veronica butterfly ADN, RN

veronica butterfly has 10 years experience as a ADN, RN and specializes in Med/Surg, Urg Care, LTC, Rehab.

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1. DO NOT pass on the poop

   veronica butterfly replied to durantetodalanoche's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, sounds like all of you are perfect nurses, have perfect shifts, perfect staffing, perfect policies on overtime... Of course, it's not good nursing to leave someone lying in poop or to pass on a sh*tty job to oncoming staff, but everyone is rai...

2. Is giving meds early common??

   veronica butterfly replied to Bonnie86's topic in Med-Surg

   I've been Med/Surg for 6 years and change my plan of attack daily and depending on the patients. Every day on Med/Surg is so different and I really rely on my intuition. This last weekend I had two heavy pts and two "easy" pts. I knew the nursing ...

3. Feeling defeated, lost and stupid.

   veronica butterfly replied to Bonnie86's topic in Med-Surg

   12 hour day shifts are KILLER! (I just got home from one!). Day shifts are invaluable for experience and learning though, I hope you try and hang in there for awhile. It will get better, I promise!!

4. Feeling defeated, lost and stupid.

   veronica butterfly replied to Bonnie86's topic in Med-Surg

   Hang in there, Bonnie! Med/Surg days feel crazy to everyone and it sounds completely normal how you're feeling. Keep in touch with your manager about how she thinks you're doing, or if you had a preceptor, can you get support from them or have them...

5. Medical/Surgical Patient Worksheets

   veronica butterfly replied to Torig's topic in Med-Surg

   I use vertical columns, 4 to a page, double-sided so 8 total. The vertical makes sense to me... I have Room _____ Pt Name_________ age_________Doc________ Admit date_____ Code_______ Dx_____________ allergies____ PMH________________ BS times/ins...

6. Transferring A Patient to Stepdown/ICU

   veronica butterfly replied to SwimNurseRun's topic in Med-Surg

   Be sure to use the resources around you, respiratory therapy, charge nurse, and your coworkers. If you are having a gut feeling that someone isn't doing well, have someone come and take a look at your pt. When I was a new nurse, I thought I had to ...

7. Just looking for some other opinions on a topic that came up on Oprah

   veronica butterfly replied to mentalhealthRN's topic in General Nursing

   I saw this show too. She talked about how depressed she was and at times she didn't have much desire to keep living. She is on public assistance and the medications make her feel sick, she doesn't have much stamina or energy. And she put her boyfr...

8. preventing skin breakdown on coccyx of dd teenager

   veronica butterfly posted a topic in Wound

   Hello! I am a med/surg nurse and a mom to a 14 year profoundly developmentally delayed boy who has intractable seizures (lennox gaustalt). He is not able to walk, but can sit up. Spends much of his day on a very padded futon on the floor or in his...

9. How do you choose a specialty??

   veronica butterfly replied to nwnikki's topic in Med-Surg

   I think you've got to trust your gut. Is there one area that appeals to you? or that you understand more? If you don't feel any 'pulling' yet, maybe you need to stay put where you are until something tugs at you. I've been med/surg for 4 years. ...

10. Telementry on med/surg floor

    veronica butterfly replied to regularRN's topic in General Nursing

    Our Med/Surg floor at a regional medical center has always had telemetry patients. When I first starting working there 4 yrs ago, the RN was not involved really. We had these pts with heart monitors and we had no idea what it meant. The ICU huc/tech...

11. Most important, commonly used meds in real world?

    veronica butterfly replied to SiennaGreen's topic in Med-Surg

    For pain... Dilaudid, morphine, percoset, toradol for GI... protonix, prilosec, pepcid B/P...atenolol, HCTZ for nausea.... zofran, inapsine, phenergan insulins.... glargine, regular, novolog Good Luck!!

12. drawing blood from picc or port

    veronica butterfly replied to veronica butterfly's topic in Med-Surg

    Yes we take the cap off and draw out blood with a luer lock syringe that fits perfectly on the picc hub.

13. Irrigating foley catheter

    veronica butterfly replied to nursenatalie's topic in Med-Surg

    Depending on what is going on, I adjust my 'technique'... I usually start gently, but if I am working on getting clots or sludge out, I usually have to irrigate a little more aggressively. If the need to irrigate is there, you probably have to work a...

14. Med Surg for intern summer?

    veronica butterfly replied to Student179's topic in Med-Surg

    Are there any areas you are particularly interested in? Otherwise, telemetry/cardiac units, oncology, or emergency department if they will take interns. Those would be departments where you'd see a fair amount of variety.

15. Post-op care of pt's with epidural

    veronica butterfly replied to nbnurse95's topic in Med-Surg

    Our main general surgeon always wants us to give the sub-q heparin... She is smart as a whip and wonderful doc, however, I always document that I spoke to her and she wants the heparin given. ALWAYS makes me nervous...