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  1. Funny doctor orders

    Just last night I saw a doc write an actual order for "warm blankets prn" I was like, nooooo..we'll just let the poor lady freeze when she's cold in bed! haha..
  2. Moving to Northwest Oregon

    ---------------- Good for you for having such a positive attitude but I respectfully disagree with you. I have lived and worked in OR for the past 5+yrs at a hospital in the Prov System and do not make 100k a year. Not even close! We used to have a n...
  3. Hospitalists?

    I am hearing rumors about our facility starting a hospitalist program and I'm not sure what to think.. This is a small hospital where currently we have internists or family practice docs that take turns with call. Anyone have opinions, either positiv...
  4. Is this too much or am I crazy...what are your units like?

    Wow, it was def not you.. That sounds like a nightmare!! So glad you got out of there. I have been thinking of relocating but all the horror stories I read here about staffing ratios around the country make me very leary of leaving my "cushy" med su...
  5. Dead end job

    To the OP- It's not just you. I know exactly what you mean. It's disheartening. Especially when people are constantly saying thinks like, "Oh, you're lucky, you can go where ever you want, they always need nurses" grrrrrr... many major hospitals rema...
  6. Getting paid for classes?

    Just wondering what others are experiencing.. when you take classes that your managers want you to take ie. ACLS, NRP, etc. does you facility pay you for the hours you attend the class in addition absorbing the cost of the class itself, or do they on...
  7. Your Pet Peeves in Nursing..

    I don't mind the "honey" thing. Depending on who it comes from, of course, it can be sweet and doesn't bother me a bit. And I admit to using the "sweetie" thing with the occasional little old lady I come across (who isn't my pt and I don't know her n...
  8. IV piggyback

    SASH? why would you need heparin? It's a saline lock nowadays, no heparin required at all.
  9. Pelvic Fracture and skin care concerns

    nopainnurse- I hear what your saying about making sure she gets what she she takes at home plus.. always drives me nuts when docs don't understand that for chronic pain pts when they coming in for an unrelated surgery! BUT, she is also a very serious...
  10. Pelvic Fracture and skin care concerns

    Apparently it's non surgical.
  11. Had a pt with an unstable pelvic fracture in this pelvic brace thing that looked like a girdle. I had never seen or dealt with a brace like this before, they had it on when I took her over. She was in ALOT of pain despite generous amts of IV dilaudid...
  12. Death of the Physical Assessment

    I had a surgeon practically laugh at me recently when I was updating him over the phone on his post-op bowel resection pt and included the fact that he had +bowel sounds... he said, "well that doesn't mean anything, I don't even listen for bowel ton...
  13. Am I crazy because I love med surg???

    gcupid- you pretty much just summed up an average shift on Med/surg perfectly!!! it's all soooo true!!!
  14. ugh.. I can emapathize with you! We have someone who gives reports like that too.. following people like this makes for an incredibly rough shift. It's like you just have to figure everything out yourself. The report serves no purpose becuase it's BS...
  15. *Weird* Patient Allergies

    Lasix- "it makes me pee"