SarasLPN

SarasLPN

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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 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  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. 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...

  9. '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...

  10. '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...

  11. '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...

  12. 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...

  13. '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...

  14. 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

  15. 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...

  16. Atlanta Hospitals

    SarasLPN replied to preciousshelby's topic in Georgia Nursing

    No we had to drive to Grady Memorial Medical Center in the heart of Down town...thats where all my OB appts were. It takes like an hour to get there if traffic is bad from where my aunt lived in...

  17. BOILS....need advice

    SarasLPN posted a topic in General Nursing

    okay my husband has what i am sure is a boil on his forarm....its a large red bump with a small head and around it is a circle about 2 to 3 inches. its fevered. what do we need to do? i know all the...

  18. BOILS....need advice

    SarasLPN replied to SarasLPN's topic in General Nursing

    thats what I tried to tell him that it could be a spier bite but he insisted that it wasn't because it had been there for over a week and getting worse. I can't believe he hadn't showed me sooner. He...

  19. Please Help Me!

    SarasLPN replied to Desperate_2_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    from what we have been told is if you have a record of any kind is not to waste the teachers and your time. that the state board is who decides if you will get your license and they most always turn...

  20. Should I get the Hep B vaccine?

    SarasLPN replied to Lisa Michelle's topic in General Students

    You may not be immune to the vaccine. You probably just didn't get a big enough does. I think once they draw and test immunity and you are immune then you don' t have to get another one or you only...

  21. Should I get the Hep B vaccine?

    SarasLPN replied to Lisa Michelle's topic in General Students

    at the school i go to it is required not by the school but by the hospital? weird huh? see i thought you could refuse it and sign off on it. anyhow you should just get the shot its to protect yourself...

  22. does anyone get to wear fun scrubs

    SarasLPN replied to S5777's topic in General Nursing

    I have noticed that on a floor the day shift will pick at patern or color scrub top and then all wear it for like a couple days then another the

  23. Atlanta Hospitals

    SarasLPN replied to preciousshelby's topic in Georgia Nursing

    I don't really "hate" it I guess. I am from waycross...small town traffic, mostly its the traffic that I don't like. When I was pregnant I had to leave my husband and live with my aunt who lives in...

  24. Families and the "ICU culture"

    SarasLPN replied to djmicu's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I know it is too close to me..I just never met or saw anyone acting in this rude and crazy way that you guys are talking about parents acting! Sorry. That is why I guess I have to wonder why would you...

  25. Brunswick ???

    SarasLPN replied to bsunbeam's topic in Georgia Nursing

    Hello, I live in Waycross about 40 miles west of Brunswick. It is an excellent facility. I don't know what the pay rate is but I could ask my sister in law who is over the Human Reasources there! I am...