bemory

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1. feeling threatened

   bemory posted a topic in CCU

   I have now been an RN for 3 years- two spent on a med tele floor and in January I will be completing my first year in coronary intensive care. I feel like Im being bullied by my co-workers. I am small, thin, quiet, young (Im 28) and shy. I look about...

2. Charting Bloopers

   bemory replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

   I found this once in a physician report Amazingly well considering his erection fraction is 20%.

3. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

   bemory replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

   When I was working in the psych unit for nursing school clinicals, there was an older man who had schizophrenia and believed that he was Jesus. He had a really patient sister that would come to visit him every Thursdays and would sit with him, maki...

4. starting in ccu any tips?

   bemory replied to thatoneguy's topic in CCU

   The most important things I learned about my patients were the things I assessed myself. Before you go into a room 1. look up all pertinent labs 2. check off all medications 3. check off all orders 4. review their history 5. review their vital...

5. Three More Weeks!

   bemory replied to HillNPStudent's topic in CCU

   Lovern I was reading your blog and it is extremely similar to my own story. I worked as an EKG tech/CNA on the cardiac floor for 3 years while attending nursing school. Then worked as a RN there for 2 years before getting a position in CCU. The fir...

6. Tips for nurses in their first year of nursing

   bemory replied to Brian's topic in New Nurse

   I am a floor nurse and I guess that ICU being more one on one care would entail you sitting or standing in one place for a long time. I guess the best advice to give is to eat something before you get to work and then once a craving comes..drink some...

7. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   bemory replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   I had a patient call me in the room because she swore her telemetry box was attacking her. she said I felt it grip my throat and I had to fight it. One nurse answered a call light and asked the patient while in the room if he moved his bowels. the p...

8. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   bemory replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   dont let an epileptic prostitute give you oral sex. klondike bars inserted in the vagina will give you a nasty frostbite your not pregnant if you inserted 5 lbs of crack into your vagina God wont love you more if you try and kill yourself in a church...

9. Tips for nurses in their first year of nursing

   bemory replied to Brian's topic in New Nurse

   1. use the bathroom! dont hold it in 2. take good care of yourself- your feet especially 3. get some sleep 4. take a minute to take a breath 5. never leave a room saying you will be back in a minute...because that minute may never come 6. you are n...

10. time management

    bemory replied to bemory's topic in General Nursing

    Its usually that I can only get to my charting much later. I am not staying hours late like I used to do. I guess the problem is that I just feel like I will miss something if I dont assess everything. I know that a lot of the nurses chart by excepti...

11. time management

    bemory posted a topic in General Nursing

    I will be completing my one year as a nurse on the cardiac floor and I feel that I have honed a lot of my skills except one...time management. I always see nurses finishing their charting hours before I even get to sit down. A lot of times my error i...

12. Has anyone used Natrecor on their unit?

    bemory replied to maryangel's topic in Cardiac

    my floor specializes in chf so there is not a day that goes by that I dont give natrecor. I work nights with usually 5-6 patients and I have had no problems. It may be a little time consuming at first because of the frequent vital signs but after 2 h...

13. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    bemory replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    1. pt who came in with a potato growing in her vagina, had previously been in for a tennis ball insertion. Her reasons were that the vaginal weights prescribed were to expensive. 2. pt with an earring stuck up his rectum that caused a rectal bleed (...

14. North Carolina Roll Call

    bemory replied to RNPATL's topic in North Carolina

    hi everyone..My name is Tina, I am a cardiac RN and work in a hospital in Wilmington. I am originally from Delaware but have been living here for 4 years. I enjoy the people down here and really love what I do.

15. what kind of student were u?

    bemory replied to luilui_604's topic in NCLEX

    I made A's in all my pre-req courses and B's in my nursing courses. The tests we had were always multiple choices and our finals were straight NCLEX questions. When it was time to study for the NCLEX, my friends and I just asked each other questions ...