SwissMiss28

I live in Washington state & poured/passed meds as a med-tech for 2 years while I was in Nursing school. I had my CNA license & the required "Nurse Delegation" training- which is basically just a certificate. I was able to pass/pour narcs als...

I work in LTC & have a resident with a skin tear to the LLE. Today it was discovered the wound is infected with MRSA & several other bacteria. The MD had dressed the wound at the last visit & asked us to change the dressing. The steri-str...

I have always thought legal documentation should be written with black ink. I'm starting to run across more nurses using blue pens. How is it at your facility?

I worked in a pediatric clinic and saw the vaccine regularly offered/ administered to boys starting at age 11

I'm the evening shift (2-11) nurse in LTC with 40 residents. The day shift nurse who I follow is driving me crazy! He never does his alert charting, leaves tons of holes in the MAR, does not follow-up with MD's or Rx's, does not fax lab results to th...

He's been a nurse for 5 years. I used to work the same shift as him but in a different section. When I would see him in the Nurses Station, he would be watching videos on his iPad, talking to friends on the facility phone or schmoozing with families ...