Franksters

Franksters has 18 years experience and specializes in TCU,ICU,OHRR,PACU,5Solid Organ Transplan.

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1. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

   Franksters replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   I had a bariatric patient complain that our B/P cuff hurt her arm. I wanted to tell her that it wasn't "our" cuff. I stopped by the zoo and stole it from the elephant's exhibit on my way to the doctor for the bulging disc I got just trying to kift he...

2. Need Honest Opinion -- Would You Recommend Nursing?

   Franksters replied to djc1981's topic in General Nursing

   Unfortunately, I would not. I have been a nurse for 18 years and if I knew how to do anything else, I would leave healthcare so fast your head would spin. The last 10 years of my career I have spent in leadership roles trying to make a positive diffe...

3. Ivy Tech Evansville

   Franksters replied to samclaug's topic in Indiana

   I am actually a nurse manager of a MS floor that provides clinical experience to IVT students. I gotta tell ya, you have picked a great program!! The RN students we employ from IVT are super!! They fly much sooner than the others. Good Luck!! Look u...

4. Calling All Nurse Managers/Clinical Directors

   Franksters replied to RNPATL's topic in Management

   AMEN!! I am constantly surprised at how many of my new nurses think I should work their professional schedule around their personal schedule. I find myself explaining over and over that it is not my job to find coverage for their weekend so they can ...

5. Calling All Nurse Managers/Clinical Directors

   Franksters replied to RNPATL's topic in Management

   Hi. I have been in management for 10 years. Starting as associate nurse manager in a 24 bed ICU, house supervisor of a 442 bed tertiary facility that averaged a census of about 450 and now as a nurse manager of a 20 bed cardiac telemetry med surg, 14...

6. About productive hours per patient day?

   Franksters replied to rrroyer's topic in Management

   Our med surg department has 85 beds spread in to 5 units. Navagant came and "suggested" we lower our hppd to 7.5. Of course we were held accountable to that number. Forget it!! By the time you enter all team members, 1 director, 2 managers, 1 charge ...

7. About productive hours per patient day?

   Franksters replied to rrroyer's topic in Management

   What's your ratio?

8. Charting Bloopers

   Franksters replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

   Glad to see I'm not the only one!!!

9. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   Franksters replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   Don't stick an oblong paper weight up your rectum, then... Never tell your wife that you need to go to the ED because you are having an uncomfortable sensation... the guy ended up being transferred to another hospital for surgery.

10. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Franksters replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

    Thought of a classic. I worked in a very progressive, groundbreaking tertiary facility in downtown ________ (hint-we are now the 16th largest city in the country...big whoop). We received a lot of patients from Appalacia (for reasons I will not go in...

11. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

    Franksters replied to nilepoc's topic in Humor

    The funniest H&P-I worked at a large tertiary facility and received lots of patients from Appalacia. The doc down there had lived there all his life (except college). His H&P read, "I was out squirrel hunting with (name of dog), when Gladys c...

12. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Franksters replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

    I was a nursing assistant on TCU while in school. I was bathing a man who was unresponsive. The word was "He" was already gone. Things went great!.......Until. I began washing "P" and "The boys" when he got an erection! I was sooo excited!!! You see,...

13. Does your facility still use Vest Restraints?

    Franksters replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    No, Thank God!!! I hate those things. They are dangerous and make the situation worse. It is human nature to struggle when you are tied down.

14. Pt demanded a stronger pain med

    Franksters replied to AstrosFan's topic in Emergency

    Nope!!

15. Pt demanded a stronger pain med

    Franksters replied to AstrosFan's topic in Emergency

    I hear ya. The vast majority of my career, I worked in Critical Care. It wasn't until I moved to med surg that I learned "I hate people!!!". We also get drug seekers. Today, the PCA is rolling this guy down the hallway to his room. Before he gets to ...