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My kid was drawn to the nurse's office like a moth to a flame. He received meds every day and also had snacks available (metabolic disorder). He never faked actual illness, fortunately, since that usually ended with stuff that he avoided at all cost...

In homcare? I wouldn't chance it. The first time anything lands on a wet surface and a spot goes through the page onto someone's kitchen table... There are so many quirky aspects to home care (visiting nurse or private duty) that could end up with ...

Three in 27 years. 2 for narcotic diversion, one for stealing from a patient. A LOT. Repeatedly. I also know a sweet woman who used to work in LTC that clearly had mild dementia who was "encouraged to retire." She still came by once a week and read...

I'm one of those people who need to stop and think when I encounter . I was consistently hopelessly confused by then in elementary school. In desperation, perhaps, my second grade teacher taught me to think "Arrow points to the smaller number." Lig...

My son had a similar experience. He took ASL1 and didn't study or do the work. His lack of effort earned him an F. (I'm Deaf and we sign at home, so he really had to work hard to fail that class!) We now refer to it as his "therapeutic F." Honestl...

This was me. I entered a hospital-based LPN program at 16 and proceeded to have the stuffing knocked out of me. I grew up...FAST. I graduated at 17 and sat for my boards the day after my 18th birthday. If my birthday had been even a day later, I ...

Fire retardant bibs for smokers. The way the test tube would heat up after you put in the clinitest tablet to check sugar in urine. Not really something one should multitask...I don't know how many test tube I dropped and broke because I held it t...

LOVE these suggestions! The other suggestion I would add is to set up a situation that requires you to "teach" the information. In order to teach a concept and explain how it relates to other concepts, the information must be firmly entrenched in lo...

Some community colleges allow students to retake a class to earn a higher grade. The previous attempt stays on the transcript, but the grade of the retake is the one counted in the GPA. This can only be done once per class. I earned my ADN in 2 yea...

Just Beachy is right: "exclusive use" means that in the most restrictive sense. Here's an example... I have an iPad and a laptop that are strictly for work. (I'm a lecturer and professional tutor.). The laptop is only used by my C-Print Captionist....

This. I agree 100%. As for your family members who are giving you a hard time for "not helping her in her time of need," her time of need was the first day of class! She had several options available to her, but she *chose* not to pursue them. This...

The Oley Foundation has some really nice info regarding Home Enteral Nutrition. Checking HEN (Tube Feeding) - Oley Foundation would be a great place to start. You can find lots of great info about the Entralite Infinity pump here: E...

Um...really? A PICC line is a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter. You might want to check your facts. Lippincott NursingCenter

When my sisters and I were young, my Mom worked nights at a little nursing home/rest home type facility. Our babysitter usually went on vacation for a few weeks in the summer, and we spent the night sleeping in the back of our huge green station wago...

"1700: Pt A&Ox4, steady on feet, independently amb in hallway q15min, denies discomfort or anxiety, states "I'm waiting for my boyfriend, the ********** said he was on his way." 2010: pt not in room. unit searched, security notified. Pt discover...

I would. Actually, I don't think I'd be able to sleep without going back in and re-reading my documentation to add every single detail in the timeline, and then wrote up an incident report. I'm a little neurotic about documentation, so YMMV.

Actual scores were given "back in the day." My Mom and I sat for RN boards 10 years apart. We both took the 2 day written test. She received a latter with her score in 1982, and I received a simple "candidate passed" letter in 1992.

When I worked on a vent floor in a LTACH we saw them all the time. The patients were trying to die as hard as they could and we kept yanking them back. Lots of anasarca with the orange peel skin as well, since they ended up with CVL's on IVF or TPN...

My ADN program (1990) had a 75% passing benchmark for classwork and unit tests, but final exams had to be 80% or above, and pharm exams each semester had to be 100% within 3 attempts. The rationale was that we needed to prove understanding of at lea...

I whole-heartedly agree that experience is the best teacher with hand-eye skills like starting IV's. When I went back to acute care after working at a LTACH full of patients with CVL's, I asked to be scheduled to work in outpatient surgery/day stay ...

I would also ask the resident's family about his/her usual showering/bathing routine. I worked in a NH as a NA in the 80's. One particular resident had every single shower marked "refused" for several years. She would only allow a nightly "bird b...

Smegma. (gag)

My LPN program was a hospital program that had included dorms up until about 5 years prior, so a student who was even less than 5 minutes early to clinical was met with gasps and horrified expressions. My RN (ADN) program had its share of late arriva...

OhEmGee! Thanks for reminding me of what must be the top ten most entertaining (and, of course, educational) threads in the history of the internet! https://allnurses.com/nurse-colleague-patient/bitter-dried-up-579931.html

I've never participated in a successful code. However, since most of those codes werepatients like the 92 y.o. vent dependent LOL with end stage everything and the granddaughter who calls the floor to ask when Nana will get better because she watches...