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  1. Sterile gloves for sterile spec???

    estrogen replied to JaneyW's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm not and never have been a GYN nurse, so please could someone explain this to me? The lady partsl cannal in it self is not sterile, so what's the point of using a sterile spec? I mean doesn't it...

  2. Narc Count, made a complete A$$ of myself!!!

    estrogen posted a topic in General Nursing

    Geeeeez! This am during narc count, we come to the very last page of the Schedule III book. And I say, wait a minute, there's one more page... A brand new full card of 20 Vicodin that I received from...

  3. Narc Count, made a complete A$$ of myself!!!

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, so do we. Three carts, three narc boxes, six counts per shift for

  4. What to do about CNA disputes?

    estrogen posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    This morning after my night shift the am shift CNA came to me and complained about my night shift CNA on her hall. This is the second time (yet two different CNA's) in a row that she complained about...

  5. Narc Count, made a complete A$$ of myself!!!

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. There should be a better way of keeping track of narcotics than putting us nurses under such stress twice in every shift. In this day and age, where there are such high tech means to solve...

  6. Anyone Working the 3rd SHift with Young Children at Home

    estrogen replied to cdietrich404's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's great to work Fri, Sa, Su nights. That way, if your other half is at home during the weekends with the kids, you need zero day care. Also Kinder Care, where my younger one goes, is a...

  7. Anyone Working the 3rd SHift with Young Children at Home

    estrogen replied to cdietrich404's topic in General Nursing

    I have two little kids - a one year old and a five year old. I work 10:30pm to 7 am TUE, WE, THUR. When I started this shift, I worked in a hospital 30 driving minutes away from my house and with...

  8. More charting, paperwork and chores than is humanly possible

    estrogen posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I absolutely need your experienced thaughts on this: Night shift, one nurse, 3 CNA's, 60 residents. -update allert sheet, make out new 24 h VS flow sheet -make out new 24 hour report for DNS -count...

  9. Did I jump the gun?

    estrogen posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Last night a resident was found on the floor. She normally doesn't move much at all (very stiff) and is non-verbal. I have no idea how she got on the floor, when I assessed her however, her VS were...

  10. Family Witnessing Code Activities

    estrogen replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in General Nursing

    I would. Not because I would like to watch, but because I would like to be there with them. If any stranger (health care worker) was to separate me from my loved one in such a time, I would go...

  11. End of Shift Report

    estrogen replied to fireflyLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Perfect. That's all I'd need to know. Can't stand when they go on and on and on about irrelevant

  12. More charting, paperwork and chores than is humanly possible

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Yep, I pictured the day shift to be something like that... And I don't want to work it exactly for the reason that on nights at least noone is yapping my head off (most of the time). I also refuse to...

  13. End of Shift Report

    estrogen replied to fireflyLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I find it most important to give a brief history. What's wrong with them, what's being done about it. ...That info allways helped me to have a somewhat accurate picture of what to

  14. More charting, paperwork and chores than is humanly possible

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    There is a nurse on the adjacent sub-acute unit of our facility, that I have sofar NEVER seen work. I have seen him eat (every day, they have delivery pizza, chinese or some other goodies on that...

  15. More charting, paperwork and chores than is humanly possible

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm affraid that it's company policy or something, that LPN/RN has to do it (they are all LPN/RN signatures) and that CNAs are not allowed to chart. They have to give me a list of VS and a list of...

  16. More charting, paperwork and chores than is humanly possible

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I've been told that we have to chart on medicaid, MDS, Hospice and alerts every shift. Did I misunderstand? Does charting VS in the VS section

  17. What do you do when a patient takes their meds at an "unusual" time?

    estrogen replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    OH!!! Okay, I didn't know that. Thanks for the interesting

  18. What do you do when a patient takes their meds at an "unusual" time?

    estrogen replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    In the hospital I worked in, that also had computerized MARS and pixys, I would just call the pharmacy and ask them to change the administration time. Sometimes they wanted an explanation why fist, bu...

  19. Enemas, Catheters , and OTHER embarassing things in nursing school

    estrogen replied to RNinJune2007's topic in General Students

    ...Nope, I havent :) It's a rather uncomfortable procedure an not it the least sexy, ya know... And don't forget, on a med-surg floor 99% are going to be elderly, many of them unconscious or...

  20. Slower pace nursing?

    estrogen replied to CoconutNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Some of my friends from the days back in nursing school work in so called Ashley Houses. We had clinicals there too while in school. That is a chain of I think four houses here in Washington that...

  21. Enemas, Catheters , and OTHER embarassing things in nursing school

    estrogen replied to RNinJune2007's topic in General Students

    You received some wonderful input here, but as you can kind of see from most of the posts here, after a while (but I would say from my personal experience almost immediately with my first or second...

  22. Fear of Nursing and Bedside Care

    estrogen replied to angelica_rn2b's topic in General Nursing

    Foliate... makes me think of Foliage... Hee, hee ... Sorry, way off topic And Dont worry Angelica. Everything I needed to know about bedside nursing in the beginning I learned from my preceptor in...

  23. How should I handle this situation?

    estrogen replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing

    This is great advice, I think. this nurse was absolutely unprofessional and having a bad day is by no means an excuse. Also, I would have demanded to speak to the charge nurse at the first instance...

  24. Did you see a positive PPD result?

    estrogen posted a topic in General Nursing

    What does it REALLY look like? How often do you see a reaction but decide that it is not positive? What exactly do you go by? Also after years of having the PPD test done over and over, do you see a...

  25. Did you see a positive PPD result?

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    So is the positive a really HARD lump that is so obvious you couldn't miss it? My fist one of the last two step PPD gave me a red area of about the size of a penny. The second step however was a red...