TheMoonisMyLantern

TheMoonisMyLantern ADN, LPN, RN

Mental health, substance abuse, geriatrics, PCU

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  1. Student Attempted IV 7 Times

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

    I heard a story once about a nurse crushing up oxycodone, mixing it with water, and administer it through a patient's PICC line ? I intervened with a nurse that was trying to administer TPN with...

  2. The Impeachment of Joe Biden

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    What is really baffling to me is how willingly people are to accepting these crazy conspiracy theories and out right lies as truth. It's almost as though they're trying to live in an alternate...

  3. Trump and Justice Dept. Lawyer Said to Have Plotted to Oust Acting Attorney General --Another Coup Attenpt

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I'm shocked there's a lawyer left in this country besides Rudy that would represent the

  4. Pelosi sending Trump impeachment article to Senate on Monday; Trial Arguments start 2/9

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Because close to half a million Americans are dead partly due to the negligence of his administration. I think Biden's administration needs to spend at least the first six months of this year working...

  5. Posting Styles

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Davey Do's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    I tend to write a book when I post, I've also noticed that I'm starting more sentences with the words "and" and "but", which is just poor writing! I need to learn to keep it short and sweet like other...

  6. Leaving Work / Nurse Duties Incomplete Passing To Night Shift

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to coffeeandvendingmachines's topic in General Nursing

    The only time I would stay over that late is if a patient was deteriorating or something along those lines out of courtesy because I've been with the patient all night, just to help out to get them...

  7. Pelosi sending Trump impeachment article to Senate on Monday; Trial Arguments start 2/9

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I'm all for impeaching that sorry excuse of a human. However, I do think there are bigger things we need to do right now, the pandemic has to come first. I think right now Trump still has too much...

  8. Pregnancy and ppl who smoke in houses

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to linsanta2207's topic in Home Health

    I would just very kindly ask the patient to refrain from smoking while your there due to having a little one on the way. Most people I think would be willing to accommodate that (I used to smoke). If...

  9. What constitutes an IV insertion "attempt"?

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    You make a lot of really good points. Staffing is so bare bones now that nurses aren't getting that 1:1 mentoring that is so helpful. Like I said, my success rate is 50/50 but the day I was partnered...

  10. What constitutes an IV insertion "attempt"?

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    Minimal training in school with IV's you demonstrate it on a manican arm to get checked off. I was lucky, when I got out of school my employer sent me to outpatient surgery for a couple days where all...

  11. Covid causing increased AMS in dementia patients

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I read that scientists believe that covid crosses the blood brain barrier which makes sense due to the neurological and psychiatric symptoms a lot of people have experienced. There have been cases of...

  12. Why is it called the nurses’ station when it should be called the CNAs’ station?

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to JJBookman's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Was at a facility that did this. The manager said we were a unit that practiced "pod nursing" and that it was "innovative"?. I found it isolating as well, but luckily it didn't really last long before...

  13. How to recover from setback and move forward

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to BlueSkies96's topic in General Nursing

    You gotta let this roll off your back as difficult as that can be. Your charge nurse may have been well meaning, but he shouldn't have told you that they complained about you. How did letting you know...

  14. Multiple doses in same syringe?

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    Nubain, now there's a drug I haven't given in a LONG time. Is there anyone left in our society that's opiate naive enough to even get this

  15. Rural Health Nursing

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    I worked at a very rural, very small hospital for a few years. In the community we were mocked as not being able to handle more than a papercut. We certainly weren't taking neurosurgery or nicu...

  16. Understaffed and feeling unsafe

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to jnks's topic in Psychiatric

    I can commiserate with you. I loved psych but the lack of staffing and total disregard for staff safety in the name of "trauma informed care" just became too big a price to pay. Some facilities do...

  17. Is Geropsych Safer?

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Zyprexa_Ho's topic in Psychiatric

    Eh, old doesn't mean feeble. Had an ambulatory elderly patient kick, charge, and choke a staff member recently. Police balked due to the patient's age but they were strong enough to seriously hurt...

  18. Passed Over For Promotion

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

    Perhaps it's just the setting that is holding you back. Right now remote positions in nursing are quite competitive due to the pandemic going on. Maybe try applying to leadership positions in acute...

  19. Is this abandonment?

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

    If the mother told you to leave then you can't be charged with abandonment. That job sounds like a dumpster fire and I think your boss did you a favor by firing you. I doubt your employer will report...

  20. How to deal with lazy OB nurse?

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Nurse_hmoob's topic in General Specialties

    Sometimes it comes down to ignorance versus incompetence. If you get a long with her pretty well I would hesitate on getting management involved. Instead I might would pull her aside and just let her...

  21. Intubation Should Be A Nursing Skill, Especially Now

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to ErikWeeWoo's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You have a point, cross trained staff are common and yet often limited to whatever role they're filling at the time. I knew a couple RT's that were also RN's that got in some sticky situations at...

  22. Student Attempted IV 7 Times

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

    This thread reminds me of a nurse I knew and respected quite a bit who had more experience than I have years on this earth. She told me a story once about how when SHE was a young new grad that when...

  23. 16 Hour Shifts

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to missnursingstudent19's topic in General Nursing

    Ha! How many

  24. 16 Hour Shifts

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to missnursingstudent19's topic in General Nursing

    The easiest way to set a boundary is to simply say "No.", you are not obligated to work a second more than you are required to by your job when you accepted the position. It is NOT your responsibility...

  25. COVID Misinformation/Ignorance

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to GS ED RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    People have and continue to act horribly over this pandemic. I don't understand how masking is a violation of anyone's rights during a public health crisis with an airborne illness. In my area,...