TopsDrop

TopsDrop RN

Cardiopulmonary Stepdown/Cath Lab, ICU

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About TopsDrop

TopsDrop has 13 years experience as a RN and specializes in Cardiopulmonary Stepdown/Cath Lab, ICU.


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  1. What is it like in your hospital right now?

    We have the calm before the storm thing going on here too. We have 4 positive COVID patients in my ICU. All are vented and 2 are being proned. They seem to be slowly improving, but this virus is messed up, so hopefully that continues. We stopped visi...
  2. What I learned this week (7/4/15)....

    I learned that: A long dilaudid-induced sleep can completely change someone's outlook on their situation and make them realize everything might be okay. Helping above person finally rest makes you the best nurse ever and make them indeed start dialys...
  3. Moments of reflection...

    So the other day I was in the middle of packing a terrible sacral wound on an unfortunate old soul brought in due to said wound not healing. And just had one of those moments where you look back on your life and think to yourself "how did I end up d...
  4. First Choice Nurse; Second ???

    Open a gym with a large kitchen as one of the main features in front of the weight and cardio areas. I could then offer cooking classes and try to teach people that 70% of transforming yourself starts in the kitchen and that no amount of working out ...
  5. If you work nights, what are your days off like?

    I've always been a night person. So nights works well for me. Days off I usually sleep until 11 or Noon and stay up until 3 or 4. I almost always get 7-8 hours of solid sleep, guess I'm lucky from what I hear from co-workers. I do switch to a "normal...
  6. How to eat on night shift

    I'll preface my post by saying this: EveryBODY is different, you'll have to try some of the very good suggestions and find what works for you. Here is my advice and what's worked for me for 3+ years: First off, your body doesn't care what time it is,...
  7. Nursing shoes that aren't clogs

    I wear bright blue and neon green Nike trainers. Can walk all day and my feet don't hurt. Plus they start a bit of conversation. Less than 50 bucks at the outlet, can't beat that.
  8. Ebola here in Dallas USA

    Of course it was the nurses fault. Why would the media report that sometimes the almighty physicians make mistakes too... While it is possible there was a failure in communication. I highly doubt we will hear anything other than "the nurse failed to ...
  9. You know you're tired when...

    Signing "RN" after my name at the store on the rent/bills etc. usually after a few days of work Waking up in the middle of my sleep because I swore I heard the bed/chair alarms Those are the main ones that stick out in my mind
  10. Why we do this...

    I figured I would post a positive story today because there are enough rants (I understand) and I am sure some graduating nurses/nursing students are probably second guessing themselves about their career paths reading the stuff we post. I had one of...
  11. Discussing medication side effects

    We recently undertook a pretty large intiative on this very subject at my hospital. Our HCAHPS scores were pretty low on the medications side effects portion. Over the past 6 months we have seen significant improvements in these scores. Here is a bri...
  12. Is nursing worth it?

    It is very hard to tell someone else if it's worth it. Most people honestly have no clue what a typical bedside nurse has to put up with on a daily basis, including probably yourself. I personally feel getting your CNA and starting "at the bottom" is...
  13. Carrer switch to nursing

    Don't believe the hype as far as "stability in nursing" or "nursing shortage" blah blah blah. While nurses are in short supply in some areas, it's not everywhere. Nursing is just as competitive as any other field. You need experience, or a foot in th...
  14. Runt of the Litter

    If the 5 foot 110 pound nurse can help me boost/turn/clean my patients I think you'll be fine... Hitting the gym is never a bad thing for your health though.
  15. What Baffles You?

    ATTN: Don't ruin an awesome thread with this pain scale and your personal views on it's usefulness or views on patients abilities to use it appropriately. Start a new thread to discuss this if you must. This has been a very entertaining read, let's n...