debgirl71

debgirl71 has 10 years experience and specializes in adult critical care.

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1. What's with the drug shortages?

   debgirl71 replied to Scooty Puff Jr's topic in Emergency

   We ran out of most anything in an abboject. evidently the abbojects manufacturer was having issues. my boss also blames obama, but cmon. anyone notice how proprofol was suddenly hard to come by after MJ's death?

2. What the.....?

   debgirl71 replied to NurseyK's topic in Emergency

   good reminder that regulations vary from state to state. in Texas, we've had safe harbor for as long as i can remember. oh, jslice, kudos for teaching yourself. sorry you haven't had good preceptorship. kinda sucks that your director would say such ...

3. What the.....?

   debgirl71 replied to NurseyK's topic in Emergency

   I think if i found myself charging and none of my staff were ACLS certified, I would be covering my butt with Safe Harbor.

4. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

   debgirl71 replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

   eyeballs get me. i decided i needed to get over this little foible and assisted with postmortem eye harvesting for the lions eyebank. i hit the ground! fortunately i was able to convince my charge nurse that i was ok, so she didn't send me to the EC....

5. ICU Nurse opinions

   debgirl71 replied to NickiLaughs's topic in MICU

   we have less of an issue with pain control and sedation in the unit where i work because most of our residents order a nurse driven protocol that we use. we have one private physician with frequent, chronic long term patients who admits to our unit a...

6. Auditory Processing vs. ADD ?

   debgirl71 replied to amnesia's topic in Disabilities

   i have 3 kids, one with severe adhd, one with auditory processing disorder, one with autism. my son with the auditory processing disorder has difficulty with strictly listening things, verbal directions, etc.. so i have him write down things like his...

7. How is it possible working AND going to nursing school?

   debgirl71 replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

   it really depends on the school. ours was 3 days a week, all day monday for didactic, all day tuesday and wednesday for clinicals. then i worked night shift as an aide thursday, friday, and saturday. i cooked for the week for my family on thursday, a...

8. Nurses with Eczema...Help!!!

   debgirl71 replied to stellina615's topic in General Nursing

   my son has ecxzema and we avoid any synthetic products in soap or shampoo. see if your boss will let you use your own soap, and get an old fashioned glycerin soap (jason makes a good liquid soap with a pump dispenser). that and lots of heavy duty moi...

9. Eat Before You Get Here!

   debgirl71 replied to NurseJacqui's topic in Emergency

   yeah, food in the hospital is a loaded subject. i remember as a patient, just had my first child, and was i starving!! hello, labor for 14 hours will make you peckish. was not allowed double portions on my tray (i weighed 100 lbs immediate postpartu...

10. Worst doctors orders ever received

    debgirl71 replied to jenfromjersey's topic in Emergency

    dumbest order ever: tylenol 650 mg iv. huh? admittedly, the patient had a catastrophic abdomen and couldn't have anything pr or po, but tylenol iv? when i clarified it with the resident she said "can't you just draw up the elixer in a syringe?" no, ...

11. Unethical Hiring Practices

    debgirl71 replied to sophie12's topic in General Nursing

    i would so pursue this. start with your local labor board.

12. add your funny TRIAGE complaints from pts

    debgirl71 replied to er nursing's topic in Emergency

    just tonite: guy signed in "don't know". no symptoms, labs normal, negative xray. i guess he was bored.

13. Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

    debgirl71 replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    many things over many years... most disgusting: half eaten sandwich in folds on 800+ pound man. "that's where that went!!" the biggest problem was that he had just had a gastric bypass and was supposed to be on clear liquids still. blew his graft, al...

14. Things you'd like the ER to Know

    debgirl71 replied to CraigB-RN's topic in MICU

    if you have a trauma patient the hemodynamics you need to worry about the most is obviously blood loss. acute blood loss is very easy to miss, since the only change you may notice is increased heart rate. but the cure is easy. do a type and cross. ha...