Tammy90

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  1. Punny nursing names

    Hey guys! Thought I could use your creativity cause I dont have any! Haha But I joined roller derby and I need a name So I was thinking something nurse related. I work in LTC. Any suggestions for a...
  2. Bed rails protocol/algorithm?

    Do you mind sharing the assessment? Do you have anything about when one is using an air
  3. Bed rails protocol/algorithm?

    Do you mind sharing the restraint assessment form? Just to gain a sense of what we could do/use for our
  4. Bed rails protocol/algorithm?

    We rarely use full side rails. We will keep the upper rails up more for re-positioning in bed. Specifically, we only use full bed rails for those on air mattresses since the rails need to be up or...
  5. Bed rails protocol/algorithm?

    Hello all! I was just wondering if anyone would be willing to share their facilities bed rail algorithm. I work at a private LTC facility. We typically follow our provicials guidelines and...
  6. Hello everyone! I was wondering when did you guys feel confident as a nurse? I have been working in LTC for almost a year now and I just feel so stupid. I am a floor nurse and recently started my...
  7. Hello, I am a new nurse working at a long term care facility I have a resident who has type 2 diabetes. He is on Metformin and Gliclazide. Yesterday there was a possible flu outbreak (unconfirmed)...
  8. Opps sorry. yes Palliative care. I was thinking to do something like that, as that is a very interesting topic, but I feel that everyone in my class is going to do that. So I just wanted to see if...
  9. Hello, I have an advocacy project to do and I am having troubles on what palliation to do. We need to find articles to support this issue and why there needs to be change and how we are gonna effect...
  10. If we give a patient all the information about a procedure that they want but they are advised to not have, like a surgery, because of their circumstance, can the patient still push for the surgery?...
  11. Nursing issues ideas?

    Perhaps it is different in Canada about the nursing shortages? Oh yeah staffing mix is getting big here. They are hiring more LPNs than RNs. That may be a possibility. Thank you for the ideas and...
  12. "nursing issues" ideas

    I have to write a literature review paper in one of my classes and I just am stuck on ideas for the paper. For example, nursing shortages was one that was given by the teacher. I don't want to do...
  13. I have to write a literature review paper in one of my classes and I just am stuck on ideas for the paper. For example, nursing shortages was one that was given by the teacher. I don't want to do...
  14. I have been doing my readings, but I just cant seem to grasp fully what it means? Is it just how we interact with people and how ethics plays into how decisions are made and what we do for patients...
  15. Hello, I am in my newborn rotation and I am just going over infection/sepsis notes What is the patho behind high resp rate and infection? why does it happen? is it because the infection increases the...