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    Know How to Improvise a Tourniquet

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Emergency

    One of the things that I like about ED nursing is the unknown that's always right around the corner and the zero-to-sixty rush... We had an upper extremity arterial bleed walk into the lobby......
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    Ebola... What'cha Gonna Do When It Comes to You

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    I presume that most urban hospitals are beginning to form contingency plans for how to react when a possible or suspected Ebola case arrives in triage... though these plans may reveal the Emporer to...
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    Goodbye...

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    For quite awhile, I've been feeling more and more dissatisfied with the content, tone, and bent of many, many threads on this board. I think I've just hit my limit. I'm formally withdrawing from...
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    What Docs Don't Understand About Nurses

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    One joy of working at a teaching hospital is the collegial relationships that I can form with our docs. A couple of days ago, I participated in a training exercise for some of our residents regarding...
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    Care Plans... Negative Connotation?

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've just joined a work group in which I'm the only nurse in a group led by and populated mostly by physicians. At one of our recent meetings, the topic was developing standardized "care plans" for...
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    The Dark Side of Passion

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Emergency

    I'll forgo the public self-incrimination but I lost my cool today :={ Totally understandable but not OK... This job can just chip away and chip away and chip away at a person's veneer. I think I need...
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    What's the Best IV Size and Site?

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in General Students

    When I teach IV skills to students and residents, I always start with this question: "What's the best size and site for an IV?" I generally get myriad answers that involve considerations of c/c, VS,...
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    Nursing School Oopsies

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in General Students

    For all the harried nursing students out there, I decided to start a thread in which those of us who've made it through and out into the real world of nursing can share some of our oopsies. This is...
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    Effective Learning

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in General Students

    In the past I have made several posts about HOW to learn and HOW to study. These were formed from my personal experience of going from a C+ student to an A student who, even years later can discuss,...
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    The Docs Who've Got Your Back

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was reading through another thread and it started me thinking about how much I appreciate the docs who have the nurses' backs. In the ED, sometimes things get chaotic and urgency sometimes leads to...
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    Important Attributes of Being a Nurse

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    OKay, this might not be quite what you expected to find... Last night we had five cops deliver a patient to one of my rooms. The kid (early 20's) was there for a psych eval and was surly,...
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    Case Study #2

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    A lot of people seemed to like my last real-life case study and I had another interesting one last night... so thought I'd post it. Here goes... 40-year-old woman was at work when she experienced...
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    Case study...

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    So this isn't a specific case study nor does it come from a single patient... it's an amalgamation of cases with a bit of poetic license tossed in... but it may still be helpful... Please, experienced...
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    Patient: It's an Adjective as Well as a Noun

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Last night we had a guy who was being very demanding from the other side of the curtain just as we were trying to get a new code-3 arrive dialed in. Several times, the other nurse and myself said,...
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    Scripting... Any Positive Experiences to Share?

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Apparently the plan is in the works to begin scripting at our facility and in our department. I'm trying to keep an open mind and I've actually tried it out on my own a couple of times but it seems......
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    Real World Med Math Problem

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Often times, when "med math" is discussed, someone will pipe in with something along the lines of "well, the pharmacy actually does that... we just verify it," or "we use 'smart pumps.'" Here's a...
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    Number One on Google

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just here to toot my own horn... If you've got a second, Google "pharmacology flash cards" (https://www.google.com/search?q=pharmacology+flash+cards) and take a gander at the *NUMBER ONE* hit... Even...
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    It just has to be said (vent)...

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Something is just brewing inside of me that needs to come out... This primarily an emotional response but there's some logic and reason that gird it... Try as I might, I just can't help myself... Flat...
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    "Get out of here... go do some 'doctor' stuff..."

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Emergency

    I work at a busy Level I trauma center with some renowned attending physicians. I stumble across their names when I read citation lists and textbook contributor lists. The other day, the attending...
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    Help with med surg class

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in General Students

    Well, the material's there in the book so mostly I'd suggest reading it and pondering it so that you own it. Read the end-of-chapter reviews. Read the section headings and see if you can describe...
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    Set up - like a bowling pin. Knocked down - it gets to wearing thin

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in Emergency

    I'm a nurse in a large urban ED. My last 16 hour shift had more than its share of head-shaking moments that provoked comments of, "if you don't do this job, you just don't get it" and which was capped...
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    It is *not* a pannus...

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in General Nursing

    It turns out that all these years I've been using the word "pannus," I've been using it incorrectly. That sheet of abdominal adipose tissue that we all wrestle with from time to time is *not* a...
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    Be careful what you divulge

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was chatting with a coworker who looked at me and said, "Are you on AllNurses.com?" I replied, somewhat noncommittally, "Yeah, why do you ask?" She said, "Are you ♪♫ in my ♥ ?" I smiled and...
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    ABCs or CAB (irony...)

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work a level-1 trauma center; we see it all from the chronic to the urgent to the sliced and diced. We'll sometimes have multiple DOE patients with similar complaints arrive at the same time. The...
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    There is hope...

    Music in My Heart posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've been doing the AN thing since I applied to nursing school about 6 years ago and have, like everybody, noticed some common themes. One of the more frequent and emotional pertains to new nurses...