amoLucia

amoLucia

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  1. Got Fired From My First Nursing Job

    amoLucia replied to Lynker's topic in General Nursing

    londonflo - kudos to you! CNAs showed me hoyer lift use. I was always there to be the needed second person. They appreciated that. I think OP here was just in the wrong place at the wrong...

  2. Coworkers Respecting Each Others' Advance Directives and Code Statuses

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    I guess my question to you then becomes HOW ARE YOUR WISHES KNOWN TO YOUR CURRENT COWORKERS??? If YOU fall out during a staff meeting, how do your peers know your desires? Do you wear a...

  3. Hospice NP asked to perform RN visits?

    amoLucia replied to pierogi's topic in Advanced Practice

    Good for

  4. Coworkers Respecting Each Others' Advance Directives and Code Statuses

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    OP - playing Devil's Advocate, do you know any of your co-workers' code status??? If one of them keels over, what will YOU do??? This is what I'm asking with roles

  5. Hybrid Programs

    amoLucia replied to SteeleFox's topic in General Students

    "Brains-on" really is a great

  6. Why am I asked to fix things that are NOT my job?

    amoLucia replied to LPNwithBIGdreams's topic in General Nursing

    OP - is it me, or do you just seem very angry re those requests?? We've all been asked useless requests at some time or other. The most critical job might be the toilet. I have turned off the...

  7. Medications Mixing and Nasogastric Feeding Tubes

    amoLucia replied to kjeanw's topic in General Nursing

    ... learn something new

  8. Medications Mixing and Nasogastric Feeding Tubes

    amoLucia replied to kjeanw's topic in General Nursing

    I remember old-timey Accent. But it was a food taste enhancer - monosodium glutamate. A salt that was beaten to death as unhealthy. Didn't know it to be a

  9. Coworkers Respecting Each Others' Advance Directives and Code Statuses

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Another cool

  10. Medications Mixing and Nasogastric Feeding Tubes

    amoLucia replied to kjeanw's topic in General Nursing

    That lady wasn't imminently deathly - she just sputtered a lot. But I guess that pathologist would be PO'd.

  11. Travel nurse housing wishlist

    amoLucia replied to MC44's topic in Travel

    My sister used to bring her coffee pot, a wok and a small microwave. She brought some small amt bedding items - never knew what size bed would be there. And her own few towels. Also safe parking...

  12. Medications Mixing and Nasogastric Feeding Tubes

    amoLucia replied to kjeanw's topic in General Nursing

    Food dye? I used blue food dye once; GI doc thought I was pretty

  13. Coworkers Respecting Each Others' Advance Directives and Code Statuses

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    That was one VERY COOL TV show! All the characters were funny as h*ll. Best episode was the one where Herb arranged for frozen turkeys to be dropped from an airplane as some station promo. FROZE...

  14. What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    amoLucia replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Hmmmm. Same problems, different

  15. Feeling off about job

    amoLucia replied to Cmanursestudenta's topic in General Nursing

    I say this again. The consultant prob can come up with some suggestion. Esp something that is compliant with DOH regs & Inf Control. Has any surveyor watched your counting during a

  16. Are nurses able to shower after shift?

    amoLucia replied to Humaneclowninscrubs's topic in General Nursing

    Just an after-thought - all across the country, facilities are surveyed & held to standards by Dept of Health and JCAHO. Standards established by CDC and public health officials. THEY'VE...

  17. Wise Orders From Wise Doctors

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    All of those wise 'orders' look like they're pretty much interventions to be written into a pt care plan. Routine stuff from what I see for care

  18. Are nurses able to shower after shift?

    amoLucia replied to Humaneclowninscrubs's topic in General Nursing

    We're not talking DECONTAMINATION. Standard infection control procedures that follow current science-based recommendations have been working. If you are this seriously germ-concerned, you'll...

  19. Are nurses able to shower after shift?

    amoLucia replied to Humaneclowninscrubs's topic in General Nursing

    I think you're really going to have a SUPER BIG problem. No where can I think of that has showering facilities readily avail & designated for staff. No to hosps and NHs. And do you think you'd be...

  20. Travel Wish List

    amoLucia replied to dianah's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    TY for the comeback info. If given a limited time block, I'd rather spend it visiting Scotland. And the mid-East sounds very appealing. Also to visit Japan. If I could study a Rosetta Stone/Babel...

  21. Next Steps When You're Not Ready to Be Done with School

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    OP - it's called 'anticipatory grieving'. Occurs when you're about ready to experience a significant planned change in some lifestyle experience. Graduation, leaving an old job, moving to a new...

  22. Coworkers Respecting Each Others' Advance Directives and Code Statuses

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    This paragraph is pretty much the basis of this whole post. Nobody disputes honoring a DNR, only commenting just how hard it is know what somebody wants AT THE TIME OF AN ACTUAL EMERGENCY. My mantra...

  23. Coworkers Opening Patient Windows During Inclement Weather

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    OP posts a lot of threads, and she also responds to a whole bunch. Her own, and also occ posts of OTHER

  24. U.S. pauses J+J Covid vaccine due to cerebral blood clots + thrombocytopenia

    amoLucia replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    As per norm, TY for the informational

  25. Hospice NP asked to perform RN visits?

    amoLucia replied to pierogi's topic in Advanced Practice

    Stand your