sarahbellum

Any interventional cardiac cath lab nurses out there? If so, do you take call? How often do you have to take call? Do you have to stay at the hospital? How many on your team? Do you "double chart" i.e. does your circulator chart in your hospital...

As a new nurses aide that was barely eighteen I worked at a tiny rural hospital. We had one ICU bed next to the nurses station. It was often used for hospice (anyone really critical we air transported out). We had a sweet little patient I'll call "Ro...

I thought a lot of units had stopped using them. We still use them in the Cardiac Cath lab for RHC but not for monitoring, of course.

What songs remind you of being a nurse? Everytime certain songs play on my ipod they invoke feelings of being at work, been at work. Some are obvious Angel at my side Collette Washington Thank the nurse Country Joe McDonaldsome not so much,

"Thought this thread felt familiar. There's a lot of good answers here too." I used a lot of those :) it was a closed thread. I was curious if there were any new ones.

What do you guys think of these? I think they are neat and the concept is great, but even though it says you can wear them hiking, I would worry about needle sticks. But then how protective are any soft sided shoe? http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/

We had a note on a cardiology patient the other day that read "Pt not eating due to the crap they serve here." BTW the words "the crap they serve here" was not in quotes...

:rotfl: We have an interventional cardiologist moving to another city, and we all adore him. I wanted to make him a funny t-shirt to remember us by. Can anyone come up with funny cath lab says for the shirt? Here is what I have so far... Stents ar...

I just switched from a neuro unit to the CCL. I am now learning how to circulate. I am totally overwhelmed right now but I love it!

I am also a new grad who was hired straight out of school into a unit. I was miserable and overwhelmed. I lasted 2 months off orientation and then I transferred to their stepdown unit. I like the stepdown unit. It's still fast paced, I still get s...

This isn't a blooper but still funny. I was looking up something in the doctor's orders on a patient that had been in the hospital for about six months. The hospitalist had ordered a consult for geriatric med and put the reason as:Is this patient ev...

We have a nurse who writes the word "poop" in random places on the unit. Not the charts, of course but on memos hung in the break room, the doctors phone book, ect. For some reason this is so funny to me. I will be reading the education board and ...

I have a new one.... We had a new post op ostomy who wasn't the problem, her husband was. We have several PCT who are barely 18 and two had walked in the patient's room to find him buck naked in the chair. Neither of them had enough sense to call ...

I work at St. Anthony's in a fairly centralized unit and I haven't heard anything about that. There has been grumblings in the past, and half hearted attempts to unionize but nothing that anyone could embezzle from to my knowledge. Our unit was to...

I am a new nurse and I am confident in my ability to understand when I don't know something, and ask for help when I need it but.... I do not know all the protocols of paperwork my hospital requires, I am learning, but still not there. My preceptors...

Thanks! The part about indoor walking makes sense! I will stick with my asics for work.

"I wear the original design whenever I run. I just took my USAF pt test in them last month. I still prefer to run barefoot, but these shoes come close to being barefoot. The soles are fairly thin, but they will protect you from broken glass, rocks et...

I'm not sure how I would feel having plastic between my toes....I would NOT hike in the woods in these shoes, but for camping or floating I would think they would be great. I wonder if you would get in trouble wearing these to work? I bet they would...

I would love to feel like I am barefoot. I was barefoot for seasons at a time as a child. I really feel that is why I have such strong, healthy feet with high arches. My hips hurt when I wear shoes too much. I'm not sure why. "I do not wear the ...

How awful. Do you have an anon complaint line? If you do I would try doing that. That way he can't prove it was you (even though I'm sure he will suspect it was.)

I HAD taught and taught this family the entire day, until I was hoarse. Their attitude was that "Dad" was in "there" trying to come out and I didn't know him--therefore they didn't have to listen to me. The neurosurgeon said if the patient was as n...

I spent more time yesterday educating numerous family members than giving pt care, I left work with a massive headache and was hoarse from talking in a forced low tone and I need to vent.... I work in a unit newly designated as a "Neuro ICU" My hosp...

I'm going to talk to our stroke coordinator this week, our manager has asked for changes until she is blue in the face, The stroke coordinator seems to have more clout since the hospital wants to keep its "Stroke Center" status. I am taking a class ...

I agree completely.......thanks for that summary.....

I've had people tell me that they expect a miracle - which I've always thought was the paramount of arrogance - as if God takes orders. It never seemed like a good idea to me to boss God around.