PAROPPY BSN, RN

I don't think you would lose your license. Popping and squeezing boils, ESPECIALLY in the prison setting is opening up the patient for a host of infectious organisms to enter, especially if no site care is given afterward. Also, if one of those boil...

"Just spread your legs and relax, this will be over shortly"-inserting foley "Suck, don't blow, that's good, you got it!"- Instructing LOL on incentive spirometer use.

This would a be a great homework assignment that I could get on bored with. My advise to people is to losen up. Bwahahahaha!

To sdlane: it was sarcastic because people are always spelling "advice" with an "s" instead of a "c" on this forum. It happens like once a week lol. Funny thread...is it just me or does anyone else feel bad for people who are new to AN who actually ...

IMO I think the OP and most of the repliers had really great thought provoking ideas (especially Leslie). I get kind of offended when ppl start bringing age into it. I'm 26 with a husband, a mortgage, and 2 small kids. I've had cancer (nothing too ba...

I don't have any peds experience but I have run FFP and platelets and if memory serves me correctly I used regular blood tubing for both. Don't beat yourself up.

I like to stick a 2x2 or 4x4 under the angio hub before I disconnect so that any blood I do get back doesn't go all over the pt.'s arm, gown, and bedsheets. Also, like everyone else said attach flush to J loop prior to actually starting IV. Hope this...

We as a population are living longer so you decide: do you want to be a kid longer or a geriatric longer? I would much rather be a kid longer. We as a population live off our parents, live off welfare, and live off social security. No one is trul...

I don't think the OP's question demanded a couple of the harsh responses she got. The responses discourage me a bit because I think that this is what people are talking about when they use the phrase "nurses eat their young." I think she was asking...

Do not obtain consent for the MD. If the MD has time to explain the procedure and answer questions about the procedure then they have the time to get a piece of paper and have the patient sign it (even if they have to walk out of the room to get sai...

I tripped while turning around attempting to put a dirty Aranesp needle into the sharps container. I put my other hand up and stabbed myself right in the thumb. To top it off I was 16 weeks pregnant with my first child. Blood tests were all negati...

To the OP: We will get through this! We work at the same facility and I know everyone is a little apprehensive. Everything new takes some getting used to.

Paper everything!! Such a waste of time! We are supposed to go all electronic next year.

I don't understand why you would have to write a letter at all. You aren't the nurse or the MD and didn't have anything to do with the decision making process for that patient. The hospital and your agency should know that. As for the family being...

Maybe there are more PT positions open than FT to create more jobs and to expand the number of people able to work any given shift. There are about 21 people on my floor for the night shift (12.5 hours) of those 2 are Per Diem, 3 are full time, and ...

Standard practice for our post op hip/knee replacements. Oxycodone Q3hours tends to bind them up !! :)

Sooo true!!! I love working with the gum chewing, hair flipping, and lets not forget the cell phone wielding RNs who believe the breakroom is their own personal therapy couch who continously bragg about the "fact" that they are going to be an NP so ...

I totally agree but I was making a point to the poster that I originally quoted as to why I would have called the doctor if his sats were in the 80's, on oxygen or not. The OP sounds a little new and I remember being scared out of my mind to do anyt...

I have seen this twice at my facility...and both times not only did the patients have rectal tubes to LWS but they both had ng tubes (no suction...I think). Neither of these patients were mine but I remember the other nurse doing a double take durin...

It's probably always a good idea to report a change in status to the MD just to CYA. Without the patient's history it's hard to tell but low sats can be indicative of a bigger problem: PE, early CHF, maybe the patient was COPDer and she didn't want ...

Let her practice dropping foleys and ng's on you. Just kidding :). These are all great ideas. I wish someone did this stuff for me. Don't forget to tell her how proud of her you are, and tell her often.

Good for you!!! I'm totally jealous. Sometimes I want to pull a "Jetblue flight attendant" and tell everyone where to go and how to get there while chugging a beer and escaping out the emergency hatch (or on an ambulance, whichever is handy). Unti...

It's not you, it's the economy. The new grad market is practically nonexistent in most places so don't beat yourself up. Keep on sending resumes, calling HR to request one on one meetings, and put on a smile. In order to beef up your resume try vo...

They are yanking your chain. Obviously I hope you would never take a medication that wasn't prescribed to you by a doctor, NP,or PA.

Charts not stuffed with progress notes for the MDs...nurse's fault There's a loud pt. in the next room...nurse's fault MD will only order Percocet for pain, not IV dilaudid...nurse's fault Call MD at 2300 to clarify illegible order written by said MD...