SleeepyRN

My understanding is that you do not hold lantus. (I'm a new grad just started in LTC). BG WAS 126 after having dipped tp 67. I raised his glucose to 126 and administered the Lantus. I'm an RN, and the oncoming nurse was an LPN. He was irritated with ...

This is random but I just wanted to get this off my chest. First, before a CNA gets offended, I have to say I love CNAs. I was a CNA myself, and it is hard, under appreciated work. My pet peeve? I work in a LTC/SNF. The aides are constantly saying w...

Hi everyone, I am in desperate need of help. Please bear with me. This is a little lengthy. Without going into specifics and telling the whole story (simply because it would be an even longer post,) I'll give the essentials. I have debilitating a...

I'm admitting right off the bat that this, at the surface, sounds like a pretty silly question. But I'm asking anyway. I work in a facility that follows rules pretty strictly. (Which is very refreshing.) I'm comparing this to a previous place of em...

I unfortunately know too many people who got into coding and never was able to get a job doing such. Let alone from home. My opinion: Become a CNA, and aim for a position in a hospital by networking.

My nursing program had very specific prerequisites. You coyld have all the certifications in tbe world, but if you didn't have competetive grades in very specific classes, you wouldn't get in. Actually, there was a poster on here who graduated from ...

In response to OP. Yes. Absolutely. You're a nurse, you shouldn't eat that. You're a nurse, you shouldn't speed, you know what can happen (SO DOES THE GENERAL PUBLIC!!!) You're a nurse, you should sacrifice your entire life and cry your days away f...

While you are correct that we all have a choice in how we react to any situation, I found the comment less useful than understanding. I mean, this is the right place to come to to vent such things. Otherwise, the responses to the majority of posts wo...

Nice anecdote, but when it's patient after patient, day after day...it can really wear you down. That's why its nice to have a place such as this where others can relate and we can just vent. Then go back to work hopefully a little more rejuvenated.

ROTFL

I will start off with a disclaimer that I am NOT saying that nurses should not have to toilet patients. I'm pretty new to a sub acute rehab facility. 3 months there now. Many of the patients, specifically being there for PT, are non weight wearing an...

I wanted to start a threat that piggy backs off the Irrational Patients thread. I think the situation OP described wasn't a good example because in that case, the patient's behavior could have had a medical cause that needed further assessment and in...

EXCUSE me? I have never smoked Marijuana or done illegal drugs in my entire life. I have never smoked a cigarette nor do i drink. But I certainly don't look down on those who do. Their "issue" is a psychological/medical one that needs better understa...

OP stated "the remainder of the ampule." I took it to mean the remainder of what was inside. I misread the situation.

There is NO MD, NP, PA on call after 9? Forget that. I wouldn't work there.

Well, when something is sucking the life out of you and turning your soul char black, it can affect your marriage. It certainly is affecting mine.

Oh, man. I can't stand people like that. As a naive new grad, I made the *incredibly* poor judgement of telling a patient who was super talkative, and asked about me all the time, something about myself on the personal side. Well, after getting mad a...

Forgive me if this has been said. I would have notified a nurse Manager immediately and have the sharps container removed and locked up until it could be safely opened to prove it was in there.

So is speeding. Get off your high horse.

False positive causes: Ibuprofen; (Advil, Nuprin, Motrin, Excedrin IB etc) Naproxen (Aleve) Ketoprofen (Orudis KT) Promethazine (Phenergan, Promethegan) Pantoprazole (Protonix) Riboflavin (B2, Hempseed Oil) Kidney infection (Kidney disease, diabetes)...

Yep. I recall from nursing school repeating the order back as basic protocol, not just a suggestion. And this not only verges on practicing medicine, it IS practicing medicine...prescribing without a license.

Nurse Manager, Administrator...

I hope it's not the case in the future, but there is a difference between smoking and being overweight. Not hiring smokers completely eliminates multiple smoke breaks. Patients don't smell smoke on their employees. Those are the only 2 legitimate rea...

You took the words right out of my mouth. It's easy to judge a situation and carefully think of what we'd do and say in a certain situation from the safety of our computer. Because of all the bashing, I started a thread with the intent of starting a ...

Exactly