amoLucia

amoLucia

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  1. I feel unsafe and unsupported

    amoLucia replied to jdstga's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Katillac - good answer. OMG - am watching Family Feud rerun. They all answer 'good answer' too. Just commenting as 'good answer' is my response to your post.

  2. I feel unsafe and unsupported

    amoLucia replied to jdstga's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I like the phrase 'facilitating a hostile work environment'. Did anybody else comment to contact Corporate (if there is a Corporate)? But what's to say that the HR/Corp person isn't just as much a...

  3. QAPI Coordinator

    amoLucia replied to JEM1974's topic in General Nursing

    Jednrurse - VERY satisfying approach. I'm soooo glad I wasn't the only one who thought too much. So unless there's some great big compelling reason to stay, OP might really need to consider exiting....

  4. CNA's always on their cell phones

    amoLucia replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Good thought I hadn't even considered. I was thinking PERSONAL

  5. Admin/Clerical Staff in Scrubs, Observing Procedures

    amoLucia replied to jena5111's topic in General Nursing

    As I remember, each facility was required to have an official HIPAA Compliance Officer. I would hope that an in-house Officer would be resistant to the common facility gossip-mongering mentality, so...

  6. Current Male CNA/Patient Sitter & future nursing student

    amoLucia replied to jc0322's topic in Men in Nursing

    To jc0322 & Dean - congratulations and good luck as you both advance in your career and educational

  7. QAPI Coordinator

    amoLucia replied to JEM1974's topic in General Nursing

    Two more things came to mind. Firstly, are you salary or hourly??? Hourly (time clock punch-in) will document your overtime. But salary is a flat fee for which you SHOULD get some consideration for...

  8. Admin/Clerical Staff in Scrubs, Observing Procedures

    amoLucia replied to jena5111's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like she's trying to 'shadow' like many others do for a learning experience. Maybe? I never heard of 'shadowing until I joined AN. It just wasn't done way back in my pre-nsg dinosaur days. I am...

  9. Is it Friday yet?? (a cautionary tale about locked nurse room doors)

    amoLucia replied to jnemartin's topic in School

    Funny, when I first read the title of this post, I was thinking it would be about a nurse (or some teacher) who was cornered in an office (with a self-locking door) by some irate, violent parent or...

  10. Is it Friday yet?? (a cautionary tale about locked nurse room doors)

    amoLucia replied to jnemartin's topic in School

    Won't last for long. You KNOW how every body snoopy-snoops everyone else's business. Well, keycode will become gen'l knowledge quickly. Everyone thinks they're way too important to be excluded. And...

  11. QAPI Coordinator

    amoLucia replied to JEM1974's topic in General Nursing

    JMHO but NO NO NO! You seem to have a full plate. Very full; in fact maybe too full to do justice to them all. I am particularly concerned with that 'substituting for floor nurse' stuff. That would...

  12. School Aide Jailed For Stealing And Replacing Students' Medication

    amoLucia replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in School

    This post just goes to show that one cannot really trust anyone anymore. Glad that nurse was able to see a problem and then act on her suspicions. Difficult to imagine what MIGHT happened TO HER had...

  13. Scheduled and PRN Doses

    amoLucia replied to Newgurl17's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    TY for your response. This long-time LTC retired nurse well remembers all the hassles we had to surmount just while we were only trying to help/protect our pts. Somethings just never

  14. Is it Friday yet?? (a cautionary tale about locked nurse room doors)

    amoLucia replied to jnemartin's topic in School

    You guys are THE MOST hysterically creative bunch. But OP is most definitely being taken advantage of unlike any other staff. And she should NOT have to especially defend herself for a benefit that...

  15. They locked up all the masks in security ?

    amoLucia replied to RegisteredNurseReneeRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    skylark - very interesting idea. Except what would happen if the script couldn't be filled anyway r/t the scarcity? I've freq had delays on reorders of my meds due to UNavailability (mfr backlog)....

  16. Scheduled and PRN Doses

    amoLucia replied to Newgurl17's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    One concern - can she release the seatbelt HERSELF??? Otherwise it might be considered a RESTRAINT. And we all know the bugaboos about 'Patieint Rights' and having multiple RESTRAINTS (chemical and/or...

  17. Training

    amoLucia replied to Apple-Core's topic in Rehabilitation

    If you have some VERY GOOD LPN staff avail, it might not be too awful. Even experienced CNAs. But there has to be some other strong staff avail. Not acceptable is to be the ONLY nurse in the facility...

  18. CNA's always on their cell phones

    amoLucia replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    WORD OF CAUTION. Do not attempt to take any photo/snapshots of employees using their phones! I would bet that there are facility rules & regs in place that forbid camera use much the same as phone...

  19. Pulse oximetry accuracy

    amoLucia replied to LilyRN99's topic in Pulmonary

    I used to use my own way back (long before all this nit-pickiness started). I wondered about my unit's accuracy, but it was MINE and MINE alone. I very rarely loaned it out to anyone and I took good...

  20. Working with Eating Disorders

    amoLucia replied to umichnurse2019's topic in Psychiatric

    Exercise/fitness trainers? Am thinking along the line of gyms/fitness centers? Of course, you could always try to create a position with some realty TV

  21. Biased opinion for own child?

    amoLucia replied to IMNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Coop with the gym class teacher and take your little to the PCP. Doing so shows your willingness to work with the school and avoids your being labelled as one of 'those nurse-moms so full of...

  22. Is it Friday yet?? (a cautionary tale about locked nurse room doors)

    amoLucia replied to jnemartin's topic in School

    ^^^^^^this

  23. Homework help: Interviewing a nurse leader

    amoLucia replied to melrose21's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    JKL - rightly

  24. Writing Nursing Diagnoses

    amoLucia replied to Etak's topic in General Students

    ineffective thermoregulation = hypo/hyper thermoregulopathy Love to make up

  25. Strange how things come around

    amoLucia replied to djmatte's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Kismet? Que sera, sera! Good luck to