shiccy

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1. how long until nicotine and byproducts are flushed from your system?

   shiccy replied to ashleyisawesome's topic in General Nursing

   Is your job testing serum or hair? If its the latter, heres some scissors, and don't forget your arm hair!!

2. I refuse to be a punching bag - NO MORE ASSAULT

   shiccy replied to abbaking's topic in Relations

   I'm a person that is very good (most of the time) of telling a patient what we're going to do so that they can prepare themselves accordingly. I have been hit less times than I have fingers on my one hand, never has it been more than a jab, and MOST ...

3. Colace and Senna BAD drugs???

   shiccy replied to looking_2_head_south's topic in General Nursing

   Almost every trauma we get is put on Senna-S when taking PO b/c they are almost always on narcs and/or on bedrest (two hits for the ileus train)... Sometimes we enact a neuro-bowel routine (MOM on day 1, Ducolax day 2, Day 3 is bowel rest, repeat) if...

4. Carry a stethoscope without hanging it on neck

   shiccy replied to jalainec's topic in General Nursing

   I take mine off when it gets heavy and place it where I plop for the night for long term charting purposes... We have computerized charting, but it's a pain to log off and log back in b/c it takes >3 minutes each time (multiplied out it becomes ri...

5. Wrinkled Ear Lobes means....

   shiccy replied to tiroka03's topic in General Nursing

   http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&biw=1333&bih=657&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=ear+wrinkle+cad&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= I had to google what you were talking about. I had never heard about this before! From what they'r...

6. Heparin Flush for CVC

   shiccy replied to astudentnurse10's topic in General Nursing

   It's actually quite rare to find places that use heparin these days. From what I understand case studies have shown that using heparin to hep-lock vs 0.9NS has no advantages and can actually be very bad for a patient if the line is FLUSHED without as...

7. How to handle my father's possible elder abuse

   shiccy replied to juliekerrmark's topic in Geriatric

   First off, as someone else posted, Haldol is *NOT* contraindicated in the elderly, as with *all* antipsychotics/anxiolytics/narcotics/etc it should be used under extreme caution and with strict monitoring. It's better to have a closely monitored pati...

8. How I miss my beloved text-paging

   shiccy replied to evilolive's topic in General Nursing

   We have text paging as well. We don't have computerized ordering yet in our hospital, so when we text page, what *I* would do is put a room number and the reason for the page. The PA's in house would make a decision on whether it was important or not...

9. Why apologize to doctor when calling?

   shiccy replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

   This is kind of random, but this is the reason *I* do it. When I talk on the phone, I talk fast. I don't call to bullsh*t with anybody (unless they're already up). This is for multiple reasons, but one of many is a lot of docs don't WANT to listen to...

10. Do Nurses Still Make *Real* Beds?

    shiccy replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Coming from not only ICU but also vascular unit, it would be simply unrealistic to do this for our patients. We look at feet/use dopplers every 30 minutes and then every two hours until transfer to the floor. It's just not feasible to do hospital cor...

11. What do you do if your friend is "THAT patient?"

    shiccy replied to mskate's topic in General Nursing

    When I was first reading your post I was asking myself, "I wonder if you've made it clear that what she is doing is ridiculous?" I guess the way (if you're interested in furthering the relationship) is to NOT talk online, but on the phone and just gi...

12. (RN) Salaries

    shiccy replied to Daniel Floyd's topic in General Nursing

    There are literally at least 10 different threads on this. Use your google skills to search for your specific area, and/or please please please use the search function on the boards

13. Tums makes GERD worse?

    shiccy replied to Jenni811's topic in General Nursing

    Ca++carbonate is well known to give what called reflexive dyspepsia. That's why on the commercials for things like Zantac they tout how the relief comes quick and stays away rather than other "chewable" alternatives. Personally it gives me extremely ...

14. Favorite "Lay Terms" For Diagnoses

    shiccy replied to OleMissRN's topic in General Nursing

    I hear that all the time, but it's not the families that say it, it's people that I work with INCLUDING RN's that I went to school with! I never understood it. Course I'm also the one that calls a SPO2 waveform by its monitor name, "Pleth" (As in, "H...

15. JCAHO & legible signatures w/ noting orders

    shiccy replied to StayLost's topic in General Nursing

    Couldn't agree with you more. Both my signature AND initials look exactly the same each and every time I write them (sans the VERY infrequent times I screw my signature up). Because of this and the fact that I'm pretty sure they keep *darn* good reco...