Y2KRN

Y2KRN

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  1. ??Pregnant???

    Hello, This thread is close to my heart and I can see both sides of the story. I started an ADN nursing program when I was six months pregnant with my second child. I found out I was pregnant two days before I found out that I was accepted to the ...
  2. Standby: VENTING

    Hello, I just wanted to say that I know an ER nurse who got accepted into CRNA School without ICU experience. I personally have never worked ICU. However, the school he applied at was impressed with the drips we did in the ER, the conscious sedatio...
  3. New Grads in the ED (?)

    Hello, I can tell you that I went to the ED after working the floor for only a year. I went to the floor because that is what I was encouraged to do. I hated the floor, and I love the ED. I must tell you going to the ED was a big learning curve,...
  4. Haldol IV??

    I say bring on the vit. H IV preferred!!! However any route will do!! Y2KRN
  5. When does it get better

    Hello, I just wanted to tell you that my thoughts and prayers are with you!! You have received good advice here and you are definately on the right track. It is soo hard to be a young single mother, I was raised by one! I am soo proud of my mother...
  6. My son has Constipation

    Hello, My son is six and a half years old. He had a bowel movement on Saturday nov.15th. His x-ray showed that he was " full of stool" as the DR. nurse said. They did not do any lab work just the x-ray of his abdomen. They also checked his blood...
  7. My son has Constipation

    Hello Peds nurses, I have got a question for you! My son has been vomiting since Sunday morning. He had a fever of about 101.1, could not keep fluids down. I thought it was the flu, so I gave him lots of tlc and fluids every hour ( even though he ...
  8. Tired Of Abuse!

    Hey Speculating, That was a lot of extra work but, sounds like the outcome was well worth it for the child!!! You did the right thing!! I wish I could have had the warm fuzzies after my situation. I know I did the right thing for the little boys, ...
  9. Tired Of Abuse!

    Hello Fellow ER nurses, I just have to vent!!! I am soo tired of the abuse we take as ER nurses. Here is the scenario, just happened on my last shift! Come in get report, have a patient little boy, six up for discharge after his bolus of fluids a...
  10. # of ED Visits Per Year ?

    Hey, Our ED sees 82,000 a year has 40 beds and 10 fast care beds. Six Trauma rooms and nooooo staff. Y2KRN
  11. I got a DUI

    Hello, I am soo sorry to hear about your plight, and I think that taking responsibility for your actions is very commendable. I am an ER nurse and I once had a patient that I would not discharge because I gave him narcotics and he did not have a ri...
  12. Uti In Infants Question

    Hello guys, I was just wondering if anyone knows if the risk is high for pseudomonas infection in urine after an in and out cath of an infant???? I have been searching the web and nursing books for answers and I cannot find anything that says that a...
  13. My kids are sending me to the psyc. ward

    Hello, Can empathize with and feel your pain!!!!!!! Husband was a sub-mariner for first 5 yrs of our marriage. Six month madatory deployments, and travel overseas while on shore duty. I was in nursing shcool when he went to England for three weeks...
  14. What do your coworkers do to annoy you?

    ER Nurse here, I consider myself very flexible, not much gets to me. I will change to overfilled needle box, get more gloves, hang another IV bag, when I come on and the bag is dry. Will get the urine that has not been gotten in the 8 hours previou...
  15. surgical tech to RN?

    Hello Kats, I started out as a surgical tech, thought that I would go straight into nursing school from there. I ended up being a surgical technician for ten years. The money was okay and I got to do a lot of traveling, got married etc, etc. I we...