PANYNP

PANYNP has 36 years experience and specializes in Crit Care; EOL; Pain/Symptom; Gero.

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1. What's your best 'Nurse Hack'?

   PANYNP replied to KimasaurusRex's topic in General Nursing

   7) If you have to draw blood on a super tough stick, look for superficial veins on the foot and use a 25ga butterfly. Caution: Check your State Nurse Practice Act before even thinking of phlebotomy or...

2. Seeking expert advice on macerated area RLE

   PANYNP replied to PANYNP's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

   Intended to say "punctate lesions", rather than "punctuate" lesions. Spellcheck,

3. Seeking expert advice on macerated area RLE

   PANYNP posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

   Seeking expert wound care advice, as my home health agency neither employs nor consults with a WOCN. Patient was referred by PCP. Patient is a 62 yo well-nourished community-dwelling semi-retired...

4. What should I have done about super low O2 levels?

   PANYNP replied to BookishBelle's topic in General Students

   Namenda also is neuro-protective; not strictly for dementia. This individual may have been part of a geropsych registry and was being observed for neurological progress/lack of progress while on...

5. Taking A&P 1 and Intro to Chem together?

   PANYNP replied to Aa1Bb2Cc3's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   COB nursing professor here. Is it possible to take Stats at a community college this summer and transfer it into your program? Before you commit to doing this though, be 100% sure that your school...

6. Why nurses don't want to talk to a ward psychologist?

   PANYNP replied to manjar's topic in General Nursing

   Our hospital's team of psych clinical liaison (psych CL) nurses, whose primary role is to tend to hospitalized inpatients related to emotional and spiritual concerns, also is available to groups of...

7. Fired from my first RN job after only 2 weeks.

   PANYNP replied to Mountainrnbsn's topic in First Year After Licensure

   My apples and oranges comment was intended as a response to Workinitnurfava who commented that an EMT should be able to transition to

8. Fired from my first RN job after only 2 weeks.

   PANYNP replied to Mountainrnbsn's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Totally different worlds. Apples and oranges. In fact, it might behoove OP to limit or eliminate entirely any discussion of her pre-hospital experience when applying for or starting a new position....

9. Patient's "right" to abuse nurses...I need your opinion

   PANYNP replied to MsNewbee's topic in General Nursing

   COB here. So very sorry that you experienced such a challenging and frustrating patient care situation that was exacerbated by what appeared to be a lack of support by an unsympathetic and unhelpful...

10. The good ole days of nursing...share your stories!

    PANYNP replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    Preach,

11. The good ole days of nursing...share your stories!

    PANYNP replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    We gave verbal report and Still were out of there by 2320. Loved 3-11 when I was in my 20s: the party shift. We went out almost every night after

12. Is it customary where you work to recheck BPs manually?

    PANYNP replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Machines are reliable as long as they are calibrated. Need to know how often biomed engineering comes around to check all devices on which we base patient management decisions, i.e. drips

13. The good ole days of nursing...share your stories!

    PANYNP replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    COB here. Does anyone remember using Kpads for treatment of DVT? Kpads were light green rubber heating pads that we would place inside a pillow case. They would be ordered from SPD, who would bring...

14. Starting own NP practice

    PANYNP replied to MsMeliss83's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm not sure whether it's permissible to endorse a book on this site, but here goes. Take a look at Carolyn Buppert's "Nurse Practitioner's Business Practice and Legal

15. Math requirement for RNs?

    PANYNP replied to llg's topic in General Nursing

    Re drip rates - if you travel as a volunteer on a health care mission trip, which many nurses do, to Central America or rural Africa, you will find yourself counting