minurse

minurse has 22 years experience and specializes in ICU, ER, MED, SURG, TELE, HOME HEALTH.

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1. A Frustrated Nurse Writes About Poor Conditions in Evacuee Shelters

   minurse replied to cpkRN's topic in General Nursing

   As a Katrina volunteer, I found that the local law enforcement in SE LA kept us all safe and sound. We did have attempts from some to have refills of narcotics (we just said NO) We did have many that...

2. Return from relief duty

   minurse posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello all. Just thought I would start a new thread to let everyone know how thankful I am that I was able to spend a week in LA helping with medical relief efforts. Thanks to the help of "glascow"...

3. Non-licensure states

   minurse replied to theking's topic in Home Health

   TheKing is absolutely correct- not all states require a license. MI is non- licensure state. You only need to hang you shingle out on the porch. However, if you expect to provide care to Medicare...

4. what programs for feild Oasis?

   minurse replied to MadelineGlass's topic in Home Health

   there are many programs that do point of service charting, the problem is the cost. try a search at NAHHC, or google it. The last agency I worked with had a system with the acronym GLMY- great...

5. Why Is There A Shortage?

   minurse replied to Melly1022's topic in General Nursing

   My theory deals with management. check out http://www.laurenbrasile.com for more

6. What did SANTA bring YOU this year????

   minurse replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

   Everything on my list, perfume, sewing machine, jewlry, gloves and a hat and low carb candy in the

7. Have you ever taken care of a celebrity?

   minurse replied to BarbPick's topic in General Nursing

   I have taken care of many celebrities. Country music's queens and kings, members of Saudi royal families, and local

8. Closed nursing unit

   minurse replied to Lise's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   We have a closed unit---on paper--- when the need arises nurses float in and out--apparenty nobody reads! BTW we are

9. What age do you plan to retire?

   minurse replied to eventsnyc's topic in General Nursing

   MOM is a nurse in a max. security prison at 68. I don't think she'll ever retire. She even works tons of

10. this is one I never heard before

    minurse replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    report them to the state licensing

11. I just got a raise....

    minurse replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital H.R. V.P. was recently quoted in the local paper that we "...got no bang for our buck" regarding sign on bonuses and that he hoped area hospital would quit offering them! The hospital has...

12. Ethics - patient follow-up

    minurse replied to Richellew's topic in General Nursing

    as staff working within the same facility, I don't see the problem. Provided that one nurse knows that the other nurse is employed at the facility and isn't just on the phone, saying "Im a nurse..."....

13. codes

    minurse replied to babynurse7's topic in General Nursing

    we've had a few interesting ones lately. we had a vent dependant (home vent) patient that insisted all day that she was dying. there were no changes in her assessment from previously, in fact there...

14. worn out

    minurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hey guys, I just needed to get it out, the hubby is non-medical and can't understand. I work IICU, only Sat. Sun. and Mon. and just had a bad week. It began with a co-worker and friend's dad going bad...

15. Demerol, YUCK!

    minurse replied to kewlnurse's topic in General Nursing

    There is an article in a recent AJN that describes all the awfull effects of demerol.(very informative). We rarely ever use it on our intermediate