CampyCamp RN

I can barely get my horses to take an entire tube. (Or the entire dose since some are too small for a whole tube) They tell me it's gross. ? I've been wondering what form people are taking then found out that my local Tractor Supply and family o...

I left the hospital in PA. I can't do another covid surge in the ICU. I took care of a lot of entitled people who were absolute jerks to staff last time. With so many of these people consciously refusing vaccinations, I expect more of the same. I fee...

I work in my own state, usually close to home but I'm lucky to live in Pennsylvania where camps are plentiful. I started at the camp I was planning to send my daughter to and we had our first year together. I was a per diem ICU nurse and PALS i...

Hugs. I'm so glad that I happened to leave school last November for my mom's hospice care. However, last Spring, as cases rose in the hospital where I am hired for perdiem *pediatrics*, I started working in the short staffed adult ICU. I was an...

I worked in a small rural hospital for a short period. 25 beds. No vent as such. But there was an OR and the CRNA could come in an intubate in an emergency. Periodically severe trauma patients and codes had to be stabilized before transport.

Are other hospitals seeing an increase lately in tension pneumothorax/ pbeumomediastinum? It seems like it's 1 in 4 ICU patients with these complications in the last 2-3 weeks. All ages and comorbidities (or lack of comorbidities) We're talking...

I'm just going to stick to one part of your question because the rest of the logistics seem tricky. You can give a vaccine that the pharmacist prepared. Nearly everything we give is something a pharmacist prepared. Meds in blister packs sorted into t...

Does anyone have recommendations for warm up jackets for middle aged ladies with thicker arms? XL jackets fit all in the torso but are so tight on the and that I have no room to push them up. They must be designed by the same people who design long s...

In 4 hospitals I've worked in, most intubations have been done by the residents or intensivist or anesthesia if they're unable. Respiratory does them if they need the numbers but in teaching hospitals, residents often need them more. The nurses...

So do we.

Backyard pools of any size and bicycles seem impossible to find now.

I hate PKUs. That's another thing where I used to be efficient but now I make a mess. I'm happy if I don't get any blood on the front/outside of the card or the baby's nose, LOL.

You'd think people would know this but it's obvious many people don't. I at least assumed college grads know it. Even those of us who graduated without doing any online research. My 8th grader just finished a unit on this topic for language arts!

I like assisting with any bedside procedures in ICU. I'm always pleased that I good at catheterization and NG/OG tubes from baby to elderly. I actually hate IV and phlebotomy sticks. I used to be good but once I started working in a high level ICU w...

I feel like I don't remember the last time I had a patient interaction without a face shield.

I get 3-4 pts in med surg covid, 3 in progressive side of covid ICU and still 2 in the acute side. We have 1:1 only for CVVH. So, for the first time in my career, I don't care if they want me in MS. It's the least stressful place to be even with the ...

My unit has had kids 4 days in April. In the beginning there were some covid19+ kids, now there are none needing admission (hooray!) But there's nothing else either! We're floating to the maternity/nicu side of the service or to help out as "helping ...

I've always been unworried about the microbes at work. This one has me scrubbing and wiping and everything. Thanks for what you do in the home. My mom is getting a nurse twice a week and I'm so grateful for her.

They can all find another job. Nobody is forcing them to be in a career that is on hold. Their mother is still forced to be their mother but maybe they don't care if they give it to her for her birthday party.

is there any discussion about dealing with the fit? A correctly fit tested mask feels effective at 7 AM but by 7 PM, my glasses are fogging and I can feel leaks at the side because the elastic stretches out even if it's only removed and replaced once...

New Zealand has a much better approach. (Obviously their geography helps) People are healthy and happy. Paid and fed. There are many articles about it. I have friends there and their experiences are night and day to ours.

I remember the MA1s and the Bears. I always thought the dials were easier to adjust than the buttons and touchscreens.

There are quite a few negative pressure vents in use. Very few iron lungs (a joke about bringing them out of storage just because residents want to try out all the order sets in the computer went around several months ago on gomer blog) but there are...

I think areas that locked down before it started spreading are doing well. New York closed the barn door after the cows ran away. ...And the cows ran to their vacation home and relatives in PA, NJ, CT, so it spread here. (We're rural but the highway ...

I work at a 300 bed rural Pennsylvania hospital. We are being hit. They are floating med surg, OR, and peds staff to ICU to work as helping hands or take the least sick patients (no drips or vents) that has never happened, not in swine flu, not our m...