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Marla, I have faith that you'll get through this okay.

People are afraid to deal with mental issues because they aren't an easy fix, and out of fear, but also from denial. "That is not me, that is not my family, that is dangerous, etc." Then they get...

I am one of the nurses who tells people they are not supposed to be "pain free" at all times. I tell preops they are going to have pain, but we will try for taking the edge off. I tell postops it's...

Tell them a written report will help you get your shift started sooner, and save them from having to interrupt you once you have gotten started?

There have been quite a few that were memorable. My first DIC patient I wound up sharing with another nurse, we did hour on, hour off for him- the hour out of the room we would snack, pee, chart and...

I recommend the Sylvia Rayfield books- one on meds and one on basic nursing. I recommended them several times, to folks who didn't pass NCLEX the first time. They passed using that course. This is...

Fruit of the Loom long sleeved tee shirts are comfy and do help. Also LL bean makes silk undershirts if you have a pricy budget (I don't, well I might could try one but I keep forgetting about...

I got influenza A this year from a patient, and gave it to my husband before either of us knew what hit us. Our entire household was vaccinated. It wasn't a good week. I shudder to think how it...

I've seen patients get 80 mg IV lasix as an IV push, given over oh, ten minutes or so... Of course for those patients there was backup potassium ordered. There should have been as well, for your...

When I was in school, the focus was on pass clinicals, get good grades. Period. So for some reason I do remember some things about my patients from clinicals, but I couldn't tell you their names...

And on the practical side of things, don't put solidifier in a full container of nicely acidic bile from the suction thingy on the wall. Seriously. Dump a little down the toilet first, or you'll...

My boss explained that at our facility, we intend to have it work this way: you must tell the supervisor what you think. You have to have actual objective events to say something. He or she will...

I have learned to ask people to differentiate by saying, ok so does it make you itch, get a rash, or does your throat swell up and give you trouble breathing? If yes, allergy and that's that. If...

I think only HCA hospitals use Group One in Georgia, but I may be wrong.

I have had a lot of experience with quads, ALS, etc. I dread them, I find out as soon as I can what things they are picky about and how they want "it" done, it meaning everything, and whether or not...

I'm glad I never did that. Of course I have wanted to! The one time I know someone who did, it turned out to be the wrong patient to pull the light out of the wall on; she was a trach patient who ...

I think my problem with the whole deal was posting the info on the assignment board. We have occasionally just known amongst ourselves that a certain race or sex would be better suited to deal with...

I know many nurses with autoimmune problems, two of whom have lupus. One recently retired; she worked about 30 years or so, with a lot of old icu experience, and in the year or two before she...

I will say, I don't particularly enjoy my dinner when it's brunswick stew interrupted by poop cleanup on a liver patient, who ate meat and tomatoes and apparently digested none of it due to the...

I change my bag about every 3-6 months depending on mood and the state of my back. As in, when my back is good I can carry my saddleback tote which is heavy but looks good, when it's not I switch it...

House has docs hanging IV fluid bags. I am pretty sure I would have some kind of conniption fit if any doctor touched my IV's.

For facebook I do have my picture. When I made the account I wanted to connect with some old friends who would not have recognized my married name, and I didn't want to put a super long name on...

I'm a heathen, and what I mean by that is that I don't belong to a religious group, and I refuse to be accepted into one. I don't trust large groups of people at all, and I prefer to be what I am,...

I thought the OP was asking how to translate the info so it's more easily understood.

It works on the same receptors as the opiates, however it is only an agonist to those receptors, and not an opiate in and of itself, so you get pain relief without vomiting up your toenails (if that...