PCloudy

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1. Family visitation in ICU

   PCloudy replied to bfjworr's topic in General Nursing

   Hello to everyone. Just 2 weeks ago, our "in touch" administration mandated open visiting hours. We have tried to be positive but our experience so far has been unbelievably negative. Families are largely inconsiderate and we find ourselves trying...

2. Family visitation in ICU

   PCloudy replied to bfjworr's topic in MICU

   Hello to everyone. Just 2 weeks ago, our "in touch" administration mandated open visiting hours. We have tried to be positive but our experience so far has been unbelievably negative. Families are largely inconsiderate and we find ourselves trying...

3. jobs in killeen

   PCloudy replied to MZ D's topic in Texas

   Hello again! I have to take this opportunity to make an addendum to my previous post. I have been re-researching the job prospects in the Killeen area and am pleased to say that there is not quite as grim of a pay scale as there notoriously has bee...

4. Lowest H/H I ever saw...

   PCloudy replied to my2sons's topic in CCU

   2/12. Amazingly enough, I was working ER and noticed that the 8 month old brother of the ER patient looked way more ill (white as paper) than the sister that didn't even belong in the ER. Convinced the parents to check in the baby and found him to ...

5. Ever had a family overdramatic with dying patient?

   PCloudy replied to rn-jane's topic in General Nursing

   tencat - Thanks. It was well worth the uphill battle I had with administration to make it happen. I hope someone does the same for me someday (not anytime soon though!). I actually had a number of fellow nurses (and people from other depts) come u...

6. Ever had a family overdramatic with dying patient?

   PCloudy replied to rn-jane's topic in General Nursing

   Perhaps "pro-death" is a bit strong. I think you got the idea though. Maybe "pro-last wish" or something of that nature is more suitable. I was just reading all the arguments and so forth thinking that I might could add a slightly different twist...

7. Ever had a family overdramatic with dying patient?

   PCloudy replied to rn-jane's topic in General Nursing

   I almost think this hostile thread needs to be deleted. It seems most are trying to out do the others. I am very pro-death and try very hard in my job to allow family members and the patients the decency of having death as conducive to their wishe...

8. About to give up on being a nurse

   PCloudy replied to Lorel's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, there are lots of means of tuition assistance out there (you just have to look for it). I went to a two year college for my nursing degree. I was denied entry at first based on a speech impediment. It was bad at that time but the Texas Rehabi...

9. Ever had a family overdramatic with dying patient?

   PCloudy replied to rn-jane's topic in General Nursing

   :melody: that's one of the best terms i have heard lately. definitely could be used in numerous situations.

10. Ever had a family overdramatic with dying patient?

    PCloudy replied to rn-jane's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes guilt accentuates grief. Various cultures display grief in various ways. We just had an experience last week where we had to pick family members up off the floor and call for help with managing the crowds.

11. About to give up on being a nurse

    PCloudy replied to Lorel's topic in General Nursing

    That is so true. You can't make excuses - you just have to want to survive the bootcamp called nursing school. I started with 56 in my class and we graduated 12. If I had it to do all over again, I'm not sure that I would. That's difficult to say...

12. Floating Issues

    PCloudy replied to PCloudy's topic in MICU

    That is so true. We have to walk through a hard hat construction zone to get to and from our cars. I wonder what OSHA would think about that? Anyway, we have only the one ICU but we're going to move into the next tower when it's finished - supposed...

13. scrubs vs dress casual

    PCloudy replied to kevagonia's topic in MICU

    This guy must have another income as well...most trench nurses I know are not weathy by any means.

14. Tympanic temps in ICU?

    PCloudy replied to erinnRN's topic in MICU

    We used to have typanic thermometers in our ICU but it was noted that there was a huge amount of user variance. If the thermometer is not positioned just right, the reading was off. I notice that many people are not that concerned about temp. They...

15. Ok, so there's this obese patient...

    PCloudy replied to gwlillith's topic in MICU

    Hi - thanks for the reply. I will start over as I accidentally lost the last explanation before it was "posted." In this country - I am guessing that close to half the population would be deemed as overweight. It's my understanding that the percent...