Picklefreak

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1. In need for a good support shoes

   Picklefreak replied to musaRN's topic in General Nursing

   Different things will work for different people, but what I've found is best for me is Skechers Shape-ups. They will do nothing to get you into shape but the cushion-y heel is perfect for me. I wore Danskos for a while but developed plantar fasciit...

2. Pharmacist-turned-RN?

   Picklefreak replied to Lizbird5807's topic in Career Support

   I am a pharmacy tech turned RN. I love nursing much more than pharmacy, but it was a step up for me in education, status, and pay. If it is patient care you are wanting more of, you might look into PA school.

3. Can we recommend a medication to a doctor to prescribe?

   Picklefreak replied to stallion8797's topic in Relations

   I've had residents try to send post-op patients home with only Tylenol. Some of them have not gotten DEA numbers and don't want to track down their upper-level to do the scripts for them. This is where the "patient advocate" part of nursing comes i...

4. Human Patient Simulators

   Picklefreak replied to green34's topic in General Nursing

   We had a very high-tech, expensive human simulator at our school. It was so precious they barely let us touch it. :lol

5. Small children visiting patients in the critical care setting... thoughts??

   Picklefreak replied to TigerGalLE's topic in Critical

   My dad spent the last 2 months of his life, save the 10 days he was home on hospice, in the hospital. I am forever grateful for the time my kids got to spend with him there. They were 13, 11, and 6 at the time. It was summer, and we visited every ...

6. OU Medical Center

   Picklefreak replied to djoup's topic in Oklahoma

   Starting pay is close to what the Commuter stated. It is comparable to other hospitals in the area. OUMC is a private, for-profit hospital owned by HCA. It is located on the OU Health Science campus, but it is not actually part of the University....

7. No rapid response for a DNR?

   Picklefreak replied to AlphaPig's topic in General Nursing

   Completely agree! This is the kind of problem that makes end of life care so bad in our culture.

8. What if the Boston bomber was your pt

   Picklefreak replied to imintrouble's topic in Relations

   We get prisoners at our facility regularly. Most are just people who got into trouble due to substance abuse. (Which makes them no different from many of our non-incarcerated patients!) I have had a few truly evil inmates, though. One was a seria...

9. Best Hallucinations Thread

   Picklefreak replied to Vespertinas's topic in General Nursing

   Not exactly a hallucination, but I had a funny thing with an ETOH withdrawal patient recently. I touched his arm and he flung off my hand and said, "Get the f$&@ off of me!" I said, "Hey!" and he looked very startled to see me standing there and...

10. What would YOU do?

    Picklefreak replied to SuzieVN's topic in Relations

    Maybe she is just an incredibly fastidious person, and after washing her hands, she used paper towels to thoroughly dry the sink. Or she keeps a small bottle of hand sanitizer in her pocket and used it just before you saw her.

11. Have you ever lost it with a patient?

    Picklefreak replied to notjustanurse's topic in Relations

    I wouldn't say that I lost it, but I really chewed out someone I caught smoking in her room. And when I was done, the charge nurse called the cops on her, and they came in and chewed her out. And confiscated her smokes and the RX drugs (not in her n...

12. Wage garnishment related to student loans...has this happened to anyone?

    Picklefreak replied to RNewbie's topic in Professionalism

    If you default on a student loan, the government can garnish your wages and confiscate your tax refund. They do not have to go to court and get a judgement against you as other creditors would. It's what you agreed to when you signed the promissory n...

13. Intermediate Care Unit assessments

    Picklefreak replied to awsmrn's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital has a little different set-up for stepdown. We have several stepdown beds on each nursing unit. The ratio for stepdown is 2-3:1. (Ratio for the floor is 5:1.) We do total care and don't have techs for stepdown. We do have a unit secretar...

14. These just seems so gross to me

    Picklefreak replied to horrorxgirl's topic in General Nursing

    My mind says gross and unsanitary, but realistically, **** gets on everything in our rooms. The floors, the walls, the bed frames and mattresses. These just get the normal cleaning from housekeeping between patients. I guess that's really not that mu...

15. Why is it important to know patient's insurance info?

    Picklefreak replied to Despareux's topic in General Nursing

    I think if this were the case, the OP's preceptor would have explained herself. Her comment of, "you'll figure it out eventually" makes me think she has some preconceived notions about uninsured or Medicaid patients.