sarahbellum

sarahbellum specializes in Cardiac/Neuro.

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1. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   sarahbellum replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   As a new nurses aide that was barely eighteen I worked at a tiny rural hospital. We had one ICU bed next to the nurses station. It was often used for hospice (anyone really critical we air transported out). We had a sweet little patient I'll call "Ro...

2. Swan-Ganz catheters in PCU

   sarahbellum replied to Lev's topic in Cardiac

   I thought a lot of units had stopped using them. We still use them in the Cardiac Cath lab for RHC but not for monitoring, of course.

3. Songs That Remind You of Nursing....

   sarahbellum replied to sarahbellum's topic in General Nursing

   "Thought this thread felt familiar. There's a lot of good answers here too." I used a lot of those :) it was a closed thread. I was curious if there were any new ones.

4. Songs That Remind You of Nursing....

   sarahbellum posted a topic in General Nursing

   What songs remind you of being a nurse? Everytime certain songs play on my ipod they invoke feelings of being at work, been at work. Some are obvious Angel at my side Collette Washington Thank the nurse Country Joe McDonaldsome not so much,

5. Best MD note

   sarahbellum replied to beckster_01's topic in Humor

   We had a note on a cardiology patient the other day that read "Pt not eating due to the crap they serve here." BTW the words "the crap they serve here" was not in quotes...

6. Funny Cath Lab sayings...

   sarahbellum posted a topic in Humor

   :rotfl: We have an interventional cardiologist moving to another city, and we all adore him. I wanted to make him a funny t-shirt to remember us by. Can anyone come up with funny cath lab says for the shirt? Here is what I have so far... Stents ar...

7. Hello! Any Cardiac Cath Lab nurses out there? Questions about how your lab runs...

   sarahbellum posted a topic in Cardiac

   Any interventional cardiac cath lab nurses out there? If so, do you take call? How often do you have to take call? Do you have to stay at the hospital? How many on your team? Do you "double chart" i.e. does your circulator chart in your hospital...

8. Cath Lab nurses!! Intro plz!

   sarahbellum replied to Marchantia's topic in Cardiac

   I just switched from a neuro unit to the CCL. I am now learning how to circulate. I am totally overwhelmed right now but I love it!

9. first RN job proving to be a disappointment, tips please...

   sarahbellum replied to WIchica0732's topic in Missouri

   I am also a new grad who was hired straight out of school into a unit. I was miserable and overwhelmed. I lasted 2 months off orientation and then I transferred to their stepdown unit. I like the stepdown unit. It's still fast paced, I still get s...

10. Doctors' Chart Bloopers

    sarahbellum replied to Brian's topic in Humor

    This isn't a blooper but still funny. I was looking up something in the doctor's orders on a patient that had been in the hospital for about six months. The hospitalist had ordered a consult for geriatric med and put the reason as:Is this patient ev...

11. Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????

    sarahbellum replied to jessi1106's topic in Humor

    We have a nurse who writes the word "poop" in random places on the unit. Not the charts, of course but on memos hung in the break room, the doctors phone book, ect. For some reason this is so funny to me. I will be reading the education board and ...

12. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    sarahbellum replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

    I have a new one.... We had a new post op ostomy who wasn't the problem, her husband was. We have several PCT who are barely 18 and two had walked in the patient's room to find him buck naked in the chair. Neither of them had enough sense to call ...

13. Any St. Anthony's Medical Center nurses?

    sarahbellum replied to dawngloves's topic in Missouri

    I work at St. Anthony's in a fairly centralized unit and I haven't heard anything about that. There has been grumblings in the past, and half hearted attempts to unionize but nothing that anyone could embezzle from to my knowledge. Our unit was to...

14. Vibram 5 fingers shoes

    sarahbellum replied to sarahbellum's topic in Uniform/Gear

    Thanks! The part about indoor walking makes sense! I will stick with my asics for work.

15. Vibram 5 fingers shoes

    sarahbellum replied to sarahbellum's topic in Uniform/Gear

    "I wear the original design whenever I run. I just took my USAF pt test in them last month. I still prefer to run barefoot, but these shoes come close to being barefoot. The soles are fairly thin, but they will protect you from broken glass, rocks et...