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    Ratted Out A Coworker - The Joys of Charging

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to bollweevil's topic in General Nursing

    The last time I was in the hospital this is how my nurses were on one particular day. I had 2 nurses (because one was being orientated) these 2 nurses had 2 patients (in all not each) so they did...
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    Daycare when you have a 12 hr shift?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to CNAinNeb's topic in General Nursing

    That is good. It just seemed like that daycare center would be to good to be true. That is such a good thing to have around you. It is cool that she is willing to be an emergency contact for the...
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    Daycare when you have a 12 hr shift?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to CNAinNeb's topic in General Nursing

    That sounds to good to be true....does she get good care
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    Best-smelling liquid meds!

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in General Nursing

    I am on keflex right now and since I can not swallow pills I am on the liquid.....I always smell it before taking
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    Has anyone else had this discussion with their kids?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to Virgo_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. This does make me feel better because I thought I was bad hitting the call light to ask for a can of ginger ale when my mom was at home on my last admission. It is nice to know there are people...
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    Waiting 7 hours for an appointment

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to pyunnyhana's topic in General Nursing

    For one of my surgeries I was waiting 5 hours because my doc was new to my hospital and was used to a faster patient turnover (cleaning the OR and getting it ready for the next
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    Shingles

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    should have known that was coming. very
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    Funniest thing a confused pt. has told you...

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing

    one of my friends had an appendectomy a couple of months ago. She has told us a couple of statements she made when coming out of the anesthesia "Thy took it they took my appendix for no good reason"...
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    OMG.Do Nursing students really practice on eachother??

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    Having experienced it your self, um ya it
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    Funniest thing a confused pt. has told you...

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing

    He was lucky that the man who lived there now was a paramedic. That could have been
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    As nurses do you see the need for medical assistants?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    at my docs office she does. you call the "nurses line" and the MA takes care of
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    As nurses do you see the need for medical assistants?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    Ya. as far as I know (though I have only been a patient of this doc for about a year) there is no RN/LPN or anything like that on staff. I have seen, that doc, the other doc, the MA, and the...
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    As nurses do you see the need for medical assistants?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    when she has called me with results, I once asked, "so where do we go now" and she said she would ask the doc and get back to
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    As nurses do you see the need for medical assistants?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    The MA in my docs office does many things. She does vitals, height and weight, gets your new medical history, if needed takes blood, ekg's, and calls patients with results of tests. this is what she...
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    As nurses do you see the need for medical assistants?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    Or sometimes patients assume they are nurses. Ths happened with me, at my docs office. I thought she was a nurse till we got talking one day and I found out she was an
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    Tidying up the patient's room is important!

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I appreciate nurses like you. It shows that you care about the over all health of your patients instead of just the problem at hand.
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    Tidying up the patient's room is important!

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I
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    Is It Wrong to Look at Your Own Medical Info?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to jamonit's topic in General Nursing

    somon i know works regestering patients for tests. she is not even able to acess her own address and all of that. she needs to get the coworker who works with her area of the
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    Lessons learned from the other side of the call light

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to grace90's topic in General Nursing

    Ya, for the most part my hospital is WONDERFUL. I have had very few (only 2 that I remember) where I was not treat well. And when people found out about one of them (the not getting pain meds) they...
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    It's 4am, do you know where your patient is?

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    bump.
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    Lessons learned from the other side of the call light

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to grace90's topic in General Nursing

    I am not a nurse but a patient MANY times over, 1. Being treated with respect and dignity after you have wet the bed even though you are 19 makes the difference between feeling ashamed (which I did...
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    Tired of being asked to work extra...

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to KarmaComesAround's topic in General Nursing

    I am having a similar but different problem at work. I VERY rarely take time off work. I told my boss today that I needed the 22nd off and her reaction was "But we need you" It actually mad me REALLY...
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    How soon to give a prn??

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to candycane267's topic in General Nursing

    A bit off topic but as a patient I TOTALLY 100% agree with this
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    Hospitals supplying latex free gloves

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to bethin's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital I am a patient is latex free. They have been for as long as I can
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    Funny things that pts say

    lpnstudentin2010 replied to jRN4now's topic in Nursing Humor

    wonder how she charted