RetRN77

RetRN77

Labor/Delivery, Pediatrics, Peds ER

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RetRN77 has 20 years experience and specializes in Labor/Delivery, Pediatrics, Peds ER.


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  1. Advice please: Withdrawal of feeding tube

    Amen to that! I have heard many times in various places about decisions not to treat UTI's in patients deemed terminal, and I have always been aghast. As you said, they are incredibly painful, and not just necessarily when one tries to urinate. I do...
  2. Advice please: Withdrawal of feeding tube

    Wow. Incredible. Kudos to you for what you are planning and for your concern. To me, it's unconscionable to let people suffer with UTI's and to not feed them. Most especially since it's obvious this poor lady is not even in any sort of coma. (In whic...
  3. Would you be insulted by this?

    That's pretty funny! Although I am surprised it didn't occur to anyone to stick some old fashioned heavy duty cloth bandage tape on the box and write the name on the tape. We used to label all sorts of things that way.
  4. Would you be insulted by this?

    I don't think I'd feel insulted, but it wouldn't make me feel appreciated, either. I like the sweatpant with logo actual gift idea. I would have appreciated that. Nurses week never happened until after I was no longer working at a hospital. In fact, ...
  5. I did, although at the time, I was a student, and had already done my L&D/PP rotation. I didn't know any of the nurses in the L&D unit, because I went to the hospital and delivered during the night shift, so I didn't know any of them. I was o...
  6. This happened in my family as well. My mom and her siblings shared the care of her mother late in life. At that point, she told me she never wanted to "force" this on us and she wanted to go to a nursing home when the time came. Many times, especiall...
  7. Oops - thought I quoted the person who posted the original. This was meant for the nurse who drained her hematoma and needed months of wound care afterward.
  8. Forgive me if I've posted this before. Our very first day of clinicals, another student came to me in distress, telling me she couldn't get the rectal thermometer to stay in place. "It keeps falling out!" I couldn't imagine how that could happen. She...
  9. Oh, my, I feel so badly for you! Who would have thought it would take that long to heal?
  10. New Nurse to Family Practice Needs Advice!

    Hopefully, your doctors have an efficient practice, know exactly how they want you to deal with phone calls, and will train you to do what they want. The physician I worked for had very specific things he wanted us to tell patients. He always conside...
  11. Oh, hilarious!!! Thanks for the laugh - I really needed it!
  12. How to be excused from clinicals

    Good grief! Except for the faking, crying, denial and swearing, I thought you might have been talking about me! I became ill while scrubbed in during clinicals and had to ask the circulating nurse who was supervising me to take over for me. She gave ...
  13. Has anyone taken care of a celeb?

    Totally off topic, VintagePN, but your avatar looks like one of my old supervisors! :)
  14. Has anyone taken care of a celeb?

    In the 70's, at the Army hospital I worked at then, we had a princess of a Middle Eastern country as a patient for a few days. She was very polite to us, and was really no trouble as a patient. There was not a huge fuss over her, because we were supp...
  15. passive aggressive nurses

    I'm a little puzzled, because I wonder why the dividing line between being reasonable and becoming "hostile" is when the incoming nurse goes beyond checking the IV site and goes on to further assessment? I understand that it makes the process longer ...