KristenRN

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1. Is incorporation necessary??????

   KristenRN posted a topic in Entrepreneurs

   Hello to all. Maybe this is a naive question, and I apologize if so! I'm an RN employed part-time in the ICU of a local hospital. I've been approached in the last few weeks about doing private pay/private duty homecare when their family member come...

2. Has a pt given you a chuckle lately?

   KristenRN replied to rileygrl11's topic in Humor

   I was working in a NH on evening shift and placing a Texas catheter on a thoroughly confused elderly male patient. After several minutes of fussing, I finally got it on. The patient then looked at me with this weird look on his face and said, "Does...

3. malpractice insurance

   KristenRN replied to rachel h's topic in CRNA

   I am not a CRNA, just a regular ICU RN but I also carry malpractice over and above what my hospital provides. Someone mentioned in a post something about what the employer/group providing should be sufficient......I had a nursing instrcutor from man...

4. East Coast Winter Storm

   KristenRN replied to Chiaramonte's topic in General Nursing

   Much snow here, about 45 minutes east of DC and just due south of Baltimore...probably somewhere between 2 and 2 1/12 feet with 6 and 8 foot drifts. Haven't seen a snow plow yet. I had to call in to work today, and I feel for the nurses who no doub...

5. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

   KristenRN replied to nilepoc's topic in Humor

   I have also had a resident renew IVF on a patient he'd just pronounced. Hmmmm, some kind of new autopsy in the works here, doc?? Same resident ordered IV Murine for post op pain following eye surgery. Asked him if meant morphine, and he said, "no, ...

6. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

   KristenRN replied to nilepoc's topic in Humor

   I had a co-worker telling us about her work at a small hospital that had only a house doc, no intensivist in house. Pt having seizures, house doc wanted no part of him. She called intensivist at home at 2AM, only to be hung up on several times, the...