Anoetos BSN, RN

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About Anoetos

Anoetos has 2 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Emergency Nursing.


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    All Men Shift

    I've had a couple of occasions where all the nurses and techs in a given area of the ER were dudes. We had to reach out for a female chaperone if we had a pelvic exam.
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    So how does it feel like to be a male nurse

    It feels like fighting a bear and beating him.
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    Student Nurse with a poop problem

    Let's just say it worked..
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    Male patient refuses Female Nurse

    I'm not offended, but I think there is a place where things like this come up against necessity and when it comes to saving lives, every one needs to put on their adult trousers and get to work, patient included. Adult female of Orthodox Jewish faith...
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    From construction to nursing, has it been done?

    I worked in construction years ago... Then sales... Now I'm an RN... It's worked out well for me.
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    Male patient refuses Female Nurse

    It is reasonable to honor the sensitivities of any patient with regard to gender issues, when they can be accommodated. When they cannot, it should be explained. When they cannot be accommodated, the patient still needs care and will have to deal wi...
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    Student Nurse with a poop problem

    Remind me to tell you about the time I gave a constipated colostomy patient an enema...
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    Student Nurse with a poop problem

    So many things I thought I couldn't handle when I was a student and when I was just starting out as a nurse... I do all of them pretty regularly now. Poop? Vomit? Urine? Blood? Bronchial secretions? Whaddeya got?
  9. If public health nursing involves teaching, I am very excited to be starting it. I have always loved helping people navigate healthcare and understand things. I've been a nurse for two years. I got a strong bedside foundation by working in critical a...
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    PICC line blood draw

    I usually waste more than I flush. Flushing is for line clearing and patency, so I can't really see the point of a policy of flushing with 10 or more, but I am certainly willing to be educated on it. Other than that, after you flush you can move the ...
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    Antibiotic initiation/effectiveness

    There's no way to have known this was coming. Sepsis can "gallop" on an elderly patient, but it doesn't usually. There doesn't seem to have been any indication that she was moribund. She came from the ED with abx started, right? I think that's pretty...
  12. Had a girl come in the other night with a tooth ache. No big deal, I get it...the likelihood of getting an oral surgeon on a Sunday morning is nil, but we can give ABX and pain control. Tooth aches hurt like hell, I get that. So, I start a line, inf...
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    Question about IV therapy

    All giving them a hypertonic solution would do is draw fluid back into the intravascular space, possibly correcting a hypovolemic state, but it would do nothing for their hemoglobin and in fact might reduce it further due to hemodilution. The best an...
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    Medication tidbits an ER nurse should always know

    But I feel like I've derailed the thread with my rant. Sorry about that folks. I yield.
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    Medication tidbits an ER nurse should always know