SarasLPN

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 and treatments for people. We just ask the doctor an...

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 after finding this type of ulcer. Our resident is real...

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. THANKS

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 orders.

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 facility sends you home once you have arrived and undoub...

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 holiday for food of choice. Listen to old music, g...

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 but it's an excellent place to be patient wise an...

here i am again posting on this old thread, i don't know where a lot of these hospitals are that are having such terrible survival rates with the norwood. hospitals like chop, choa, uofm....are having really good results. i think a lot of parents cho...

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 someones blood! anyhow i am more into the science of thin...

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 and therefore may need to re-evaluate your choosen ...

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 of those rules and regulations actually followed? i...

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 profession. i am all for the goverment staying out...

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 money...

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 heart by her early teens or before if she is not a c...

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 ...

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 delievered by a student i had never met. there was...

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 Larwenceville! What a ride. It is like the free clinic ...

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 home remideis but i am not tuching it ( i left my g...

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 hates the Dr...lol funny i guess i will have to dr...

Hello, I know this is an old post but I just wanted to let you guys know that there are a lot of sucess stories with the Norwood/Glenn/Fontan Procedures! My child being one of them. I know the oldest living person with the operation preformed by Dr N...

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 down those who have been arrested for abuse, drugs ...

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 get a booster every 3 to 5 years but don't write tha...

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 it like using "protection" you know? the hospital...

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 next

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 Lawerenceville which is a really nice place outside ...