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    Koi Scrubs

    SaraO'Hara replied to Ms Mischief's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have a couple of Koi tops and love 'em. Nice soft fabric, flattering cut, interesting little
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    You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    SaraO'Hara replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    - Drug guide, with every med taken by relatives - I try to diagnose, just too shy to actually ask! - I've just stopped bothering. I figure we've all seen scarier things than a furry female
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    Lowest blood sugar you have seen

    SaraO'Hara replied to AfloydRN's topic in General Nursing

    Lowest I've heard of was 6... from a diabetic med-surg nurse. He said he remembered feeling funny, then waking up the next day in MICU. I've yet to see one below 60, but I'm still a
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    I saw my first patient that died today...

    SaraO'Hara replied to heartlover07's topic in General Nursing

    I was on my way to the library this afternoon and helped in a resuscitation attempt... the man looked long gone though. That makes about... 10 dead patients so far, but it's still weird. I just...
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    CHF meds - preload or afterload?

    SaraO'Hara posted a topic in General Nursing

    Of all the meds given to treat CHF and complications, which work on preload and which work on afterload? This is what I've come up with: Diuretics - Preload. Decreased fluid volume = decreased...
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    CHF meds - preload or afterload?

    SaraO'Hara replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in General Nursing

    Just trying to figure out which meds work on which part of the cardiac cycle, really. The link did help
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    Do you wear rings at work?

    SaraO'Hara replied to CareBayer's topic in General Nursing

    Just my wedding ring, only because when I took it off I lost it for six weeks. I make sure to wash carefully on and around
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    EKG made fun!!!

    SaraO'Hara replied to MissERN's topic in Nursing Humor

    I sent the link to my theory professor... we're getting it today as it's time for dysrhythmias in
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    How opposite are you and your mate?

    SaraO'Hara replied to wooosp's topic in General Nursing

    I'm almost finished with LVN school, love to read (Vonnegut, history, etc), collect antique photographs and medical paraphernalia, and Catholic. My husband is a computer programmer, agnostic, reads...
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    how many pairs of scrubs do you have?

    SaraO'Hara replied to The Bell Jar's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    3 shirts and 2 pants for work (all work pants black). 2 shirts, 1 pants, 1 dress for clinicals (white!
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    inside the mind of a nurse.....

    SaraO'Hara replied to ERRN92's topic in General Nursing

    I'm laughing so hard I'm wheezing Poor hamster! I find myself watching people while I'm in restaurants... hoping they don't choke, arrest, faint... it's a good dinner, but only while it's
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    LPN's are giving IV Meds?

    SaraO'Hara replied to riverrose's topic in General Students

    In California, an IV-certified LPN can start IVs, hang fluids, and hang blood - but NO IV piggybacks or IV
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    what does W. C. mean?

    SaraO'Hara replied to GingerSue's topic in General Students

    Could be something like Wound Cleanser - just a
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    New gradute practical nurse starting IV's

    SaraO'Hara replied to btrfly76's topic in PACU

    I'm in California, but an IV-certified LVN can start IVs, hang blood, hang fluids - just no IV piggybacks or IVP
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    Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    SaraO'Hara replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was taking vitals the other morning and couldn't hear the Korotkoff sounds on a LOL... "Betty, I'll have to take this again. I can't get a reading." "I told you, I DIED last
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    How many nurses want their children to be nurses too?

    SaraO'Hara replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    I'd be happy if one hypothetical child became a nurse.... I need somebody besides my poor (computer programmer) DH with whom to have uncensored dinnertime
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    Silliest thing you ever did after a long shift...

    SaraO'Hara replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

    12 hour clinicals all this semester.. 1. Husband took me out to dinner. I ate slumped over on the table giggling at everything. I'm sure the waiter thought I was drunk O_o 2. Driving home, became...
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    Do You Look Like A Nurse?

    SaraO'Hara replied to showbizrn's topic in General Nursing

    Only been taken for one if I go shopping after work (I'm a CNA). At class (LPN school), others on campus seem to think art student, English major... something in the liberal arts. Once, even, nun...
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    First code O_O

    SaraO'Hara posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was rotating on Med-Surg today (last clinical day this term too); a code blue was called in the ICU. A classmate and I were permitted to go watch - got to see the intubation, external pacemakers......
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    SaraO'Hara replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Yesss they do. I've had my back patted, and a tight ponytail undone while alone in a
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    SaraO'Hara replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    First: Man in his late 70s... status post L4-5 fusion, had a foley but incontinent of bowel. He'd been in the hospital a month, after becoming septic post-surgery... this was in CVICU. I saw his...
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    OMG.Do Nursing students really practice on eachother??

    SaraO'Hara replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    *rubs nose* I dropped an NG on my best friend... she dropped one on me. This was strictly voluntary, and in fact the whole class had to sign a waiver to allow inter-classmate procedure practise....
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    Dressing for Halloween?

    SaraO'Hara replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    Orange jack o'lantern sock on one foot, black ghosts sock on the other. Then again, I should come to work in scrubs (usually in a dress), just to scare the life out of
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    What medical term do you dislike the most ?

    SaraO'Hara replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

    "Fresh Frozen
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    Give me the down and dirty of being a CNA

    SaraO'Hara replied to onesmallspark's topic in General Nursing

    It's about the same in California, judging by a few people I've worked with Working as a CNA - you will get down. You will get very, very dirty. I have a saying that unless you have more than one...