Elysianna BSN, RN

Elysianna has 8 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in NICU.

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1. Why Do We Continue to Harm Patients?

   Elysianna replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Safety

   Better staffing ratios! More nurses = more time/attention devoted to each patient. But, i think that would involve increasing the perceived value of nurses. You see, the majority of the work I do every night for my patients is not of monetary value...

2. What is your worst visitor story?

   Elysianna replied to nordie's topic in General Nursing

   The husband of a patient with dementia was spending the night at the bedside. The NST and I walked in to turn her just in time to catch him backhanding her across the face, hard enough to knock her partially out of her bed. The NST grabbed the husban...

3. Wacky Nursing Dreams

   Elysianna replied to adventure_rn's topic in Humor

   I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one having these dreams! Do you suppose it's a nurse's version of the dream about not going to class all semester and having to take the final (possibly while nude)? I had the very dream you described last night, ...

4. Patients Say the Darnedest Things

   Elysianna replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

   That's one powerful penlight you've got, spotangel! :)

5. Used CPR on my neighbors toddler today... it wasn't enough... warning, graphic..

   Elysianna replied to NursingInChaos's topic in General Nursing

   NursinginChaos, is there an update on the baby?

6. 9 months of nursing & not confident

   Elysianna replied to asjohnson02's topic in New Nurse

   I feel you, asjohnson02. I've been working as a nurse for 6 months, and still feel like my shifts are spent scrambling, trying not to miss anything, struggling to keep up. I see the experienced RNs around me chatting casually at the nurses' station, ...

7. Clinical Judgement Call...Not sure if I did the right thing

   Elysianna replied to AvaRose's topic in General Nursing

   AvaRose, did you find out what happened with the patient?

8. WILTW: 11/12 - It's Beginning to look a lot like...Pickets...

   Elysianna replied to LadyFree28's topic in General Nursing

   I learned the joys of caring for a patient with factitious disorder/Munchausens. When my obs patient with a long history of admissions for nonspecific ailments was due to be discharged the next day, he suddenly developed a new headache that was "into...

9. Muslim??

   Elysianna replied to FloridaLpn2015's topic in LPN/LVN

   One of my good friends wears the hijab, but when we did psych rotations in nursing school, she modified her head covering for safety. Instead of wearing her scarf around her neck, she wore a modest blouse and tied her scarf around her head (see an ex...

10. Did you take a pay-cut to be a nurse? Do you regret it?

    Elysianna replied to MomAndSonInMD's topic in General Nursing

    I switched from an entirely different career of more than 20 years, and I was very successful at it, so being an RN is a pay cut. But the old job was just that - a job, with no passion or enthusiasm for what I was doing. Becoming a nurse was a long-h...

11. Moved mom out of her house today!

    Elysianna replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, hppy, I'm so sorry. Grab a slice of cheesecake or something decadent, and try to allow yourself to breathe that sigh of relief that's down in there somewhere. She's safe now, you've done the right thing; but goodness, what a rotten day for you an...

12. How to narrow it down?

    Elysianna replied to Elysianna's topic in General Students

    Thanks, rob4546! :)

13. How to narrow it down?

    Elysianna replied to Elysianna's topic in General Students

    Hi, Jules - thanks for answering! It's for class, but I'll be using these med cards to study for the NCLEX as well. Mostly, I'm trying to figure out what's most important in med knowledge for the NCLEX - is it A) Know the most common side effects, et...

14. How to narrow it down?

    Elysianna posted a topic in General Students

    Hi - this is my first time posting a topic, so please be gentle! :) I'm down to my last two semesters of nursing school. (Hooray!) One thing I've never gotten the hang of is narrowing down my study information when making drug cards for studying/refe...