teddiebear

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1. Being called an idiot

   teddiebear replied to historylovinglpn's topic in Relations

   I had a doctor tell me many years ago that LPN stood for" lowly peon nurse". The episode was not directed to me but to all the nurses as one of his patients had not voided since surgery and it only been about 4 hours after the surgery. Some of the st...

2. Is there a law on minimum hours for PRN employees

   teddiebear replied to Maustin89's topic in General Nursing

   I worked at a nursing home part-time for over a year. The scheduler left, and the DON took over. In June, things were okay at the start of the month. There were 11 days without a day of work. I found out the DON only wanted to text people for schedul...

3. why ? why? see no value

   teddiebear posted a topic in General Nursing

   Have a patient with a supra pubic catheter that the doctor wants flushed every shift in the nursing home. I always thought a catheter was a closed system and needed kept closed to prevent bacteria from the air entering it. Pt also spends a lot of tim...

4. Do you always get out of work on time?

   teddiebear replied to sandiamts's topic in General Nursing

   I often have to wait for the day shift nurse to get in and ready for report. The CNA's want the assignment board done before report. Shift for me is 10:45pm to 7:15am but most days I am out at 7:30am. No one has said anything about that for over one ...

5. Tardiness

   teddiebear replied to Vtachy1's topic in Professionalism

   the shift is quarter to the hour,like 6:45am for nurses and on the hour for CNAs. some nurses are often not there until on the hour.so by the time report is done it means you clock out from 15 minutes or more past end of shift at quarter after the ho...

6. Scrubs: Are Colorful Ones Unprofessional?

   teddiebear replied to purplegal's topic in Professionalism

   the only problem at my LTC is that some people do not care well for their scrubs and need to get to know their iron. the other problem is buying any uniform that is 100% cotton,these often wrinkle more often. staff has been told to look more professi...

7. Nurses and their pens

   teddiebear replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   Can use just about any kind of pen and my son always buys me enough refills for my gel pen for Christmas. most of the charting where I work is on the computer so not a lot of writing to do.I do miss the old writing of nurses notes though,as computers...

8. What did you do before nursing?

   teddiebear replied to golson's topic in General Nursing

   I was a short order cook for 5 years and now an LPN for 37 years.

9. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

   teddiebear replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

   Have not gotten the flu shot in 10+ years as was proven over and over not always effective to yearly strain. Where I work it is not required.