ArmyWife,RN

ArmyWife,RN

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  1. Share Your Saying

    Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver. Don't make me get my flying monkeys. And I want kids that listen. (This is said to my kids when they start the "I wants"
  2. Moving to Ft Belvoir area

    Hello All! I think I will be moving to the Ft Belvoir area when DH gets back from Korea. I am looking for information regarding hospitals, pay, areas to live in, (good schools for the kids). Any info would be much appreciated! Thanks! sara
  3. coma patients-out of bed

    I'm bumping this up because I'm still wanting to know if anybody has articles or web-site information regarding this practice. Thanks, A.W.
  4. I'm charging!?!

    Thank you! This is how I'm looking at it too. I just need suggestions on how to be a good/great charge nurse. I have some insight from my own experience with charge nurses, but I'm looking for others insight too! A.W.
  5. I'm charging!?!

    Everybody is brand new on this unit. It's a new unit for the hospital that I work in. I am comming from ICU to Progressive Care - known to the rest of the world as step-down. A.W.
  6. I'm charging!?!

    :eek: To make a long story short, I'm moving from ICU to "Progressive Care" because I get to come back to the world of the living, un-hook my feet from the bar in the closet, and work days. So, I go to my manager to get my orientation package, work...
  7. coma patients-out of bed

    Wow! This is something I've never thought about/been taught/or seen done in my short carreer. Are there articles/web-sites regarding this practice? Thanks, A.W.
  8. Resume help, please

    Hi All! I will be moving to San Antonio in June and need some help putting my resume together. I graduate in May '05 and have been working in ICU since June. I think I am moving to a step-down unit after the 1st of the year - for various resons. ...
  9. Maybe stationed at Ft Lewis...have questions

    Hi all! Thanks for the replies! As it turns out, DH is going to WOCS and then to Korea...if we can't get command sponsorship, I'll just go back to the San Antonio area to be close to the family. A.W.
  10. I had a patient just the other night that was admitted for persistant hypotension that had scheduled Viagra. I had to go looking for information on it - the short of it is it works as a nitrate. (I didn't give it - pt was on a dopamine drip at the ...
  11. What I don't know can hurt you!!!! (long)

    howdy all! [color=mediumturquoise]thank you, thank you, thank you for all the kind words and encouragement. rayrae, we will make it (with help from nurses like angie and others)! a.w.
  12. Hi All! Ya'll know I don't post here often, but I really need some support right now! The other day I had a patient that was c/o pain in his legs. He had had lortab 5 about 3 hours prior and it would be another hour before he could have it again, so...
  13. Why is everyone on Protonix

    Depending on the length of the hospital stay and the agressiveness of the doc (in treating the pt), stress ulcers born from the hospitalization/illness/dz process would be the reason. A.W.
  14. Do some people just "get it"?

    Thank you all for your replies! It helps just to be able to come here and talk to others who understand. :kiss A.W.
  15. Do some people just "get it"?

    Hello! I don't have a lot of time because I need to leave for work, so I'll make this short. I'm a new grad RN in a small ICU. I was hired along with 2 other new grads. I don't consider myself dumb, but I know I'm not the quickest to pick up things...