Fairlythere

Fairlythere ASN, RN

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About Fairlythere

Fairlythere has 13 years experience as a ASN, RN and specializes in Postpartum.


Graduated 3/10/06, did almost 5 years in med-surg, started suffering burn out and switched to the Childbirth center. Starting my 7th year as a postpartum nurse and I still love it

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  1. Pain is NOT subjective

    I agree drug seekers are difficult to deal with, however at a recent conference on Pain Management, Nancy Pasero, who wrote the Pain Management manual, reminded us that addicts have pain also. They ask for frequent meds because they generally take m...
  2. Going to Work with "pink eye"

    Okay, so two weeks ago I came down with a right red eye with watery discharge. I woke up after a night shift and found my eye stuck together. After gently washing it, I looked in the mirror, and it was red. :eek:Acckk. I called in and went to the cl...
  3. What's the weirdest baby name?

    Hmm, I have seen two kids with the names Blue and Harvest....Last name?? You guessed it! Moon! Recently one named Leaf crossed my path...
  4. Are WA Hospitals Hiring?

    Here it depends on the unit. Right now there are a few in the ED and PACU in Bellingham, ED seems to always be looking and also the ICU...A half hour away I hear they are laying off non-nursing staff. Funny we are having a shortage and over worke...
  5. Is it really hard to find a job as LPN in WA?

    Just saw this post, in the Whatcom County area, Bellingham, there is a hospital here that hires LPNs for ED, Mother Baby Post Partum and one med/surg floor. At this time there are a couple openings in the ED I think. Check out http://www.peacehealt...
  6. wrong route phenergan?

    Are you thinking of vistaril??That is no longer given IV.
  7. Well, I have been reflecting that I have been clean since June 28, 1983. I am coming up on 25 years, mostly in NA. I sponsor 8 women, I got clean at the age of 24 and am pushing 50. Its amazing. Two years ago I got to awaken a lost dream and be...
  8. I work on a med-surg floor and we mostly do gynecological surgeries, though we have others too. It seems most people coming back have nausea/vomiting within a couple hours. Most of our post op standing orders call for Phenergren IV, PO, or PR , Onade...
  9. Mystery symptoms on hip pt.

    Leslie, yes the general consensus is that the surgery itself and meds including the ativan and opiates threw her off. She cannot take ibu because of allergy nor can she take toradol. See my next post for an update.
  10. Mystery symptoms on hip pt.

    I love the thought of tele and ekg but the docs are all saying its the opiates. Weird thing is she was lucid again all day, just a little confused. And she had nothing all day but tylenol at noon as the docs dc'd everything opiate. Yet at 5 after ...
  11. Mystery symptoms on hip pt.

    She actually did have a UA previously but is on abx of course and that has been treated. Hmmm..
  12. Mystery symptoms on hip pt.

    She has a foley. She WAS on a heparin drip but that had to be stopped she was bruising so much. Now she is on PO coumadin. But thanks for the thoughts...
  13. Mystery symptoms on hip pt.

    Yup, pain and ativan were my first thoughts. Getting the pain controlled in an elderly with her tendency to snow is the tough part.
  14. Mystery symptoms on hip pt.

    UPDATE 7/28 I have had a few days off. Day after this post, I go in to find my pt. up in a chair, talking to friends, lucid and cheerful; helped back to bed, a lot of pain, but only tylenol. Still, her wound is still weeping serous and dressing soaks...
  15. Okay, Dumb question=Diluting meds

    Yeah, we have 3 ml. Its just that my brain couldnt figure out how to get it into a prefilled 10 cc syringe without losing some of it cause I was too thick headed to think of using a REAL needle rather than a blunt plastic one. DOY! Its interestin...