TeleRN44

TeleRN44 specializes in ICU/ER.

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1. Patients & Pet Peeves

   TeleRN44 replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

   Able bodied male patients who are suddenly incapable of using their arms to place their own twig into the urinal. I'm not referring to pleasantly demented older gentlemen or a younger guy post operatively. I'm talking about your run of the mill, aler...

2. Quit during orientation

   TeleRN44 replied to Themostsupreme's topic in General Students

   I was a care tech for six plus years before I became an LVN/LPN. I was an LVN/LPN for eight years before I became an RN. I've wiped my fair share of butt, given baths galore and will continue to do so as I work in the ICU and care techs are like unic...

3. What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

   TeleRN44 replied to fangirl's topic in Relations

   I've had a few patients say some truly shocking things. One truly heinous patient managed to alienate the entire staff, not just myself, with her racial comments. She was a handful and would shriek a constant flow of cuss words as her mother stood by...

4. Waiting in the ER & Heard This

   TeleRN44 replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in Emergency

   I understand not liking long ED waits and all, BUT lying simply to be seen faster and wasting the ER staff's valuable time is a pathological condition all by itself. Someone with a true medical condition and legitimate need could potential end up wai...

5. patient satisfaction scores

   TeleRN44 replied to emain86's topic in PACU

   More staffing sounds like a simple solution but not every facility, especially considering the ever growing culture of doing more with less...to include people, is going to jump at the idea of hiring more staff because it means spending more money. T...

6. Here we go..... I have 24 Class C Misdemeanors...

   TeleRN44 replied to MiaNursingStudent's topic in Criminal

   I wish you the best of luck and I pray that your luck changes or holds (perspective, I guess.) Just as the Dean at your nursing school gave you the benefit of the doubt and allowed you to prove the true worth of your character...I have no doubt you w...

7. Nurses need water

   TeleRN44 replied to Heidimc's topic in General Nursing

   Wow...you couldn't be more judgmental OR more wrong if you tried! There certainly isn't anything wrong with MY time management skills as it is the Physician who is running 1 1/2 to 2 hours behind. He ran that far behind BEFORE he hired me and he runs...

8. Nurses need water

   TeleRN44 replied to Heidimc's topic in General Nursing

   I am too...especially due to the lasix and topamax I have to take for chronic health issues. I recently changed positions and my new boss (an MD) expects us to work for hours on end with no break...no drink, no potty. Insane. It's one of the (sooo ...

9. Theme song to your Nursing career?

   TeleRN44 replied to sMoLsNurse's topic in Humor

   I love your list and actually have a playlist on my iPod named "Going to Work" that has several of the songs you mentioned. I would add the following: The Freaks Come Out At Night by Whodini "And nine times out of ten they drive you nuts" Insane in ...

10. Best Hallucinations Thread

    TeleRN44 replied to Vespertinas's topic in General Nursing

    This applies to no particular patient but an occurrence: we get OODLES of phone calls from either 1) the hospital operator or 2) what I suspect is the 911 operator after sun-downing patients have made the ever popular "Help, I'm being held hostage/ag...

11. What would you do?

    TeleRN44 replied to workingharder's topic in General Nursing

    I'd have to say...in your position...neither. Both remind me of what we dump out of urinals/catheter bags (amount of head on the top, of course, varies on degree of renal failure). In your position? I recommend a nice Moscato d'Asti...live a little, ...

12. Lpn around Scott AFB

    TeleRN44 replied to Kaligirl02's topic in Illinois

    I'll be honest, there aren't a whole bunch of places that are hiring THIS (Illinois) side of the river for LPN positions, unless you're looking for something in a physician's office or possibly in a nursing home. Many of the hospitals are moving away...

13. Best Hallucinations Thread

    TeleRN44 replied to Vespertinas's topic in General Nursing

    I worked on an end-stage dementia unit and there was a sweet little old lady across from the nurse's station with a serious poop fixation. I didn't realize how bad until Valentine's Day rolled around... The aide came out of her room and told me somet...

14. Epic (Nursing) FAILS!

    TeleRN44 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Humor

    A PCT came to the nurse's station and stated that she needed help down the hallway. It was just after midnight and things had just quieted down. We had just started to open our charts and frankly, there was nothing in the tone of her voice that ra...

15. Hospitals... the only place where...

    TeleRN44 replied to Brian's topic in Humor

    Hospitals...the only place where we can, more or less, tell what might or might not be growing in your bodily fluids based on smell alone...or whether or not you're bleeding. C-diff poo? :poop: Pseudomomas pee?