shhhh

shhhh

ICU, ED, Trauma, Transplant

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About shhhh

shhhh has 8 years experience and specializes in ICU, ED, Trauma, Transplant.


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  1. I'm looking around for a change of scenery and I saw an opening available in a speciality clinic associated with the medical center I work at as an ICU nurse. The reason I'm on here asking for some insight from you all is that I've been a patient at...
  2. "Don't you find this degrading?"

    Wonderful! Thank you!
  3. "Don't you find this degrading?"

    EXACTLY! I feel like your statement describes the entire situation in a nutshell! I think some people who replied missed a key point that I guess I should have elaborated on: she was perfectly capable of doing it herself (to clarify, she was definite...
  4. I had a well-spoken, educated woman as my patient. She had this pretentious vibe to her, but I found her to be polite. That is, until I explained that cath care needed to be done and the rationale behind having to do it.As I'm performing the cath car...
  5. I knew it was not a correct Technique

    But with that plan, you're assuming that she'll actually read the policy. You know, like she was supposed to BEFORE she "changed" the dressing. Haha.
  6. I am being harrassed

    Oh, I just remembered something I think I should add. If you've already been doing this, wonderful, but if someone else is reading this and is being harassed, I wanted to stress the point to you that you should document everything! Like, seriously,...
  7. I am being harrassed

    I really hope your meeting stops this goon's acts right now. I can understand how co-workers get comfortable with each other and they crack off a rude joke every now and then, but most people tend to really stop in their tracks and start behaving the...
  8. big hourly pay increase?

    A nurse I once worked with was upset one day because payroll found out she erroneously got a wage increase. She had known that she got the raise and wasn't supposed to, but she kept quiet. Someone in payroll eventually found out about the mistake. ...
  9. Thanks everyone! I feel better knowing you all agree with me. I've never been "in trouble" with the patient advocate office before and I'm glad you all support my view on the matter. The more I think about it, the more annoyed I get. And the more ...
  10. I witnessed my patient have "tremulous" legs for about three seconds. I had some serious doubts that it was an actual tremor; it happened when I pulled his blanket off his legs, and I thought at the time that his legs were shaking that little bit bec...
  11. removal from life support question

    Just last weekend, I extubated my brain dead patient. As you would expect, prior to extubation, he had no purposeful movement, no localizing, not posturing, etc. A few minutes after extubation, as his sats were dropping and he stopped breathing, it a...
  12. CHG vs Alcohol pad with blood cultures

    Pretty darn interesting... I'll present this to my unit's nurse educators and see if we can get a dialogue going on what is ACTUALLY best practice!
  13. CHG vs Alcohol pad with blood cultures

    Just letting you know that we use CHG wipes in our ICU's. We use them when inserting lines, on blood culture draws (AND on the blood culture bottles), and lab draws. We just don't really use them when pushing IV meds; we use alcohol wipes instead. I ...
  14. I think all of us here would use some common sense and NOT post stories about male, underage patients that reflect poorly on us as the nursing professionals who care for them. Whatever a creepy pedophile wanted to hear about, I really doubt we would ...
  15. The most scariest thing...

    For me, it's confrontational family members or patients who get right in my face, point fingers, and yell at me over things I cannot (actually, NO ONE, for that matter) can control. I think an adult yelling at a professional who's doing their job to ...