kate1969

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1. s/p tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy on 14 y/o

   kate1969 posted a topic in Pediatric

   We are almost 24 hrs post op with T&A, my daughter is 14 y/o, obese, hypertensive and anxious...what a mix huh? she has been prescribed oxycodone for pain taking 15cc q4hr with amoxicillin q8hr. The pain meds wear off around about the 3 hr mark,...

2. Help! I'm a NJ respiratory therapist...

   kate1969 replied to NJRT's topic in New Jersey

   try http://www.worldwidelearn.com click on respiratory therapy http://www.rcsw.org, they have some freebies http://www.nellcore.com/educ/onlineed.aspx http://www.ssbinc.com/medway http://www.nurseceu.com/pul.htm start with these, if you need more, ju...

3. Yeah, I am a student nurse, I sit on my lazy but eatting bon bons alllll day long!!!

   kate1969 replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Students

   in my house, it's whenever we get around to doing stuff that we BOTH do it..we both work, make about the same amount half and half... b/f - yard work me - house work b/f - pays bills on time every time ( neither one of us can stand late pays) me - gr...

4. Patients die when turned on left side??

   kate1969 replied to PCUSheryl's topic in General Nursing

   I was pregnant with my oldest child (now 22) and I was toxemic, I was informed my my obstetrician to lay on my left side to control the blood pressure... later in life, a physician told me, if you want to lower BP lay on your left side, if you want t...

5. Help! I'm a NJ respiratory therapist...

   kate1969 replied to NJRT's topic in New Jersey

   sorry, I live a few states away from you...did you get all the online credits?? there are some sites with free ceu's...I don't know of any right off the bat, but try googling it...my facility provides me with 1 ceu a month and I got 12 for taking ACL...

6. What's the weirdest baby name?

   kate1969 replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

   psychiatrist - Amarillo Texas, no lie, look it up... William I Kracke... last name pronounced cracky... short "will I crack"... ex-husband's best friends father was "jack koch" last name pronounce coke.. set of twins in a nursing home in amarillo te...

7. RT refused to give NEB!

   kate1969 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

   albuterol is supposed to be prescribed for wheezing only, if there are secretions in the airway that would tend to cause a wheeze, then albuterol would be in order, if their bronchioles are inflamed and causing a wheeze, then albuterol would be in or...

8. Walking on eggshells at clinicals

   kate1969 replied to zilla704's topic in General Students

   you know, its not that easy learning things for the first time, and when I went through respiratory school I kinda had a leg up, I was a nurse aid years ago, I went to medical assisting school and graduated, I worked as a unit secretary in a hospital...

9. nurses and fake nails

   kate1969 replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

   at my facility there is a policy for nails/nailpolish and no one adheres to it, but it seems as though administration would rather focus on cellphones and their usage in patient rooms, though I hate that too and its another topic on its own, but they...

10. How much housework do you do?

    kate1969 replied to cheshirecat's topic in International

    My house looks like the Munsters house...hehe, I almost never dust and only vaccuum about 2 times per month...haha, there's only 3 of us living here full time and we all agree that life is just too short to be working every day, be it at work or at h...

11. RT refused to give NEB!

    kate1969 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    I'm an RT and I'm very sorry that that happened to you, last noc I was called in to my PRN job and there was a patient there that is a "No code" comfort measures only. I gave him a TX at the scheduled time and he had no PRN orders for nebs, but a nu...

12. Medicine: Have we gone too far? And, is our system ethical as a whole?

    kate1969 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    The long term acute care facility I work at weans people off vents that are more difficult than most to wean, if/when we deem a patient unweanable we inform families of other options ie: compassionate weans/terminal weans. In my state however, medic...

13. New LVN and already TIRED of it!!!

    kate1969 replied to pink2blue1's topic in General Nursing

    Please don't lose hope, I'm just a CRT working on my RRT and as you know, we all have to crawl before we walk, walk before we run, soon, you'll be, oh yeah, you already are running your a$$ off....hehe, sorry, but you know what I mean, you're there f...

14. Banning Crocs?

    kate1969 replied to styRN's topic in Uniform/Gear

    I work in an LTAC and this is my belief "crocs..with holes, without holes, tennis shoes, steel toed boots...what's the diff!" I work in an LTAC and I figure this, I probably have every germ known to man and its not because I don't take every precauti...

15. Understaffed and sick of it!!

    kate1969 replied to kate1969's topic in Geriatric

    I think that's what they're trying to turn my place into.... :)