GLORIAmunchkin72

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  1. Define Nursing

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to 1Tulip's topic in General Nursing

    Nurturing, bringing back to

  2. Computer Charting

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to fotografe's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    There is one in my area (no name) that has been using computer charting. How well it's working out? apparently ok because they're still computerized. Ours still use pen and

  3. Should I leave nursing and move on?

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to E10_Alive's topic in Nursing Career

    Is it possible that they (your ex-employers) were not leveling you? Maybe they didn't want to outright accuse you of stealing or abusing but secretly believed it? Something is not adding up. All I can...

  4. Should I leave nursing and move on?

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to E10_Alive's topic in Nursing Career

    This seems so unfair. 7 years of college and lots of money spent to be reduced to this? Why didn't they try to work with you? If they fired everybody that's made med errors or screwed up somehow our...

  5. Your Worst Mistake

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

    Some mistakes are not med errors. A few years back this one CNA co-worker told me about that sick feeling she had when she realized on her way home that she had left someone on the toilet. She...

  6. Your Worst Mistake

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

    When I was brand new passing meds about a year ago I had to pass my meds at a furious pace. I had two full carts to pass simultaneously yet I had to be time compliant and still expected to run after...

  7. Pet Peeves

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to sjb2005's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse MS, is that

  8. "Gray areas" in med pass scariest

    GLORIAmunchkin72 posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    What do you do when a resident insists on getting a fraction of his or her pill? I delegated the task to the nurse because I didn't feel comfortable giving an amount that wasn't indicated on the MAR....

  9. "Gray areas" in med pass scariest

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I don't want to give too many details but let's just say that it was a psych med and one tiny little pill had to be cut in half, and the pill wasn't even scored. It could have easily broken in even...

  10. What punishment should this nurse get?

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to Daytonite's topic in General Nursing

    I feel for this good nurse even if she gets to keep her job. She was made to feel as if she had cold-bloodedly killed

  11. What punishment should this nurse get?

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to Daytonite's topic in General Nursing

    "Excellent nurses" don't grow on trees. If they make a mistake you work on it, make it better. To keep replacing a nurse with another and with another is asinine. The next one may not fall asleep but...

  12. Pet Peeves

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to sjb2005's topic in General Nursing

    shelleyjellybelly, about the VS we feel your pain. None of us where I work like to get VS, especially when there is a long list. It is OUR JOB but

  13. What punishment should this nurse get?

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to Daytonite's topic in General Nursing

    No wonder there's nursing shortage. Fire an excellent nurse because she dozed off sitting by her patient's side? Buy her a box of

  14. Possible Avian Flu Pandemic

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to Demonsthenes's topic in Public, Community Health

    Sunamis, earthquakes, killer-hurricanes, now the possibility of a bird flu pandemic? Who

  15. Narcotic Theft

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to smartass_nurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    It sounds to me that they are encouraging narc theft and abuse. The word will get around that if you want to steal narc this is the place to go. I would feel very unsafe there because the people who...

  16. Dissect a cat?!

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to moonbeamsmom's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    And here I thought "more than one way to skin a cat" was just an

  17. Xenaderm?

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    not only that but it traps feces and urine and

  18. Nurse terminated after having baby

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to hokiern's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Do you really want to work for a place like that!?

  19. Pet Peeves

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to sjb2005's topic in General Nursing

    So did you allow him to keep his urinal on his side table? What do you do in that case. Do you just take it away and say it's not proper and

  20. Pet Peeves

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to sjb2005's topic in General Nursing

    I hate orders on the MAR that are faded and barely legible. PLEASE print in bold letters if you cannot type. Also I don't like trying to guess if it's 8 p or 8 a. Preventing med errors is everybody's...

  21. What can an RN do than an LPN can't?

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to pdpeanut's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    At our nursing home the QMAs(med techs) do mostly the med passes and treatments and the nurses do paperwork and answer the

  22. Hospice and LTC... Who provides the care?

    GLORIAmunchkin72 posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Recently we had a resident slowly expiring. All families were there, had been there for 3 or 4 days. Hospice nurse and hospice aide were also present, but they sat with the families as if they were...

  23. Hospice and LTC... Who provides the care?

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I have had different experiences with hospice so I really don't know what's the norm, or if there is one. A while back we had a hospice resident who got all her care from hospice. The hospice aide...

  24. MARS missed signing

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to mar326's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Call me crazy but I initial (and when necessary) and date on the bubble pack for each pill that I give in addition to signing in the MAR and other necessary places. People would tell me "if I did that...

  25. Are we slowly poisoning ourselves with meds when we crush them?

    GLORIAmunchkin72 replied to Jubei's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    That is something to think about. I'm pretty short (about 5') and I do a lot of pounding at about nose level. I don't like the thought of wearing a mask but I don't want med residues in my system. I...