123456yy

123456yy

Member
  • Content

    17
  • Visitors

    2,276
  • Followers

    0

About 123456yy

Latest Activity

  1. The escapee

    In the ICU, we are on the ground floor, and each room has it's own window. The window opens out from the bottom, with a locking mechanism to prevent it from opening very far. We had a patient last night who was admitted for unrelated reasons whic...
  2. You Know You're a Nurse When...

    You know you're a nurse when you've seen more penises than a prostitute!:uhoh21:
  3. "Funny Codes"?

    On the first or second day post-op, we always get orders to put our open heart patients in the cardiac chair. We had just finished helping one of my fellow nurses put her patient in the chair, when the monitor started alarming. Sure enough, the pt ...
  4. Happy Nurses? Anyone???

    dmarie, please don't be disheartened by the seemingly neverending stream of negativity that is posted here. It is not as it appears. I would say that the majority of nurses chose this profession because they have a love for it, and want to help. A...
  5. The Good Samaritan Act was put in place so that people would stop to help in an emergency, rather than passing on for fear of getting sued. The rational being, some help (even without much medical training) is much better than no help. Here's the c...
  6. higher pay for BSN grads?

    This is a difficult subject for all the great reasons that have been previously discussed on this thread. Question: Can we justify paying entry level BSNs, with no experience, a higher salary than RNs with years of experience? Especially when those...
  7. To thump or not to thump....

    so my fellow nurses and i had a very heated debate last night at work about precordial thumps. i have thumped patients and seen it work, i have thumped patients and seen it not work. several of my co-workers are of the opinion that the precordial t...
  8. Floor nursing vs ICU nursing

    For the most part, I do think that the tele and med surg nurses have it a little rougher than we do in the ICU. That is not to say I'm not busy, I'm always busy. But it's a different kind of busy. Floating to the tele or medsurg floor is a nightmar...
  9. New grad interested in neuro and your advice

    Gwenith is VERY right. I had the same goal when I graduated. TRAUMA!! So, as a new grad, i went to work in the ICU at a trauma center. Best thing i coulda done, i still haven't left! i LOVE it. If you want to find out if trauma is really your thi...
  10. Cranky feet....better shoes?

    dansko!! i love them! and when the pair i have now wears out (going on 2 years w/ the same pair), i will buy another! i had exactly the same issue with being on my feet for 12 hours a day! so i found, for me anyway, the perfect pair of 14 hour sho...
  11. allnurses.com tshirt ideas?

    ok, so i realize that i'm posting on the last page, and no one will probably see this, but.... this one would have to be for all us crazy night shifters out there. here goes...ya ready?? i see day people
  12. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    We had a trauma come in that had been struck by a car while running across the street fleeing the police. We got him in the trauma room, and were in the process of cutting off his pants, when someone said "Oh my god.". The whole room went still. T...
  13. Dreading work, feeling like a fake

    One of the things I think we forget to realize sometimes is that we are human. Especially with the focus these days being on how litigious our society is. And as a new grad, you ARE going to screw up, and you ARE going to miss things. It's ok, we ...
  14. KCl through central access

    I really appreciate everybody's input! I guess I should have been a bit more clear in my first post. My hospital's standard dose of 20 mEq comes in 50 ml. And the policy is 20 mEq over one hour. Which is why I was so suprised to hear this other nu...
  15. KCl through central access

    I'm in the process of hanging my first 20 mEq of KCl on a patient with a 3.1 K+ who is having runs of SVT, and another nurse comes in and tells me if I have central access, I can run it at 100 ml/hr. Normally, I would trust this person's opinion ent...