DRIVERRN

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1. VERY weird code today

   DRIVERRN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

   Hospice Nurses see this type of thing alot. I personally called a family to say goodbye to an elderly woman who had shallow resp. of 6/m and HR of 36 with legs mottled. As soon as I got off the phone, with them on their way, I returned to her bedside...

2. Jay Leno slams nurses!

   DRIVERRN replied to grace90's topic in General Nursing

   One day, like everyone else, jay leno will need and get up close and real personal with a nurse. If he lives and he has memory left, he will be grateful like David Letterman, will recognize the worth of a nurse, and will say something positive as Let...

3. My School is Gone!

   DRIVERRN replied to glascow's topic in Post Graduate

   Please contact some of the nursing schools in Oklahoma. I have read in the papers this state is very cooperative in transferring credits and assisting students and teachers relocate ASAP and resume education without having to pay out of state tuition...

4. Nurse doing cocaine HELP

   DRIVERRN replied to llgrn1987's topic in General Nursing

   No one should have to be put in this position. Neither one of the people using is your friend. Cocaine is their friend. They have put you in legal jeopardy by showing you their illegal activity. If the police had come into the home while you were th...

5. What do patients say that irks you?

   DRIVERRN replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

   OB Doc on checking a footling breech told me, "it,s nothing but a big ole turd--call me when she is presenting", walked out, attempted vag delivery about 6 hrs later and ended up doing a section 2 hours after that. It was twin boys and they made it. ...

6. What do patients say that irks you?

   DRIVERRN replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

   My personal favorite is the Dad who called us on PP and asked how long to leave the baby under the"grow light" with the "duck tape" on the baby's eyes to get the "yellow color to go away". One of our OB docs was a bush pilot and when you woke him at ...

7. Too Many Crabby Nurses!!

   DRIVERRN replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

   I remember one of my instructors in nursing school writing "wanders about aimlessly with nothing to do" about me when I had one patient to care for. I had worked as an aide before school and had bathed up to 15 patients in the same time frame! She wa...

8. In Over My Head?!

   DRIVERRN replied to Blondie26's topic in General Nursing

   As an RN from a Diploma program graduated 1970, I have some advice to offer. Get a job at a hospital on a Med-Surg floor and stick with it for at least a year. You will then have the clinical skills you need to be a nurse. We need you. We need you to...

9. How about this for an order?

   DRIVERRN replied to sharann's topic in General Nursing

   If you did have pain you would forget about it!

10. Have you ever been before the State Board

    DRIVERRN replied to paytonsnana's topic in Career Support

    Every nurse when she senses being "snowballed"--that's an old term--should start anecdotal notes.......Keep track of incidents and "quotes from uncooperative employees" with date and time. Do Not let anyone see you doing this and don't talk to anyone...

11. How do you get it through nurses heads that we MUST be patient advocates?

    DRIVERRN replied to pghfoxfan's topic in General Nursing

    world famous doctor will eventually go down ---watch and see........He will mistreat the wrong(richer, more powerful or family member of such) person and the nurse and he will be out of the loop. Advocacy is not a myth. It works if you make it work. ...

12. How do you get it through nurses heads that we MUST be patient advocates?

    DRIVERRN replied to pghfoxfan's topic in General Nursing

    I must say I have gotten into hot water many many times in my nursing life and it was always worth it in the end to be a patient advocate. I can sleep well knowing I did the right thing, opened my mouth and stood up for what I knew was right even if ...