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  1. Nurses unemployed what is happening out there???

    danursern replied to danursern's topic in General Nursing

    Here is the bad thing I have not had a good job since Feb 2009. I to am doing Mollen Clinics and whatever I can obtain. I am a RN and I need full time with benefits. All they want to offer is part...

  2. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

    danursern replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

    Personally I loved being a LPN and it was my LPN position at the LTC facility that allowed me to pay for my RN or degree. My LPN 1 year vocational program I spent $1200 total and my RN or degree over...

  3. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

    danursern replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

    Truthfully a lot of people do not know the difference between a LPN and a RN credential or they misunderstand it. They see L = Licensed and assume that an RN is not a licensed nurse, because there is...

  4. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

    danursern replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, when I graduated from nursing school in the 1990's nurses were still required to wear white uniforms. I even had white dresses and hose. Within 2 years of graduating nurses and CNA's started to...

  5. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

    danursern replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

    Totally agree no one should misrepresent

  6. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

    danursern replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I do not know what to say to most of you, so many places here where I am from in a LTC facility the big wigs nursing admin decide who is nursing staff and they consider the paranursing staff in...

  7. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

    danursern replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

    This is true, but all the hospitals I have worked for it's mandatory to have your badge on in plain sight or you get wrote up and possibly sent home. I guess I am wondering what hospital allows staff...

  8. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

    danursern replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

    A MA cannot do that. I've been a nurse for 20 years LPN, then RN and we learned proper placement to give a injection in order to prevent nerve damage. It's not something I took lightly, and no CNA or...

  9. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

    danursern replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

    As a nurse and one who works in LTC I rely on my CNA's and we work as a team. If it were not for them I would not be able to do all I have to do. The CNA's know the patients they can spot a change a...

  10. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

    danursern replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

    I do get it, maybe not you but someone did say that the cna alluded to being a nurse by just saying "I am a part of the nursing staff." That is what I was commenting on. My thoughts are they are a...

  11. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

    danursern replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

    CNA's are a part of the nursing staff they have important jobs they have to observe and report to the nurses vital information. No they are not Licensed Nurses, but they are a part of the nursing...

  12. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

    danursern replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

    I had a situation like this with a lady in the grocery store a distance relative by marriage. She is real nice, but she kept telling me her daughter was getting her nursing degree online. Okay, I have...

  13. First Med Error in 15 years

    danursern replied to danursern's topic in General Nursing

    I wasn't trying to make nice on what I did wrong or anything like that when I conveyed this information to her it's just I have been around for many moons and I know this. She kept pushing at me to...

  14. First Med Error in 15 years

    danursern posted a topic in General Nursing

    I recently went to work at nursing home after 1 year and 9 months and I was glad to get back to work. Anyway, I had no idea the nursing home had G tags when I was hired. Well, short story too long...

  15. First Med Error in 15 years

    danursern replied to danursern's topic in General Nursing

    When I conveyed the fact that many nurses make mistakes or medicine errors to this DON she told me big and boldly no they do not as if she was beyond that, but she isn't working the floor is she....

  16. First Med Error in 15 years

    danursern replied to danursern's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I am out of there ASAP. I am sure she will pick me apart and pull all my work looking for more mistakes to report on me to state like holes in the MAR and TARS, or missed stuff if she can find...

  17. First Med Error in 15 years

    danursern replied to danursern's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe I messed up it may be a F tag. This is long term care so its a sitation of some kind during a state survey, and a plan of correction must be implemmented the state comes back to followup. So to...

  18. Doctors telephone orders???

    danursern posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone have any data on the proper way to take a telephone doctors order? I am a RN, but I need it for my job. A lot of new nurses and old are not doing this correctly. I just came back to this...

  19. DON Certification Exam

    danursern replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in Nurse Management

    This facility is probably about 84 and it use to be 120 they had to ship residents out we could not maintain. Now we have approx. 84 we have per 2 shifts 4 nurses, and night 3 nurses. Most nights we...

  20. DON Certification Exam

    danursern replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in Nurse Management

    What books did you get. I have been to the site and I bought the tapes, but books? Thanks I am already having trouble with the calculations of staff ratio's. Who does this really? I do not see my DON...

  21. Proper insulin combining?

    danursern posted a topic in General Nursing

    I also need this I need a how to paper on proper insulin combining and what insulins cannot be mixed with each other? I've witness nurses incorrectly drawing cloudy before clear, and mixing Regular...

  22. Proper insulin combining?

    danursern replied to danursern's topic in General Nursing

    I do believe she is right about cold insulin stinging, however when they say refridgerate I think they mean to refridgerated when not using and do not leave out any length of time longer than that. I...

  23. Management?

    danursern posted a topic in Nurse Management

    Hi I've been a floor nurse all my career since 1995 LPN and in 1999 I received my RN. I do have a BS in health. I've been a floor nurse supervisor on an acute MS/Telemetry unit and in a LTC facility....

  24. Proper insulin combining?

    danursern replied to danursern's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Ideally this is correct to have another nurse check the insulin, but they need to also verify what in the syringe and to get another nurse to come and do this takes a lot of time. However, in some...

  25. Proper insulin combining?

    danursern replied to danursern's topic in General Nursing

    Here is a demostration showing with the person holding it in the hand. We sit it on the table and inject the air after we roll it. This is how it shown in PP....