amoLucia

amoLucia

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  1. Disgusted. How to report...

    amoLucia replied to ThrowawayAccount's topic in Florida Nursing

    Popcorn time! Another initial post from a

  2. AARN benefits

    amoLucia replied to dKRN12's topic in General Nursing

    You're most likely on a mailing list and mailing lists get sold, and sold, and sold, ad infinitum. You're prob on your school's list of grads and you do know that states have public listings of all...

  3. Advice for newbie RN

    amoLucia replied to Chem101's topic in General Nursing

    And start saving your money for that inevitable 'rainy

  4. Nurse Reporter/ Journalist?

    amoLucia replied to Plumrose15153's topic in General Nursing

    There's an RN journalist on Channel 6 Philadelphia. She covers healthcare issues on air. She has a BSN and a Master's in Journalism, I

  5. Healthy Weight Week: Eat Healthy Lose Weight

    amoLucia replied to JanineKelbach's topic in General Nursing

    How about trying 'Diet-for-a-Day'? We all have good intentions when we try to start a diet program, but for some nebulous and nefarious reasons, the plan soon goes south very quickly. Like we all...

  6. Oh cool! I just noticed my posts and like count!

    amoLucia replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Such an easy one to please! I think I've been some of those 'likes' liking your

  7. Lazy, attitude giving, lip smacking, eye rolling CNA's trying my sanity!

    amoLucia replied to Longleggedstar's topic in General Nursing

    Am curious - are your CNAs union? Regardless, there always has to a paper trail in order to start any disciplinary->termination process. Document as you did. Did you follow-up with your DON? You...

  8. Chinese births in U.S. hospitals?

    amoLucia replied to Plumrose15153's topic in General Nursing

    For those babies born in the USA, they are now US citizens. Is this some way to keep mothers in the US? Maybe. Doesn't China have a limit on the number of children a couple can produce? And I would be...

  9. CDiff Smell?

    amoLucia replied to student456's topic in General Nursing

    Dialysis pts seem to have a distinct smell to me. Didn't read all the other posts so I don't know if dialysis was mentioned. They also tend to have a 'color' that I can

  10. Babies with NICU hotel accommodations?

    amoLucia replied to preemiepoweredRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Where are your bed utilization staff? Do they still have them in hospitals? With the 'get 'em in, get 'em out' trends, I would think they'd see the problem

  11. Superstitious

    amoLucia replied to fcp4life's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen the omission of 666 for room numbers. And that 2 digit number (ending in 9) also known as a particular sex

  12. Games to teach students about Alzheimers/or memory loss

    amoLucia replied to St. Brendan's topic in General Nursing

    (((Ruby Vee))) You explained it very well. Maybe that's some deep down reason why I so respected those old pix that my LTC pts would have at their beside. JMHO, but I don't think there's any 'fun' or...

  13. Disclosing Hep C status to patient's husband?

    amoLucia replied to EllaBella1's topic in General Nursing

    Don't know about this but is new Hep C reportable to local health Depts? They would be able to contact contacts, yes? If it's reportable

  14. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    amoLucia replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    bring/brang/brung I'm also seeing a trend of adding the suffix 'ATION' to many words, like 'colorATION. It's the 'color' blue, not 'colorATION' blue. I can't think of others but they are out there....

  15. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    amoLucia replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    bring/brang/brung Am also seeing a trend of adding the suffix 'ATION' to many words, like 'colorATION. It's the 'color' blue, not 'colorATION' blue. I can't think of others but they are out there. TV...

  16. NURSES IN NORWAY

    amoLucia replied to ritzu's topic in Nurse Registration

    I'm sure they have a regulatory Board of Nursing type agency over there. They could best answer your questions if you try contacting them directly. But just a rule of thumb, as a foreign newbie you'll...

  17. White Scrubs and That "Time of the Month".

    amoLucia replied to Shookclays's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I had a D&C for excessive menorrhea. Sounds rather extreme but I could kick myself for not having it done earlier. And re motrin - I thought NSAIDS contributed ANTI-coagulation properties. The...

  18. What to do with a bf who just wants me for my degree

    amoLucia replied to mstaurus2016's topic in General Students

    I really support the advice that OP should LEGALLY protect herself from her BF for the sake of their child. But if he is supporting the child, he may still have some legal parental rights re child...

  19. NCLEX question practice

    amoLucia replied to ariad's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    And your thinking the answer is

  20. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

    amoLucia replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nursing Humor

    I remember the old TV show M*A*S*H actually DID have a medical consultant MD on the credits. Some of most outrageous occurrences I ever saw occurred on MASH. I wondered what the h*ll did he do to...

  21. White Scrubs and That "Time of the Month".

    amoLucia replied to Shookclays's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Pull-up briefs,

  22. Providing References

    amoLucia replied to MommyNurse123's topic in Nursing Career

    There's sometimes a line on applications that asks "'may we contact your current employer?" I usually answer "no". I will try to explain it somewhere, somehow to somebody "that to contact them will...

  23. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    amoLucia replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    cite/site/sight There are exceptions to the apostrophe use - its is the possessive (without the apostrophe) while it's is the contraction for 'it is'. And if the word ends in an 's', one only uses an...

  24. New grad, hate nursing! Feel like quitting!

    amoLucia replied to harumi22's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Good advice from PP johnsonmichelle. It always sounds so trite when the answer is 'to give it time' but it's usually true. Wishing you

  25. CEU

    amoLucia replied to sashaq's topic in General Nursing

    I believe the expectation is that CEU content is to vary. I guess that the point could be made that if programs took a definitely different approach to the same broad topic that it MIGHT count. Like...