humerusRN

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  1. Outrageous Complaints

    humerusRN replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in General Nursing

    Urinals make excellent

  2. Outrageous Complaints

    humerusRN replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in General Nursing

    In pediatrics, it's "Why can't someone come in here and sit with my baby while I go out to get food?" Because we are not a babysitting service,

  3. Aggressive family member

    humerusRN replied to Jerez's topic in General Nursing

    I am a pediatric nurse in a large children's hospital... and I'm trying to decide how I would react in this situation. I will say - working in pediatrics, you really do take care of the whole family...

  4. How do you deal with dizziness and syncope?

    humerusRN replied to Guest878640's topic in General Nursing

    Do you put the boullion in the warm water?

  5. Fulfillment from nursing practice

    humerusRN replied to Zascott607's topic in General Nursing

    If you are asking if you can be crunchy and be a nurse, the answer is yes. Nurses are part of the "medical" establishment, but I do not rely on the Big Pharma Gods to do my

  6. What do you hate about nursing and why?

    humerusRN replied to ccorreces's topic in General Nursing

    Right now, it's the middle man mentality that comes with new residents. "Can you call the lab and get them to do.... Can you call respiratory and get them to do.... Can you follow up with the XYZ...

  7. Charge nurse

    humerusRN replied to YstRN12's topic in General Nursing

    We have a group of "Charge RNs" and while I hate that I was drafted into the group, at least I don't have to do it EVERY time I work. I couldn't do it. I hate the role, no one likes you as Charge, and...

  8. When they're SO sure they're right...

    humerusRN replied to Jedrnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I once had a coworker call and report an IV that had blood backing up into it to the physician on call. She refused to believe me that this was a normal occurrence. The line had been clamped, no...

  9. Patients & Pet Peeves

    humerusRN replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    My very BIGGEST pet peeve (and it may have already been discussed, but I am haven't read all the posts) - is family members who just come and hover at the nurses station to ask for stuff. "Can I get a...

  10. What happens when you fail a fit test?

    humerusRN replied to freckles23's topic in General Nursing

    I also fail the fit test - I have the special order giant mask.

  11. Probe change schedule

    humerusRN replied to middleagednurse's topic in Pediatric

    I very rarely see a patient that is going to keep one on for four hours. Those things don't stay on!!! In the rare instance we have a kid that doesn't move, we check the site PRN and replace as...

  12. Med/Surg nurses - how much psych do you see?

    humerusRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Psychiatric and behavioral health patients have literally doubled in the 6+ years I have been on my unit. I work in a children's hospital on a med/surg floor, and it has gotten to the point where...

  13. Miserable nurses

    humerusRN replied to FutureNurse0201's topic in General Nursing

    As a student, you can not understand the true crazy that can be a hospital unit. We do not choose to have students. We are assigned them. We could have the craziest patient load, have had the...

  14. Med/Surg nurses - how much psych do you see?

    humerusRN replied to humerusRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes - we have been told that our hospital is somewhat of an exception to the rule... admitting these kids inpatient to wait for placement instead of sitting in hallways on stretchers for days. A huge...

  15. What's the nicest compliment you've gotten as a nurse?

    humerusRN replied to NurseNinja1990's topic in General Nursing

    I was taking care of a rather annoying patient. He had a complex history, was a bit of a frequent flyer, but he had had a complicated ortho procedure done that day and was requiring even more...

  16. Rounding oral liquid medication and IV/IM

    humerusRN replied to Jamesryan's topic in Pediatric

    I had to give a medication last week, where my dose ended up being 0.04ml. I was like dear LORD how am I even going to make sure that all of this sucker gets out of the syringe tip. lol. Rounding,...

  17. Have Tablets replaced Binkies?

    humerusRN replied to Emergent's topic in Pediatric

    These kids can work these devices better than I can! We utilize tablets for pain management for the most part - we even have one in our distraction kits. Have to start an IV? Let's watch Doc...

  18. Does anyone ever get tired of people thinking Nursing is easy?

    humerusRN replied to Nsco2018's topic in General Nursing

    Back as a new nurse.... *waves cane in air*.... I would get upset at these types of comments. My favorites were those coming from family members who would make statements that they "might as well be a...

  19. Gloves required for ALL oral meds.

    humerusRN replied to Leonardos's topic in Patient Medications

    Wow, it takes us over a year to get budget approval for a few new chairs for the nurses station... can't imagine the laughs administration would have over the 4683467268576574 boxes of gloves that we...

  20. RN to patient ratio in Pediatrics?

    humerusRN replied to Lemon Bars's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Not on the west coast, but I do work in a large Children's Hospital on the east coast. :) Our ratios are 1:3 ideally on our general med/surg floors, but can go 1:5 on a bad day. We work really hard...