Lola Lou

Lola Lou BSN

Med-Surg, Precepting, Education

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  1. 2020 Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program

    Lola Lou replied to NurseLizabeeRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Congratulations to all who have received award confirmations so far. Have any RNs received awards yet? Looks to me like they're still just working through NPs at this point. I'm hoping that this is...

  2. 2017 Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program

    Lola Lou replied to emmiecb's topic in First Year After Licensure

    There should be a place in the applicant portal to ask this question. I would be up front with your income information. I'm sure it wouldn't look like you lied as long as you updated the information...

  3. Nursing Student From Hell

    Lola Lou replied to DWelly14's topic in General Nursing

    For the sake of this student's future coworkers...fail her! The last thing a nursing unit needs is another coworker who constantly dodges her respnsibilities. This type of coworker leaves the rest of...

  4. 2017 Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program

    Lola Lou replied to emmiecb's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Credco is the 3rd party company that checks for the NCLRP process. Don't stress. It is around this time that they begin confIrming student loan debt by checking your credit history. If I'm not...

  5. Feeling doubtful...just got accepted to Nursing school!

    Lola Lou replied to jmhastings334's topic in General Students

    This must be a fairly common feeling among nursing students about to begin a nursing program. Like you, I aced all of my pre requisites but when it came time to start the actual nursing program I...

  6. Potassium supplementation

    Lola Lou replied to Leesha's topic in Medical-Surgical

    No interventions are given for K greater than 3.5 or Mag greater than 1.7 at my facility (with or without cardiac history). I guess if an arrhythmia was present that might be different. I have not run...

  7. Nurse Corps Loan Repayment 2016 Cycle

    Lola Lou replied to tjones57's topic in General Nursing

    I received my first deposit yesterday. I will be getting monthly installments. The payment status said "processed" before and after the first deposit was

  8. Nurse Corps Loan Repayment 2016 Cycle

    Lola Lou replied to tjones57's topic in General Nursing

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  9. Nurse Corps Loan Repayment 2016 Cycle

    Lola Lou replied to tjones57's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the info tjones57. The wait is agonizing and I'm slowly losing my

  10. Nurse Corps Loan Repayment 2016 Cycle

    Lola Lou replied to tjones57's topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone know if my employer will be contacted a 2nd time after I've received a finalist email and the countersign has occured? My finalist status is still the

  11. Maine Hospital--Help

    Lola Lou replied to hopefulstudy's topic in General Nursing

    Saint Joseph Hospital is a large hospital that is also located in Bangor. If you're interested in mental health nursing, Acadia Hospital is located in Bangor as

  12. Incentives to orient new hires?

    Lola Lou posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does your facility offer incentives for staff nurses to train new hires (new and experienced nurses)? My facility has never offered incentives and does not take in to consideration that training a new...

  13. Incentives to orient new hires?

    Lola Lou replied to Lola Lou's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all of your

  14. MSN Nurse without clinical experience please help!!

    Lola Lou replied to Sspino's topic in General Nursing

    I worked for a CNO who had less than 2 years of clinical experience before getting the position. He did a great job typing up new policies based on EBP but was never able/willing to help on the floor...

  15. hiring older nurses

    Lola Lou replied to KThurmond's topic in General Nursing

    My 56 year old mom works Med-Surg...just

  16. hiring older nurses

    Lola Lou replied to KThurmond's topic in General Nursing

    My mom went back to school for nursing at 50 and was hired immediately after graduating. I think that life experience, developed people skills, and a good work ethic always trump the "age

  17. People who don't look before flushing (#2)

    Lola Lou replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I bet that people are too embarrassed to admit that they check out their own poop, boogers, and sputum color! There needs to be a sequel to the book Everybody Poops titled Everybody Looks at Their...

  18. had an AWFUL night

    Lola Lou replied to momof3al RN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I'm going to attempt to pass on some words of wisdom that I recently received and I hope that I don't butcher the message! The poor condition and/or negative outcome of a patient does not reflect on...

  19. What are the top 10 diagnoses you manage?

    Lola Lou replied to jessimee's topic in Medical-Surgical

    CHF, COPD, CVA, Chest Pain, Pneumonia, SBO, Pancreatitis, Cholecystitis/lithiasis, & Comfort Care. I've worked the last four days. My brain cannot come up with a 10th

  20. What do you guys do to de-stress?

    Lola Lou replied to OBigdog26's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I force myself to make plans on my days off. The introvert in me could easily stay inside and watch movies all day/errrrrrday. This summer I promised myself that if the weather was nice I was going to...

  21. Moving from Florida to Maine...have some general questions.

    Lola Lou replied to ctweed's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I would say that "pool" and "flex" are the same thing. I have worked at two different facilities in Maine that had different unions. The first, was actually a teacher's union that for some...

  22. So...What Kind of Nursing Task Do You LIKE?

    Lola Lou replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Sterile nursing procedures like catheters and central line dressing changes. Maybe its because I have to slow down and take the time to think each step through to ensure that sterility is maintained....

  23. Moving from Florida to Maine...have some general questions.

    Lola Lou replied to ctweed's topic in General Nursing

    So my friend who works as day shift pool gets $25. Shift diff is $2. Unionized nurses start at $27.20. Not sure about benefits though. I hope that this helps. Let me know if I can help answer any...

  24. Moving from Florida to Maine...have some general questions.

    Lola Lou replied to ctweed's topic in General Nursing

    I don't actually work at EMMC but I will ask a friend who does. It is not difficult to get a job at EMMC. They hire a lot of pool and per diem people. So if a FT position isn't available immediately...

  25. Moving from Florida to Maine...have some general questions.

    Lola Lou replied to ctweed's topic in General Nursing

    Hahaha this cracks me up. To clarify...the potato harvests take place in "the county" at least an hour and a half north of Bangor. Bangor is becoming a great little city. The waterfront music scene...