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Background: I tested positive for the Covid virus in April and was off work through mid-May. I refused hospitalization. I am a Wound Care nurse (Inpatient, Outpatient, and the only nurse for a clinic one day a week). I've worked surgical, oncol...

You are right--at some point I need to let go of trying to control the healing process and simply trust my body to heal. I'm sorry that you've had to go through what you've gone through. I'll continue to exercise and to take supplements. I'll ...

I was told by our billing office that Medicare will not reimburse for nurse lymphedema certification. Our go-to for lymphedema is an Occupational Therapist and there is a program specifically for patients with ymphedema, although we apply wraps if ...

I remember thinking in nursing school that "critical thinking" questions should not be tested until you had learned enough about nursing to have the background to think critically. This should be seen as an exercise to develop your critical thinking ...

1) I live in a red state in a rural area. I have not seen any discrimination against an employee because of his/her lifestyle choice. However, the employees never made a point of advertising their lifestyle choices. I have seen what I regard as...

The WOCN requires A bachelor's degree. Unless there has been a very recent change, this is any bachelor's degree, not a BSN. The WOCN program is very well-respected. You can get info at WOCN.org. I have a WCC from WCEI (WCEI.net). While it is...

I was working as an acute dialysis nurse in a medium-sized town in Kansas. We had already had a gas explosion under the downtown that year and had controlled fires burning in various areas in town. We also had a number of Hepatitis A cases from sev...

The headlamp is very helpful. We bought one (without magnification, which would also be great) for our provider because the lamps we use are unwieldy and we had to move them constantly from room to room. After research, we decided on a minimum of 3...

Has a culture been obtained to rule out infection? It sounds like the wound has excessive exudate. Changing the drsg TID seems excessive. We tend to change dressings every other day in the inpatient setting, longer in outpatient. Most foams can b...

I would like to know what certification your CNA has. I work with a CNA who is interested in obtaining certification.

As a non-ER nurse, I have used a Sprague Rappaport (

I am the wound care nurse (WCC) at a 22-bed CAH hospital. I direct care (under the direction of protocols and the supervision of the attending physician) for inpatients. I also run an outpatient wound clinic one day a week and take care of those same...

I vote you try the two aspirin. And call your doctor in the morning. Lol. Good luck with this. I hang my scrubs on hangers while damp, with the two seams in the pants meeting so that a crease forms. Not as sharp a crease as when ironed, but it w...

Mepitel wound contact layer | Molnlycke Health Care The above link should help you learn how Mepitel is used. I have also used it to hold degloved skin in place while the skin heals (just cover the second side with gauze) or to hold an area of skin...

Our facility, a twenty-two bed Critical Access Hospital, has hired two paramedics to work in-hospital. When asked what they can do, the DON said, "Everything, under the supervision of an RN". I am an RN. I have not been able to find any verificati...

As a therapist, you want to help your clientele deal with perceived problems. Many of the problems--poor administration interaction with the staff, electronic charting systems that are designed for billing rather than nursing, inadequate staffing--...

Best of luck to you with your new experiences. If you choose to write about your experiences, I would be interested. I would love to consider travel nursing, but for personal reasons have not. So I contemplate retiring early and try to get throug...

I recommend going for the ADN, then letting an employer pay some of the tab while working toward the BSN. It might take you a little longer, but life is not a race. In the meantime, look at the prerequisites you need prior to taking nursing cours...

Other than disagreeing that Housekeeping doesn't care about cleanliness, I agree with what Cultmember says. The housekeepers I have known understood the importance of their job. Unfortunately, the administration did and does not. Anyone who thinks...

There is more to the medical field than being a CNA or being a nurse. Talk with a guidance or vocational counselor and take some testing on what area is best suited for you. Perhaps being a phlebotomist, lab tech or a radiology tech would be right ...

Nothing. Nada. Not even a "Happy Nurses' Day" or "thank you". Not a potluck. Nothing. They do have celebrations for lab and for radiology. Guess I picked the wrong profession.

As it is now at my job, nursing consumes my life. When I started nursing, I could expect a standard two-week work rotation that included at least one three-day weekend and the scheduling nurse would check with me to make sure I had no plans before ch...

I also speak only from personal experience. After years of struggling with depression, I was prescribed Prozac 20mg daily. Prozac was controversial at that time. It did nothing. I continued with Paxil (10mg) Effexxor (37.5mg) and others over the yea...

You have received much good advice. You have to decide what YOU are willing to live with. When I first became a nurse I attended church regularly. What I found is that I became invisible. Since I didn't attend EVERY Sunday, my daughter wasn't i...

I learned how my administrators see me. The new schedule is out and they switched my weekends off with no notice. And changed my department. And oh, that means that after working the holiday weekend for most holidays (anyone working every other weeke...