Alana211

Alana211 has 6 years experience and specializes in Cath Lab, Endovascular, ICU, PP, MS.

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1. Tips for (nervous) OR nurse going into the cath lab please!

   Alana211 replied to BennyBear's topic in Cardiac

   I work in the cardiac cath lab and think some of your experience will be helpful. Many of the cath labs are very different in the way they staff from what I have seen. None of the nurses in the cath lab where I work scrub. We have a team of CIS/RCIS ...

2. Full Moon kinda weekend!

   Alana211 replied to Alana211's topic in General Nursing

   Guess I should've expected somethingspecial to happen:) I did hear someone talking about the super moon last Friday...

3. Full Moon kinda weekend!

   Alana211 replied to Alana211's topic in General Nursing

   I still cantbelieve the timing....I definitely had to share that one...I love hearing all those weird nursing stories...all I can do when I think about the situation is laugh now but it was soooooo not funny at the time....I never was a believer of t...

4. Full Moon kinda weekend!

   Alana211 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I worked 12 hour day shifts all weekend....holy craziness! We are a rural hospital and I worked ICU and med-surg Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The craziness started friday when I flew my patient out with an uncontolled heart rate on a cardizem gtt, dv...

5. What a day!

   Alana211 replied to Alana211's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the kind words...I definitely applaud the nurses that recieve these kind of patients all the time!

6. What a day!

   Alana211 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Today was one of those days... I work at a small rural hospital...we're 28 beds including ob, med surg and ICU. Today I had a patient with a GI bleed. I had admitted this patient on saturday evening and was surprised to find her still at the hospital...

7. Out of the mouths of babes

   Alana211 replied to madwife2002's topic in International

   My 4 yo son was quite inquisitive as to how i got his baby sister out of my tummy. His dad told him that I pooped her out. He looked at me and asked "is that how you got the crack in your butt?" I just about died laughing!:lol2:

8. iv therapy

   Alana211 replied to Alana211's topic in Safety

   sonja- I did not say that the problem was lpns doing the infusions. I did ask whether or not they were supposed to do them or if it depended upon the facility's protocol. In nursing school i was told that LPN's dont do infusions that is why i was won...

9. iv therapy

   Alana211 posted a topic in Safety

   At the facility I work at LPN's are aloud to do IV administration on peripherals and central lines. I have come on the shift more than a few times with the leur lock hub off the end of the piccs and central lines. I have taken these nurses aside and ...

10. From the mouths of non-nurses

    Alana211 replied to mattcastens's topic in Humor

    Yesterday I had to schedule my patient for a colonoscopy. I went in and told her the dr. ordered a colonoscopy for screening purposes. I was trying to explain the procedure to her and she said "He** no, I cant even stand the thought of that. I'm sorr...

11. Vulnerable adult

    Alana211 replied to Alana211's topic in General Nursing

    It was a long term care resident. I work over in the subacute part of the building and occasionally get called over to LTC for things like this. The resident is doing ok. Thanks for the replies:) I'm not sure how things go about in LTC.

12. Vulnerable adult

    Alana211 posted a topic in General Nursing

    At work a couple days ago an aide had put a warm pack on the abdomen of a patient. An hour later the Lpn noticed the patient was grimacing and looked to be in severe pain. It turned out the warm pack was too hot and the patient received 2nd degree bu...

13. heparin flush and giving morphine pulse o2 86%

    Alana211 replied to puddingpie's topic in New Nurse

    I work in a subacute rehab unit. We sometimes have patients that have orders to keep a peripheral in X 7 days if patent. If we have that order, we have standing orders protocol to flush the peripheral with heparin. The MD does have to sign the standi...

14. Minnesota Roll Call

    Alana211 replied to tiroka03's topic in Minnesota

    I recently graduated from MSCTC and passed my boards in August. I got a job working in a transitional care unit in Alexandria as a charge nurse. I have been working for 3 weeks now and I love it! I love working in MN because the people are so nice (E...