elizzyRN

elizzyRN

Float Pool - Med-Surg, Tele, Psych

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About elizzyRN

elizzyRN has 3 years experience and specializes in Float Pool - Med-Surg, Tele, Psych.


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  1. Can a new grad have spidey senses??

    An hour and a half is going to be a long long drive after an already long, exhausting shift! Some days I feel like I am barely able to make it home and my commute is only 20 minutes. Unless you're willing to move closer I would go with the second job...
  2. Best choice for emergent desaturation in COPD

    You still need to treat the hypoxia whether the patient has COPD or not. I agree with using a nonrebreather in this situation.
  3. Bed baths

    What is the harm that comes from soap and water baths? In my experience the wipes don't do as good of a job with bad odors as soap and water, and sometimes the wipes leave a sticky residue. I generally prefer to go with soap and water but I certainly...
  4. Nursing nightmares.

    I had a really strange one the other day! In the dream my patient needed some kind of treatment that required me to count every single hair on my head and I kept losing track and having to start over. The other nurses and doctors couldn't understand ...
  5. There are things much worse than death.
  6. How fast do you run blood?

    That's the policy for our med/surg/tele floors. We typically run at 125 ml/hr.
  7. Blue Apron, Hello Fresh, Etc. - Help with Meals

    I've been getting Blue Apron for 4 weeks now and I really enjoy it! I live by myself and the meals have all held up well to eat the second serving as leftovers later in the week. The directions are easy to follow and I've been using a lot of new-to-m...
  8. Words You Hate

    Exasperation - as in "she is here for COPD exasperation". Also, "Zyprexia". There is no "i" in Zyprexa. I hear these all the time and it drives me nuts!
  9. Quick question

    We use gauze and a tegaderm.
  10. What are the top 10 diagnoses you manage?

    These are the most common ones that come to mind for the med-surg floors at my community hospital: chest pain r/o ACS, CHF, COPD, pneumonia, postop abdominal surgery, altered mental status.
  11. Admissions

    At my hospital, we (floor nurses) go to the ED to pick up new admissions and we do bedside report there with the ED nurse and ED provider. I really like it. We get a good overview of the ED course and plan going forward, we get to ask all our questio...
  12. Nursing school bloopers

    I definitely had my share of bloopers during nursing school. This was one of my best: I was taking care of a teenaged patient during my pediatric rotation. I was really flustered, trying to track down a piece of equipment that was missing from his ro...
  13. EKG practices website or apps

    I like this one: ECG Simulator - SkillSTAT
  14. UMass Boston accelerated BSN 2013

    Hi Lexilou. I was also a little apprehensive about this too but I've been happy with my clinical placements so far. Here is where the class has been placed this year: Nursing Process and Skills (summer) - most of the clinical time was in the lab at s...
  15. umass boston accelerated bsn 2012

    Thanks for responding, this is really helpful! :)