Southern Fried RN

Southern Fried RN has 9 years experience and specializes in Critical care.

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1. Visitation policy of children in L&D/ Mother Baby/ LDRP

   Southern Fried RN replied to MemphisOBRNC's topic in Ob/Gyn

   NICU: No visitors except immediate adult family members (mom, dad) unless the adult visitor was escorted by mom or dad. No children, not even siblings. Otherwise, pretty open about children except when all that H1N1 was going around. No children un...

2. Well.. I *was* a cardiac nurse

   Southern Fried RN replied to TorsadesDePointesRN's topic in General Nursing

   Anyone with an acute process that is requiring q1h neuro checks belongs in a neuro ICU, period. Neuro patients who are that acute can and do go bad quickly, the results of which could be devastating for the patient. It puts the hospital in a positi...

3. Telling The Truth: A Nurse Who Stutters

   Southern Fried RN replied to RN0310's topic in General Nursing

   I work with a nurse who stammers. He tends to do it more when he's stressed out. He just takes his time speaking slowly to get his point across. It's very tempting to fill in the word for him when I know what he's trying to say, but I feel that w...

4. lethargic(and need ABG) or just tired???

   Southern Fried RN replied to pink816's topic in General Nursing

   Agreed. I've seen patients with 100% o2 sat, RR 16, obtunded with a pH of 7.19 and pCO2 of 90. Some patients may be undiagnosed OSA, then add general anesthesia and narcotics....you are definitely right to be concerned and not brush it off as just m...

5. What do you say when calling out sick as a nurse?

   Southern Fried RN replied to Kitty Hawk's topic in Career Support

   I work in a very small, specialized department. We only have a few full-time people and even less PRNs. Our NM expects us to be "dependable" which means come to work when you are sick and if you can't then make calls begging the other FT people to ...

6. Torn between continuing my education and my family :(

   Southern Fried RN replied to wifeandmomoftwo's topic in General Nursing

   I'm in graduate school, work full-time and have a preschooler and an infant at home. I certainly do not ignore my children and I am very involved in raising them. Does it make me a tiny bit sad to drop them off at daycare when I go to work or class...

7. Question about CHF

   Southern Fried RN replied to Ginger80's topic in Geriatric

   Severe left side heart failure eventually results in right side failure. The patient who starts with tachypnea, crackles, cough will have that before developing JVD and peripheral edema. Purely right side failure (cor pulmonae) is not nearly as com...

8. Question about CHF

   Southern Fried RN replied to Ginger80's topic in Geriatric

   Maybe someone should call the physician or nurse practitioner for additional Lasix (or whatever diuretic). Seriously, if the patient's legs are swelling more lately that probably needs to be addressed. Fluid might already be in the lungs, how is th...

9. Political Discussions at Work

   Southern Fried RN replied to drgnflydggr's topic in General Nursing

   I think this might backfire in your face. It's one thing for the surgeons to disparage a political figure. Unless the surgeon is calling *you* a moron for supporting the other side, harassing you with questions about your viewpoint, etc, I don't t...

10. High school students get angry if you tell them the truth about nursing

    Southern Fried RN replied to Vtachy1's topic in General Nursing

    My 17 year old cousin wants to be a surgeon. I think she's fairly serious about it, taking AP courses and planning on a biology or chemistry degree. However, she did make a FB post about being tired from getting up so early (5am) for her Barnes and...

11. slow code?

    Southern Fried RN replied to pbmnms2's topic in General Nursing

    I am a rapid response nurse. I would have wanted you to call me for a patient like that because the code status is still "full." To ignore a change in VS/condition like that because someone thinks he should not be a full code is unethical and will ge...

12. UPS Drivers make HOW much????

    Southern Fried RN replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in General Nursing

    My father works for UPS, he drives tractor-trailors full of packages on the interstate although he did deliver packages many years ago. His salary is in that range; however he has been with the company 30 years and works about 55 hrs per week. I d...

13. OBs doing unnecessary C-Sections and inductions

    Southern Fried RN replied to a_wallace4's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm 24 weeks with a boy and have a date scheduled for an "elective" c-section. I say "elective" because my OBGYN doesn't do VBACs. My first son was born via c-section for what I am told was CPD. I was 40w5d when I was basically told by the CNM I ne...

14. OB Rapid response team

    Southern Fried RN replied to momsdabom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Sounds like not having 24/7 anesthesia coverage is the first problem. Even if all the other team members are present for the emergency, it's not going to do any good unless someone can put the patient to sleep. Second, why isn't the L&D/PP a ...

15. Best and Worst of working CCU

    Southern Fried RN replied to pilpusher's topic in CCU

    Purely my own experince but it seemed like I had a lot less code browns happening in CVICU as opposed to MSICU! LOL.