klcrn1987

klcrn1987 has 30 years experience and specializes in med/surg---long term---pvt duty.

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1. Do/did your children suffer.....

   klcrn1987 posted a topic in Humor

   Do/did your children "suffer" from you being in the medical profession??? I met Hubby in Paramedic school and I then went to nursing school... so we both have solid backgrounds in medicine. Our 3 sons could get away with nothing!! Our mantra was......

2. Doctors Say the Darnedest Things - WIN $250! Nurses Week Contest 2018

   klcrn1987 replied to Brian S.'s topic in General Nursing

   Out of the mouths of "babes" ... I was working night turn as the Supervisor in a nursing home and we had a resident that had passed. I called the local hospital to get the order to release the body to the funeral home and I got the brand new residen...

3. NTI: What's a Scromper, Nurse Blake?

   klcrn1987 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

   Alrighty then........

4. What is the grossest thing that's happened to you???

   klcrn1987 replied to PrincessAlexis's topic in General Nursing

   My 1st clinical day we had a girl that put a woman on the bedpan and when the woman finished and she when to take her off, the smell of BM hit her. She let the woman go, said, and I quote, "This **** ain't for me!!!" and turned on her heels and walk...

5. What is the grossest thing that's happened to you???

   klcrn1987 replied to PrincessAlexis's topic in General Nursing

   Just an FYI... (not saying you did but) if you push Morphine too fast it will react with the nausea receptors in the brain and cause almost instantaneous emesis. A doctor told me this and I found out first hand when I received Morphine during a gall...

6. What is the grossest thing that's happened to you???

   klcrn1987 replied to PrincessAlexis's topic in General Nursing

   One of my grossest moments happened 38 years ago when I was a very naive, very new 19 yr old EMT student doing a clinical rotation in the ER... had a gentleman come in with an evolving MI and he vomited lima beans and beer!!! I HATE the smell of bee...

7. Questioning a doctors order

   klcrn1987 replied to MrsJt's topic in Relations

   After 30 years of nursing I have earned one thing for sure....FOLLOW YOUR GUT!!! No matter what...if your "gut" is saying question it....then question it!!!! It is your subconscious telling you that somehow you know this isn't right. I have quest...

8. The Nurse at the Bedside

   klcrn1987 replied to RobbiRN's topic in General Nursing

   I can relate... one of my Hubby's aunts was a RN that became the manager of an ICU unit.... she would always say to me...."You're only a floor nurse??? You could be so much better than that". Well, I happen to like floor nursing, I don't want the h...

9. I Gotta See If He Is Dead!

   klcrn1987 replied to spotangel's topic in General Nursing

   I'm not sure in this case but you also have to think of the condition of the body... sometimes it's not "wise" to have family members see the body in the morgue before they can be prepared by a funeral director..

10. Suspended for a Medication Error

    klcrn1987 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I am not saying that it is acceptable but let's be honest.... EVERY nurse has made some kind of a med error even if it was a tiny one... we are busy, we are frazzled, we can be distracted, we misunderstand, we are human. Thankfully, 1 wrong dose r...

11. To Tell or Not To Tell

    klcrn1987 replied to MiAmorPickles's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not worried about the nurses as much as the family!!! They are being used and taken advantage of. Not only professionally but morally wrong...

12. Nurses pulling rank on assignments

    klcrn1987 replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

    One thing I don't see mentioned is when a nurse "pulls rank" to get an easier assignment. I worked 2 12 hr night shifts with one charge nurse and my 3rd with a different charge nurse. The 1st 2 shifts, the CN tried to make the assignments "even" wi...

13. I GOTTA KNOW!!!!!

    klcrn1987 replied to qaqueen's topic in General Nursing

    OMGosh!!! Cardboard urinals!!! I'd give them a jar or something first.... How GROSS!!!

14. Gun Owning Nurses

    klcrn1987 replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    I am an RN...and a gun owner and have a concealed carry permit. In fact my Hubby, son and I are working in getting our NRA basic pistol instructorship. I belong to a couple of women's shooting groups and love it. I will defend me and mine (and you ...

15. Looking for Oil Rig Companies that Hire Nurses

    klcrn1987 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

    Many oil rigs use Paramedics as their medical folks.... Paramedics can work on protocols using a land based MD as "command".... they also work "cheaper"....