pa715

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1. Bit Off More Than I Can Chew

   pa715 replied to bluescrubs's topic in General Nursing

   Since you have been there less than 90 days I don’t think they can ding you. You can say it’s not the right fit for you, and then say you are moving. Most places have a 90 day probational...

2. Ethical Moral addiction question

   pa715 posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I work in an outpatient psych clinic. We are a specialty clinic within a larger primary care clinic. I was asked by one of the MDs I work with to tell a new patient via telephone (all of our patient...

3. I'm So Over Nursing. I would rather work at Costco!!

   pa715 replied to rnfrombama's topic in General Nursing

   I completely understand your frustration. You are so right how we are constantly making sure the doctors don't "accidentally" kill the patients. I think there's even a facebook page called that....

4. Nurse wants to volunteer oversea.

   pa715 replied to Candyn's topic in General Nursing

   A couple other ones are IVHQ, GVI, and Project Cure. You pay to do this, it's

5. Homecare Advice

   pa715 replied to NJnewRN's topic in Home Health

   is it computerized charting? I think that's the way to HH. That way you don't have to go in to the office every day and can chart in the patient's home. I try to chart as much as I can in the home,...

6. Not a real nurse huh?

   pa715 replied to kkrlaa5512's topic in School

   Jeesh? A real nurse? What's that supposed to mean? We are all nurses, whether we are school nurses, home health nurses, hospital nurses, retired nurses, former nurses, nurse managers. We need good...

7. New nice car

   pa715 replied to tinderbox's topic in Home Health

   Maybe get a small used car like a Yaris, Ford Focus, or Honda with really great gas mileage, is cheap, low maintenance, and inconspicious. Then buy a nice car for your husband/weekends. It's a bonus...

8. How to work towards a research career?

   pa715 replied to Joe1984's topic in General Nursing

   While I do not have any experience in nurse research, I would suggest find work on a gero or gero-psych unit preferably in a teaching hospital/hospital affiliated with a university. Stay there for at...

9. Concealed Carry...as a nurse?

   pa715 replied to mcknis's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   I think the best thing that your employer should do is hire a safety officer (a vet to give them a job and put their skills to good use as a civilian) to be on-site should any threats occur. I think...

10. I must make a confession

    pa715 replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    LOL. I'm sure there's plenty of times I would've loved to do that!!. Pack some power bars that you can just chow down for a half minute in the break room and finish the other half before you see the...

11. embarrassing situation

    pa715 posted a topic in Patient Medications

    hi everyone, I came across an embarrassing situation last week and want to know if I did the right thing. We have our patients write down their medications and we go over it with them to double check...

12. IV removal etiquette?

    pa715 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Two questions: 1)how to remove IVs without getting drops of blood on patients? 2) Do you always glove your removed IV and then throw in trash? I just feel like I will stick myself doing

13. Please clarify allergies for me.

    pa715 replied to pa715's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks guys. I understand the whole iodine thing, but the tech(?) was like, ask if they are allergic to shellfish if they are allergic to Sulfa? WTH? Ok well I ask a patient all of their allergies...

14. Please clarify allergies for me.

    pa715 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Is there any correlation with Sulfa, shellfish, latex, and iodine? A coworker tried to tell me that I need to ask if pts re allergic to shellfish if they are allergic to Sulfa? Is this true? It must...

15. oxygen sTaturations

    pa715 replied to Creamsoda's topic in General Nursing

    I HATE Diabaet-ez. Isn't it