shoelace

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1. If you have a closed unit (ie, do not have to float out...)

   shoelace posted a topic in General Nursing

   How do you manage it? Currently, the nurses in our CCU float out to 3 other departments. One of those departments used to float in to help us out, but the nurses who always got stuck floating to us decided that they didn't want to anymore, so now th...

2. Standardized Uniforms?

   shoelace posted a topic in General Nursing

   Currently at the hospital I work at, we can pretty much wear whatever we want. Most of us wear scrubs, some wear a top with scrub pants and jacket, etc. Very few wear "street clothes." And those that do - it doesn't look that bad. It's not like t...

3. Need some Ideas

   shoelace replied to nurse_elyse's topic in General Nursing

   If you can get some petri dishes somewhere and can go to the classroom about a week or so before your presentation, pick 3 kids to come with youl. Have one run their finger over a petri dish right away. Have another go rinse their hands with water on...

4. Got a flu shot - now my entire arm hurts

   shoelace posted a topic in General Nursing

   Has anyone experienced this? I had a flu shot yesterday. Last night, about 9 hours afterwards, the injection site became very sore (which I expected). But soon after and since then, my entire right arm down to the fingers has these flare-ups of p...

5. new nurse-i feel useless when a code is called.

   shoelace replied to JulieRN07's topic in General Nursing

   Get in there and do chest compressions! It's not mindless work or anything, but you can at least peripherally observe what else is going on and get more comfortable in a code situation. If you're doing compressions, no one can ask you to do meds, d...

6. Most dreaded Dr.'s orders

   shoelace replied to BBFRN's topic in General Nursing

   I had a guy with priapism once. Urology came in and did the same thing - speared the patient's swollen member. He then just let the blood flow out of the needle onto the bed. Nice. Once he let the patient bleed out a couple hundred cc's, he ASKED ...

7. What's you highest...?

   shoelace replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

   This isn't a lab value, but I was amazed... We were detoxing a young man from alcohol... giving him continuous IV Ativan and IV Haldol was given every 2 hours. The dose of Haldol was 5mg at a pop. The dose of Ativan was 40mg. PER HOUR. Groggy, but ...

8. Injecting good humor in the work place...getting thru the grind.

   shoelace replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

   I bought a magic fairy wand.. It makes "brrrrrring!" noise when you "flick" it at someone. Sure helps to lighten the mood when that thing comes out. :-)

9. codeblog....

   shoelace replied to KBnursestudent's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for posting the link :-) I maintain the site. To the person who said there was only one "nursing student" entry - I've long forgotten the entertaining moments of nursing school... If you have anything to contribute to be posted, click on the ...

10. My baby was a 24 weeker...

    shoelace replied to foxy star's topic in NICU

    She is absolutely beautiful. Make sure you visit the NICU with her... nurses like to see the fruits of their labor :-)

11. Critical care nursing

    shoelace replied to superaudree's topic in General Nursing

    I started out as a new grad on med-surg, working nights. The morning I put in my transfer to ICU came after a night where I had 3 admissions, making 10 patients. It was the night from hell; very sick patients. I did med-surg for 6 months and have do...

12. Nurses with Adult ADD

    shoelace replied to echo*echo's topic in General Nursing

    Wow!!! What an excellent thread!! So much of what I've just read resonates very strongly with me. I was dx with depression in high school, was put on and off Prozac during first few years of college, then totally hit the bottom junior year and was st...

13. Medication Errors and You. And Cheese.

    shoelace replied to shoelace's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I have much the same situation. I think the admins are asking for suggestions on a broader scale, like hospital-wide. I work in CCU, never have more than 2 patients, and our charge is almost always free to help out, co-ordinate admissions/tra...

14. ER vs ICU, how did we get there?

    shoelace replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    ICU and ER at my hospital gets along fairly well, but there is bad blood related to a few things. Awhile back, several nurses offered to cross-train to ER to float there when our census was low. Almost all of those nurses now refuse to go to ER beca...

15. Medication Errors and You. And Cheese.

    shoelace posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok, so I was kidding about the cheese part. Sorry. I'm looking for input. My hospital is looking for ways to reduce medication errors, specifically errors of omission and "late" meds. We have a computer-entry system that prints out orders for us. O...