Hannahbanana BSN, MSN

Physiology, CM, consulting, nsg edu, LNC, COB

Knows a thing or two because she’s seen a thing or two.

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    Posting Styles

    Hannahbanana replied to Davey Do's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    THANK YOU!!! (I’d send a pm but I can’t) This looks
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    Oxygen Therapy

    Hannahbanana replied to Deli's topic in General Students

    There is a gadget that measures exhaled CO2, which would equal alveolar CO2 whic would equal capillary CO2 . Already been done, LOL. Urinary pH is rough. Best predictor is history absent
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    Posting Styles

    Hannahbanana replied to Davey Do's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    The apple, please. Since I'm a devoted mac person and that's Steve Jobs' profile in there.
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    Posting Styles

    Hannahbanana replied to Davey Do's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    Yep. Can you pick it up from the post to DaveyDo, or do you need it
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    Did anyone feel that the RN to BSN classes were utterly pointless?

    Hannahbanana replied to razzledazzle2428's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    When I was a student we all made fun of the nurses with advanced degrees because, smarta**es that we were, they didn't know which end the rectal thermometer went into. We were all going to be BEDSIDE...
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    Posting Styles

    Hannahbanana replied to Davey Do's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    made a PNG but can't paste it to replace the generic H.
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    how did you know nursing was for you?

    Hannahbanana replied to mangogreentea's topic in General Students

    I bow to the eminent common sense expressed above by my old friend @CheesePotato. She reminds me of the time when I was a new nurse I went to meet my fiance's family and one of his smarmier...
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    Feeling defeated...

    Hannahbanana replied to Piper98's topic in General Students

    You got a B. That doesn't remotely equate to your instructor saying you won't be "a great nurse." It's way too soon to know that anyway. I can tell you that nursing school grades are one component of...
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    Oxygen Therapy

    Hannahbanana replied to Deli's topic in General Students

    A sat of 97% does not equal a PaO2 of 97mmHg, and looking at sats alone will not tell you pH, the reflection of PaCO2, which can be high (see old bird above). It always astonished me how people who...
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    allnurses bleed

    Hannahbanana replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, and I just remembered another one that I first heard here: All bleeding stops.
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    allnurses bleed

    Hannahbanana replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    ::wavey:: Hi, Marla! I believe there used to be IRL meetup gatherings in the past where people would, in fact, guess each other’s personas. I was never able to make it to one but have had the...
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    Oxygen Therapy

    Hannahbanana replied to Deli's topic in General Students

    Story about that. Community hospital where I was the critical care clinical specialist. One midnight an old bird with long COPD hx is admitted. New grad admits her, sees that physician has written for...
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    Permission

    Hannahbanana replied to Davey Do's topic in Ars Gratia Artis's Artis

    I have always wanted to learn how to snag gifs from online sources for reuse on Twitter, emails, or elsewhere and would deeply love a tutorial because I have never succeeded. You can always do...
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    allnurses bleed

    Hannahbanana replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Gives me examples of other behaviors I wouldn’t otherwise encounter. As my sweet old chain-smoking, hard-drinking grandmother always used to say, “Some of us are put on this earth to be examples...
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    Posting Styles

    Hannahbanana replied to Davey Do's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    I remember Comic Sans and siggy lines fondly. Cf
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    Should I call the doctor for a BP of 175/72?

    Hannahbanana replied to moonshawdow's topic in General Nursing

    If you're asking me, there were none, this was a walk-up BP check open to the public at a pharmacy. We gave her a little card with her BP on it and told her to check with her doctor
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    Staying Honest...?

    Hannahbanana replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    If there’s one thing that has only proved truer than ever since Watergate and ensuing availability of damning or exculpatory data, it’s this: It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup....
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    Should I call the doctor for a BP of 175/72?

    Hannahbanana replied to moonshawdow's topic in General Nursing

    Under-rescuing— what a great concept. That’s what I was trying to describe, however poorly, in recommending that the nurse report any VS that’s out of normal range for this patient regardless of...
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    Unit secretaries assigning patients to nurses??

    Hannahbanana replied to gratefultobeanurse16's topic in General Nursing

    I did edit it, but my edit doesn’t seem to have taken. My sincere apologies,
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    What if I'm not meant to be a bedside nurse?

    Hannahbanana replied to jms01's topic in General Nursing

    When you know what you want to learn and what you want you want to do c it, that’s when you set your sights on the graduate education you‘ll need for it, and not before. Best of
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    Oxygen Therapy

    Hannahbanana replied to Deli's topic in General Students

    If you do, in fact, have a written standing protocol, then fine. There are, of course, people who should not get supplemental oxygen routinely; one-size-fits-all rarely fits everyone, LOL. But you...
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    Noncompact State To Compact State

    Hannahbanana replied to RNMTRC's topic in General Nursing

    You call the BON in your target state, or check their website, and ask them what documentation they want-- everybody seems to have different regs. Some states want fingerprints and a CORI check, some...
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    Question about Medical Knowledge

    Hannahbanana replied to premurse's topic in General Nursing

    1) Yes 2) Of course we know scientific bases for things. We have to. AAMOF, that was one of the major shocks a lot of nursing students had when they realized how much physiology they had to...
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    Pay for utilization review case manager

    Hannahbanana replied to montov's topic in General Nursing

    I had a job like this but it was for a 300-member medical practice with an integration arrangement with an HMO to do your and CM for their senior product patients. I don't know how our salary compared...
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    Unit secretaries assigning patients to nurses??

    Hannahbanana replied to gratefultobeanurse16's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to shout, I'll try to edit it, but this was really an unsafe and actually illegal practice and could have very serious implications, as well as a BON not looking kindly on it. Social dynamics...