DBK99

DBK99

Medical-Surgical, Telemetry

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About DBK99

DBK99 has 2 years experience and specializes in Medical-Surgical, Telemetry.


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  1. Calling all charge nurses!

    I hate having to take a team plus be charge, which I haven't had to do very often, thankfully. We typically have "enough" staff to where the charge doesn't take patients. It's not a hospital wide rule, but my floor's rule is if they have to take pts,...
  2. How old were you when you became an RN?

    I had just turned 23 the month before
  3. It may not take "effort" to explain every little thing I'm doing and why, but you better believe it takes too much time. And when all 6 of my busy med surg patients want something and they want it NOW, it's easier and faster for me to just do it myse...
  4. Administering Fentanyl

    Personally, I've never seen it ordered or have ever given it via those routes
  5. Administering Fentanyl

    Transdermal patch. Med surg floors cannot give it IV at my hospital
  6. Why are the floor nurses so unwilling to teach?

    Thats BS. If the pt was A&O, she can make her own decisions regarding her care.
  7. This is almost the number one thing that annoys me the most at work. This and playing middle man between the other departments. I've never understood why lab must call criticals to the nurse, who then must turn around and page and notify the doctor. ...
  8. CRAZY / GROSS / NASTY

    Assisting a urologist with a difficult cath insertion on a male at the bedside. He couldn't get it in, blood everywhere, tells me to clean up and leaves the room to get an OR ready for the pt. I scoop up a handful of trash to throw away, and the guid...
  9. how much do you pay on student loans per month

    I graduated with $4,500 in loans for my ADN. Currently owe $3,068. I pay $100/month
  10. Curious-why do people put ADN, RN? It's ASN...

    My nursing school degree is AAS- associate's in applied science
  11. Bladder scan first. It's a nursing intervention you can do on your own first without an order. The pt may not even be making urine, thus why they are not voiding, which would then warrant that call to the doctor, if bladder scan showed zero. The doct...
  12. Strange requests from patients

    Oops just realized this was a NP thread
  13. Strange requests from patients

    I work med/surg at the hospital. Had someone ask for a haircut. Ummm =\ lol
  14. Rant about toenails

    Does anyone else get this a lot? I work on a geriatric M/S floor and I'm annoyed with pt's whose toenails look like they haven't seen clippers in years, all grown out and curled over, yet the family demands grandpa's toenails are an emergency and be ...
  15. Dang it, two things I forgot, we do that too! Lol