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LoveMyRNlife

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  1. "ASKholes"

    LoveMyRNlife replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Nursing Humor

    This made me laugh out loud!! I am only allowed to buy one specific type of toilet paper for my hubby’s delicate tush! If I buy another plush brand on sale he will promptly go out and purchase...

  2. HIPAA violation and future employment opportunities

    LoveMyRNlife replied to kmcd90's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I am curious as to why you chose to look into her chart instead of going to her room to speak to her directly? If you are friends and she isn't upset about you accessing her chart,then I would assume...

  3. Let go/resign from new grad 6 months in

    LoveMyRNlife replied to shaza111's topic in General Nursing

    Accolay is giving great advice about the policies. We have an online resource to look up all of the policies for my facility. Wherever you land for your next job, I would suggest you find out where...

  4. November 22, 1963

    LoveMyRNlife replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    I remember watching the ash covered people running for their lives after the twin towers fell. The news was filled with posters on fences with the names of people that were still missing from 9/11. I...

  5. Let go/resign from new grad 6 months in

    LoveMyRNlife replied to shaza111's topic in General Nursing

    Did the MD mention the possible surgery in his/her note? At my facility we have made patients NPO the night before, without an order, for possible surgery in the morning, once the surgeon sees them....

  6. Irony regarding cellphone use at work

    LoveMyRNlife replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We are not supposed to have our phones out at my facility either. If we were caught by the charge nurse or manager, sitting at the nurse's station charting on our patients and not answering those call...

  7. J-tube. RN/LVN

    LoveMyRNlife replied to cjkekoa's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I would look it up on our facility's medical website,that they pay for, and also the facility's policies. I would print them out and provide them to the new RN. Not to be snarky but for reference....

  8. When you thought it was patients you needed to watch...

    LoveMyRNlife replied to smf0903's topic in General Nursing

    This was my first thought when I read the article. All professionalism aside, I plan on going home in one piece after every

  9. Accused of not giving dilaudid

    LoveMyRNlife replied to KMULL002's topic in General Nursing

    At my facility you can give a partial dose of an ordered narcotic. If I do this, I make sure I write a note in the MAR that this is at the patient's request,and then waste

  10. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am just curious how other facilities handle patients and their family members that refuse most of the care while in the hospital. I am referring to declining the use of the gait belt, refusing IV...

  11. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    It was discussed, not sure if it a complaint was filed with adult protective

  12. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately she was unable to have a rational conversation when many different staff members tried to help her. I do not know where her support system was and the staff truly tried to help her but...

  13. Rn dealing with own family member illness.

    LoveMyRNlife replied to captainRN1's topic in General Nursing

    CaptainRN1, everyone has given great advice,so I won't repeat what has been said. I went through my father being diagnosed and passing as a new nurse and I know what you are going through. If you ever...

  14. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    Not heartless just honest. The tough conversations go better when people listen to actually understand the staff rather than simply respond. I have actually ridden in the back of an ambulance with a...

  15. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    I am still amazed at the people that come to the hospital and refuse all treatments, complain about everything and everyone, and then refuse to leave. I'm not sure why they think it is acceptable...

  16. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    We had another patient that was banned from every ECF in the area due to the patient's behavior and their family member. In my original post it was indeed the family member that was causing all of...

  17. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, thank-you for your response. Unfortunately a care conference was not called for in this

  18. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    Thank-you, that was helpful! I have not had to make that call yet, but that info was good to know for the

  19. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    The nurse actually explained to the family member that it was a chemical restraint and we could not keep giving haldol until the patient went to sleep. The family member actually said they were ok...

  20. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I have also seen it used in Hospice care but this patient was not to that stage yet. I never really understood why the family member was so fixated on haldol. Since this person completely ignored...

  21. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    This was not a psych patient but an elderly patient with dementia that came in with AMS. When I tried to discuss the Beers list of medications that were counterproductive to what she was trying to...

  22. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    I work for a not for profit hospital and a lot of times we keep these people forever, doing absolutely nothing for them but interventions they could be doing at home. I think the wonderful documenting...

  23. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    We did ask the family member why they were refusing and basically the answer was the family member knows them better. The gaitbelt is constricting and will agitate the patient. As far as medications,...

  24. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    Everyone involved charted thoroughly about the situation and actually we did have to tell the family member, after she called a nurse a ******* *****, that if she did not stop yelling at the nurse's...

  25. No, you can't do that!

    LoveMyRNlife replied to LoveMyRNlife's topic in General Nursing

    If the patient wasn't discharged then that would have been the next step. There was a very strange dynamic