WhirlyGirlNurse

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1. Unfair and unequal

   WhirlyGirlNurse replied to krgilli1's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, Krgilli1, I'm sorry you're uncomfortable and feeling unsupported. Just to get through their shifts, though, a traveler has to have a thick skin and not take stuff personally. It would be nice to...

2. Hospital Patient Care

   WhirlyGirlNurse replied to WhirlyGirlNurse's topic in General Nursing

   I'm sixty-nine, athletic, normal weight, and sharp mentation. I find it concerning that you would take it on yourself to place a patient on "aspiration precautions" without consulting with the...

3. Hospital Patient Care

   WhirlyGirlNurse replied to WhirlyGirlNurse's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for your input, Donna. I got out of the PACU around 2200 and was moved directly to the inpatient unit. My doctor saw me that night, of course, and didn't see me again until the following...

4. Hospital Patient Care

   WhirlyGirlNurse replied to WhirlyGirlNurse's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for your responses, JKL33 and Bluepen. I absolutely understand the bucket analogy, and the fact that the root cause of having no awareness of patient comfort lies far beyond the floor...

5. Hospital Patient Care

   WhirlyGirlNurse posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have a question. I recently had a spinal fusion surgery. Fourteen hours of anesthesia and positioned flat for 24 hours due to a CSF leak. It was a nightmare. The hospital nurses appeared at my...

6. Weirdest nursing “fixes"

   WhirlyGirlNurse replied to Pres14's topic in General Nursing

   Oh, the bad old days of pressure wound care! When I was a nurse's aide in the 1970's everyone just did what they thought might work. Milk of magnesia, heat lamps, honey packets from the cafeteria,...

7. Weirdest nursing “fixes"

   WhirlyGirlNurse replied to Pres14's topic in General Nursing

   As a flight nurse, transporting a critically ill patient always involved a tangle of lines, tubes, and wires. There was always a risk of accidentally snagging one, or stepping on one, and ripping out...

8. Patients demanding a singleroom.

   WhirlyGirlNurse replied to RMHRehab's topic in Nurse Management

   I recently spent two nights as an inpatient after surgery. I was assigned a semi-private room. My roommate had claimed our room's one chair and pushed it next to her bed, making it necessary to push...

9. Could I be accused of Fentanyl diversion?

   WhirlyGirlNurse replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   You are trying to provide good, compassionate care. If you patient's sedation runs dry it's not going to be a great experience for anyone. But figure out another way. That bag of fentanyl has your...

10. Does being addressed as "Nurse" annoy anyone?

    WhirlyGirlNurse replied to DoubleblessedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Not bothered at all. Some people use titles such as "Nurse" and "Doctor" as respectful ways to address professionals. If a patient consistently yells "Nurse!" instead of pressing the call light I'll...

11. Counseling Staff Members On Sick Leave

    WhirlyGirlNurse replied to k1p1ssk's topic in School

    I worked full time through my treatment for stage 3 cancer, including chemo, surgeries, radiation treatments, more surgeries. I had chemo every three weeks; my treatments were on Wednesdays and was...