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Feb 13, 2005, 10:06 AM
Originally Posted by smiles13 From babysitting I realize that once baby boys are undiapered, they usually pee... So, in the nursery I tried to be careful and cover them ASPA. One night I wasn't so lucky... changing a one boy, I got myself of the forehead. Then... I had to weigh another boy. He had just gone, so I set his little naked body on the scale and I looked up to see a raining stream of pee that went from one bassinette almost them all as he squirmed his little body. Not only did it get other babies... he got my preceptor, too.
You're lucky. During my pediatric rotation, I was assigned an 8 month old premie. Had to change his Diaper. Lets just say that his urine was a very good vintage. Enough said.
Adam
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Feb 13, 2005, 11:02 AM
Originally Posted by Titiana "They giving you a hard time?"
ROFLMAO!!  | | No. 73 |
Feb 13, 2005, 10:22 PM
I wrote in a note, "no breath sounds." Forgot that one word....
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Feb 14, 2005, 12:46 AM
 I'm gonna take a wild guess... Originally Posted by KibbsRNstudent I am sorry but I have to ask what was wrong with this? I start cliniclas in the fall and I would have done the same thing. I do not want to make a worng mistake if I can help it so please tell me why if the orders said to take the staples out and she did then why was it wrong? Is there a rule that says only take staples out of a certain part of the body or something?. Eek.
I have no nursing experience, no nursing school...nothing. But, somehow, I think I can figure this one out. Lemme see if I get it right. If you have an incision that has been stapled shut and someone is told to remove half of those staples, I'd assume they mean, remove every other staple. I imagine it's because the incision isn't quite healed enough to remove all the staples. Maybe it's even a "testing the waters" kinda thing.
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Feb 14, 2005, 01:39 AM
Originally Posted by TweetiePieRN My nursing student buddy asked me to help her pull her pt up in bed. The pt was really groggy and was asking why were we pulling him up in bed. I told him "So your feet don't get caught down here at the bottom." We pulled him up, got him all comfortable, and it was then when I realized he was a double above the knee amputee!!!
Me and a fellow student were giving a kind of heavy looking woman a boost in bed. Well, I guess we didn't realize our own strength, or over-estimated her heaviness, because the two of us boosted her up and slammed her head right into the headboard. We felt absolutely terrible.
Pt ok, CT scan negative.  | | No. 76 |
Feb 14, 2005, 08:27 AM
Originally Posted by NoCrumping My nursing student buddy asked me to help her pull her pt up in bed. The pt was really groggy and was asking why were we pulling him up in bed. I told him "So your feet don't get caught down here at the bottom." We pulled him up, got him all comfortable, and it was then when I realized he was a double above the knee amputee!!!
Waaaaaaaaay back in the Dark Ages, it was discovered by the nursing staff that I apparently had supernatural powers. To wit, according to my charting, I had walked John, a double amputee, every single day for a solid month! Hallelujah!
What the staff failed to tell me is that both residents in the room had switched beds, nor was it reflected in the charts because it was such a small facility that everyone knew everyone else--except me.
The error was corrected and nobody sued. In fact, both of the guys got a kick (pardon the pun  ) out of it when they heard about it.
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Feb 15, 2005, 06:59 AM
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Feb 15, 2005 at 07:02 AM by cjssn
Funny you mention this... Originally Posted by jannecdote My most embarrassing moment happened the first time I inserted a foley catheter into a female patient. Embarrassing because I am a woman and you would think I would know a little sumpin' about sumpin'.
Anyway, I prepare the patient and the sterile field and am ready to start. I tell the patient I am going to touch her, and then carefully and slowly clean her with the betadine soaked cotton balls--taking great care to clean the area I THINK is her urethral meatus. This is so embarrassing--I cringe now just thinking about it. Right before I get ready to insert the tip of the catheter into a small crease that I THINK is the urethral meatus, I get a feeling something is not quite right and hesitate. At this point, I've got the catheter just a few inches away from where I am planning to insert it. I'm so nervous I can hardly think straight because the instructor and 3 other classmates are watching. The instructor tells me to go ahead, and mercy me, I have a moment where the fog clears out of my brain and I realize what I think is her urethral meatus is actually her clitoris. In that split second of lucid thinking--you know how nervous you get with the instructor watching--I took a closer look, saw the 'real' meatus and inserted the catheter correctly--realizing how close I came to making a mistake. I felt so stupid and my face turned red as a beet. I don't know if my instructor knew--I wouldn't doubt it because she was smart as a whip--but she just looked at me, smiled and said "Good job."
Last year during clinical one of my friends had to insert a foley in a woman. None of us had done this yet so we were all eager to watch. The poor girl goes in there with the instuctor and three students. She explains to the patient what she is going to do and then begins to set up. Well The patient is not happy and is yelling out the whole time which only makes my friend more nervous. When it comes time to insert we all look and realize there is no definite looking meatus. There are these little holes all over, or they were spots that looks like holes. Our instructor justs starts pointing and saying, "Try this one, try that one." The poor woman is yelling in pain and the student is getting upset. Suddenly one of the other students who had been a nurse in another country says, " One time we had a patient and we had to put it in her vagina." We all kind of looked at her, but the instructor said, " I don't know, try it." So the student put it in and sure enough it worked. The stuff that came out, uuggh! It was so gross! It figures the week after in lecture we were told about how this might be a possibility when you can't find it on the outside.
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Feb 15, 2005, 12:34 PM
 nursing school
when i was in nursing school, i definantly had some awkward moments.heres a couple i remember from school
1. i was told to get a u/a from a pt with a foley, when i asked how i was told "just draw from the port." so i drew a curiously clear sample, only i drew it from the balloon port! to make matters so much more humiliating, the pt's daughter was in the room, and yes, she was an rn with 10 plus years of experiance! she was very nice about it, were able to reinflate the balloon and save the catheter, but i'm sure she wondered about the care she was leaving her father in!
2. a girl i went to school with was supposed to get a stool sample, she didn't know you only need a little stool. so she packs the little container to the top with stool and sticks the lid on and tubes it to lab. we were told it exploded from the gas buildup in the lab. we had a good laugh and learned a good lesson. now all stool specimens must be walked to the lab.
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Feb 22, 2005, 12:49 AM
On Peds, I was doing the admit on a baby, and she was called down to X-ray, so my instructor told me to go along, and do what paper work I could during the waiting. Babe already had an IV, so off we went, mom, baby, big sister, the pump and me. We got to the elevator, and the pump starts beeping, and I don't have a clue what to do to make it shut up! and I'm SO nervous because the mom is a peds RN, one of the best. She relizes my problem, and teaches me how to work this pump-absolute class-and I just wanted to die!!!  She was so kind, so I settled down and the rest of the shift was fine.
Then a couple weeks ago, (now I'm on sug) my instructor calls me, and I see her and an RN standing by the med cart. So I go over and instructor is holding a bottle of Humulin R out to me. I take it and start to say, 'insulin", when she says so and so Pt's guc was ___. I look rather blankly at her  , when the RN shows me the insulin administration record out and all of a sudden the LIGHT GOES ON  It turns out I'm two and a half hours late with insulin!!!  The RN says ' we both missed it', she forgot too. We gave it imediately, and I found out from my instructor that it wasn't as critical THIS time, b/c this pt is on TPN, so no spikes and valleys, nor is he actually a diabetic. The insulin was being given because he has acute pancreatitis.
It took me awhile to stop shaking!!!
Now I check the print out AND the divider in the MAR AND the purple section in the chart!!!!
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