butterflynurse03 RN

butterflynurse03 is a RN and specializes in surgical, ortho.

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1. Elgin Community College

   butterflynurse03 replied to Mr.N8's topic in Illinois

   I graduated from ECC. It's a good program. Clinicals are once a week but they are usually 8 hours. Then, before graduation, there is concentrated clinical time (96 hrs) that must be completed in order to graduate. Let me know if you have any other q...

2. Do they have the right?

   butterflynurse03 posted a topic in Safety

   If a person is started on some new medications and during their adjustment period there are some side effects that are....unwanted. If this person is sent home and told (by the occ health md) that they could not work in their current position unless ...

3. Can I beat your horse?

   butterflynurse03 replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

   wow that was powerful..... you are an inspiration to us all. Thank you!!!!

4. Nurse makes a bad patient.... arghh

   butterflynurse03 replied to butterflynurse03's topic in General Nursing

   I think I can honestly say that I was a pretty good patient while in the hospital. Shoot, I even managed to get out of bed and walk that first evening. My nurses/co-workers were amazed. My problem is behaving here at home now. I keep having to ye...

5. What drugs are used in a surgical epidural?

   butterflynurse03 replied to Homesick Gypsy's topic in Med-Surg

   The ON-Q pain pumps are nice. I have had several patients that have had them with great success. Even a patient with a pulmonary lobectomy. You are not allergic to marcaine are you? Because that is the type of medication that is found in the ON-Q...

6. It's a Hospital, Not a Hotel (Gripe)

   butterflynurse03 replied to daisybaby's topic in Ob/Gyn

   here here!!!!! Co-worker told me today that when she went to admit a patient he proceeded to tell her he was busy with a conference call and couldn't answer her questions right now...... Go figure that one, why was the patient even in the hospital?...

7. Nurse makes a bad patient.... arghh

   butterflynurse03 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I just had surgery 3 weeks ago (TAH w/ BSO) and I am finding it extremely hard not to do all the things I tell my patients that they can't or should not do. Anyone here ever had this experience? Why is it that as soon as a nurse becomes the pati...

8. How did you find out about allnurses?

   butterflynurse03 replied to cnelle101's topic in General Nursing

   I found it through another nursing site under related links...

9. Witholding informatiom the medical record.

   butterflynurse03 replied to Mama Val's topic in General Nursing

   "other information" at some facilities might simply mean that the info was given them by the patient or another facility and therefore they can't pass it on. Many facilities will only give you information that is generated by them primarily. Hope th...

10. They didn't teach me this in nursing school and I could have killed someone!

    butterflynurse03 replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    I sometimes precept nursing students on my floor. One thing I like to always teach them is a very simple thing that no one taught me. Whenever I draw up a medication into a syringe, even if it's only one IV med that I am giving, I like to tape the ...

11. advice needed off topic

    butterflynurse03 replied to Dray's topic in Career Support

    finishing the one year LPN moveing to chicago working at a hospital while im in school for RN?. I see only one problem. I live and work in the northwestern Chicago suburbs. None of the hospitals around here hire LPN's. I had to do either Nursi...

12. Gimme some suggestions for shoes for my aching feet!

    butterflynurse03 replied to wayover20's topic in Uniform/Gear

    I wear Ryka tennis shoes. They are specifically designed for the female foot. I love them. They are the most comfortable shoes I have ever had. Lady Footlocker sells them.

13. Just how many nurses from IL do we have here at allnurses?

    butterflynurse03 replied to jadednurse's topic in Illinois

    Northern McHenry County Here (Woodstock, home of Groundhog Day) but work in Elgin. GO CUBS!!!!!!!!!!!

14. Crying about my job...

    butterflynurse03 replied to LearningRN's topic in Med-Surg

    Don't ever let a doctor yell at you. He has no right. I have been yelled at by a doctor and made to cry myself. Another doctor asked me what happened and when I told him, that's what he told me. Be professional, pull the doctor aside and tell him ...

15. What drugs are used in a surgical epidural?

    butterflynurse03 replied to Homesick Gypsy's topic in Med-Surg

    We also have sufenta in with the bupivicaine. However, due to the problems that can be seen with epidurals, our docs like PCA's better. I just had the same surgery done 3 weeks ago and I had a dilaudid pca. I did fine. Good luck to you.