mrsamjones

mrsamjones

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mrsamjones has 2 years experience.


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  1. I am a DON in an Adult Medical Day Care. I know each state has different regulations for the AMDC. I am driven bonkers by the regulation in the state I am in that requires a care plan for each...
  2. Licensing Deficiency

    This will be a bit long so forgive me now. I am a new home health RN. I was hired by a company to do client assessments and create a care plan. That turned into administering meds. No big deal, right?...
  3. Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    Educating patient on ambulation with her walker. It's a hospital rolling walker with springs in the front. She looks at me and says, " I got hydraulics
  4. Create Your Own Meme

    Third day of three straight 12s and your director only gave you two days off from the last week to the start of this week: "We only have 18 patients Census is low, you're right
  5. Doctors Say the Darnedest Things

    Patient on medsurg floor recovering from an I & D of a perirecral abscess. I am the overnight shift and doing my chart reviews. Reading the doctor's note for previous. Come across "Patient's a**...
  6. Overnight Assessments

    I work on a MSP unit and we typical have at least 6 if not seven patient. I very much rely on my CNAs for VSS normally during the 12 shift. Maybe doing 8 hours, I will have the opportunity to do them...
  7. Overnight Assessments

    I guess I should have clarified, we typical do a bedside report on our patients in which I am able to do a quick once over. You can typical tell if the patient is stable at this point. That is why I...
  8. Overnight Assessments

    Hi all! I will be changing my shift work from 7p-7a to 11p-7a. My question is, anyone that works this shift, when do you do your assessment? My thoughts were, if I am given a timely report (perfect...
  9. They say we can't use razors anymore...

    Bahaha! Love
  10. Anxiety about returning to work.

    Looking for words of encouragement or advice about returning to work after having my beautiful baby girl. I am very anxious about going back to work after having been on light duty (secretary work...
  11. Critique Me! Nursing Care Plans

    I know it is a really long post but I appreciate the time you are taking out to critique it!
  12. How do you study with so many distractions?

    For a while I was placing a science board on the table and this would be my family's cue that I was unavailable. That did not work for more than a few weeks I have since started planning my sleep...
  13. One of the mantraes of nursing school is: "Follow your hospital's policy!". This is certainly true of laboratory values and diagnostic tests. Most of the time your nursing program will give you the...
  14. Hey guys, its that time again....nursing care plan for clinical are due I have put together two care plans and would appreciate a critique or suggestions of what I could do better. The two I have put...
  15. Pertinent Labs for a pt. with a DVT

    They didn't do one strangely enough. I suppose the patient's admission of being immobile for nine days was enough for them to do a doppler of the leg. Honestly the site of the DVT is hard to dismiss...