NocturneRN

NocturneRN

ER, cardiac, addictions

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About NocturneRN

NocturneRN has 30 years experience and specializes in ER, cardiac, addictions.


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  1. Treat the Patient, not the Monitor.....Really?

    One of the problems with this whole discussion is that the saying isn't "Look at the patient, not the monitor." It's "TREAT the patient, not the monitor." This distinction is important, because the first version implies that it's an either/or situ...
  2. Treat the Patient, not the Monitor.....Really?

    Here's a less dramatic reason for treating the patient rather than the monitor. I have PVCs----lots of them, on a regular basis. Sometimes I feel them; sometimes I don't. Nurses often get concerned when they see me on a monitor, because they don't ...
  3. I'm an introvert and a pretty obvious one, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy interacting with patients and staff. In general, being an introvert just means that you're most relaxed and comfortable when you're in your own company. If you feel that ...
  4. I'm currently on the last leg of getting a BSN. (After 35 years in this profession, my employer decided to make BSN's mandatory. Not exactly mandatory, mind you, but just mandatory enough that I'm considered unqualified to work anywhere in the syst...
  5. Code Blue: What Should I Do?

    I just had to mention this: on the list of trending threads, this "Code Blue: What Should I Do?" topic was immediately followed by "Just need to vent for a few minutes."
  6. Are we better than the hosts of The View?

    There's also that old adage to consider, "There's no such thing as bad publicity." Is it possible that this woman said something outrageous with the intention of getting people to tune in to the show? Because, if she did, it worked.
  7. Are we better than the hosts of The View?

    Good point, Kelly.tiller, but I do sort of expect non-nurses to realize that nurses use stethoscopes, at least. I also sort of expect people who watch the Miss America pageant to recognize that it purports to search for and recognize an "ideal of f...
  8. Are we better than the hosts of The View?

    With all due respect, Commuter, was it really necessary to describe the (perfectly reasonable) angry reaction to Ms Behar's comment as being "butt hurt"? Look, I agree with the previous poster that flinging personal insults at her serves no purpose...
  9. Nurse to Nurse Bullying

    She's a professional educator, who most likely has experience being a patient and a hospital visitor. She's just pointing out (as any teacher would) that anything that gets in the way of educating the new nurse is likely to have an adverse effect on ...
  10. Nurse to Nurse Bullying

    Really? I'd interpret from it that she's asking for information. Then I'd provide the information, and help her do the procedure. Problem solved.
  11. Nurse to Nurse Bullying

    Hey, I'm an old nurse, and I don't take offense at the term "battle axe," if the nurse it's being aimed at is in the habit of eating his/her young. I've experienced my share of bullying preceptors, too. One stopped bullying when I broke down and t...
  12. Fired during orientation/7 weeks in

    ********************* I'm afraid I've got to disagree in this instance. In my workplace, the rule is that you don't interrupt a nurse who's pulling or preparing medications. The preceptor was wrong to interrupt in this, unless she was interruptin...
  13. "How did that get there?"

    I once found a 30 mg Dilaudid PCA cartridge in my scrub pocket when I got home. I promptly went back and had someone witness the waste. That would have been a very hard thing to explain if I'd been caught leaving the building with it!
  14. An Atheist Nurse in King James Hospital

    Wow! I'm going to suggest that to the ER doctors and NPs, the next time one of our usual suspects asks for Dilaudid.
  15. An Atheist Nurse in King James Hospital

    Could you just say, "You're in my thoughts"? Most of the time, I think, patients just want to feel that you care about them, and will continue to care about them even after they're not right there in front of you.