misschelei
has 8 years experience and specializes in Picu, ICU, Burn.
I work agency exclusively while dh is in nursing school. I also enjoy the flexibility so I can be home with my 4 year old little girl and her brother who is on the way....due March 1st 2008.
Well little did I know when I originally wrote this that a week later PIH would come back to play. I got sent to the hospital from the doc for labs and to make sure baby was ok. He was but I was given a shot of betamethasone for the baby's lungs just...
misschelei replied to Hoping2beRN's topic in Ob/Gyn
I should add you don't have to be an LC only. You can give great bf info to your patient as their nurse as well. You will run into nursing moms not only on L&D units but NICU's and Peds as well. So keep that in mind.
misschelei replied to Hoping2beRN's topic in Ob/Gyn
I can tell you I had a bad experience with LC when I had my daughter 4 years ago. She was small and having a hard time latching since I was extremely engorged (I know tmi) but the LC just kinda went through the basics with me. Then she left me soakin...
misschelei replied to Fancy Face's topic in Agency
Hang in there diarygirl....I haven't worked in almost a week either. Though I haven't really tried very hard cuz my back and hips are so sore from bein prego It takes me days to recover from a shift. But need the money really bad too. I'm scheduled t...
misschelei replied to VinoLover2030's topic in Agency
Be very specific with everyone in the office if you go back to agency. Only work in areas you are comfortable in or you will get in over your head fast. You should know exactly what you are doing when you show up on a floor as an agency nurse. Your m...
misschelei replied to Grumpy's Girl's topic in MICU
One of the hospitals I work for has a specific name called overhead for a family called RRT. I don't know if that's just an FYI to the responders or if it means walk slower (lol) but the whole thing is a little silly.
I posted on here over 2 years ago thought I would renew my story..... I hate to believe that children are ever left behind as ghosts. That said we have a room in the PICU I used to work at that is reserved to accomodate families with a dying child. O...
We used it when I worked burn until we could nurse them back to health. One patient we had for a good 6 months on the unit who was on crrt for a while was discharged and I had him as a patient 7 years later at another hospital for an unrelated issue.
misschelei replied to BlondieRN09's topic in Uniform/Gear
Apparently Crocs are the devil. There's huge threads about them on here somewhere. They have even been banned from many hospitals. I personally have had a pair for over 5 years. Not the one's with holes in them...for goodness sake it's a hospital cov...
misschelei replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing
I would never accept a verbal or telephone order given to anyone other a nurse. And if another nurse besides myself took the order I would even ask that nurse to write the order.
I know one hospital that has public service posters in the hallways of the docs we all know smiling and using hand sanitizer or hand washing encouraging everyone to do the same. I have to admit they get more of a reaction (uncontrolled laughter) than...
What scares me more than anything is the staff who basically touch everyone in the hopsital like RT's, phlebotomists, and Xray. I can't tell you how many times I've seen them ignore isolation signs, not wear gloves at all or forget to wash their hand...