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    Letters of recommendation.

    SuzieVN replied to SuzieVN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I agree, but I also would think that a letter ought to carries more weight than a phone call- a snapshot, a document, of a person's performance at a set time? Like an evaulation? I was under the...
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    Ever have a patient work your very last nerve?

    SuzieVN replied to proud nurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Love your
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    Ever have a patient work your very last nerve?

    SuzieVN replied to proud nurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Don't shoot
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    How do I get an interview at a hospital as a new graduate RN in South Florida??

    SuzieVN replied to nrodriz33428's topic in Florida Nursing

    The 'yay', 'lol', and etc. made me see you in a
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    Multi-state licensing woes

    SuzieVN replied to keriharper's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    I wonder how her BON will handle her 'I smuggled ivory in from Kenya charge'? Unprofessional
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    Putting in my letter of resignation today

    SuzieVN replied to MomRN0913's topic in Home Health

    On the topic of smart, and smarty, and pants? Here's something you should know: "There's a lot about me you don't KNOW about, Mister Smartypants!" -Annette Benning to Kevin Spacey, in "American...
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    TPN order I'm confused on if this is too much or too little for this patient

    SuzieVN replied to ren09's topic in Patient Education

    As an LPN for 4000 years or so, I must say, myself, that when I saw that in WA state, IV certified LPNs can give TPN (not to forget IV push meds?), I fell off my chair. Out of control. In those 4000...
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    Reportables

    SuzieVN replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    THC screen is positive, but that's OK, since the med in question was hydrocodone? You're in California,
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    Reportables

    SuzieVN replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    So wrong, so unprofessional and un-technical, childish, even, on so many levels.
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    Have you ever performed CPR? Results?:

    SuzieVN posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I don't know how to insert a poll tool, but here's my story. LTC, shift change, I went looking for the day nurse. She said "I'm in here!", so I entered the room. As soon as she pulled back the curtain...
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    Have you ever performed CPR? Results?:

    SuzieVN replied to SuzieVN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Aside from the intermittent hostile comments, really- I'm amazed at the total responses to this post. I will again clarify: My brother, a BSN, long time ICU nurse, did 'not' take in the situation, and...
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    very confused about my hospice job- need advice

    SuzieVN replied to maybug's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Inpatient hospice is a rare thing. But I have to tell you it is the most 'luxe' of nursing jobs. Mellow, slow, focused, calm, beautiful food and music, and etc. It is so expensive to maintain though,...
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    Multi-state licensing woes

    SuzieVN replied to keriharper's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Then again, if you are just out of school...if your halo was THAT tarnished (or rusted or pitted), how did you make it OUT of your school and into a license? Are you sure your halo doesn't just need a...
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    Giving Narcotic After Scheduled

    SuzieVN replied to slauren's topic in Patient Medications

    Check your med policy. If this patient is a repeat offender- ask for an order 'patient can have his q12hr morphine given to him 4 hrs early or 4hrs late, per his choice', that way you won't have to...
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    Putting in my letter of resignation today

    SuzieVN replied to MomRN0913's topic in Home Health

    I decided to take a break, a health/fitness sabbatical, five years ago, after having seen so many people I knew die of heart attacks, and the the like. Since then, amazingly, five years has passed...
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    Multi-state licensing woes

    SuzieVN replied to keriharper's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Yes, your halo is also tarnished in the other compact states, sorry to say. Go check yourself on www.nursysis.com you'll see how tarnished your hallo REALLY is. Good
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    Multi-state licensing woes

    SuzieVN replied to keriharper's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    tarnished halo? That is one i'll never
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    New Grad - Resume and Cover Letter. Please Critique for me!

    SuzieVN replied to Jaimielynn's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    High school diploma is a moot point, can't go to PN school without that. A lot of your resume is de facto factual based on the PN school requirements- meaning, you wouldn't have graduated with out it?...
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    Give or no

    SuzieVN replied to duncannurse429's topic in Patient Medications

    I'll correct myself- if a patient is gone, it can't be a 'med error'. If your policy states a med/IV must be given within so many hours since the last dose, and that can't happen- always safe to get...
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    the way I vew things or the way healthcare has become??

    SuzieVN replied to blugreeneyez's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry. Your fears are now the facts. Things have taken a very sad road since the 1980's, when nurses were almost
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    Give or no

    SuzieVN replied to duncannurse429's topic in Patient Medications

    It may be a med error, 2 hours late, by your policy- what does your manual say? If in doubt, call MD to get an order 'give 6Pm dose of Unasyn now at 8PM- patient was out of the
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    question about HIPAA

    SuzieVN replied to nursingst1234's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    HIPPA is as complex and weird as Obamacare, but every place has to have a HIPPA compliance officer that sets, and follows the rules of the new laws. So I'd advise following the policy of your work,...
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    8hr daily sched of a rn

    SuzieVN replied to soonrn2527's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If that's the case, all of the above in my first post apply, and may god be with you? I will assume the place is very acute, with IVs, and the like, for them to pay an RN to work the floor. A load of...
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    What's the worst you've ever been dumped on?

    SuzieVN replied to SuzieVN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wacky pants. LOVE
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    New job

    SuzieVN replied to Najone's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    If the pressure to do so much, without making a single error, in so little time, with so many threats for failure to do it all, were not so overwhelming, then those people would not be so unhappy....