ganursechick BSN, RN

ganursechick is a BSN, RN and specializes in Mental Health, & Internal Mmed.

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1. my first time seeing a dad almost pass out

   ganursechick replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

   i had a guy puke all over the floor the other day at work because he happened to walk in the room when i was giving his wife a flu shot!!!:uhoh21: she said that normally when he goes with her to the doctor and she is gonna get a shot, he will turn hi...

2. Worst code blue i have ever seen.....vent.

   ganursechick posted a topic in General Nursing

   :angryfire I work in LTC and usually work weekends, but worked this week 7-3 to help orient a new nurse....this morning, i was in the hallway and heard 'all available nurses to unit one', i left my orientee with another nurse and went to help. When I...

3. need advice

   ganursechick posted a topic in General Nursing

   My mother in law has a history of several medical probs...htn, NIDDM, severe apnea, anurysem in the brain that was removed, and congestive heart failure. last Weds she was admitted and had a small tumor removed from her adrenal gland...she spent 48h...

4. Mortified When I Went To Work This Past Weekend.

   ganursechick posted a topic in General Students

   Ok, I work in a mental health/behaviorally challenged unit of a LTC facility. We (I) work 12 hour shifts on the weekend, and the weekday nurses work 8 hrs. On the 8th of this month, my fellow charge nurse and i were informed by a CNA that she has ...

5. Funny patient names by nurses

   ganursechick replied to Kidrn911's topic in Emergency

   I had a girl that lived down the street from me a long time ago, and her mom and dad were HUGE SF 49 football fans at the time. Mom got pregnant, and they decided they would name the baby JOE MONTANA SMITH.....well the baby was a girl. so they named...

6. I Double Dawg Dare You, Do It!

   ganursechick replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

   okay here is mine....i am a fairly new nurse (since April) and I work in LTC. Kinda ironic that I chose that line of work due to the fact that i grew up with one grandparent and lost him way too early for my liking.... My resident was Raymond...he w...

7. Greatest code brown stories!

   ganursechick replied to sweetpea839's topic in General Nursing

   i work in a mental health/behavioral health unit of LTC, we have one patient, male who has an extremely high sex drive.....he is in his room as much as possible making love to his 'matress wife'....one night as i was doing fsbs checks,,,i went to his...

8. How Many sucessful VBAC's..

   ganursechick replied to Cherry2's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I had my oldest daughter by c-section in 94 after being induced for 2 days and only progressing to 9cm.....the c section was okay.:) in 98 i was convinced that a vbac was a good idea and i was a good candidate for it....so i had my second daughter ...

9. What's your story? Why did you take up nursing?

   ganursechick replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

   i have wanted to be a nurse since my second daughter was born...she was really sick and spent a lot of time in the childrens hospital...just to sit there and watch the nurses, respiratory therapists and docs show so much compassion for a child that s...

10. Call light question-Please help...(m)

    ganursechick replied to pink2blue1's topic in General Nursing

    even where i work in the mental health/behavioral health unit of a LTC, we have a lady who likes to rip the cord out of the wall and swing it at people...she should have been a cowboy the way she can swing that lasso...but we have to get it from her ...

11. How much clinical time do you get?

    ganursechick replied to S.N. Visit's topic in General Students

    when i was in my lpn program last year, we had clinicals on tues and wed from 0530am to 0500pm every week...clinicals were 3 semesters long. we had to complete a minimum of 700 hours of clinicals to complete the program.

12. Starting LTC Tonight! In need of some encouragement and tips.

    ganursechick replied to estrogen's topic in Geriatric

    i work in LTC and am a new grad..never worked in healthcare before, but I love elderly people and of course was nervous when i started there in April. I have learned so much more about wound care and pressure ulcers than i ever did in clinicals. we...

13. What do patients say that irks you?

    ganursechick replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    yeah the one about threatening a child is bad , but its really bad when you work in the behavior unit of a LTC facility, and the residents tell each other, if you dont take your medicine, she is gonna give you a shot....man that is bad.

14. Is the HESI required for graduation, what's your school's NCLEX pass rate?

    ganursechick replied to mermette's topic in General Students

    at our school we had to take the hesi to graduate, and you had to score at least 900 to pass it.....our campus has a 100% pass rate on the NCLEX and the main campus of our school has about a 96% pass rate. they also require you to take the NLN at th...

15. When you are on your period...

    ganursechick replied to Heartfelt4Newborns's topic in Ob/Gyn

    here is a good website you can check out too....beinggirl.com