danggirl

danggirl

ER, M/S, transplant, tele

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About danggirl

danggirl has 19 years experience and specializes in ER, M/S, transplant, tele.


I just returned to IL after 17+ years in TX. I'm currently on an extended medical leave which has led me to pursue other non-nursing interests. I've opened my own small website displaying chainmaille jewelry that I make and I'm working on writing two books.

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  1. transitioning from floor nurse to ER

    Is this a newer question? Sorry, I haven't been on here in quite a while and was just wondering if that is November of 2015! The great thing about nursing is that you CAN go from specialty to specialty with some training and orientation. For the ER p...
  2. Cystic Duct Stenting

    I made the original post back in October. I didn't get any replies but perhaps I can turn it into a teaching opportunity since I've learned a few things since then. So the cystic duct is the one that the gallbladder is attached to and, due to some fa...
  3. Truth about methodist college of nursing peoria il

    Wow. I just sort of stumble across this posting. I know it is a bit older but I'm going to comment anyway. I graduated with my Diploma (no they really do exist...they aren't a mythical creature!) in 1995 and I have to say, at least for that, I got a...
  4. Drink or Shake during work

    Since I've had never ending GI issues I have discovered some great liquid solutions. Even when I felt well, I'd always have one on hand at work in the ER for those days when you might get 15 minutes out of 12 hours for yourself! There are three that...
  5. should I put it on my resume?

    I can't think of any reason for you to NOT put it on your resume. I can understand how you might think it would look bad to have a job for such a short duration, but unless your resume is riddled with them or you were actually terminated from it, a p...
  6. Pyxis report question...being falsely accused!

    When I was a new nurse, we signed every narcotic out on a paper log and we could use a vial more than once. I found out the hard way that the laws had changed (as well as that Pyxis machines existed!) when I had a patient who required a dose of pain...
  7. Organ Transplant / Med-Surg unit

    Congratulations on your new position! It sounds like a double challenge transitioning to a med/surg floor nursing role AND learning about transplant patients. I worked on a transplant unit for two years but came there initially as a travel nurse with...
  8. Cystic Duct Stenting

    Hi. I'm hoping that all you GI nurse experts can help me out with this. I've never run across it in my career and I can't find hardly any information on it at all. A few weeks ago I had a stent put in my cystic duct (gallbladder removed many years ag...
  9. A Cautionary Tale

    **Warning: parts of this may sound like the ravings of a paranoid conspiracy theorist but I guarantee you every bit of it is true and verifiable. I had worked in a particular ER several years ago for about a year and then worked there again this pas...
  10. The most amazing (and humbling) act of gratitude from a patient and her family occurred about 8 years ago and it still brings tears to my eyes. I worked charge on a med/renal/endocrine floor and so we had a lot of repeat customers. A young, married...
  11. 2 years experience wanting to venture to ER

    Yay for you! I love, love, love the ED. So I can't think of any books off the top of my head but I know of one way you can get into the ED and see if it is what you really want and/or if you feel you are capable (I'm sure you are)...there are many fa...
  12. AMA Discharges

    Interesting information here. I never knew that when a patient left AMA that discharge instructions etc were required. I've never, ever seen that happen! In fact, one time I left a hospital AMA...the residents wouldn't discuss treatment plans only TE...
  13. Shy introverts can be great at nursing!

    Was so happy to see this thread! My entire life I have been extremely shy and what I call a "social moron". In school I think I was so exhausted from working full time that I didn't have the time or energy to even think about being anxious but once I...
  14. Being an ER patient makes you a better ER nurse

    I hear what you are saying that being on the other side of the table makes one examine their own practice more closely. Since last January I have been in the ER more times than I can count, had 3 surgeries, a few procedures and several hospitalizat...
  15. Rectal use of opiates???!!!

    I've heard about this from some of my ED patients. For the drugs that have a lower oral bio-availability and/or for enhanced effect people will take the drugs rectally. On the street they call this "plugging". For example, apparently hydromorphone (D...