veegeern

veegeern BSN, RN

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  1. Are You A Type "a" Nurse Or Type "b"

    My thoughts exactly. Our outpatient infusions/transfusions are usually completed by 1500, and we've usually discharged a couple by this time. This means we usually flex down - we lose a nurse and a...
  2. Why is it ok to euthanize animals but not humans

    Had an elderly patient on my unit a few weeks ago who just wouldn't quit breathing. Her body was dying. Her flesh smelled rotten. We wrapped her in linens because her skin was weeping and where...
  3. How do you do calorie counts at your facility?

    Yeah
  4. "I'm going to sue you", What do you say?

    This has been said to me twice in the past year. Both times were by family members on the telephone. In both cases the patient had intentionally not given their dear loved one the pass code that...
  5. Strength & Conditioning for Healthcare Providers

    I don't know of a particular exercise program, but would reccomend anything that strenghthens the legs, torso, and arms. Oh, that's the whole body isn't it! If you go to a gym (especially on campus)...
  6. Common Sense & Nursing

    I believe that common sense is something that you either have or you do not. To me it's common sense that tells you to pick the trash, telephone, etc up off the patient's floor BEFORE they slip, trip...
  7. NP's in the ED

    I don't work in the ED, but I have been pulled there. We have 3 rooms set up like a physician's office - Fast Trak. The patients that sent here by triage see the NP. All others are seen by the
  8. Who does your daily blood work?

    Me,
  9. Advice please

    At one point during my first year of nursing we were short on night shift, so I worked 7p-7a for 3 months. I found that it was refreshing because most nights I had more time to "process" and...
  10. I have never met anyone like her...

    It is a crime where I
  11. Meds you hate to give....

    I agree...a nightmare! Our internal medicine unit gets all of the outpatient infusions (IVIg, prolastin, iron,...) and blood transfusions for the hospital. So we may have 6-8 patients with one of...
  12. Meds you hate to give....

    :wink2: Thanks! I haven't given it, but we've had patients on our unit that had orders for it. I'll use this tip when it comes my turn. We had a nurse drop a bottle in the med room a while...
  13. You must work in my
  14. Prefilled flush are the best thing since...:yelclap: I'd love to get rid of those glass vials that you have to break the top off of...someone mentioned those earlier. How about those insulin syringes...
  15. Suction???

    Suction at every bedside? Boy, do I wish! We set up suction for aspiration precautions, seizure precautions, chest tubes, NG tubes, patients we (nursing) think might need suctioning...but my...
  16. North Texas = Few Jobs?

    i won't comment on the quality of employment at an hca facility. however, i couldn't resist pointing out that hca is a publicly held company. frist sits on the board and is the 4th largest share...
  17. Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

    My thoughts exactly! Our docs will tell us "We're beating a dead horse, but the family wants it beat so go beat it" as they hand off new orders. They'll also often tell us "PBAB" (pine box at...
  18. Pregnant nurse here

    I work on a busy medical floor with many max/total assist patients. One of our nurses (days) worked while pregnant. We helped her by not giving her students, taking her turn to float so that she...
  19. IV site dressing

    This is an old thread that I found while doing a search for IV site dressings. Our protocol is to use the occlusive dsg, however we have a couple of MD's on our unit that go through the roof if they...
  20. What do you always try to put on an IV pump?

    Our protocol requires us to use a pump for blood products, but otherwise the meds for us are the same as above. Our MD's prefer that we put CHF patients on pumps r/t inaccuracy of dial a flows, but...
  21. Fearful of infiltrating IV's

    Thanks for this one. I have told student's and new nurses that this happens (no flashback) at times, but I couldn't remember
  22. Nursing School Bloopers

    On our first day in the hospital we received orientation and then for the last hour we were sent out in pairs to go to patient's rooms and to "just introduce yourself and talk to them." (We were told...
  23. Share your mnemonics and tricks

    These are great! I've heard and used some, but many are new to
  24. Addressing patients?

    I usually greet my patients with Mr/Ms last name and a smile. I introduce myself using my first name, I'm a registered nurse, and I'll be with you until (3 or 7 depending on that day) today. In most...