lorita

lorita has 15 years experience and specializes in ER Occ Health Urgent Care.

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1. Why no ETOH before cholest. draw?

   lorita replied to MNmom3boys's topic in General Nursing

   I've never been told to obstain fro ETOH 72 hours prior. Last time I had mine checked I had 2 glasses of wine the night before but it was 12 hours before my test as instruted. I don't think it raised my triglycerides sine my level was only 44.

2. Low census policy at your hospital?

   lorita replied to 2ndbach's topic in General Nursing

   The first hospital i worked at would occasionally call people off due to low census but they would call everyone and ask for you to volunteer for that and ussually they would find someone who wanted the day off but they never expected you to be on ca...

3. Armor correctional services, FL

   lorita posted a topic in Correctional

   Any one work for armor correctional health services in florida? I just applied for a job with them at a county jail. I have never worked in correctons but thought I would try PRN and see if I like it. Does anyone have an idea of what the pay is and w...

4. I'm sick to my eyeballs of incompetent agency nurses.

   lorita replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

   I worked agency for a while and a couple times I accepted an asignment only to find out that I was being put somewhere else I didn't feel comfortble at. Once they even asked me to go to one floor I said no, they called back and said the hospital was ...

5. Help please - Need advice on dealing with Michigan HPRP

   lorita replied to michclaire517's topic in Safety

   Yes, get an attorney ASAP but you must go to any appointments with heathcare recovery. I would also file a complaint against the doctor who reported you clearly he has issues. What a horrible thing this doctor has done to you. He should not be a medi...

6. Stupidest reason to go to ER

   lorita replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency

   Well was it one of those rabit vibraters? Just kidding!

7. Stupidest reason to go to ER

   lorita replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency

   :nono:Whats really scarry is they were given foster children, ya gota wonder!

8. Triage TX Anyone Have Any Good Ideas?

   lorita replied to MAISY, RN-ER's topic in Emergency

   Where I sed to work we hd protacols for this labs were jst BS, UA, HCG really only labs we ran ourselves any other had to be ordered by the doc. We could order x-rays on extremities only and of course give tylenol and motrin.

9. "It jsut water weight........"

   lorita replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

   Ok this is really a very simple math question a gallon=128 oz. a pound is 16 oz. 128/16=8

10. Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    lorita replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism

    All i can say is I can't wait untill the US has a wonderful system like that in place. My vote in the next elelction wll certainly go to the canidate who will fight for universal health care. And I'm so thankful to everyone including MM who are willi...

11. Immigration Status Questions To Expand To Healthcare?

    lorita replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism

    I don't agree most are overcrowed and while anyone without health insurance who doesn't pay their bill affects the bottom line their are more consequences for people with social security cards since their credit will be affected. Wouldn't it be nice ...

12. What Would You Love to Find in the Break Room?

    lorita replied to Music in My Heart's topic in General Nursing

    I would prefer fruit or veggies

13. Stupidest reason to go to ER

    lorita replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency

    I gave my child the medicine 4x a day for 10 days but there is still some left in the bottle what do I do? Migraine via ambulance. I need a sonogram to find out how far along I am I have a cold that started a couple hours ago I fell and want to get c...

14. When to use hot packs?

    lorita replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    first 24-48 hours ice a strain after that heat helps, and of course if you're stuck in a snow storm they're great too! lol

15. illegal immigrant nurse

    lorita replied to Cristhian1986's topic in General Students

    You need legal advise not nursing advise but as far as claiming to be a victim don't even go there. Is every one who does something illegal a victim? I'm sure every one in jail could make that argument. I'll tell you when I was 19 seven months pregna...