kimberle

kimberle

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About kimberle

Full time nurse and full time mother of 3 under the age of 10!

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  1. hey yall peeps
  2. Hand lotion

    We are not allowed to use our own soaps & lotions- if we have a problem with those offerred we are supposed to go through employee health and work on a resolution there. Where I work many of the organisms are resistant (I work on a long term car...
  3. Characteristic c-diff odor??

    I always think "rancid meat" when I smell C-diff
  4. Anyone have experience with SSRI/Effexor withdrawl?

    I was on Celexa, and that article referred to by obnurseheather describes my sensation exactly as I tapered to going off from it - "brain shivers". I thought I was having TIA's. And I weaned down extremely slowly. And even after I was off complete...
  5. What would you do about a LTC resident like THIS!

    I'm just wondering if the social worker can, of course, do an evaluation including seeing if the doctor feels a psychiatric consult is appropriate. But I would also speak to the social worker about how disruptive this resident is to the whole facili...
  6. Well, I've been on both ends. I'm an RN who has to deal daily with pts. who c/o "I'm going to sue if they don't get my dinner right this time." "Why does Susie have sores on her butt?" (Well, it's probably because she refuses to turn/follow protoco...
  7. Son just went blind at 10:30am

    I had a patient who had something like that. He had autonomic dysreflexia (?), then when the stimulus causing it was removed, his blood pressure dropped into the 60's, systolic - he remained alert, but coudn't see at all for probably 1/2 hr. after ...
  8. Some people don't want to be "responsible" in making decisions to "pull the plug", or for whatever reasons, I've seen very selfish decision making on the part of family members and/or significant others that makes me angry. All I can do it educate, ...
  9. I didn't know the shortage was THIS bad

    I am just sick to my stomach. I was pulled to a Rehab. unit, and I felt it would be OK, as there was 2 "regular" RNs, and 2 "regular" techs. Yeah, it was fine 'til the last 2 hours of the shift - I know it's only 2 hours, but all of a sudden all ...
  10. The Scary Part

    I feel the same way today. I am an RN that can be in charge of 8-14 vent pts. a day. We used to only have no code ALS patients. Now we have high cervical (C2s) 3 wk. post traumas that are still not real stable, full codes. I'm running from room to...
  11. Thank God I didn't have a gun...

    Dawngloves- incident reports being "filed" in the trash can is illegal. There is an RN educator, 2 RN clinical coordinators, 1 RN clinical specialist in their offices and they have the "balls" to ask me if I could work extra, but they plan on leav...
  12. My daughter is sick....

    I definately agree- request those specialist consults! The sooner the better!
  13. Are non-parent nurses discriminated against?

    The hospital I work a doesn't have discrimatory practice regarding whether a parent or not. All holidays (including Christmas, etc.) are put on a rotating schedule so that every person has to work every holiday every 3rd year. Like this year I work ...
  14. Chronic UTI's

    My daughter, 9 years old, had a cystogram since she kept having urinary tract infections/irritation. She's having reflux from her bladder back up. Anyways, she's put on Macrodantin 25mg. every day for now, while the urologist reviews the results a ...
  15. Prevacid and G.Tubes

    We're spoiled - pharmacy prepares it for us so that it's liquid when it gets to us (I think he did mention something about sodium bicarb. or something too...).