missnurse89

I am an RN, PHN. Where I work, we occassionally get a peds patient for venipuncture for lead sampling. I draw blood daily on adults, I immunize and perform finger sticks on kids daily as well, but I don't perform venipuncture on kids hardly ever. The...

I am needing some clarification from IBCLCs out there. I was informed by an IBCLC that as an IBCLC, it is within the scope of practice to diagnose maternal breastfeeding related complications (such as mastitis). I have read through IBCLC Standards of...

Thanks! I wasn't sure where to post so I might bump it. Beginning in 2016, the exam will be offered twice a year.

I could go on all day, but to name a few... 1. Vaccines always given at the wrong anatomical landmarks. 2. Patient consent doesn't seem to exist in TV land. 3. Labor looks tortorus. 4. Doctor is present for the entire (yet remarkably short) labor. 5...

Thanks for the great advice! I think it's just uncertainty because their veins are so tiny. I used to do IVs on peds several years back. Now I am performing venipuncture on peds. I draw blood daily on adults for several years now. It seems different ...

How do all you ER nurses out there feel about new grads in the ER? Do you feel they are competent enough as a new grad to work in ER as their first nursing job? Do you feel they transition to ER well? Do you prefer new grads to experienced nurses (fr...

Wow! It's crazy how these things differ per country but seeing as how there are differing risk factors in different countries it makes sense. I hope the responses helped!

Per CDC, MMR vaccination is recommended if you were born after 1956 and are not fully vaccinated against MMR. If you were born before 1956, you are considered immune. You only need a "booster" if you never completed your MMR series.

I deal with this often as a PHN. You can contact your local county health department for shot records. If they don't have them, then contact your pediatrician. Yes. You can get titers drawn, however, it is generally cheaper to revaccinate if you can'...

This is really interesting so I will share. We just had a cultural competency training and covered the different generations and their different values and this exact example came up. What is wrong to one generation is right to another, because of th...

The best thing to do is focus on what is WITHIN YOUR control. Get a tutor. I am very sorry that the teacher is failing you. That is awful. Unfortunately, in those cases (having experiencing this myself in high school) the student has to take it upon ...

We had to ask a friend or family member to volunteer for our HTA skills check off. They kept their clothes on. Everything else we had manequins. We even had the manequin arms with fake blood (worked only half the time) to practice IVs. But just getti...

Holy crap! I can't even...That's ridiculous! 1. Teaching the students that consent isn't important 2. Violating someone's body, UNECESSARILY I might add 3. Injuries? Damages? Complications? I can not believe that this actually happened and was cond...

Maybe you aren't good at math NOW...BUT keep working at it. Do what you need to do to understand it. It is highly important as a nurse. Don't focus on the fact that right now you don't understand it. That will get you down. But you will understand it...

I agree. There are demonstration tools for this. I do realize that nursing programs are limited on funding, but there are also grants for these things. These intimate type assessments seem to be leaning towards unethical practices.

I do think that certain medical interventions are appropriate WHEN needed. But this is coercion! This poor girl! Yes. Babies heads are big. But women are designed to birth babies. I think the problem lies with forcing labor in the first place. What's...

Oh my word! I have never heard of that either. We never did that.

I do understand and appreciate what everyone is saying about having "thick skin" and I agree that it is important to be tough in order to survive in this field. I will not feel that asking for better treatment is something that I shouldn't be doing. ...

I think the best thing to do at this point is to just agree to disagree.

It is good if the OP can try to gather her own thoughts on this matter. I will say, though, as complex as these issues are, I think it would be difficult for a non-nurse to have an insight as to what these issues really are.

This is not at all my first experience with AN or other boards. Lol I'm just sticking to what I believe is right.

Good perspective.

I never said that you couldn't be honest. I have made no assumptions. Again, you can and should be honest and have an opinion but you do not have to talk down to people to state those opinions. Being blunt is not the same as talking down to someone. ...

Does anyone have suggestions or advice on learning Spanish as a second language? Were there any resources or tips that helped you?

For me personally, I hold myself to the standard of treating others in a way that I would like to be treated. If someone believes it's ok to speak down to someone online, that is something that they have to be ok with. I dont believe that it's right....