nurseangel78

I graduated LPN in 2004. I have taken transition to RN, OB and Peds...made very well, High B's in fact. GPA is so good that i was honored to be a Marshall in the Spring RN graduates. My question is..I am in Med-Surg 2 and Failing. I study diligently....

I work at a LTC facility as a new nurse for 2 months. I work 3-11 shift, well last night when the new DON came on to work 3rd, we did our narcotic med count as usual, the count came up correct, we signed it off and it was time to clock out. Well, I g...

Thanks for your response. Very good point. I would rather accept a W instead of a WF.

I am in Med-surg. 3 math test, must pass one with a 90. I didnt pass the first one, the second one is tomorrow! alot of grains to mg, drug calculations, iv drip factors. I think my biggest thing was the grains, drip factors. If i have the conversion,...

Makes perfect sense. Thanks for the reply so quickly, as I am stressing out over this. lol. wish me luck!

Hi! I am a LPN in school to get my RN. Just starting Med-Surg 2, only 1 more semester after this one left. Yes!!! We are beginning this week with IV and Central Line's. We have to be checked off on starting an IV by Friday. Any advice on how to diffe...

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My daughter has been having frequent nosebleeds lately, at home and school. Also, noticed some bruising that usually does not happen. Well, I took her to the doctor today and he ordered PT/INR, PTT, CBC, and Von Willebrand Factor. I was wondering wha...

Does anyone have any suggestions on staying awake during 3rd shift. I normally work 2nd, but have been scheduled to work 1 night 11-7 for tomorrow night. I am the type of person that needs a lot of sleep and I need ideas on how to stay awake and func...

Thanks for all the advice and posts. I MADE it! I had mountain dew (as someone suggested), took some magazines, but didn't really get the chance to look at them. I was pretty busy from about 3:30 on. I talked with some co-workers also to try to stay ...

My three year old son has a cough that has lasted for 1 week, today it sounds junky and I noticed a rash developing all over his body. Red spots, red circles, some raised and some flat on his face,eyelid, arms, legs, back. No fever, no new foods, det...

It is time for my evaluation and the DON gave me a self evaluation sheet to fill out. I have never filled one out before. The questions are: Areas in which I perform well. Areas in which I think I can improve. Areas in which additional training/learn...

Recently in my town's newspaper I discovered a employment position open at my children's school for a nursing position. I have never written a cover letter and was wondering what to include in it. Do I let the principal know that I have children ther...

At the LTC facility I work at, we have a place on the MAR to write the results of blood sugar checks. I was wondering if they are suppose to go on the MAR??? I got wrote up for not writing one blood sugar result on the MAR. But, I thought that the MA...

The only places we document BP and BS is on the MAR and on the flow sheet. I see exactly what you're saying about the more places you have to document on.

I have been working as a nurse for 9 months at the same job (LTC). My question is about being the only charge nurse on 3-11 shift. I have never been in a management position. I am in charge of 3 CNA's and some of their job performances are not like t...

sorry for the confusion. residents have rights to refuse their shower and other sorts of treatment, but some of the cna's say that the resident's refuse continously so they won't have to give the shower or the cna's will cross out the resident's name...

We live in the South where fire ants are terrible. My daughter got bit by a couple of them yesterday. She has been bitten before and always seems to really swell up at the site of the sting. I have been using Benadryl and topical hydrocortisone cream...

Can male CNA's work with female residents in LTC. Was just wondering if anybody else has been in that situation. My DON hired him and has said nothing to us about it. Just wondering if it was a state to state thing or is there a rule in general?

My husband has many, many migraines and has tried so many medications. Nothing seems to be working. He has tried Zomig, Imitrex, and now Relpax. The relpax is beginning to not work as well as it use to. I have shared with him all of the migraine "tri...

I did not mean for this question to sound offensive in any way. I am just a new nurse and the subject was brought up to me last night at work by some of the other CNA's. One or two of the residents he worked with refused to have him care for them, on...

My husband is on the meds for when he gets a migraine. He really does need to go to a neurologist because our Family MD probaly is not as thourough as a neurologist would be. He did have the MRI, CT scan done just to be on the safe side. As far as th...

I am a fairly new LPN working in LTC and my question is about treatments. Can you d/c the order once a pressure sore is clear or do you need to call the doctor in order to get it d/c'd?

Hi! I am not over 40, but I would like to reply to your post. In my nursing class, there were a lot of different ages, from 20 to 52. I do not think that you are too old to achieve your goals of becoming a nurse if that is what you desire to do. I be...

I have been taking Zoloft for a few years and for me it is wonderful. It is the first and only antidepressant I have ever taken. I started out with 50mg, then went to 100mg, now I am back at 50mg. I started taking it for panic attacks, and thank god ...