ooper3076

ooper3076

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About ooper3076

ooper3076 specializes in i pull sheaths :).


I laugh all the time when I am nervous but I am a go-getter and a team player. I love my job (for now :))

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  1. I get really excited over urine, like yellow straw-colored urine. I work on a post-heart cath floor and we do see a lot of acute renal failure due to IV contrast dye. And its too funny when my hubby sometimes forgets to flush the toilet and I can tel...
  2. Working opposite shifts from spouse...

    My husband works in a factory where he works a block schedule, meaning every 3 months he rotates 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shifts. He worked it out with his bosses so he can stay on nights for 6 mths at a time since I work night shift too. So it works out fo...
  3. I love management!!.....not

    thanks guys for all the happy thoughts. finally convinced dad to at least have the surgery so he will have that in a couple a weeks but still no radiation or chemo. and it has spread so now he technically has stage 4 oral cancer. management has not r...
  4. I love management!!.....not

    Found out yesterday that my dad has stage 3 oral cancer. Will have to have surgery in the next 2 weeks with chemo and radiation for 3 months. Will have to have a feeding tube for supplemental nutrition with any treatment and is refusing the tube comp...
  5. Had my first code today....

    It is SO different when you are a tech and being involved in the code versus being the RN and its your patient coding. Its a different feeling. You reacted fast as the nurse then you cared for the family as a human. You did great....big hug to you. I...
  6. Nurses can cry too

    Like I said he was a COMPLETE DNR. The patient was alert and oriented x4 and he completely understood what was going on. He didn't ask for help, his family did. When he told me 'Ally, I am okay", he knew and I knew what was happening. The patient eve...
  7. Nurses can cry too

    I have found that if you do not feel ANYTHING when someone passes, you may want to find another career. I am not saying to blubber or anything. You have to have some sympathy/empathy for the family because they are hurting. Plus the family always rem...
  8. Nurses can cry too

    I came on at 7p on Sunday night, first night of 3 in a row. Received report on a 79 yo male patient that had multiple issues: Heart cath found 5 vessel collapse except the LAD, possibly go for CABG. Dayshift battled hypotension with SBP in 70's. ...
  9. Oh and BTW he had the same problem all last week where his job was tremendously stressful and he needed to wind down after work and I let him. He finally understood what I meant by the 'winding down' part in the mornings. lol
  10. I know its a little late but all the replies on here have been wonderful and very helpful. I do a lot of other stuff outside my job because it is just a job. My relationships with him and my family are one of my top priorities. I scrapbook, pitch on ...
  11. Now that schedule was the last 3 weeks and overtime is mandatory and that will end in 2 weeks. I usually have weekends off and my schedule really hasn't been bad, usually work 2 days at a time then a couple days off. I was just complaining about the ...
  12. ]I work night shift on a very busy Interventional Cardiology floor. I have been a nurse for a little over a year and I am proud to say I am a darn good nurse and proud of it :) My schedule is crazy, been in overtime since october. In the last 3 weeks...
  13. When did you decide nursing was for you?

    3 events in my life that kinda turned me to it: 1. My grandma was in a MVA and was still clutching the steering wheel and the air bags went off and snapped both thumbs, completely backwards (ew!). Both arms in large casts, not able to move her thumbs...
  14. Physical Abuse against Staff

    I was pinched and 'strangled' by a patient suffering from dementia. He didn't squeeze my throat hard, just 'holding' my throat while he sang church songs at 3 am. I got him to stop pinching me but waited for security to come up for the whole throat g...
  15. Early burn out

    I have been a new nurse for less than a year and was a tech in CTVU for 4 yrs. I got burned out in my last semester in nursing school. All I did was breathe nursing! I was so tired of it! So tired of it that 4 wks into the 4th semester, I was ready t...