Karenrussell73

Karenrussell73 has 8 years experience and specializes in Med/Surg; Women's Health.

Latest Activity

1. Where are all the "older" nurses?

   Karenrussell73 replied to tjcnurse2b's topic in Relations

   I'm an older nurse as well at age 43. I work in the med/surg float pool and I love it. Yes, the pushing and pulling can be a bit much, but I always take someone in with me to help with a boost or turn. Even when I was younger, starting out, I always ...

2. Words You Hate

   Karenrussell73 replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

   This is more of a phrase, but at a hospital where I used to work, they used the phrase, 'scrub the hub' as a reminder for cleaning IV caps before flushing. I worked in women's health for 6 years prior to going back to general med/surg...I refused to ...

3. How to handle a situation

   Karenrussell73 replied to mikala3's topic in Relations

   My advice to you is to take each complaint and make it a teachable moment for yourself. You can only control you so find a seasoned nurse on your unit that you have a good relationship with and ask for help. As far as the sleeper, it sounds like the ...

4. Best MD note

   Karenrussell73 replied to beckster_01's topic in Humor

   When I worked in the OR, we had a problem with surgeons filling out the POST OP progress note BEFORE the surgery and they would forget to date and time them. To prevent errors and promote safe practice, we moved the note to the OR so they couldn't ge...

5. Best MD note

   Karenrussell73 replied to beckster_01's topic in Humor

   My husband used to work as a film librarian in the Radiology Dept. This particular transcription report read "FOS". He asked the Radiologist what it meant and he responded, "Full of s*it"!!

6. Pyxis (almost) nightmares. PLEASE be careful.

   Karenrussell73 replied to dudette10's topic in Medications

   I had an awesome preceptor when I was a new grad and was oriented to Pyxis. The best advice I received was to double check the med I pulled from the individual pockets before closing the drawer. I can't tell you how many times someone dropped the wro...