GI Issue Nurse

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1. First "Code Blue" experience

   GI Issue Nurse replied to Jennerizer's topic in General Students

   Jenn You did a great thing. So many of us get so involved in the action that we forget about the family. You will be remember by the mother and the rest of the patient's family as the one who helped "Mom" when she needed it most. Moments like thes...

2. For My Fellow Veterans

   GI Issue Nurse replied to kmchugh's topic in Humor

   I have not read these in years. I have not seen the version with the quoted remarks before. Thank you so much for the memories and the laughs. :chuckle

3. burnout anyone else experience it?

   GI Issue Nurse replied to greyhair's topic in General Nursing

   Dear Burnout Burnout is a very real problem in our profession. There is tons of literature out there on the issue and ways to cope with it. As you well know, we are hardest on ourselves and our fellow nurses. Please take the time to cope and do no...

4. Stool transplant???

   GI Issue Nurse replied to Sadie04's topic in General Nursing

   C diff would be much worse than a stool transplant!! You don't drink it! Just think....C diff can kill you or make you wish that it would since you life is so miserable. A stool enema and cha-ching you're well in a couple of days!

5. Stool transplant???

   GI Issue Nurse replied to Sadie04's topic in General Nursing

   Actually makes a lot of sense and the thought does NOT gross me out, but there is the little fact that I manage an GI Endo lab!! ( :rotfl: :rotfl: LOL, LOL:roll ) Not something most of us feel comfortable thinking about doing but if the patient gets...

6. What does your post name reflect about you?

   GI Issue Nurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

   My name has 2 meanings. I currently manage an Endoscopy Lab which covers "GI Nurse" but I also spent many yrs in the USAF therefore I'm "GI Issue Nurse" for "Government Issue Nurse, 1 each"! I have enjoyed reading all of the post for this topic. W...

7. A few questions.

   GI Issue Nurse replied to mrsabradford's topic in General Nursing

   Get your ADN and work. Be really careful about student loans because Med school can leave you with debts that could take you a lifetime to repay. Doctors do not have the earning power that they use to have and many of the young ones that I work wi...

8. Any thoughts and words of wisdom greatly appreciated.

   GI Issue Nurse replied to Nurse2be's topic in General Nursing

   Dear Nurse2Be, I feel your pain! I quit a higher paying job to take a lower paying one but with different trade-offs. I was in the military as is my husband, who is also a nurse. The reasons are too many and detailed to recount here but the most im...

9. 14 Nurses Fired and 9 disciplined in Kentucky

   GI Issue Nurse replied to nurseattorney's topic in General Nursing

   I called a physician for an End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patient that had an extremely elevated blood glucose and had been on Nipride for hypertensive crisis. This doc had written a transfer to the floor order as well as a D/C Nipride order. He h...

10. Good nursing shoes

    GI Issue Nurse replied to doularoz's topic in General Nursing

    The absolute best shoes that I have found are the Anywears clogs. I have bad knees and a bad back and have been wearing these clogs for 4 years. The same pair!! All I have to do is change out the insole about twice a year. I also wear VERy good s...

11. Survey: Which of the following factors most negatively influences nurses morale?

    GI Issue Nurse replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Staffing is a hot topic in the SICU where I work. Lately the issue has been calling people off because of low patient census then the manager crying foul when a nurse will schedule themselves to work an inpatient floor on an off day to make up the h...

12. Going Back To Wearing Whites and The Cap!

    GI Issue Nurse replied to live4today's topic in General Nursing

    I have always felt that if a facility wants its nurses, especially in critical care areas, to wear scrubs it should supply them and launder them. Change in and out of street clothes and leave the scrubs in the hospital. It only makes sense to leave...

13. Patient Dies in Horrible Elevator Accident

    GI Issue Nurse replied to Brita01's topic in General Nursing

    JCAHO & OSHA may have a thing or two to say about the stairway door being locked! The only doors that are suppose to be locked are doors that do not lead to an egress from the building or doors leading out of a locked down psych unit.