Libby1987

Libby1987

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  1. Do you ever wish you were a doctor?

    Libby1987 replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    I love this. A desire for advance practice for right reasons, in my opinion. It's so rare, encouraging and refreshingly different from all of the "how do I skip bedside care, how do I escape bedside...

  2. Handled this situation wrong??

    Libby1987 replied to givxnchy's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, respiratory therapist. Caveat, I don't know the obstacles to obtaining an RT consult in acute care, though I would know my way around them if I worked

  3. Tampa ARNP-one yr post grad still no job!

    Libby1987 replied to Agriffin2's topic in Advanced Practice

    If you worked rural home health, you would have an opportunity to build relationships and confidence with the providers in the clinics. Personally, being a career home health nurse and back to admin,...

  4. So is there really a nursing shortage?

    Libby1987 replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

    The boomers aging out isn't going to make it an employee market. Boomers aging out with a progressively younger chronically ill population will break us. It won't matter how many new nurses are on...

  5. Handled this situation wrong??

    Libby1987 replied to givxnchy's topic in General Nursing

    I work home health so I would have sent him for CXR and treatment. He's already on abx so that is good but he obviously didn't clear his airways. I don't know that suctioning a conscious patient...

  6. Do you ever wish you were a doctor?

    Libby1987 replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    I realize I didn't answer the question. No, I don't wish I had gone to med school. Or anything else. I love what I do. I believe in it. I'm good at it. I'm appreciated. I have great work...

  7. Is this ethical?

    Libby1987 replied to pumpkinspice's topic in General Nursing

    Is this a private duty patient? Are you a caregiver or

  8. What Job Did You Work While Getting Through Nursing School?

    Libby1987 replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

    Bachelors. We were eligible to test after the 2nd year. As a 3rd year student in an extern position, we could do everything but pass meds. Or start IVs if I recall correctly, though it seems like we...

  9. unfair assignments

    Libby1987 replied to isthisforreal's topic in General Nursing

    You're always on overtime or you never leave more than 15 min

  10. What Job Did You Work While Getting Through Nursing School?

    Libby1987 replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

    Initially a food server (waitress back then) Excellent prep for multitasking, efficiency and catering to customers under pressure. The last year I had an extern position on tele and was crossed...

  11. How do CRNAs get treated by MDAs ?

    Libby1987 replied to april_tomorrow's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Hhmmm. My sister, a very seasoned PACU nurse at the time, was encouraged to pursue CRNA by the partner of a local anesthesiology group. He hired her into the practice right out of school, I think it...

  12. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    Libby1987 replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    I did say it was pretty

  13. Do you ever wish you were a doctor?

    Libby1987 replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't been asked in a long time. The bloom is clearly off the rose, most can see it and understand the frustration with reimbursement and productivity

  14. 2016 2017 per visit rates per state DETAILS!!!

    Libby1987 replied to RNLASVEGAS's topic in Home Health

    Please pm me the name of those

  15. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    Libby1987 replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Another thing.. The CNAs were motherly types who ran a tight ship. And the seasoned nurses could scold a young nurse and all could still be right in the

  16. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    Libby1987 replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Tincture of benzoin for staple/suture removal. Fully and and luxiously stocked supply cabinets for every patient room. Keri Lotion bottles. Patients in their pink frilly night gowns. Cosmetic bags...

  17. Being Pulled into the Office for calling CAT

    Libby1987 replied to ryuunohime's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Gray and lethargic? I would have called a RR (or 911 in my setting) before I called an MD who was not immediately available. And I would have owned it, that would have been very easy and defensible to...

  18. Injections - how do you contaminate a needle

    Libby1987 replied to mamacitanursita's topic in General Nursing

    Do you mean if you insert the needle into the vial farther than is needed, i.e. the needle is submerged in the

  19. Potential DVT/PE?

    Libby1987 replied to cdblackburn14's topic in General Nursing

    I'd want a CT of my chest, not all lung disease shows up on a CXR. And pulmonary function, surely they already did

  20. Management: Not for me!

    Libby1987 replied to D4Ydream's topic in Nurse Management

    I'll give the advice I followed myself and am glad for it. I took an admin position following a return to patient care. Returning to patient some 10 years ago after having 10 yrs off was extremely...

  21. Please take a minute out of your day to answer these questions

    Libby1987 replied to hazel20's topic in General Nursing

    Home health: 0I am conducting my primary research for my English class on the effects of mobile use in the nursing community. Please take a minute out of your day to answer these 5 questions. I will...

  22. omg...fish oil!

    Libby1987 replied to beckster_01's topic in Patient Medications

    One of our hospice nurses told me of a trick that she uses for both herself and her patients during terminal wound care.. Some drops of peppermint oil on the inside of a

  23. Time for hospice referral?

    Libby1987 replied to casias12's topic in Advanced Practice

    No, not based on the info given. Over anticoagulation is treatable. He needs to be in an end stage irreversible disease or indisputably failing with criteria that support death in less than 6 months....

  24. 4th Week of Med/Surg Orientation -- First Time in Acute Care Setting -- Help!

    Libby1987 replied to happy.persimmon's topic in General Nursing

    You left a big window for comment so here's mine.. I don't understand how one has a desire to teach something they don't yet know themselves. You want to teach people how to be nurses before you know...

  25. LTC/Rehab Facility... Many Nurses at my Facility are planning on Leaving.

    Libby1987 replied to nurseburst's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    You'll get a lot of recommendations to run but if you're considering how to stay, as other nurses are submitting their resignations I would give my manager the stipulation of sending me out to the...