lhome ASN, RN

lhome has 15 years experience as a ASN, RN and specializes in med/surg, homehealth.

lhome's Latest Activity

1. What do you think? My mother is told she is a drug addict by her primary care physician

   lhome posted a topic in General Nursing

   Recently, it has come to my attention that MDs have been targeted for over prescribing narcotics for pain control. My mother has become one of the victims of these new laws that have made it difficult for primary care physicians to assist patients wi...

2. A day in the life of an ED nurse

   lhome replied to BodhiTree's topic in Stress 101

   ER nurses tend to get desensitized. The hospital should rotate them. I floated to ER from med/surg. Not sure how your ER is run, but this ER worked as a team. The stress level was not the same as the floor. The patients were seen as rooms and ha...

3. new job, bad anxiety

   lhome replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Stress 101

   Venting is good. I totally get it. I hope you can find something that fits for you better. There are jobs with more human contact and support. Try a nursing home.

4. Why so many travel positions?

   lhome replied to mercedesbattista's topic in Career Support

   All medical staff should have life time health care. We are exposed to everything. I think staffing companies have there place, but we are at risk as a profession. I hate to use union busting as an example, but it is the same. We have no protecti...

5. I feel like they should change the title of this site to "reasons why my job sucks"

   lhome replied to hershdawg's topic in Relations

   Nursing is such a broad field. There are so many types of nurses with varying degrees of expertise. Not all nursing positions hold the same stress levels. Once you have been a nurse for a while and if you ever get the experience of being a floor...

6. Is your colleague a mind reader? Or just plain lazy

   lhome replied to madwife2002's topic in Relations

   Fear! From my experience, asking for help is usually time consuming in itself. Finding someone that is not as busy as you is usually the case. I was accused by a nursing assistant that I was dumping when I asked him to do something for me once. He...

7. agency Nurses, How do you do it??

   lhome replied to beatrice1's topic in Agency

   Patient routine is a given in report, but remember anything that helps the next nurse coming on shift to know what to expect is important too. Because if it is not an expected situation, it should set off her alarms to look for a change. Remember t...

8. agency Nurses, How do you do it??

   lhome replied to beatrice1's topic in Agency

   Remember as a new nurse being so confused, writing down the report, and being uncertain as to what was the most important. For me, it took experience and learning to process the significance of everything. Understanding the disease process, risk fa...

9. Loma Linda or rcc?

   lhome replied to StudentN123's topic in California

   BSN is the path I would go if I could do it again. ASN is not what it use to be and the hospitals want the BSN behind your name.

10. I apologize..

    lhome replied to letsbefriends's topic in New Nurse

    You are not alone. I remember the torture of being a new grad in a sea of stressed out staff. The demands placed on the floor nurse are astronomical. I remember when I had just come off orientation, I was working night shift. I had three admissio...

11. how to make it clear when call doctor

    lhome replied to neurontin's topic in CCU

    Good reply!