StacieRN RN

Do you read it back to him? That usually causes them to realize how inappropriate they're being.

Or: Ok, I charge an extra $10.00 an hour for maid service - CASH and in advance!

Female here. I had some adhesions due to radiation and was given Flomax to try to increase output - I was down to a dribble. Didn't work for me though. I had to be cathed and keep a cath while the adhesion area healed.

Love it. Very enticing. I appreciate how hard you work to get the medical details right. I really hate when I'm reading a book and wrong information jars me out of the story. Kudos!

Very nice imagery. A few things though: A newly trached pt has to be taught to speak. And they can't speak while hooked to the ventilator. For speech to happen, air must move over the vocal cords. While connected to the vent, air exits before that ha...

A TLSO (thoracic lumbar sacral orthotic) brace should be worn whenever pt is upright. Pt should logroll from side to side as brace is placed and fastened. Only then should pt be allowed to raise from being flat. Once in the brace, the pt may sit, sta...

Additionally: Depending on policy at your facility, pt may need to be on bottled water only. If that is the case - no ice (ice machines possible source of bacteria.) Limit sticks. Make sure pt has soft toothbrush or switch to toothettes. No straws (m...

But, of course, according to the National Quality Forum, falls are never events. I tell you, if anyone figures out how to keep all of these health care monitoring agencies happy with their wildly differing agendas....that person can count on an imm...

I agree with sending the patient to the hospital and then not accepting her back. If your facility director will not agree to this, I would have her notify the family that they must provide home health aides around the clock who will be responsible f...

My grandmother's cure all is Vaseline. If you have an arthritic limb or sprained joint. She spreads .the pain away within an hour. By the way, the only food that doesn't spoil is honey. There have been pottery jars of honey found in the pyramids that...

Unless they give you a PAID lunch, they cannot legally prevent you from leaving during lunch. They CAN require you to clock in and out to make sure you're getting back to the facility in time. I used to work nights. (also no cafeteria) We'd get toget...

Stomach acid will take care of most anything picked up from a surface that is not obviously dirty (if the oral and esophageal lining is intact). So, yaeh, I'd have done the same - and have.

Honestly, I feel that being a nurse made me a better patient not the other way around. Knowing what the nurses were going through helped me understand when things didn't go exactly easy or quick.

Agreed. If management really wants good customer service, They should hire staff specifically to address these needs (wants). We really have our hands full NURSING. When DID it become our job to tend to housekeeping, dietary, clerical, social work, t...

I don't know. I'm off work now because of cancer. I'm in remission now and hope to be well enough to return to work soon. I'm paying close to $400.00 a month for COBRA. Everyone keeps telling me to just apply for Medicaid. Also, have been on me to a...

Just a few things. I do believe in charity. I mention in my post that I give to needy programs. I just think I should be allowed to have the right to choose which charities. I think the deserving poor, aged, children and invalids should be taken care...

Had a lol with a hip fracture. Was flat in bed but she thought she was standing up. She kept calling out to us all shift long - begging us to help her lay down. After several hours of this she started getting ****** off and told us were were sadisti...

Before anyone reads my post and thinks I've never been unfortunate, let me say at 22 I was a single mom with an ex-husband who wouldn't pay child support. My parents never paid a penny of my college costs. And lastly, I was diagnosed with cancer in D...

I am addicted to medical blogs. A poster quoted an ED patient and my tongue about dropped to the floor. This is what the waste of air said: "I get a goverment entitlement. That means I am entitled." HUH?!!!! :trout:

If you are not short on time, the easiest was that I have found is to insert the tube until it hits the back of the throat. Hold it LIGHTLY. Wait and as the patient naturally swallows the tube will get tugged down the esophagus. You can try to rush t...

I had advanced cervical cancer. Chemo and radiation. At the time, I was working ICU. My doctor told me I needed to go on disability leave. The chemo regimen I was on didn't make me feel bad. I was neutropenic for most of the time though. The radiati...

Ortho docs rely HIGHLY on nurses. When I worked ortho, the hospital call light system would track call light usage monthly. The ortho unit consistently would have more than double the volume of calls as other units. Ortho patients have a lot of pain...

Hansen's (Leprosy). Fairly rare in the US. Most new cases come in states with large immigrant populations (Calif, New York, Texas, Mass). Also appears endemic in Louisiana, oddly, which is not noted for immigration pop. Very sad case. It was not d...

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Okay, I revised some and sent the following message to Mr Beck's email. on his site it says this: This is the general contact for reaching Glenn Beck. Please note that Glenn gets hundreds of emails everyday and while he does read them he does not alw...