mysticalwaters1

mysticalwaters1

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  1. Should patients be allowed to refuse LPNs and CNAs?

    mysticalwaters1 replied to flashpoint's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    uagh!! I had one pt a huge psych hx who had seizures on her admission that have been ruled as pseudoseizures and was out right nuts. I don't mean to be nasty my entire family on my mom's side has...

  2. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    mysticalwaters1 replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    OH also she thought the morphine made him unresponsive but yet he could open his eyes and not only that she was complaining about him breathing difficulty. Now I felt perplexed so i tried to explain...

  3. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    mysticalwaters1 replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    I had one pt dying from respitory failure. The doctor took him off bypap saying why are we torturing him because he kept trying to take it off. He was also more lethargic that day and a DNR. Anyway...

  4. Michigan Preparing To Let Doctors Refuse To Treat Gays

    mysticalwaters1 replied to Roy Fokker's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I agree it's how people are using religion to substantiate issues when if you look at it is that really what was intended. I have issues with religion myself and it's not really specifically the...

  5. Michigan Preparing To Let Doctors Refuse To Treat Gays

    mysticalwaters1 replied to Roy Fokker's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    You know I'm getting that vibe too. Just i feel there are no questions about things anymore and looking for or demanding "morally right" when the right is against being a certain sector and i am not...

  6. Two things about the NCLEX that I don't understand.

    mysticalwaters1 replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    My one nursing professor told us one person I don't know if they had the results i thought they did and that person failed and threw the computer down in the room! That's a big reason why i think...

  7. in need of some good reads: nursing fiction

    mysticalwaters1 replied to jolie chatte's topic in General Nursing

    That's my cat simba he's adorable and let me put on my stuffed animal's nursing hat for like 30 sec! I don't know why but i'm allways fascinated by munchausen syndrome. Maybe because it's so...

  8. Potassium piggybacks

    mysticalwaters1 replied to starcandy's topic in General Nursing

    kindof off subject but anyone find iv zithromax particularily painful when running it in pts? i find almost every pt i have complains about it. the problem also is how many iv's do you have to keep...

  9. Is it normal to take 4 Tries and Catheters to finally get it right?

    mysticalwaters1 replied to Nurseinthemaking's topic in General Nursing

    Just takes practice and all the advice already mentioned. I lift the area up and look for an area someone refered to as a butterfly. I don't kow but anyway it just takes practice. I used to never...

  10. in need of some good reads: nursing fiction

    mysticalwaters1 replied to jolie chatte's topic in General Nursing

    i have chicken soup for the nurses soul. they are great stories based on actual nurse experiences so not fiction but still very entertaining. however i can only get through just about 3 stories...

  11. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    mysticalwaters1 replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks! That's it EXACTLY!

  12. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    mysticalwaters1 replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    Well I went into it as an educational experience which i did get but not as I felt described as my duties. I meant it for learning specifically how a nurse acts and thinks hence why i wanted one to...

  13. foot wear

    mysticalwaters1 replied to jonurse's topic in General Nursing

    Yes definitely don't use high heel shoes. I had a high clog type nurse mate and even my thigh's hurt from the posture. I use Rocker's by cherokee they work great for me! It has a cusion for arch...

  14. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    mysticalwaters1 replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    Here this is a better description of an externship and what I thought i bought into and was not. I can't remember if they passed meds I think not but i know there was charting. If anything they...

  15. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    mysticalwaters1 replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    The externship at the hosptal i work at DOES have an externship program that is designed for experience as the primary goal. The idea is they want to recruit that student when they graduate which...

  16. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    mysticalwaters1 replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    Why are you snapping back like i offened you when I have done nothing wrong or said anything that puts down techs or experience? Ok YES internships/externships are JOBS. Yeah your point? It seems...

  17. 14 Hours: new TV Movie on 4/3/05, 8PM dealing w/ Hermann Hospital Flood & Evacuation

    mysticalwaters1 replied to szccdw's topic in General Nursing

    I was thinking the same thing about shows and movies. I think a movie or show like ER but centered around either just nurses or everyone and not a tidbit like ER would be great. ONe of the...

  18. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    mysticalwaters1 replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    WOW RELAX RELAX RELAX!!! It seems you don't understand about internships and externships. Ok i'll explain. They have nursing externships. It's like an internship which is one to one experience...

  19. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    mysticalwaters1 replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    I agree too. It's a huge mess and we can't decipher what exactly is going on

  20. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    mysticalwaters1 replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    The idea is that she brain damaged enough not to fully comprehend it. The videos were band because they are supposedly misleading. I don't understand if several doctors deems she's in the vegatative...

  21. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    mysticalwaters1 replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    Hmm... so what? Isn't their a limit and I'm sorry but $250 doesn't seem a lot. Seems like a last ditch effort to stop something already

  22. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    mysticalwaters1 replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    Oh one more thing the original poster the issues going on seems they were treating you just as extra help and that's uncalled for. I mean if you help out at times that's wonderful and at least i...

  23. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    mysticalwaters1 replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    Oh that's all great! I graduated 2003 and I remember feeling critisized and treated as a nusance at times but not all. Our professor one time talked to one nursing supervisor about one rn and then...

  24. Why can't we just be nurses anymore?!?!?

    mysticalwaters1 replied to MrsWampthang's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah my hospital does press ganey and i'm sorry it's all a bunch of bull. I hate it and i hate people trying to enforce scripting. One key thing is to knock before you enter a pt's room. I actually...

  25. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    mysticalwaters1 replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    my father had to make a decision for my mother like this. her k was high and i don't know what happened. she was on dialysis had crohn's disease had no more intestine left just multitude of complex...