BRANDY LPN

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About BRANDY LPN

divorced, 3 kids,

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  1. do you know enough about MI symptoms?

    If you had a pt with sudden CP lasting 3 hours(at the time of hospital visit), radiating to left arm, back and neck, and labs and EKG and chest xray were normal. pt rates pain 7/10, b/p 146/94 p 72-128 on monitor, Sp02 95-97 on 02 via NC, and resp, 2...
  2. Foley balloon, test or not to test

    Chiming in to say that once when I tested the balloon it WOULD NOT deflate, can you imagine the pain THAT would have been upon d/c? Anything can be defective, the safegaurds are put there for a reason.
  3. The Today Show

    I am tired and kind of lazy tongiht, so forgive me for not reading the whole thread, and if this has already been mentioned I'm sorry..... How in the world will being able to differentiate between staff decrease med errors????????????????? I don't ca...
  4. Video cameras banned in L&D

    I am in the minority here in that I never minded the family video-taping or taking still shots, and would generally even try to give them an opportunity to get "posed" pics of baby in warmer, if everything was going fine. Other times during the actua...
  5. Need Common Phrases in Spanish

    Thank you, all the ones I only put in ( ) I KNEW I was mis-spelling, was just trying to get as close as possible to pronunciation as I could. I have a question about "Que hacer por ti" a husband of a former pt told me that and even worte it down for...
  6. Need Common Phrases in Spanish

    Que hacer por ti? what can i do for you? via con mio come with me orinar urine aqui (a key) here (con- TAR- say las ropas, pon-TAR-say las bata) take off your clothes, put on this robe el bano the bathroom ayudar help (beber) drink (comer) eat (yay-l...
  7. Most embarrasing moment as a nurse/ma/cna

    At my last nursing job we wore the scrub tops that snap up the front, and while leaving my pts. room i caught my top on the door handle, while simultaneously walking out and opening the door, unsnapped it almost all the way. Pts dh was in the room, ...
  8. Babies cut during c-sections?

    I know how she feels, I won't go into details but one of my laceration scars still twinges a bit now and then.
  9. Multiple shingles sites?

    Is it possible to have shingles in more than one area? For instance can you have the rash around your eye AND on your chest at the same time? I have never seen shingles first hand before and don't remember what they said in nursing school about this....
  10. Babies cut during c-sections?

    OMG Dawngloves, that is horrible, I cannot imagine how bad that must have been for all involved.
  11. Babies cut during c-sections?

    I wasn't even THAT lucky, my epidural had ran out several hours before delivery and they wouldn't give me any more because "you will have to stay in recovery too long" and wouldn't give me lidocaine for the repair because " you aren't feeling pain it...
  12. Babies cut during c-sections?

    My son has a DENT in his head from the forceps, it is still there he is ten. I was 19 when i delivered him and remember pointing it out to the ped who said "oh it will most likely go away, and if it doesnt his hair will cover it" I was much more conc...
  13. Babies cut during c-sections?

    I have seen it happen once and like alot of others it was during a stat section, was also the only time I ever witnessed a prolapsed cord, and from prolapse in LR to delivery in OR it took a whole 7 minutes, and I believe that the rush to make sure t...
  14. boils....septicemia

    Okay who knows how common is it to develop septicemia from recurrent boils? Have any of you seen this? Any good links/with statistics? Thanks Brandy
  15. Caught son eating his stool

    Read this article on pica, and try not to worry too much unless it becomes a persitant problem. I just found out my 4 year old that has been potty trained forever.... just pooped in her brothers candy bucket, when asked why she did it she said "there...