amoLucia

amoLucia

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  1. Nursing Is No Longer Worth It

    amoLucia replied to AnonymousSuper's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Funny thing ... my previous 9/2019 hospitalization, bed linens WERE NOT routinely changed daily. If you felt you needed or just WANTED a change, you told the nurse or housekeeping. No big deal - I...

  2. Shift Work Disorder is Eating My Brain

    amoLucia replied to A.M. Wolf's topic in General Nursing

    caliotter3 - Gotcha'! I understood you point. Way back in the 'dark ages', we nurses all really knew how disruptive shift work was, esp in re to sleeping. But back then, was BIG SCIENCE going to...

  3. Keep looking for a job or finish my BSN?

    amoLucia replied to clamchopz's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your comeback response. It's always hoped that OPs take some positive action and respondents like myself appreciate the news. Again, good luck to

  4. Shift Work Disorder is Eating My Brain

    amoLucia replied to A.M. Wolf's topic in General Nursing

    caliotter3 - just to say, I did try some quickie googling. What I read was that clockwise rotation was most definitely preferred. In fact, the CCW (counterclockwise; learned that & CW from my...

  5. Nursing Is No Longer Worth It

    amoLucia replied to AnonymousSuper's topic in Disaster Preparation

    LOVE IT

  6. Advice please

    amoLucia replied to penny186's topic in Home Health

    OP - you were being played by this pt, and to some degree, by your agency. You were being UNDERPAID, but I hope you know, that you'd have been held to the highest expectation of your training and...

  7. Breath smells with mask

    amoLucia replied to Slipping CMA's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'm thinking you may have devel dry mouth prob because you may be breathing with your mouth OPEN. Different prob but I have difficulty with my CPAP mask - my mouth just plops open after I doze off....

  8. Write up for patient pocketing pills

    amoLucia replied to AnObviousThrowAway's topic in Patient Medications

    JKL33 -great

  9. Shift Work Disorder is Eating My Brain

    amoLucia replied to A.M. Wolf's topic in General Nursing

    cali - I think that study must have been super interesting. I'm trying to figure out what the rationale might have been. I am intrigued!! Maybe time to do some googling. Throughout my career, I...

  10. Denied by one of our major clinical sites?

    amoLucia replied to lovenurses2016's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Is Texas one of those states where one can quit without notice, just like an employer can terminate without reason? Would that give OP any leverage if trying to negotiate with BSW? Maybe a lawyer...

  11. Question about job and preceptorship history

    amoLucia replied to Guest05's topic in Nursing Career

    Hmmmmmmmm.

  12. Full publications in new grad portfolio?

    amoLucia replied to HairyPoppins's topic in General Nursing

    Back in the 'dark dinosaur ages', I would bring a 'portfolio'/folder of additional documents to my interviews. I would offer contents, as approp, but if it was declined, it was no issue. Some other...

  13. Nursing Homes Reopening

    amoLucia replied to meriadocs's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What a terrible double-edged

  14. medic alert alarm

    amoLucia posted a topic in General Nursing

    Am making a pitch for the use of those medic alert alarms. You know the one - 'help! I've fallen and I can't get up' kind. I've posted multiple postings over the past few years in support of the...

  15. medic alert alarm

    amoLucia replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    To Elaine & Hoosier - Re home entry, my service provider provided me with a door key box lock The service gives my personally selected "magic code number" to the 911 emergency dispatch. When they...

  16. What are some things you can't do now but plan on doing once this Coronavirus situation ends?

    amoLucia replied to A Hit With The Ladies's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Can't do come this now, not scheduled. But am fervently HOPING that come this autumn, I can attend my first ever concert in NJ's Meadowlands Stadium. Am 69 yo and IN LOVE with a 25 yo operatic master...

  17. Turning a morbidly obese patient

    amoLucia replied to Edmond Dantes's topic in General Nursing

    Just a reminder - please, raise the HOB ASAP! A large pt will be struggling to breathe; work quickly, do what you have to, and then get him more upright. Take it from someone who KNOWs first

  18. Turning a morbidly obese patient

    amoLucia replied to Edmond Dantes's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes an overhead trapeze can help. Even if the pt has only very minimal ability to assist, any little bit helps! And he can begin to improve using it, esp if PT/OT can offer him some

  19. Assisted "falls"

    amoLucia replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    LibraNurse - God's honest truth! And the 'memo' facility had a central supply director who wanted to teach a class for new orientation staff on 'how to requisition supplies, like LIGHT BULBS'. And she...

  20. Assisted "falls"

    amoLucia replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    It's obvious that your staff knows this pt & her family BEST. And again you would have to defer to whatever facility P&P directs this incident. But like PP TriciaJ comments, the 2 hr neuro...

  21. SI patient

    amoLucia replied to Guest1139443's topic in Emergency

    Be aware - substance abusers are freq MASTERS OF DECEPTION and know tricks that you have NO idea exist. Also, pts, having made the suicide decision, are intensely determined and it will be diff to...

  22. Assisted "falls"

    amoLucia replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    Like PP Sour Lemon said, most places consider it an 'assisted fall'. But regardless, a State surveyor advised once advised us that if a pt butt went to the floor, treat it like a regular fall. And...

  23. new grad residencies or start working

    amoLucia replied to msstiletto97's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmmmm - get SNF job = salary and work experience; or stay home = no money and no experience. First person I ever heard this from was another wise frequent member here, the Commuter. Giving her...

  24. Farewell Esme - In Loving Memory

    amoLucia replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    A friend and champion to many nurses, past, present and prob to some level, the future. Good thoughts & prayers for her & her

  25. How important is the nurse's comfort?

    amoLucia replied to guest1143647's topic in Private Duty

    Sorry .... but that's THEIR loss! As long as the agency has been honest and up-front re the difficulties for staffing then it's their decision to negotiate & compromise. There IS a point where...