cecile9155

cecile9155 BSN, RN

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  1. How much experience does your manager/assistant manager have?

    cecile9155 replied to DownstreamOcclusion's topic in General Nursing

    My DON has 9 months of floor experience. My nurse manager I think has

  2. Christmas Admissions

    cecile9155 replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    We've had admissions on all holidays and I have them on the overnight shift fairly often. Our admissions nurse and management never help with admissions anyway so really it's no different. Other than...

  3. Storage of N95 masks

    cecile9155 replied to Kiwi82's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Nothing because I have yet to be provided

  4. Coronavirus and Supply Shortages

    cecile9155 replied to adventure_rn's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'm getting one mask to use until "contaminated" (not N95). Real safe. Or not. Reusing ppe room to room. Definitely not how learned in nursing

  5. What would you think if you saw this patient?

    cecile9155 replied to coffeemamaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'd go with the ER. My husband had similar symptoms once and it turned out to be

  6. Iowa BON

    cecile9155 replied to gies_44's topic in General Nursing

    It takes longer for Nursys to update. Your license number will appear on the Iowa BON first. I took mine on a Friday and had a license number by Monday. The actual license came in the mail later...

  7. Unprofessional to mention you have other patients?

    cecile9155 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes you have to. I had a resident who wanted me to get her ice water. An aide stuck her head in the door and told me quietly that another resident was on the floor. I told the resident that...

  8. Am I too old to become an RN??

    cecile9155 replied to bananerz84's topic in LPN to RN

    I was 37 when I got my RN. Definitely not too

  9. Nurse's Week Festivities?

    cecile9155 replied to Extra Pickles's topic in General Nursing

    More than I'll get which is absolutely

  10. Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    cecile9155 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Had a new patient who was concerned about her insulin dose being too high and asked me to wake her up and check her blood sugar again at 2 am. When I did, it was well over 300. Her response, "Well,...

  11. Long Term Care Nursing is Lame

    cecile9155 replied to purplegal's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Where I live I am paid MORE at the LTC/rehab facility I work at than I would be at a hospital. I remember your previous posts. Clearly you still have a lot of growing up to

  12. Transfering patients after a fall

    cecile9155 replied to NurseAgatha's topic in Rehabilitation

    At our facility we have a policy dictating that we have to use a vanderlift to transfer a patient after a fall. If someone has an obvious serious injury like a potential hip fracture, the paramedics...

  13. Interview with Nurse

    cecile9155 replied to Purna94's topic in General Students

    Welcome. We cannot do your work for you. Do you have any questions that you have written yet that you could share? We then may be able to make suggestion to help you come up with other

  14. "Nurse Bedside Shift Report" Survey

    cecile9155 replied to kangoshichie's topic in General Nursing

    Is this homework? If so, how do you know for certain the people responding are nurses in an anonymous internet

  15. What Can Be Done to Avoid this error?

    cecile9155 replied to callienewh's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    At my facility it is the night nurse's responsibility to verify orders. We have a similar system of writing telephone orders in a binder. Our problem is that the day nurses don't always write down...

  16. First admit and First death all in one shift

    cecile9155 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've been a nurse on the skilled unit at an LTC since January and my last shift had two firsts. My shift started with my first admission that occurred entirely on my shift (I work night shift so this...

  17. What was your first day like at clinical site?

    cecile9155 replied to xdrowe's topic in General Students

    Our first day of clinicals the first year was orientation. We learned about the hospital's charting system. We toured the unit and spent a lot of time going over our clinical instructor's...

  18. I' m a Failure

    cecile9155 replied to maemae19's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    The exam is the same in every

  19. Hardly any SATA, mostly multiple choice, Did I fail?

    cecile9155 replied to sagittarius94's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I had less than ten SATA and passed with 75 questions. The number of SATA questions is not an indication of passing or

  20. Any second degree students do a BSN?

    cecile9155 replied to WCSU1987's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I'm a second degree person but I started with the ADN. I'm starting my BSN online in the fall while I continue to work full

  21. Can I be a nurse with a colostomy?

    cecile9155 replied to BellaBlackwell's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Yes. A nurse at my facility had one for a

  22. LPN Essay for Nursing Entrance Fall 2016

    cecile9155 replied to Georgerenee's topic in General Students

    With the thread title, I thought this would be an essay for an application to an LPN program. However, it sounds like you're already an LPN. What are you applying for? Unfortunately, the essay...

  23. French vs. Spanish

    cecile9155 replied to anna18's topic in General Students

    You don't need to take Spanish to get a job in nursing. It may help in some areas but not where I

  24. Bio-statistics Survey

    cecile9155 replied to elami88's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes caught one. Wrong dose. Pharmacy didn't supply the correct dose. However several nurses administered the drug anyway before I caught the error. Not sure what happened after I reported the

  25. Being blamed for fall after shift

    cecile9155 replied to notyetnurse's topic in General Nursing

    We don't use alarms where I work if the patient is alert and oriented x3. Is it unit policy there to always use