annabanana5876 BSN, RN

Emergency room, ICU, Med/Surg

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annabanana5876 is a BSN, RN and specializes in Emergency room, ICU, Med/Surg.

Rules for the ER (long)

annabanana5876 replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

1. When I ask you to rate your pain from 1-10 and 10 is the worst pain you have ever had in your life do not yell out any number higher than 10. Yelling your pain is a "20" is not going to get you any different medication or get it any faster than th...
How about your favorite Old Wives Tales related to health?

annabanana5876 replied to NurseyTonyaLPN's topic in Humor

I have a cousin born with huge port wine stain on the side of his face. My mother says it is there because when my aunt was pregnant with him she was startled by a snake in the garden and hit herself in the stomach when she jumped away from the snake...
Inventions we'd love to see....

annabanana5876 replied to Nurse-o-Matic's topic in General Nursing

how about wireless monitors..............it such a pain to patient and staff to work around all those wires for cardiac leads, bp cuff, pulse ox, ect.
What Gets to You??

annabanana5876 replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

The sound of someone puking makes me gag, but luckily I have never puked along with anyone. But the one thing that will make me gag faster than anything else is the patient with the nose bleed that keeps "snorting" the blood back into his pharynx an...