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  1. False Documentation?

    RPN_2006 replied to RPN_2006's topic in Home Health

  2. Truth or Dare, how many hours do you really work a day?

    RPN_2006 replied to wonderbee's topic in Home Health

    I saw thirteen patients today. I drove nearly one hundred kilometers (some days much more than that). I have been home for 2.5 hours and aside from stopping for 20 minutes to eat the dinner my son...

  3. Update on my dying pts thread

    RPN_2006 replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Tazzi I've been in home health for almost a year, my first job no less. Every day I feel like I'm 'learning how to handle it'. Keep on trucking girl, and keep on

  4. What kind of LTC resident will you be?

    RPN_2006 replied to squeakykitty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I better be perfectly demented by the time "they" commit me. give me a doll that coos and cries I'm the nutty lady who's content to fuss over my "baby" all day

  5. Deciphering the MD follow-up report

    RPN_2006 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been nursing for about eight months in home health. We always send follow-up reports with client to physician visits for further instructions. I can actually read this one, but am unsure about...

  6. Deciphering the MD follow-up report

    RPN_2006 replied to RPN_2006's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks all for your replies. Examination, assesment, plan...it makes perfect sense now. I did not contact MD as I did not feel it was an order, and moreover it was late Friday aftenoon and the office...

  7. A Nurse's Life, Now With Open Eyes

    RPN_2006 replied to TrudyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have been nursing for seven months. I worked, as all others did, like a dog to get here. This week I interviewed for a position at my previous place of employment, non-nursing. I am not a failure....

  8. Duoderm on blisters?

    RPN_2006 replied to kate1114's topic in General Nursing

    Excellent link Tweety,

  9. How about a thread for baby names you liked?

    RPN_2006 replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I once knew a couple who had a third child many years after their first two. They named him Last Chance, although he was called by his second name. I am partial to my own sons' names; Trevin Keagan...

  10. Where are you from?

    RPN_2006 replied to noworries's topic in Canada

    Hello! I'm Angela, and I'm very excited to be graduating the RPN program at St. Clair College in Windsor Ontario on JULY 21st 2006!

  11. Advice in the meantime

    RPN_2006 replied to shirleyTX's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I'm still a student and have absolutely no advice regarding your question but... CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Here's wishing you a wonderful

  12. Youngest labor patient?

    RPN_2006 replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I had my first son at barely 18, by 24 I had three sons. I was older than many mentioned here, and I was married, and I was eager be a good mother, but I was woefully unprepared. I just wanted to...

  13. No She/he Did Not!!!

    RPN_2006 replied to Maggie in NC's topic in General Students

    ***take a BS of 1.3 mmol (23 in US?) and not document it anywhere or tell anyone for three hours... ***on her first clinical at a LTC, wheel a pt down the hall to her room on a shower table soaking...

  14. No She/he Did Not!!!

    RPN_2006 replied to Maggie in NC's topic in General Students

    Oh no the same instructor that just taught 100 students the cardiac unit did not just argue with the student during a head-to-toe assesment exam that the 5th intercostal, mid-clavicular, APICAL site...

  15. Cancer Dx without biopsy?

    RPN_2006 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Today I had coffee with a girlfriend who showed me a spot on her leg. It was raised and irregular and the centre was a greyish black. She said the raised part was an old shaving scar, but she thought...

  16. Cancer Dx without biopsy?

    RPN_2006 replied to RPN_2006's topic in General Nursing

    That's what I thought too. I'm sure he reckognizes cancer when he sees it, it just seems strange to

  17. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    RPN_2006 replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    One more clinical day to go....this too shall pass

  18. When circ's go bad...

    RPN_2006 replied to newgrad2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: I never even noticed that on the first

  19. burn patients

    RPN_2006 replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

    OMG! How horrible for you. I'm truly sry, and praying for your timely

  20. 2yr RPN from ON = ? in the U.S.

    RPN_2006 replied to RPN_2006's topic in International Nursing

    Could you tell me what is the scope of practice for an LVN? Thank-you in advance.

  21. 2yr RPN from ON = ? in the U.S.

    RPN_2006 posted a topic in International Nursing

    I am currently doing a two year RPN program and would like to move to the southern U.S. with my American fiancee when I graduate. I fully intend to persue my BsN later in my career, but until then...