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About sweetnepenthe

One husband, two good sons and one very bad dog

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  1. RN's are part of one huge CULT!

    I will retire in six years. Halleluja.
  2. NPO/clear liquid status during labor - evidenced-based?

    How will you know when to start something if you never do it because you have no evidence. How do you get evidence. You get it by doing something. You do studies. Which we have always done. The idea of using "evidence" is not some brand new thing th...
  3. NPO/clear liquid status during labor - evidenced-based?

    The biggest problem I have with all this "evidenced-based" buzz word stuff is that there have ALWAYS been studies done etc. Citing studies etc as been done forever. Problem is, many studies are flawed. You don't know, many times, which are or arent...
  4. I hate being a tech. will I hate being a nurse too?

    K: They may not help you much for a variety of reasons, but before going into anesthesia, I worked in most areas of nursing and always did direct patient care. Some of the best opportunities to assess patients come at those times. When I was recentl...
  5. NPO/clear liquid status during labor - evidenced-based?

    Tewdles--just asking a question. Which you didn't answer, btw... :-). When I had my kids, way back in the stone age, they started an iv and let us walk around. Now everyone is stuck in bed hooked to machines. Fear of lawsuits. IM not-so-humble,NOT ...
  6. I hate being a tech. will I hate being a nurse too?

    You will still have to deal with all this as an RN. Plus even more responsibility. It sounds to me as though you would be happier in another line of work.
  7. NPO/clear liquid status during labor - evidenced-based?

    Tewdles, because you didn't have a problem with aspiration and the fact that, because we take precautions FOR you in the OR, are you going to encourage people to go ahead and eat pre-op? If people weren't so quick to sue whenever there is an adver...
  8. NPO/clear liquid status during labor - evidenced-based?

    As long as you don't end up being one of the ones who has problems, you can say "see, I told you so". :-) Clear liquids are okay in small amounts. You don't need to be stuffing your face with pizza and big macs. The human body can survive a couple ho...
  9. C-section vs. letting Mom go naturally

    C-sections are PITAs. We are being sarcastic because the c-section rates keep climbing and climbing and we can't believe the ob-gyns let one slip by without sectioning it.
  10. C-section vs. letting Mom go naturally

    The crnas ,somewhat snarkily, call vaginal births " failed c-sections".
  11. NPO/clear liquid status during labor - evidenced-based?

    Not opposed to small amounts ice chips/clear colorless liquids/glucose. Operative word being "small". :-) Vomiting is awful under any circumstances, but if you are having a section and paralyzed and flat on your back, it is scary and dangerous as wel...
  12. CRNA frustrations

    You will have politics in any position. In EVERY position. Foraneman is correct, though, in that only you can change the dynamics of the situation. you cannot change your boss. Your only option is to change YOU: either your attitude or the the way ...
  13. NPO/clear liquid status during labor - evidenced-based?

    It would be great if we had a crystal ball and could know which cases would turn into sections and which would not. I don't remember being hungry when I had my kids in the 1970s. Americans nowadays cannot seem to go even a few hours without stuffing...
  14. No. Absolutely not.
  15. It is always amazing to me that many people do not understand that they will experience pain after surgery