careerchoices

careerchoices specializes in Surgical tech in nurseless angio suite..

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1. recent colonoscopy experience

   careerchoices replied to mat/childnurse's topic in Gastroenterology

   I did not get my bad reactions to Versed right away, it was after years of procedures under sedation that I developed my reaction; not during the procedure, but deep depression for the rest of the day after the procedure. Now that I know what it is,...

2. Scared Of Poop!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

   careerchoices replied to nursingstudent424's topic in New Nurse

   Well, I would argue with that. What you are smelling are the various amine compounds and various other organic chemicals like skatol.

3. I have patient gown dyslexia

   careerchoices replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

   I can handle the gowns pretty well, but the tray tables...they make these new ambulatory/OR "big wheel" gurneys with the one giant roller in the middle. That's great, until you have a patient who wants to eat and you can't get the tray table under t...

4. The Blue Gown Syndrome

   careerchoices replied to vadushkas_nurse's topic in General Nursing

   I was helping a friend in her yard a couple years ago and fell, impaling myself on a pair of old rusty hedge clippers right into my rear. I was not in terrible shape, not too much bleeding or anything, but the wound was a bit over 2" deep right throu...

5. recent colonoscopy experience

   careerchoices replied to mat/childnurse's topic in Gastroenterology

   My other issue--silly as it is--is that if I am awake during a colonoscopy, I can control myself and keep from moaning or complaining. Too many times I have come out of the sedation to find myself moaning as they round the turn at the splenic flexur...

6. Scared Of Poop!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

   careerchoices replied to nursingstudent424's topic in New Nurse

   I'll tell you from personal experience, it is very degrading to have someone else clean you up after an accident. I had been the care-provider first. I earned an instant good-guy rating with the CCRN's at our hospital because I was willing to jump...

7. You Know You're a Nurse When...

   careerchoices replied to Brownms46's topic in Humor

   How about using those decent-but-disposable hemostats as bag clips for chips and similar containers?

8. recent colonoscopy experience

   careerchoices replied to mat/childnurse's topic in Gastroenterology

   Point taken...sorry if I was unclear. I can tolerate a colonoscopy awake (had a couple very-undermedicated ones where I just kept my mouth shut) and I would rather remember. A friend pointed out that she suspects this doctor is more worried about pa...

9. recent colonoscopy experience

   careerchoices replied to mat/childnurse's topic in Gastroenterology

   Thanks for the suggestion; I don't really want the Propofol as I really don't care for the amnesic properties of those drugs. I'm just paranoid enough to want to remember that I acted appropriately...this is a hangup of mine after one bad experience...

10. any nurses with crohn's/IBD?

    careerchoices replied to agent's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, and for the record I had Crohn's sx as a child (failed to thrive, etc) and was diagnosed in my 20s after several years of ignoring it. I've worked my way down the list of medications and I am now on high-dose Remicade just to keep me treading wat...

11. any nurses with crohn's/IBD?

    careerchoices replied to agent's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the replies, everyone. I don't know what I want to do...it's been a while since I stopped working in medicine, and the end of my medical career was about the same time I ended up being a patient A Whole Lot. Looking back now, reading p...

12. You Know You're a Nurse When...

    careerchoices replied to Brownms46's topic in Humor

    Ways to Tell if someone is a Nurse: When they use Chux around the house when working on projects, painting a birdhouse, changing their oil...

13. Excuses for Missing Work

    careerchoices replied to kmchugh's topic in Humor

    I think the reason I was able to pretend my first few Crohn's flares were nothing is because I worked in a hospital. I could just go change my scrubs, take a shower in the OR changing room, (we had just remodeled with private showering areas)...we h...

14. recent colonoscopy experience

    careerchoices replied to mat/childnurse's topic in Gastroenterology

    I would rather NOT be sedated; I am allergic to Fentanyl (not a full anaphylactic rxn yet, but I've done vomiting, been told that I am allergic by an anesthesiologist and ended up in the ER twice after procedures on a nebulizer) and I get bad post-pr...

15. what else do you do? LOOOONG!! sorry

    careerchoices replied to sChOOLRN48's topic in School

    Ugh. Sorry. I am not working in medicine right now; I was pre-med and as part of that, I worked as an OR tech for seven years. After I came down with again with what turned out to be Crohn's dz and finally had to give up on my MD, I left and got my...