butterphlyrn

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1. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   butterphlyrn replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   I had just gotten a patient extubated and gave him his call light so he could call me if he needed me. I left the room he put his light on. I went in and asked him what it was that he needed and he said... Yeah who won the football game last night. I...

2. Pet Peeves

   butterphlyrn replied to sjb2005's topic in General Nursing

   My biggest pet peeve is not having gtt's to replace the ones that I have up and running. I work in an ICU and I just hate when I come on my shift and I have a dry levo gtt, epi gtt, ect.... and I have no replacement and my patient's vital signs are d...

3. ARE THERE ANY NURSES OUT THERE THAT ACTUALLY "ENJOY" or HAPPY WITH THEIR JOB.

   butterphlyrn replied to dream8's topic in General Nursing

   Monday(labor day) was the worst day I have ever seen as a nurse. In my 12 hour shift we cracked 2 chest + had another code that lasted 2+ hours. I was exausted by the end of the day but still full of adrenalin. Not a single patient listed above lived...

4. Nurse: Patient ratios

   butterphlyrn replied to PButler's topic in MICU

   I work in an icu in michigan. Or nursing rations are 2:1, unless a fresh post of heart, which in 1:1 for 4 hours or unless unstable, cvvhdf if always 1:1, and any patients on echmo (although we don't run the echmo a perfusionists stay at the bedside ...

5. some of my coworkers are spending way to much time on personal phone calls

   butterphlyrn replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

   It is a shame that this seems to be a problem everywhere? the other problem that we have is that it doesn't just apply to the nursing staff, we have our nursing assistants who believe that they can spend 4 hours of their work time one the phone, and ...

6. Bleeding patient

   butterphlyrn replied to javajunkie's topic in MICU

   Wow, I thought that stuff just went on at the hospital that I worked at. Our ICU does medical and surgical. On friday we had a patient who had a CABG. He made it to our ICU bed to recover. Immediately upon getting to the roomhe went into v-tach. We s...

7. central lines

   butterphlyrn replied to pjdk9's topic in MICU

   My situation wasn't a patient from the or to the unit. It was placed on the floor by the intensive care doctor and had I used it I would have bolused her lung. I do however use the line that I receive from the or. I agree with you about getting pati...

8. First day in ICU!

   butterphlyrn replied to Noney's topic in General Nursing

   I too have noticed a gender difference in my hospital. MY husband is also a nurse and actually we work in the same unit. The female doctors we work for expected more out of woman nurses because we are suppose to be smarted then men, so they are hard...

9. central lines

   butterphlyrn replied to pjdk9's topic in MICU

   I had a physican tell me once to go ahead and use a patients subclavian central line before getting a chest x-ray. I really didn't need to use the line emergently so I waited til I got the chest x-ray. I was glad that I did because once we got the x-...