RunninOnCoffee

RunninOnCoffee has 10 years experience and specializes in ICU.

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1. Question for NM's/ Mother baby nurses

   RunninOnCoffee posted a topic in General Nursing

   First off, I don't work in mother baby or L&D so my knowledge of these areas is limited to my own personal delivery experience and a short 6 weeks of clinicals. What I do know is, each new mom that is discharged from my hospital is sent home wit...

2. The every year Snow thread

   RunninOnCoffee replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

   And this my friend is why I live in FL 😉 No advice I can give you, but sending prayers to ya! Once a beach girl, always a beach girl!

3. What are some of the most ridiculous requests you have heard?

   RunninOnCoffee replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

   These are awesome!! My cheeks hurt from laughing! Nursingjudgement-I am pretty sure I must have cared for your pt #4's long lost family member. Except for this one it was root beer. Oh and in night shift when the nurse was on a CT run she took it upo...

4. MD's treat male nurses with more respect?

   RunninOnCoffee replied to Bluebolt's topic in Relations

   As a female nurse with 5 years experience (in my mid 30's) I've seen both. Overall for the most part there isn't really a difference. However we do have a small handful, and honestly mostly foreign born, that do not do well with advice from female nu...

5. Proper protocol - nurse error while with daughter in ER

   RunninOnCoffee replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

   This was my first thought too! Used swab caps at one place and now the curios caps. Personally, I much prefer swab caps

6. Accidently took home a patients' insulin!

   RunninOnCoffee replied to iliket0fuu's topic in Medications

   First year of nursing got into my driveway, went to pull out my phone and discovered 2mg of Dilaudid.... Oops! Back to work I went. Then just a few years ago did it with Morphine. Very long day and honestly for a second I thought about taking it back...

7. Late for work excuses

   RunninOnCoffee replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   Several years ago before I graduated nursing school the unit secretary replacing me called in because she was "already too drunk to come into work." I ended up staying until I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore. Still can't believe that 1. She actual...

8. Our units acuity is at an all time high.

   RunninOnCoffee replied to TheNGTKingRN's topic in General Nursing

   We have been slammed full all...summer....long! Slap full and did I mention low staffed hospital wide! I work the next 5 of 6 days and just want to crawl in a hole somewhere and hide.

9. Tripping/rolling ankles in Danskos

   RunninOnCoffee replied to pedsrnmare's topic in Uniform/Gear

   I had the same problem until I finally ended up spending the afternoon portion of my shift getting X-rays in the ER for a potential fx. Thankfully none, but I got to become very friendly with crutches the next several days. Since then they have sat s...

10. What are the best Nike shoes for a 12 Hour Shift?

    RunninOnCoffee replied to mf299709's topic in Uniform/Gear

    From my personal experience (and each person is different) Nike's, Brooks, etc are great for walking and running but for hours of standing I come home with my knees, ankles, and feet just aching. I LOVED my Dansko's until I rolled an ankle in them an...

11. Off duty RN scope of practice on an airplane.

    RunninOnCoffee replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    As being part of the responding code team ACLS is a protocol therefore no physician medication order requirement. We frequently start pushing meds before responding code physicians arrive. One of the purposes of being ACLS trained and being a code r...

12. Code blue questions

    RunninOnCoffee replied to SimpleNewGrad's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with the above poster. My other thought was also if the pt was not intubated that meant you were using a bvm. In doing so probably blew a large amount if air into the abdomen. This combined with compressions caused the pt to vomit. Just respo...

13. What nursing task do you loathe???

    RunninOnCoffee replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    Placing NGT's. For some reason that feels like one of the most barbaric things to do to someone. I know good and well they will feel so much better once the abdomen is decompressed, but shoving something through the nose just looks like pure torture!...

14. What I learned this week (7/4/15)....

    RunninOnCoffee replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I learned again that synthetic marijuana is really bad for the noggin and combined with a full moon makes for entertainment for all the family members in the ICU......even after we closed the little cupcakes door so his outbursts wouldn't be quite so...

15. My patient died today

    RunninOnCoffee replied to TU RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure you did everything you possibly could! Remember when it's your time, it's your time and there is nothing we can do about that. Mourn his loss tonight, say a prayer for his family, and go in tomorrow and give it your all again. Hugs!!!