traumamomtx

traumamomtx specializes in trauma/ m.s..

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1. blood glucose levels

   traumamomtx posted a topic in General Nursing

   I need a little help. I had a pt all the time ask me why they have to have their blood sugar continually checked when they are not diabetic at all. I know the answer of sickness, maintaining a good level, and all that affects the healing process an...

2. WHAT DO NURSES DO? --help me respond to this question

   traumamomtx replied to RiaRN's topic in General Nursing

   how about spend the other 23:55 minutes with their patients they don't do. Unless the doctors would start doing total, holistic patient care for that 24 hr period of time.

3. Does a personal experience get in the way of the care you provide?

   traumamomtx replied to Onewinglet's topic in General Nursing

   Not that mine relates to a personal experience really, but I have a very difficult time taking care of teenagers. I have 2 of my own and the thought of anything going wrong really concerns me and I feel so uncomfortable to care for them. I usually ...

4. I dread working on Med/Surg

   traumamomtx replied to Neferet's topic in General Nursing

   I started out in Med/Surg and figured as most "I would pay my 1 year dues". Now I'm in trauma/med/surg and have been for 9 yrs. I see everything, I can do just about anything you throw at me, and my critical thinking skills are above average. I fl...

5. THUMBS UP to hospitals banning smoking!!

   traumamomtx replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in Activism

   We went non-smoking in Jan. of this year and it is a joke. People both employees, pt's, and visitors are still smoking, they are just finding better places to hide. I work on a very crazy trauma floor and we have many pt's that if they don't get thei...

6. You Know You're a Nurse When...

   traumamomtx replied to Brownms46's topic in Humor

   When you have sick family members at home and they are afraid you will medicate them like you do at work and they won't wake up for a good 24 hours so they try and pretend they aren't very sick. But you know you can't handle sick people at work and s...

7. Help, Info to lecture high school kids on nursing

   traumamomtx posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm lecturing high school kids on the field of nurisng this coming monday. I need some help from my fellow nurses: 1. any recent graphs and statistics I can run copies of and print for hand-outs. i.e. salaries, race/ gender comparison charts, and pa...

8. What doctors do that bugs you...

   traumamomtx replied to 33-weeker's topic in Ob/Gyn

   doc's who come to you about family complaints that are ridiculous. Ok, first the doc knows the family is a PITA because they have been trying to get them discharged since day one. Ok, so don't come to me and say "did you know Mr. Jones was wet last...

9. What doctors do that bugs you...

   traumamomtx replied to 33-weeker's topic in Ob/Gyn

   doc's that have 20 patients on the floor so they pull every chart stick it on a rolling rack and when the nurse tries to take it for a moment to write something they yell "don't take my charts"....ok, you can't be charting on 20 pts at the same time....

10. House - Is this what nurses do?

    traumamomtx replied to MT RN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't worry you will still at times be treated like an idiot by many, many doctors. They will walk out of a room and tell you "that patient needs their IV to be stopped, Take away their PCA" . Ok, well did you at least take away the PCA button? Di...

11. Night Shift and family issues

    traumamomtx replied to kate1114's topic in General Nursing

    I've been on nights for 8 years and the one thing I learned is don't stress over the dishes, laundry, and so forth. It will get done eventually wether I do it or my husband helps because he doesn't have clean clothes. The friends thing is hard to w...

12. I feel really, really stupid

    traumamomtx replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    You got it already....this stuff is memorizable but if you can understand it and apply it you will be 3 steps ahead of the game. Nursing isn't about memorizing it's about understanding and applying the information. The body is one big machine that ...

13. Appreciated in different ways...

    traumamomtx replied to jack19's topic in General Nursing

    One time we got $5 to spend at Target as our xmas gift; that was special. Another time we got binoculars, like the kind you give a 2yr old, that was just weird. We are always getting t-shirts and stuff but we do have to pay for them we never get th...

14. Am I the only one who finds this disrespectful?

    traumamomtx replied to klone's topic in Ob/Gyn

    get over yourself.....if we didn't laugh at some of these things behind pt's and their families backs we might just cry in front of them; or worse really tell them like it is. We all have to have a place to vent and laugh with our sarcasm because ou...

15. How do you run K+??

    traumamomtx replied to mariedoreen's topic in General Nursing

    put the k+ on the pump and piggy back the main iv fluids on dial-a-flow below the pump it's self so they run at the same time and decrease pain. Run K+ over and hour and only 10meq for peripheral and 20meq with central. For pain I use a warm compres...