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1. Suture scissor injury

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for sharing GrnTea! Very inspiring!

2. Suture scissor injury

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in General Nursing

   what's an easy way to get help without people thinking your crazy? I am scared to admit it but i went through PPD after my first baby and my gyno was just like if you threaten to kill yourself they'll send you to a mental hospital. I was never at tha...

3. Pain Seekers

   ka2rn replied to missswiss44's topic in Relations

   This is a daily thing for me on my job to deal with drug seekers. It bothered me at first but now I too realize that I can't change their behavior and I just give them the meds the dr has ordered. I still struggle with taking them seriously tho, I h...

4. Suture scissor injury

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you this is embarrassing. Im supposed to be strong

5. Suture scissor injury

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in General Nursing

   I was already being texted from the hep c possible stick. I get my follow up testing next month so I will know then. I am just scared and I don't want to admit I probably have ocd. I don't want to die from a blood borne disease. I have a husband and ...

6. Suture scissor injury

   ka2rn posted a topic in General Nursing

   Is there a great risk to catch a disease if you were removing a central line and cutting the sutures and you accidentally poked yourself in the corner of your fingernail? I can't remember if I had already cut the sutures or not. I don't even know if ...

7. Anxiety about diseases

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Safety

   I have read everything there is to read on HIV and Hep C. However, when I had weird symptoms that's when I started worrying more. Even though these could be symptoms of something else. Like a 24 hr stomach virus like I likely had and a cold or sinusi...

8. Anxiety about diseases

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Safety

   I know. I have had 2 needlesticks and felt them. That spot on my hand was just odd.

9. Anxiety about diseases

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Safety

   I'm sorry. I just have been thinking about it constantly and I know I am depressed. I was just hoping to get some support from other nurses about it.

10. Anxiety about diseases

    ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Safety

    How likely do you think you could stick yourself with an iv needle and not feel it?

11. Anxiety about diseases

    ka2rn posted a topic in Safety

    Does anyone ever get paranoid about catching terrible diseases at work? I have a terrible fear of hiv and hepatitis c. Over the summer, I started an iv on an HIV+ patient and have been so paranoid that I touched something. I know I possibly touched t...

12. Hourly rounding. Are you kidding me?

    ka2rn replied to dudette10's topic in Relations

    The facility I work at makes us ask them four p's when we do hourly rounding. Pain, potty, position, and possessions. I have trouble asking grown adults do they need to use the potty lol. They also last week counted how many times our call lights w...

13. Have any of you ever been stuck by a needle and not felt it?

    ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Safety

    This patient was a hard stick and had to be stuck multiple times. Don't throw things at me but I attempted 4 times. I believe it was a with a 20, 22, and 2 24's. I was charge nurse and rarely miss iv's and had the most experience on the floor that da...

14. Have any of you ever been stuck by a needle and not felt it?

    ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Safety

    Yeah. I can't say I didn't get interrupted a few times. My vocera phone was called twice while I was with the patient once I had to leave the room because the supervisor wanted to give me a bed. I'm good about realeasing the safety as I'm pulled the ...

15. Have any of you ever been stuck by a needle and not felt it?

    ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Safety

    I know I am anxious about stuff like this. Hopefully everything will be ok