaggerating. It takes mere seconds to lift a gown or shirt out...
  11. RN thinking of going back to school for dental hygeine?

    Not much grosses me out but the idea of scraping plaque off people's teeth and inhaling bad breath for 8 hours a day is enough to turn my stomach. Blech! No thanks, couldn't pay me enough. I'll...
  12. Anuric post surgery, now what?

    Dehydration? Hemorrhage? Shock? What did her labs
  13. I'm so embarrassed

  14. I'm so embarrassed

    Submission, S&M? Whoa, quite the leap you made there, buddy. Amusing, at best. This discussion also has nothing to do with how I treat my male patients but nice attempt to deflect on your part....
  15. I'm so embarrassed

    Okay... maybe the comment was sexist. But where do you think the image of the naughty nurse in a skimpy skin-tight white short-skirted nursing uniform, with five inch heels and big boobs hanging out...
  16. Calling out-have bronchitis and don't know what to do

    You said you went to the ER, would a dr's note not cover your
  17. Floor nurses

    On my ortho floor, we have 2 orderly shifts which overlap so we have coverage from 0700 to 2200. Outside of these hours, only nurses staff the unit and we normally have 6-8 patients on nights. On...
  18. Smelly question

    Ah yes, that very distinctive C-diff odour. One of my first experiences with C-diff was with a middle-aged man in a full body cast incontinent of very large watery stool. Yep, do the visual... it...
  19. In Ontario there is no designation Registered Psychiatric Nurse. Nurses working in psych/mental health nursing are either Registered Nurses or Registered Practical Nurses with many advanced courses...
  20. CRNE October 2010

    My gosh, there is WAY too much over-thinking going on in this thread! It's giving me a headache just reading it all. If the exam has already been written, you have nothing to gain by deliberating...
  21. respiratory arrest

    Right. Agonal respirations do not provide adequate oxygenation to the body and should be considered the same as no breathing at all. Maybe they're gasping their last breath, which resembles the last...
  22. Posting pictures to facebook

    People seem to take ownership of the virtual world and think just because they have easy access to all sorts of previously unaccessible stuff, they have reason to complain about it. Remember that...
  23. How does your unit handle daylight savings time?

    Paid one extra hour at regular time, in the spring lose one hour at regular time. Seems the fairest way to do it, especially since not all staff work both shifts affected. Nobody works for
  24. I'm so embarrassed

    Yikes... I'm a little creeped out by the 2-bath thing myself, and wondering if there was some underlying fantasy preoccupation here with either one, or both, parties involved. If so, that is just...
  25. inappropriate work attire

    And this relates to nursing how......