OHNBJL

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1. Injured My Back Lifting Patient

   OHNBJL replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   I have a coworker who has cervical spine and carpal tunnel surgery. She could not return to bedside nursing. She found a position working for clinical trial doing interviewing of patients. It requires Nursing assessment and clinical skills. She some...

2. Confronting Doctors with Wrong Orders

   OHNBJL replied to RobbiRN's topic in General Nursing

   I totally agree. I do not hesitate to bring any order to a doctor's attention that I feel is questionable or detrimental to the patients health. I once had a doc that ordered an inappropriate (massive) Lasix dose. I repeated the order and pointed it...

3. Go Fund Me for Co-workers?

   OHNBJL replied to Emergent's topic in Relations

   I will only contribute when I know all of the circumstances. A local family had a child dying of cancer. I know their needs were very real. Travel expenses as well as taking care of their other children were very wearing not only emotionally but fina...

4. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

   OHNBJL replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

   OH yes, the nursing cap. My favorite mem is being the last person in the elevator. My back was toward the door. The elevator closed and caught my cap. Ripping it off my head. Bobby pins went flying and the cap stayed crushed in the door. The whole el...

5. Am I Making a Horrendous Mistake Choosing Nursing?

   OHNBJL replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   A girl in my daughters high school class has Aspergers and went to college and attained her BSN. She went on to do clinical research and is very successful. She lacked some social skills so she made a wonderful researcher. Very intelligent and task ...

6. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

   OHNBJL replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

   i also remember Montgomery straps. New grads thought they were great. Especially after tegaderm ripped off tender skin. We older nurses still have a few tricks up our sleeves.

7. Why Can't She Stay Here? Getting Kicked Out of Inpatient Hospice

   OHNBJL replied to jeastridge's topic in Hospice

   Both of my parents received Hospice care. My dad was a cardiac patient that was in failure and was placed in a Hospice unit in the local hospital. He got excellent care and the support staff was fantastic. My mom was at home with hospice care. Sh...

8. So what's going to happen to health care now?

   OHNBJL replied to Rocknurse's topic in General Nursing

   I am terrified that I will be unable to afford health insurance. The proposed changes I've read about include state high risk pools. If this happens, I will never be able to afford insurance. My husband was forced into retirement on disability from h...

9. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

   OHNBJL replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

   I remember when gloves became mandatory. I always wear them for blood draws but insist I have smalls. I agree they can be cumbersome. I often feel for the vein without them. Love butterflies for blood draws.

10. I hate nursing

    OHNBJL replied to Neezy84's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like you went into nursing for all of the wrong reasons. Just because it is a 'family trait and occupation' doesn't mean you were meant to be a nurse. Do what is best for you, not for everyone else and don't be swayed by their comments or innu...

11. Clinical Judgement Call...Not sure if I did the right thing

    OHNBJL replied to AvaRose's topic in General Nursing

    You were absolutely correct in transferring her to the hospital. Don't let the administrator give you the 20/20 hindsight lecture. You assessed and made your decision on facts. Stick to it. As for Medicare guidelines and payments, they will drive yo...

12. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    OHNBJL replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    I remember the week gloves became mandatory. I was working ED and a patient came running in with a fountain of blood spurting from the top of his head. I grabbed a stack of 4 x 4s and ran towards him. The ED doc was screaming at me to out on gloves. ...

13. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    OHNBJL replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    OH yes. I remember the nursing boards. Two days worth with the individual subjects. Sweated my butt off in a large hall in Hartford CT. Also different states had differ t passing scores. The hardest were CA Hawaii and FL. Three levels took boards to...

14. Union gave away random drug testing

    OHNBJL replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. Something predisposed the administration to do this. Was it ? Med errors, ? Reduced insurance rates ? Ie compensation claims. Sounds like they are getting a monetary benefit somewhere for using it to assure a better safe place. Random drug ...

15. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    OHNBJL replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone remember the controlled drugs that came in plastic boxes with slide lids that had little compartments for individual pills? I remember one of my nurses calling me in a panic when the box had opened and the Seconal capsules had fallen out ...