SarasLPN

SarasLPN has 3 years experience and specializes in LTC.

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1. NON HEALING stage IV pressure ulcer HELP????

   SarasLPN replied to NC29mom's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

   I would just send a request/communication to the MD and then the DON really has no say in what is done. I work in LTC and the DON really doesn't say what we can and cannot do as far as making appts...

2. Kennedy Ulcer

   SarasLPN replied to SarasLPN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   My resident is still hanging in there. Thank you for the links. I am going to look into the PAINAD? I haven't heard of this.

3. Is this common?

   SarasLPN replied to Finallydidit's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   At our facility SS starts at 200. Our medical director wants everyone on the same scale to help rule out insulin errors. However there are a few who have special

4. Kennedy Ulcer

   SarasLPN posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Any experience with kennedy ulcers? We've got a resident recently Dx with this and I know it's pretty much part of active dying but most of the literature I find quotes impending death 8-48 hours...

5. Nurse's: Find your own replacement when ill

   SarasLPN replied to Leelee2's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   At the facility where I work when you are ill and "call in" you must find your own replacement or it will count as an unexcused absence which by the way there are NO excused absences unless the...

6. Resident Activity Ideas

   SarasLPN replied to msavlpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Wheelchair exercise is kinda fun for some. You can take a pool/beach ball and bop it around, kinda like volley ball. You could do watermellon social since it's summer time. Most residents have a food...

7. CMC Dallas and CHOA-Egleston

   SarasLPN replied to ECMOismygame's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   CHOA has a pretty large PICU and cardiac unit as well. I haven't worked there but had a child there for a good bit of time several times. I think the staff are excellent. I know that doesn't help much...

8. 'Moral values' and organ donation

   SarasLPN replied to wannabee's topic in General Nursing

   Yes hun, I am afraid that there will always be someone watching what you are doing as a nurse...there are many rules that you will have to follow it looks like to me that you are not a rule follower...

9. 'Moral values' and organ donation

   SarasLPN replied to wannabee's topic in General Nursing

   the goverment last time i checked could pretty much tell us as citizens of the united states what we needed to be doing at any given time. there is the constitution and all of that but when are all...

10. 'Moral values' and organ donation

    SarasLPN replied to wannabee's topic in General Nursing

    it is my opinion that if you are riding your motorcycle without a helmet and not wearing your seatbelt and boasting about not wanting "big brother" in your business maybe you are going into the wrong...

11. about that RN who set up unauthorized flu clinics in Washington

    SarasLPN replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    What I heard was that someone was giving out "flu" shots that turned out to be not flu shots but something all together different...what I am not sure.! I can't believe what folks will do to make...

12. 'Moral values' and organ donation

    SarasLPN replied to wannabee's topic in General Nursing

    since your organs are taken out of your body after death...who knows what really happens to them anyway! you never know. i believe in organ donation. it is important because my child may need a new...

13. MLT? Anyout here?

    SarasLPN replied to SarasLPN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Medical Lab. Technologist...you can get a bach., Masters, even a Dr degree in it. I think its pretty cool I love chemistry! Anyhow thats what it is

14. Grady Hospital

    SarasLPN replied to unknown99's topic in Georgia Nursing

    i was a pt at grady in 2002. high risk ob pt. their high risk maternity drs and staff were great. although when they induced my labor the two doctors i had been seeing were nowhere to be found. i was...

15. MLT? Anyout here?

    SarasLPN posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    i am considering changing my major from lpn(still waiting to get into program) to mlt. i have done a lot of research and am currently taking phlembotomy its so cool what all you can learn from...