amoLucia

amoLucia

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  1. Buying a House on a Nurse's Income: How Do Nurses Afford $450,000+ Houses?

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    It's one you can't or won't feel it's worthy enough to BRAG about trying to outdo the

  2. Best Ways for Managers to Help Nurses and Other Colleagues

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Silverbells - I don't know why I'm doing this (You most prob will do as you darn well please and then whine about it.) But as an honest piece of advice - be wary of agreeing to do PARTIAL Once...

  3. covid vax avalability made a bit easier

    amoLucia posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Meals-on-Wheels!!! My local County BOH is working with Johnson & Johnson to provide the vax to homebound clients of my county's Meals-on-Wheels program. I received information during a...

  4. NP working ALF as independent contractor

    amoLucia replied to mayrod's topic in Advanced Practice

    Assisted Living

  5. thinking of doing a phelbotomy course and wanted opinions

    amoLucia replied to LoutusCNA.VT1983's topic in General Students

    Phlebotomy school teaches skills to become a phlebotomist in some kind of agency that draws blood specimens - a lot of specimens. It is a skill quite a bit different than starting IVs....

  6. One A, or two C's?

    amoLucia replied to Dawnkeibals's topic in General Students

    Think about your future as you any move along. Good grades are CRITICAL for any possibility of attending future advanced programs. Maybe 2 years from now, you'll be bemoaning the fact that your early...

  7. New Nurse to DON

    amoLucia replied to foothillscowgirl's topic in Nurse Management

    She had the misfortune of being a warm body with a license who walked into the wrong place at the wrong time! And she didn't know to know what she didn't know!! Poor gal! to OP - I hope...

  8. Best Ways for Managers to Help Nurses and Other Colleagues

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmmm. Seems like all those paper-pushing tasks that you so like to do. Curious - just WHOM are you asking to do those tasks (or any other ones)??? Like if to help a floor nurse, could you do the...

  9. Patient complaint - Did I mishandle this situation?

    amoLucia replied to lily8424's topic in General Nursing

    CCM - nice to see you posting

  10. Same Team Role Transition?

    amoLucia replied to ThrowRA2021's topic in Nursing Career

    One thing I am surprised about as I read FREQ posts here --- Used to be many facilities prohibited employees from working their same units when there was a significant job title/role/license...

  11. Patient complaint - Did I mishandle this situation?

    amoLucia replied to lily8424's topic in General Nursing

    to newbie members, Km & Lydia - Welcome to AN. Please be careful about your screen names here. Anonymity is your friend on social media. Everybody & anybody reads these posts here, so just to...

  12. Patient complaint - Did I mishandle this situation?

    amoLucia replied to lily8424's topic in General Nursing

    An addiction to meds or as a manipulative GAME to them that is just as psycho-socially behaviorally

  13. Buying a House on a Nurse's Income: How Do Nurses Afford $450,000+ Houses?

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    PrincessBride - OP has numerous other posts but the one you refer to is her addiction to Diet Pepsi sodas and Reese's PB cups that she buys in quantity from the cafeteria vending machine (and then...

  14. Oxygen Therapy

    amoLucia replied to Deli's topic in General Students

    That's a real blast from the past. Right up there with the Krebs

  15. Relatives/friends/whoever call the operator and get transferred to the unit...what do I say?

    amoLucia replied to bella14b's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Most esp true re psych

  16. Help to recognize 2 actual diagnosis and 1 risk

    amoLucia replied to mahaX1's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'd also be looking at that temp - 40 degrees C equals 104 F. That scares me. My kid sister was a febrile convulsive as a child - and she didn't need to hit 104 before full-blown seizures. One of...

  17. Buying a House on a Nurse's Income: How Do Nurses Afford $450,000+ Houses?

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Appearances are just that - appearances. Makes you wonder

  18. What is the Difference?

    amoLucia replied to lauranurselaura's topic in General Specialties

    Currently I have so many issues and I'm being 'followed' by so many. They're all 'case managers' to me. I guess they all have their own specific job descriptions that align with those so descriptively...

  19. Same Team Role Transition?

    amoLucia replied to ThrowRA2021's topic in Nursing Career

    It's a shame, but in the old Dark AGES, you'd be wearing your school's nsg cap & pin. NO MISTAKING A CAP!! I'm sure you'll be so very busy with your own (preceptor) team to even be

  20. Do you agree with Gov. Cuomo?

    amoLucia replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    NHs often just don't have the 'luxury' of moving around pts. Even though it may seem nec, all parties usually have to AGREE to moving. Like it has to be remembered that the NH is now the pt's HOME and...

  21. Patient complaint - Did I mishandle this situation?

    amoLucia replied to lily8424's topic in General Nursing

    And what do you think would have happened if you woke the pt up, but still couldn't give the percoset??? A complaint again, regardless ... Be cool! Like waking up a pt 'to give a sleeping...

  22. Do you agree with Gov. Cuomo?

    amoLucia replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Desi - sorry you experienced a 'rude awakening' re NH/LTC operations. It is sad, but very real that NH/LTC is like the locked away fair-haired Cinderella step-child in health care spending. It is NOT...

  23. New Nurse, On Call, Called Off My Scheduled Shifts

    amoLucia replied to Owlseye's topic in General Nursing

    Kooky - point well made. I doubt hskpg and dietary get called off. But we all know, that nsg salaries are the biggest chunk in the operating budgets for facilities. So what better dept to take a...

  24. Military Spouse RN

    amoLucia replied to saramarie's topic in General Nursing

    saramarie - wonderful attitude & perspective. Enjoy the opp'ty while you have the

  25. New Nurse, On Call, Called Off My Scheduled Shifts

    amoLucia replied to Owlseye's topic in General Nursing

    Not necessarily!! This also happened when I was working LTC/SNF a while back. NH census can fluctuate for various reasons and calling off staff is quite common. A common rule in NHs is 'they don't get...