lpnandloveit1

cleaning straight caths between use can be a real pain. I recently worked a case that use denture cleaning tabs to soak the caths prior to sanitizing with vinegar. It worked well!!!!!

I have been doing home health nursing with peds for 10 years now. I love it. the only drawback is how deeply you do fall in love with these kids. It is great and I am finally doing what i became a nurse to do.

one time a man was visiting his dad and said "I just want you to know that I'm a lawyer". I said thats o.k. we'll take good of your dad anyway.

here's the thing. We have to realize that any shove push slap etc. is assualt. this is a crime. We have to bring nursing out of the dark ages. We are not servants who can be treated anyway anyone wants to treat us. I realize that often stressful situ...

RNPD in response to the ANA position paper of '65 having no role for the lpn's, I believe this is where the myth of "grandfather clause" lpns to Rn's came from the way it was presented to us back in the middle ages was BSN and above would be PN or pr...

I became an Lpn because I love bedside nursing. I have no desire to become and Rn at this time. I am 47 years old and have been an Lpn for 26 years. that said I would like to make and observation. when things are quiet on this bb someone will ask thi...

if you cannot even see a write up how do you know that you have been written up and for what? How can you correct something that is a mystery to you? I would complain to the labor relations board in your state because this does not even sound legal t...

yes it may be one side of the story but there is always a place on the form to respond.

Oh wow I am old. re: three H enema gave a lot of them (for impactions) coffee emema yep given them too. 1--2-3 (glycerine,epsom salt water) and my all time favorite-----Milk and molasass.(yummy)

I must be old or something. To me an incident report is an inhouse form used to document an inury either to person or prop. A med error report is, of course an in house form to report a med error. Both of these forms are filled out by the staff invol...

after years of driving ugly beater cars my husband and I splurged and got a nice little red convertable. I have noticed that this car makes me look a lot thinner prettier, younger and dumber. men will pull up beside me at a red light say "nice car" a...

we change gravity feed bags every 24 hrs. The problem is those darn corners. and that itty bitty tubing. the feeding can get in them and the drip chambers. Also cleaning with soap and water can leave soap residual. We wash between feedings by the way...

regarding the post that sugested that lpns have a parallel to the ana that does not admit RNs the NFLPN does indeed admit RN's although not as active members. But put this into perspective there are a great number of organizations that admit only RN...

my own personel opinion..........for what its worth. I see a lot of talk about professionalism and work ethic, It is much easier to get along professionally with all of the staff when we call each other miss, mr. mrs. ms. etc. and keep our language c...

hi I am an LPN who has done home health for the last 10 years in one form or another. I currently do High tech pediatric home care and work mainly with vent or trached kids. I do shifts (8-10 hr.) and not visits. I work for a Hospital run home care a...

while working in a LTC we had a cva pt who was non verbal and not mobile. her daughter came in on 3 different occasions and came screaming into the hall you didn't wash my mom's p---y! I smelled it and you didn't wash it. She would then grab a large ...

I am a large woman. I have strangers tell me the hamburger I'm eating isn't good for me of course they are usually eating a bacon double cheese burger. I once had a an er nurse loudly declare in earshot of me "You'd better call the guys in here I'm N...

lyndalous good for you the thought that your Aunt doen't desereve treatment because she is 81 is frightning!!!! I hope she gets the help she needs and feels much better.

Don't care who wrote it, performed it etc. I still love it.

At a LTC we had an elderly lady who would GOD GOD ARE YOU THERE? for hours at a time As you can imagine this was quite draining on the staff finnally one of the nurses pushed the intercom button lowered her voice and Called her name "MINNIE" a few s...

My father died of aids 8 years ago at the age of 67. He treated his illness as agressivly as he could at the time and still had many "bad times" without his belief in God his life would have been shorter and the "bad times" worse.

yep fergus I agree with you. Abuse in any form or from any person is horrible and should be delt with the same way as a crimminal assualt (jail time the whole nine yards) all to often the injured person refuses to even complain the the cops and just ...

to fergus. men get more pr................and hit harder."Male privilege refers to thought process."I can do this because I am the man" "you have to do that because I am the man" etc.

I did staff relief in a LTC and when I asked for a crusher they handed me a hammer, not a tack hammer,a big ugly hammer.

I work night in home care and told my scheduel person I needed 1 night off 2 months in advance and was told the DAY nurse was going to be off for at least a month (day nurses is part time I am full time, I don't cover days..........ever) After I spok...