Sirapples

Sirapples has 5 years experience and specializes in Agency, ortho, tele, med surg, icu, er.

Latest Activity

1. Increasing anxiety before work

   Sirapples posted a topic in Emergency

   Hey all, this is a topic that is a little unusual for me. I enjoy the anonymity of the internet for it. Ive been in the healthcare field for over 15 years. A cna for approx. 5 years before I became an rn, at a lock down dementia unit. My career spa...

2. anyone noticing a massive increase in angiedema in patients on lisinopril?

   Sirapples posted a topic in Medications

   Ive been a nurse for about 8 years, work in icu/ed for 3 years before that medsurg. In the past 6 months I have seen maybe 12 cases of patients requiring intubation from lisinopril reaction. all of these cases the patient came in with angioedema an...

3. 1st week on job and absolutely hate it!!

   Sirapples replied to mrw322's topic in New Nurse

   I work 7pm to 7am. I am on the verge of switching my job so I can work days.

4. Failed Pre-Employment Drug Screen

   Sirapples replied to canursestudent's topic in General Nursing

   2 months? its fat soluble I know that. How much were you smoking?

5. Failed Pre-Employment Drug Screen

   Sirapples replied to canursestudent's topic in General Nursing

   I dont know why you would smoke prior to taking this drug screen. marijuana stays in your urine about a month fyi. I dont think this would be kept as info by the state. Try again. Whats the worse that could happen? Just this time, avoid smoking a...

6. How to grow backbone in ICU?

   Sirapples replied to AllAngelsRN's topic in MICU

   charting does not save a patients life. appropriate actions to critical situations does. I am also a new icu nurse, Ive been here for a little over a year and a half.. some very tough nurses here as well. Especially I think because I am a male n...

7. You are doing gods work... semi rant, wondering what its like for the rest of you

   Sirapples replied to Sirapples's topic in MICU

   Im glad Im not the only one that feels this way. I tell you what... when I get in my 60-70 Im putting in my will that the first person that forces the dr to remove a dnr and signs that paper that removes dnr status shall at that point forfit anything...

8. You are doing gods work... semi rant, wondering what its like for the rest of you

   Sirapples posted a topic in MICU

   So I was out the other night with my girlfreind who is charge nurse at boston medical center on a surgical floor. I work in an icu, I have been here for almost 2 years. Discussion comes up about work and someone listens in on us and says to me.. you ...

9. What's the issue with med surg?

   Sirapples replied to BABYJADE06's topic in General Nursing

   I work icu now and I loved med/surg. I still float sometimes to med/surg because I enjoy it. Now with my icu background I have a bit more knowledge and can help out more when a med/surg patient goes bad. I do not miss the powerstrugles with cnas. ...

10. Ive just about had it. Rant, and I never rant.

    Sirapples replied to Sirapples's topic in General Nursing

    I think down the road Ill look into teaching. I know I will be doing tons of papers, but I think Ill actually enjoy that. I dont really look foward to seeing what nursing will be in 5 more years. Computers were susposed to make our life easier in m...

11. Ive just about had it. Rant, and I never rant.

    Sirapples posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ive been a nurse for 7 years, almost 8.. Before that I was a CNA for 3 years. IVe worked med/surg, tele, been a float nurse, done agency, and now I work in an icu. Ive worked at a multitude of facilites and dealt with all kinds of charting. Before...

12. A-fib + metropolol + diltiazem gtt + soft bp

    Sirapples replied to buddiage's topic in CCU

    ah sorry just read that wrong that you werent scared. my bad:)

13. A-fib + metropolol + diltiazem gtt + soft bp

    Sirapples replied to buddiage's topic in CCU

    Ill be honest, I dont work in CCU, but I do have some tele experience. One thing that is an issue is fear of doctors at night. Its our patients lives that are in our hands and if you have a clinical question like... do I hold this medication without ...

14. What the word N.U.R.S.E. stands for

    Sirapples replied to Hawaiian's topic in General Nursing

    nice!

15. Incident Reports- VS six times, asking the same q's repeatedly

    Sirapples replied to Plagueis's topic in Geriatric

    Whoever thought of this ingenius idea was not a nurse. I am a very honest and forthright nurse and I would be tempted not to report if this was the drama I had to go threw. You guys have like 40 patients on a nightshift. I can only imagine what it ...