OntCaRPN

Hi, I'm a pt RPN in Ontario, have been for 25 yrs with no hope of getting full-time any time soon (if ever). We just came back from our 3rd vacation in the Talledega/PellCity area and we LOVE it! Any thoughts on what my chances for employment might b...

I have a particular bug-a-boo .... we let our csections shower. They take off their dressings (because it was wet and yucky) and then pop on their own clothes from home. When the 95 members of their extended family leave they ring and ask for a new d...

Try looking up DAR format, I think it's a fairly often used note method. Data: Action: Result: For example .... D: pt fell A: staff picked him up, brushed him off and reinforced teaching re using walker R: pt safely used walker rest of shift Now that...

I'm not sure I have anything to add other than my own practice and the notation that 'faster is not always better' (the old adage haste makes waste, ya know). If you can, take the MAR to report with you, you can skim and familiarize yourself with som...

We've also had a few patients that we tell that an admission bath is something we do all the time. Urine crusted longjohns and overalls, socks, boots! BO! I've had to cut out matted glops of hair. I don't even want to know what was in that. At lewast...

Oh pt phones! 911 called us one night because the lady in room 16 wanted a nurse and couldn't find her callbell. Another pt called 911 because his doctor hadn't been in for a few days. Another called a neighbouring hospital because she thought she mi...

I'm being fueled here by a discussion we had yesterday about how many drug errors might not ever get noticed and ones that aren't reported. I agree with whoever said there's probably more to the story. The incidents related did cause me some alarm. I...

At your scrub top or down it? I had a fellow for a long time and every morning when I was tying his shoes, he asked me to lean a little closer so that he could see "those gorgeous mountains". I started putting his shoes on in bed with my back to him ...

mizzyrite25 ... I was sooooo hoping you were going to say that the male CNA said that he DID like older men!

I kinda debated where I would post this little story, since it both irked me and was revealing of how doctors used to be ..... I worked for a while in the secured unit of a nursing home. We had a resident who was a dr's widow. She was pleasant and ea...

Anything smelly .... ditto on the caked on dentures .... mattery false eyeballs ... sour vomit ... I can usually handle most of these if I'm quick and there's a window open somewhere. However .... a suppurating sinus and palate cancer were my worst. ...

Many years ago our facility installed the light system you can speak over. This was supposed to save steps. You can just take the pain pill, glass of water, blanket with you the first time you go. Many, many pts call and say something like ...."I'd l...

I hadn't been giving meds in an acute care setting for very long when I made a med error. As per protocol, I had to speak to the Doc. He was an absolute blessing! He wanted to know if he had done something to make the order difficult, if there was so...

Several years ago the RN's around here got a big raise and it was published in the newspaper! I don't recall any more what a patient asked for but I expressed that I wouldn't be able to oblige him for a little while (so it can't have been anything cr...

One other suggestion ... tidy the med cart/room. It is a hectic time and it's tooo frustrating to be hunting around for syringes, med cups, wipes and so on.

I've been floating around allnurses.com for a few days now and think something's fascinating. When I went to school in 1978 we had a very cursory overview of a few things that since have become part of the RPN programme here in Ontario. We old girls ...

Ours are cleaned in a regular rotation and if we ask (in the case of visible soil) and if the person turns out to have a bug of some sort.

When you first wade into medications, it seems that there will be millions of unrelated facts that you will have to remember. As you move along (and certainly when you put that knowledge into practice), the facts become clearer and more relevent to e...

Amen to the 'good daughter' thing. I fully realize that, now, I'm trying to be good daughter to hundreds of patients instead of just my parents :) What ever part that had in my decision to become a nurse .... I'm good at it now. I love it. I'm thankf...

How about Candy, Mandy and Brandy ....... Bearss?

I too struggle with the sorrow of patients dying before they've had a full life. I gather much comfort from knowing that God has a plan even if I can't see it. Go ahead and cry but don't second guess yourself.

Employers are getting to be absolutely 'no nonsense' about registration. Even tho' we were very short staffed at the deadline, nurses without their new registration were told to stay home until it came. No new slip, no work. Get your registration fir...

News stories like that just make me sad. We teach and teach our little hearts out and then along comes a media mess like that one! it's soooo disheartening.

I've worked all three shifts too. There is a certain less political quietness on nights that I enjoy. But we certainly are not staffed for "just in case". There are two of us, me and an obstetical RN (and the RN in emerg.) (small hospital? you bet) T...

We in Canada enjoy a bit more British and Australian influence in our music (I think). I've adored Kylie since she came out with Locomotion years and years ago. She's just a few years younger than I am and DROP DEAD GORGEOUS. She released a European-...