Kiwidanni

Kiwidanni has 6 years experience and specializes in NICU, Peds.

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1. Comfort care

   Kiwidanni replied to meghanls's topic in General Nursing

   How about "I am your Dad's nurse, and his wishes were bla bla bla, which I am legally and morally bound to abide by. I'm sorry that you are in this situation and understand you are grieving but I must do what your dad wanted".

2. Help! Cute Visitation Sayings in LTC facility....

   Kiwidanni replied to shell1977's topic in Geriatric

   How about simple and to the point for those who don't get subtle niceties. I find "please stay home if you are sick" works quite well.

3. Dx: Paralysis secondary to hospital admission

   Kiwidanni replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

   I hope that for those whom hospital induced paralysis is an issue use some assertiveness in dealing with such patients. I'm sure the ones that complain, because you say to them "You are capable of wiping your own bottom, now I have to go and do XXXX....

4. First ER death

   Kiwidanni replied to Crux1024's topic in Emergency

   Do your ER's not have private rooms? Or proper beds? Cos ours sure do. There are stretchers for resus and quick visits, and proper rooms with proper beds if they are needed. Why send a patient to an already crowded floor if the ER can handle it?

5. Casuals: Experiences and # of hours you work

   Kiwidanni replied to Dove87's topic in General Nursing

   Don't know about the first poster, but I cover sick calls, or shifts where the unit is over loaded and they need more staff.

6. Casuals: Experiences and # of hours you work

   Kiwidanni replied to Dove87's topic in General Nursing

   I do casual and could certainly turn it into a full time job if I wanted to, I'm offered that many shifts. And that's just in one small unit. I've just been taking weekened shifts at the moment though. WIll take more next year I guess.

7. All nurses do is wipe butts

   Kiwidanni replied to MyUserName,RN's topic in General Nursing

   All firefighters do is rescue cats from trees.

8. Not a waitress or barista

   Kiwidanni replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

   "I'm sorry, I'm busy right now, though I can show your wife where the kitchen is and she can make the tea for you, and for herself while she's at it".

9. Urgent: need help with important project.

   Kiwidanni replied to tiaranny's topic in Student Assist

   If this project was so important, then you should have done it earlier. Thus, my response is: do your work the way you are supposed to in a timely fashion. Nurses need to learn good time management or they (and their patients) suffer the consequences...

10. insignificant complaint...lol

    Kiwidanni replied to EDnursetobe's topic in General Nursing

    Hmm most of the doctors where I work introduce themselves: "I'm Sam, one of the doctors with the renal service" (for example). Same in other hospitals in my city.

11. help, new grad with first NARCOTIC med error :(

    Kiwidanni replied to cherielpn23's topic in New Nurse

    Even those who have practised for a long time know that this advice is rubbish. Check your drugs before you give them ... that's advice worth following. Not "meh, don't worry if you make a mistake, cos the dr will cover your butt".

12. 24/7 Video Cameras in ICU rooms

    Kiwidanni replied to umcRN's topic in Critical

    Just because I do all the "right things" at the "right times" doesn't mean I want a camera on me while I'm doing it. How can you properly establish a rapport with a patient and their family if you are being filmed doing it? Additionally, what about a...

13. mandatory reporting

    Kiwidanni replied to farmgirlie9's topic in General Nursing

    Surely you are morally obliged to report abuse regarless of what the law says?

14. Mass patient Incidence

    Kiwidanni replied to Reydel's topic in General Nursing

    Any incidence which leads to a mass of patients.

15. Things you "should" be taught in nursing school

    Kiwidanni replied to KimberlyRN89's topic in New Nurse

    So I always wondered with the "K" stood for in EKG - considering it's an electroCardiogram (we call it - more accurately - an ECG here in NZ). Today I wiki'd it and discovered that the K is for the german version ... electroKardiogram. So congratulat...