Lev MSN, RN, NP

Family Nurse Practitioner

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    Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    Lev replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, there is a way to have satisifed patients without bending backwards. Some of it has to do with setting realistic expectations up front. There are many people who will never be
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    Seven Hells: Vent

    Lev replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Patience my dear. Give it a couple more months, if you have a contract work til you completed it, if not reevaluate once you have that year of experience. To me it sounds like your manager is just...
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    What are some of the most ridiculous requests you have heard?

    Lev replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    It was the same type of person all grown up. Bullies never
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    Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    Lev replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    Libbyliberal - where do you think it
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    Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    Lev replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    Your patience or ability to ignore problems is admirable. This post is meant to be humorous. Most people (you are in the small minority) see it as
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    Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    Lev replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    I don't allow patient satisfaction scores to get in the way of the care I provide and I'm the type of nurse I would want at my bedside. Alpha Male - do you allow your patient in DKA to have all the...
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    Multitasking, Critical Thinking & Tunnel Vision

    Lev replied to Missleigh14's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think that what you are feeling is completely normal. Time is the biggest answer to your question. The more experience you have the better you will get at multitasking and seeing the bigger picture....
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    Distant heart sounds?

    Lev replied to tsm007's topic in General Nursing

    If they are very fleshy in the front, try listening to their back. When I think of distant heart sounds I think of fluid and fat. ETA: telling patients to hold their breath helps sometimes to prevent...
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    Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    Lev replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    1. Yes, but people choose to be manipulative, demanding, and rude. I chose this job to take care of sick people, not to be yelled at, abused, manipulated, and insulted. 2. True. I recognize this and...
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    Objects that represent a nurse

    Lev replied to Moran11's topic in General Nursing

    A
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    A Push for the Return of Team Nursing in Medical-Surgical and Telemetry/Step-down Units

    Lev replied to Lev's topic in Medical-Surgical

    If the doctors would learn how to use the EMAR they wouldn't waste our time asking us questions like whether a patient got a med or how much output they had. It's documented in the
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    Drug Question

    Lev replied to cmar13's topic in General Students

    Angina is caused by coronary vasospasm which causes decreased blood flow and oxygen to the cardiac muscle which causes chest pain. So nitro actually does help with the pain by dilating the vessels and...
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    Private Grumbling but NO Open Discussion!

    Lev replied to CardiacRNLA's topic in General Nursing

    Theres only so much dilaudid, morphine, and oxycodone a doctor can order for a patient who continuously rates their pain at a 10/10. I think it will catch up with the patients. If you are maxed out on...
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    2 weeks notice.

    Lev replied to RNurse2414's topic in Texas Nursing

    What is your hospital's policy? Some say 4 weeks, some say 2 weeks. When I resigned from my last job, I gave a month's notice (even though only 2 weeks was required) and worked out my scheduled...
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    Med surg vs LTC

    Lev replied to jojo489's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Never worked in LTC, however RNs who transitioned from LTC to my med surg unit had a big learning curve and they said it was busier in a way than LTC even with much lower ratios. Med surg ratios run...
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    Clinical Rotation Logbook?

    Lev replied to bryanto's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds like they want a log of all your clinical rotations locations, units, dates, times, and number of hours/day/rotation probably signed by the school/clinical
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    CEN 2016!

    Lev replied to Lev's topic in Emergency

    I wasn't planning to. Have you heard good things about them? Are they live
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    2016 Salary thread

    Lev replied to kbrn2002's topic in General Nursing

    Happy you got that coveted L&D job
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    lasix not given..

    Lev replied to acts456's topic in Patient Medications

    For people making comments about pushing 80mg of lasix... Lasix has 2:1 PO to IV ratio. 80mg po is like 40mg
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    Seven Hells: Vent

    Lev replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Why wait til September of next year. You will kill yourself between now and then and be miserable. Work a couple more months and then start applying. Hospitals seem to hire a lot before the
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    Seven Hells: Vent

    Lev replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Very very good advice. Sounds like libbyliberal has a keen understanding of nursing politics. OP, wait it out til you have that golden year of experience, and then approach the manager again. It...
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    Spice Spice Baby

    Lev replied to joyful_wanderer's topic in Emergency

    We had another spice case the other night. A teenager. He was unarrousable, but would wake up randomly and start screaming very loudly. My patient's daughter asked me if the staff was hurting him and...
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    A slower paced unit

    Lev replied to avery1020's topic in Rehabilitation

    How much improvement have you
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    A slower paced unit

    Lev replied to avery1020's topic in Rehabilitation

    How long have you been working
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    What Can You Say to the Family When Your Patient Dies?

    Lev replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you so much for posting