StephanieMc

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1. Foreign Objects in Body Cavities

   StephanieMc replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

   Ditto shiloh!!

2. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

   StephanieMc replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro

   I tend to agree with this to a point, from my personal experience with my son. We took him to Chicago University for his transplant and that is where we stayed for 4 months until he died. I had some altercations with the doctor there but that happe...

3. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

   StephanieMc replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro

   I APPLAUD you Kyriaka.....I give you a standing ovation for being able to survive all you have endured..

4. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

   StephanieMc replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro

   Stevierae...you are oh so wrong. Patients that have been declared braindead are not dead and they can hear. Read my article about my son I wrote. You will never convince me he didnt hear me or the nurses that made his HR increase with their loud v...

5. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

   StephanieMc replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro

   Thank you Kyriaka. I am sorry for your loss of your 4year year old. You didnt the the outcome of your 7year old that was put on life support. If he passed I am so sorry and know your pain. If not, how is he? And I am so glad to hear that you have...

6. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

   StephanieMc replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro

   Leslie, thak you for asking, but Brian died April 10th, 1990 2 months after he received his liver transplant. It seems there was a fungus on the hepatic artery of the donor liver and it continued growing after transplant and ate a whole in the hepat...

7. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

   StephanieMc replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro

   Thank you Kim. It hasnt been an easy road to go down, even now, but it did give me whole new prospective on alot of things pertaining to how I approach and treat my patients and their family members. Not that I ever treated them badly, it just gave m...

8. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

   StephanieMc replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro

   14 years ago, after a liver transplant that went terribly wrong, my 15 y/o son was diagnosed brain dead. After making the decision of taking him off of the vent, we moved him into a private room whre we could stay with him until the end and it was m...

9. ACLS Question

   StephanieMc replied to Stitchie's topic in Emergency

   Stitchie....take a deep breath, relax and you will do fine. The ACLS that most every one uses now is less stressed and very few people cannot pass it if they have experience, which it sounds a s if you do. so relax..I think you will do fine, just r...

10. Expert Advise Needed Quickly Regarding Cardiac Catherization

    StephanieMc replied to nurturing_angel's topic in CCU

    I totally agree with your answer to her question. Quit trying to blame this on other reasons when the stress test came back abnormal. Denial is a straight road to an MI and you may not get a second chance. Fire that cardio and get another but hav...

11. ACLS Question

    StephanieMc replied to Stitchie's topic in Emergency

    Stitchie....you have the date down as April 26th. Today is May 20th. We just want to make sure you havent missed your test or you have just mistaken May with April.Double Check sweetie I would hate to thikn you missed it already. Stephanie;)

12. Professional in scrubs?

    StephanieMc replied to Kora0880's topic in General Students

    OBGirl....I know what you are feeling, I felt that way too while i was in school and right after I graduated in 1978. But trust me your infatuation with "white" will be short lived. It gets old and I have had more patients tellme then not that they...

13. Professional in scrubs?

    StephanieMc replied to Kora0880's topic in General Students

    Lysa...I totally agree with you. It doesnt matter what color you wear. The care you give to your patients is what the patients will remember. And one step further, if the patient has had 2 good nurses in white and one bad one with an attitude wear...