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  1. Terminated for typing a petition

    southern_rn_brat replied to cdsable's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There was a nurse let go in our facility and the patients loved him. They were very upset about it. They got a petition together, with the help of some CNAs and got the whole resident council to...

  2. Your Worst Mistake

    southern_rn_brat replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

    I'll never forget my first one either. I was only about a month into my 1st job and had a patient ordered Augmentin. His wife was in the room as I was giving it and says "He's very allergic to pcn"...

  3. What is the complaint with nursing salaries?

    southern_rn_brat replied to Lisa CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    I have to say I feel my pay rate is ok. I mean seriously, no way could they pay me what I'm REALLY worth:chuckle I'm in tennessee too, same as the OP. I work only 12 hr shifts on weekends and made...

  4. Lowest K Level You've Seen

    southern_rn_brat replied to LISAMAR's topic in General Nursing

    I just had a patient with a 1.7 level. I work in LTC and bless her heart she is just kind of waiting to die. Her daughter has insisted we keep a PICC line in her and give her IV fluids now for...

  5. 15 SNF R Out 2 Hospital--Any other with widespread flu/uri?

    southern_rn_brat replied to nursediz's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in tennessee and our facility is getting hit bad right now with some kind of virus. We have kept them in their rooms during meals, etc. Now it seems to just be jumping from one hall to...

  6. Discharge orders you'd LIKE to write!!!

    southern_rn_brat replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in Emergency

    That would make a great bumper

  7. MA's Calling Themselves Nurses?

    southern_rn_brat replied to Sheri257's topic in General Nursing

    huh?

  8. Drug addicted nurses

    southern_rn_brat replied to ske0124's topic in Nurses Recovery

    congratulations on 17 days

  9. Drug addicted nurses

    southern_rn_brat replied to ske0124's topic in Nurses Recovery

    karma? she suspected a nurse of drug abuse on the job and did the right thing. As a nurse, you are required to report any suspected drug use. Patient safety is supposed to be our #1 concern....

  10. Drug addicted nurses

    southern_rn_brat replied to ske0124's topic in Nurses Recovery

    thanks so much! you dont know what that means to me:) I have to tell my story. I dont ever want to forget. Ever. All I want to do is tell about how happy life really is when you arent numbed by...

  11. Drug addicted nurses

    southern_rn_brat replied to ske0124's topic in Nurses Recovery

    For 5 months I went to counseling with EAP weekly and did weekly drug screens with my job. Noone at work knew but the DON and administrator and employee health. My EAP counselor begged me for those...

  12. Drug addicted nurses

    southern_rn_brat replied to ske0124's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I was one of those nurses that Lori is talking about. The one that everyone knew was stealing drugs but nobody said anything. At one job it was because they didnt want to work short, at my other...

  13. Drug addicted nurses

    southern_rn_brat replied to ske0124's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I've been in recovery for 1 year, 8 months and 7 days . Today is also the day of my one year anniversary with TNPAP. I am one grateful addict in recovery. I am grateful for the woman that did my...

  14. I have a question for everyone

    southern_rn_brat posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If you were out of 50/50 insulin and had a patient with the order, what would you do? If you had no 50/50 but plenty of N and R available, would you just draw it up yourself? 2 weeks ago one of the...

  15. I have a question for everyone

    southern_rn_brat replied to southern_rn_brat's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    dang I'm so glad somebody understood me:p I have been in LTC for 14 years and it is my heart and soul. I work and have worked with some awesome nurses! but sometimes...sometimes I understand why...

  16. I have a question for everyone

    southern_rn_brat replied to southern_rn_brat's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    50/50 is 50% N and 50%

  17. Methadone question

    southern_rn_brat posted a topic in Pain Management

    I work in a nursing home and our medical director frequently prescribes Methadone for chronic pain in daily doses of 2.5mg. It is very effective for these patients and often they need very little...

  18. Eden Alternative???

    southern_rn_brat replied to debRN0417's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I would love to work in an Eden

  19. Foley caths as g tubes

    southern_rn_brat replied to lpn1313's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It used to be standard practice for us to replace Gtubes at our facility. A foley would be used if need be. Something happened at another nursing home in town when an RN replaced the Gtube and there...

  20. What is reasonable staffing?

    southern_rn_brat replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We are all nuts. Everyone of us that does LTC.

  21. MARS missed signing

    southern_rn_brat replied to mar326's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We have included checking for blanks on the MARS in the chart checks nightly on 11-7 so that we can keep up with it

  22. Most common LTC meds - help with a list please:)

    southern_rn_brat replied to MamaCheese's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    This thread cracked me right up:chuckle . Welcome to our

  23. Surviving a state inspection survey

    southern_rn_brat replied to MDSlady's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Our survey was just a few weeks ago. They walked in on me at 8am on a Sunday morning . It was my first survey as a nursing supervisor and I was the only management in the building when they got...

  24. No More Demerol IV Push???

    southern_rn_brat replied to VickyRN's topic in Emergency

    My first husband had acute intermittent porphyria. We had him on IV Demerol, push and PCA. For months, his doc and I thought his porphyria symptoms were worsening and I was preparing myself for the...

  25. staffing on nights

    southern_rn_brat replied to donmomofnine's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    100 bed SNF here and we have 3 nurses, usually 2 lpn's and 1 rn supervisor mon thru fri and 3 lpn's only on