Glycerine82 LPN

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    Eyedrop adminstration for people with dementia

    Glycerine82 replied to latebloomer74's topic in General Nursing

    they have to allow you to do it, first of all. ask them to "roll their eyes" and gently pull the bottom lid down and administer. The head doesn't need to be all the way back, just a little tilt is...
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    To mind own business or...

    Glycerine82 replied to VeronicaMarie's topic in General Nursing

    Our first dose always comes from our generic pyxis and when the card comes it can look as if they didn't get their first dose when in actuality they did. I dont' report other nurses for things like...
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    WHY?

    Glycerine82 replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Get this - My administrator will take things to the kitchen and clean them herself if she has an activity/event after the kitchen staff go home. She also helps with pretty much everything shes...
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    Nursing Home, chronic understaffing, and dealing with profit driven business owners?

    Glycerine82 replied to AnOldsterRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I suck at time management. I spend too much time talking to my patients and doing "extra" stuff for them. In order to allow this, I sometimes document off the clock. If I stay clocked in I get in...
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    Advice for a new grad

    Glycerine82 replied to schoolisexpensive's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Reserve judgement until you've been there a few months. Don't do anything you're not comfortable with, LTC nurses can have bad habits. Hopefully they won't demonstrate them to you right away, but Its...
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    Is it normal that some nurses won't give out meds to their patients?

    Glycerine82 replied to The0Walrus's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    So, the way I look at the orders in my MAR/TAR is that I am signing off that the task was performed. Whether or not I did it myself doesn't matter as long as it's done. Sometimes I will give apap...
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    Millennial Nurses Have Issues

    Glycerine82 replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

    I wish they would edit the birth years. I'm not a millenial,
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    Patients & Pet Peeves

    Glycerine82 replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    I have one to add to the list Patients who stalk you around the unit for their meds. I see you. I'm actively helping someone else, please stop staring at
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    My facility is restraining a resident and I feel that I can't help.

    Glycerine82 replied to Nursingstudent___'s topic in General Nursing

    This. I work in a SNF and we don't check BP prior to beta blocker administration. The rationale is that folks at home don't check their BP every day and by checking we end up with nurses holding the...
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    What tricks do you have for nausea?

    Glycerine82 replied to tining's topic in School

    wave an alcohol prep pad under nose, mints, ginger(ale). Idk how the alcohol thing works, but it
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    Why would a teacher say that?

    Glycerine82 replied to MrNurse(x2)'s topic in School

    Same. In NS we all went to clinical sick because of the same policy. Miss a day and fail the class. Sucked, because of course we probably got patients
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    RN's skipping vital signs

    Glycerine82 replied to rn_patrick's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Put parameters on the cardiac meds. If they're still documenting on paper that's likely why its easily
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    HELP! - board order due to hospital visit?

    Glycerine82 replied to wnurse1980's topic in Nurses Recovery

    They aren't going to report you for this because you didn't do anything wrong. You're allowed to have too much to drink on your own time and seek treatment for
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    Non-negative drug screen

    Glycerine82 replied to Ash2213's topic in Nurses Recovery

    non-negative means the urine tested positive for prescription medication of some kind. When a valid rx is provided it then gets reported as
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    Possible error in judgement?

    Glycerine82 replied to Kcanno13's topic in General Nursing

    You should have listened to her apical for a minute, which would have given you more information. Then you'd call the doc, because either a) shes in active afib or some other type of cardiac crisis...
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    5th e-Cigarette Death Reported As Illnesses Double

    Glycerine82 replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    Ugh. I'm in MA and presently the brilliant governor has banned all vaping related products for 4 months. The research is pretty clear, and has been - that these illnesses are tied to the oil based...
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    Saving Lives and Changing Laws: The Story of One School Nurse and Glucagon

    Glycerine82 replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    I think (hope?) you'd be hard pressed to find a nurse who wouldn't have done exactly as this nurse did. My licence isn't worth a fraction of the life of a
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    Webcams in Nursing Homes?

    Glycerine82 replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    If this were common practice they'd eventually have to provide us with appropriate staffing, which will be fought tooth and
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    Nurse bringing child to work

    Glycerine82 replied to adclay's topic in General Nursing

    personally I wouldn't have an issue with it if it wasn't a typical thing and she got stuck one night, etc. provided the patient room was empty and he was well behaved but i'm gathering this isn't the...
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    WHY?

    Glycerine82 replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    pretty much sums it up. My worst day can be turned around when I get a huge smile from a resident I give a big hug
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    What am I missing?

    Glycerine82 posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    So I recently transferred to a SNF from another SNF in the same company that was closed. We have new admin. at this new SNF and they had us section a resident tonight who struck another resident. No...
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    Questionable actions that make you go hmm?

    Glycerine82 replied to Snatchedwig's topic in General Nursing

    I mean, was it a man who was losing a lot of testosterone?
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    Social Media and Doxxing - Your Thoughts???

    Glycerine82 replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Whomever reported him is a total jerk BUT this is why I don't list where I work on social media and I never talk about patients. You just never know. There are photos of me at work but not in...
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    Non-diapering nursing home patients

    Glycerine82 replied to ASSEDO's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I know this is an older post but I recently ran into this. For residents with air mattresses we don't use briefs as it causes
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    Another Nursing Facility Closes

    Glycerine82 replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I may or may not have worked at that beautiful home and It's very sad. It would have cost a ridiculous amount of money for them to fix and we were already in the red. There wasn't a dry eye in that...