Johnston

Johnston has 7 years experience and specializes in med surg.

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1. Ruby's Marbles

   Johnston replied to Linda McCool's topic in General Nursing

   That is a wonderful story and reminds me why I am a nurse. Hope this story makes you feel good. We have an inpatient dialysis room on the unit I work on. We had a freq flyer *Steve* When Steve first started coming he had two legs, one eye, and was...

2. Nurses Say the Darnedest Things!

   Johnston replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

   I am a nurse and don't know the abbrev. PIG can you enlighten me?

3. Crazy/weird/funny things you have caught your pts doing

   Johnston replied to bklynbaby's topic in Humor

   One day one of our staff members vomited into the sick after walking into a confused mans room. The man was chewing on something and looked at the nurse and said "oh this is great, I haven't chewed gum in years." The nurse asked the pt to open his ...

4. Primary Nursing Care

   Johnston replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   I am a charge nurse in a hospital that uses "primary nursing" meaning an RN takes 3-4 pts without a tech or LPN and they also use "team nursing" where an RN is paired with an LPN or tech and has 6 pts. Depending on how many pts we have and what the m...

5. Forced to Quit My Job To Follow My Dreams

   Johnston replied to Queenqmw's topic in General Nursing

   It will be hard but there are lights at the end of your tunnel. I say GO for it! You can start by living off the extra student loans you should be able to get in addition to the grants that are hopefully paying for your schooling. In the mean time ...

6. Is nursing ruining your love life?

   Johnston replied to LeLeeFNP's topic in General Nursing

   I know exactly how you feel and that is why I went to day shift. I lived in my PJ's, was grouchy, and a hermit when I worked nights. I work 12 hours days now but I did do a stint where I worked 8 hours shifts. I hated the 8's worse then the 12's b...

7. Diluting IV narcotics = narcotics tampering?

   Johnston replied to mcknis's topic in Medications

   Agghh We were talking on the unit today about this topic and can't understand why this would be the case. Our staff developer told us that is was "illegal" to dilute the narcotics. We are baffiled by this. Many are irritating and although we are s...