dbscandy

dbscandy

Renal; NICU

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About dbscandy

dbscandy has 37 years experience and specializes in Renal; NICU.


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  1. Dear Nurses: Please Forgive Me

    This should be required reading for every nursing student. Thank you for a very important lesson. Blessings of comfort, peace and strength.
  2. Clinical awakening

    Great story and exactly the reason I could never be a Peds nurse! I am going on 26 years in the NICU, high-risk birth certified and NIC certified; however, floating to Peds gives me PVC's! I kid you not. Fortunately, I have floated exactly four tim...
  3. Stupid things that nurses say

    1.This one is on one of the ER Docs where I work. End of January, I was in the ER for a lg perineal abscess, draining plus a rather lg hot/red area of cellulitis, all wrongly treated for two weeks. After waiting on the stretcher for 3 hours, the doc ...
  4. What's your favorite/least favorite part of your job?

    Favorite: Sending a NICU baby home with loving people whom you hope will always be that loving. Least Favorite: Sending a NICU baby home and knowing it's probably going to be on the news one day...soon...
  5. What's your favorite/least favorite part of your job?

    see above post
  6. What's your favorite/least favorite part of your job?

    This response is for 'isitpossible': Amazingly, it just never occurs to me to be sarcastic or snarky with anyone who asks me a question at work. Esp new nurses or new hires. It breaks my heart to hear of this, and I have been a nurse for over 30 yrs!...
  7. It Goes Both Ways

    Oh, and puree' up some Chinese for me if I have no teeth!!!!
  8. It Goes Both Ways

    I know from experience that it's the nurse that many times needs a hug or a touch. I have had a parent of my NICU baby acknowledge that I needed a hug after watching us work over a very ill/dying baby for a shift or even for days. I'm sure the reside...
  9. Coworker nurse trying to ruin my reputation...

    Absolutely no durg testing. You are accused but innocent. It is up to the co-worker to prove this. Ask for a meeting with your lawyer, the administration/your immed super and this co-worker. Force her hand to accuse you and prove the accusations. Do...
  10. Being Naked Where I Work: A Nurse With Cancer

    I recently endured two weeks and 3 surgeries in 'my' hospital for a rather large (so am I) and deep perineal abscess. My surgeon was a wonderful, dignified, Indian man who was very respectful of me. However, by discharge, my crotch had been seen so m...
  11. Learn from my STUPID mistake

    I still occasionally find myself doing this after +/- 30 years. Holding the sometimes almost full IV bag against my chest with my arm while I unplug the line to vent a new bag. It always seems like a good idea at the time, and IS if the bag is EMPTY,...
  12. Retired, now what?

    Could you not do work as a telephone nurse? Perhaps you could look into that?
  13. To Swab or Not to Swab......

    Our Pharmacy states the vial tops are not sterile; if you look at the cap after you pop it, it is not air tight so...not sterile. This is esp true of pop top blood culture bottles. The vial MUST be scrubbed with alcohol and air dried before blood spe...
  14. Fictional vital sign charting

    JonesRN, never say you are "'JUST' med/surg/onc" or anything else...EVERY nurse is as important in her/his work as any other. Please know your worth.
  15. Funny things lay-people say...

    I worked in Dialysis for over 12 years, and my mom STILL pronounced it 'dialys'; made me crazy, finally just ignored it.