MisfonzRN RN

MisfonzRN has 25 years experience as a RN and specializes in Ambulatory Care/Telephone Triage.

Latest Activity

1. Termination From Employer For Refusing EUV

   MisfonzRN replied to RaineyRN7's topic in COVID

   So depressing....

2. Accepted telephone triage position!

   MisfonzRN replied to rockchickrn's topic in Triage

   CONGRATS! Hopefully you will enjoy your new position. I am also new to telephone triage and have been doing it almost a year now. My advice....find a really good experienced RN that you can shadow and spend as much time with them as you are allowe...

3. Red Flag List for Front Desk

   MisfonzRN posted a topic in Triage

   I am an RN in a family medicine practice. I have been here nearly a year after 20 years in ICU. This office did not have an RN previous to me. I am having difficulty getting appropriate calls routed to me for triage. I'm wondering if anyone has a...

4. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   MisfonzRN replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   Just last Friday, my husband's 90 year old grandfather passed away. He was completely alert and oriented right up to the end of his fight with cancer. He died on Friday, July 13th at 12:05am. He was a veteran and was shot in the knee during WWII o...

5. I was a ______ prior to being a nurse/student nurse

   MisfonzRN replied to nurz2be's topic in General Nursing

   I always tell people I was a Nursing Home Administrator in my previous life. I went into it thinking I could change the world and really make a difference in the resident's lives. As it turned out, it's all about business. One day in the shower it...

6. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   MisfonzRN replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   I now have an irrational fear of mylar balloons.

7. New Patient Population in CCU

   MisfonzRN posted a topic in CCU

   I work in a 14 bed CCU in Ohio and we have noticed a drastic changed in our patient population in the last 3-5 years. When I started in this unit in 1999, we got a lot of patients with MI's, Unstable angina, post cath lab intervention patients, new ...

8. How do you give report?

   MisfonzRN replied to Jedi_Iatros's topic in General Nursing

   I give a short medical history and history of this hospital stay. I then talk about events that happened in the last 24 hours. I go over IV lines and drips. I then go through the assessment and talk about anything abnormal. I also try and mention...

9. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   MisfonzRN replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   I have a personal one that just happened recently. The story starts 25 years ago when my grandmother died. To make a long story short, my parents and I had gone to pick her up for Christmas and found her dead in her apartment. My mom and I were ta...

10. Scariest things you've seen

    MisfonzRN replied to mscsrjhm's topic in General Nursing

    Point taken. We all make mistakes, but as a licensed RN, you are responsible for knowing about the medications you are administering. If you are not, you should ask, or look it up. Medication errors cause a lot of deaths in hospitals. Just my two ...

11. Scariest things you've seen

    MisfonzRN replied to mscsrjhm's topic in General Nursing

    I work in the CCU recieved a patient from a med-surge floor c/o chest pain. The floor nurse had started a nitro drip prior to transfer. We use 50mg/ 250cc D5W. She had the pump set at 10mcg/kg/min. Mind you, this woman was 300 pounds. Luckily, t...