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misti_z

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  1. What Freaks You Out?

    misti_z replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    They is very small compared to something that we are talking about, but I gag when I have a pt who chews their pills. Especially tylenol. That has to taste soooooooooooo

  2. Do you approach patients or families about code status?

    misti_z replied to RNinICU's topic in General Nursing

    I have discussed code status and condition with families, and have not come across a doc is is opposed to nurses doing this. If it is a pt who would have zero quaility of life after a code, that is...

  3. What Freaks You Out?

    misti_z replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Here's another!!

  4. What Freaks You Out?

    misti_z replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    :rotfl:

  5. What Freaks You Out?

    misti_z replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh I wish we had a pucking

  6. What Freaks You Out?

    misti_z replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    We had a poor little man one night. I wasn't his nurse, so I don't know the whole story, but he had CA and had to have his right eye enucleated and also most of his left forehead removed--he is...

  7. 200 lb MONSTER!

    misti_z replied to Furball's topic in General Nursing

    I seen that when it first aired and recently seen previews for it again. It is truely amazing. I didn't realize she received 50 units

  8. Pregnant and working as RN

    misti_z replied to tcolleen's topic in General Nursing

    Good luck to all you momma's to be. That is sooo exciting. A co-worker of mine worked up until 38 wks! She had her scheduled OB appointment on AM after work a 12 hr night shift and was found to have...

  9. Gotta good "poop" story? I do.

    misti_z replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

    That is sooooooooo funny :roll I had lab call me the other night and said they could not do the stool studies on the stool that was sent down earlier that day because it was undigested green...

  10. spooky spooky spooky

    misti_z replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    A telemetry tech went around last Halloween and asked people where they thought the spookiest place in the hospital was. She took what everyone had told her to two housekeepers that had worked at the...

  11. Anyone a ACLS instructor?

    misti_z replied to askater11's topic in General Nursing

    I'm signed up to take an ACLS course for the first time in July.

  12. Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

    misti_z replied to nilepoc's topic in General Nursing

    :rotfl: :rotfl: We got a picnic with some crappy music and door prizes consisting of those fanny packs and shoes laces you speak of!! But we had to pay for hot dogs on stale buns and watered down...

  13. What Freaks You Out?

    misti_z replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    A coworker was trying to put a NG tube down a pt that was very close to coding. I had just walked in to see if I could assist and he spits this crap up nasty slimey bile green stuff and it goes into...

  14. Promethazine IV Question

    misti_z replied to PMercier's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Our policy was recently changed to having to dilute IV phenergan in 9 cc NS. And like before administering it over at least 1 minute. It amazes me that someone would give it

  15. What was most embarrassing moment as a nurse?

    misti_z replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    This is really embarrassing.......and stupid :) Happened right out of nursing school one of the first times I inserted a foley. I was in a really big hurry, grapped the foley out of the supply pyxis...

  16. Nurses and their sense of humour

    misti_z replied to Patience911's topic in General Nursing

    I think that to be able to mourn with family in one room and rejoice with another you have to have the sense of humor. Or all the stress would drive us mad And I love the hamster story!!!!!! :roll...

  17. Pot Smoking and Nursing

    misti_z replied to MrsNurseCA's topic in General Nursing

    Very well said. I too am wondering whose post erezebet read. Who gave erezebet a reason to call them a junkie? Maybe erezebet is high.............. :stone

  18. Do Day Nurses Really Feel that Night Nurses Do Nothing All Night?

    misti_z replied to Brita01's topic in General Nursing

    I'll start by saying I work nights, 12 hour shifts. Both shifts are busy. Last night I did not finish passing 8pm meds until 2330. And I often here the same story from day shift. We get alot of...

  19. Pot Smoking and Nursing

    misti_z replied to MrsNurseCA's topic in General Nursing

    I too believe that what a person does away from work is their business. As long as they keep it away from work. I do not smoke now, but in my high school days I did....alot. I, like many of my...

  20. Chemical code vs full code

    misti_z replied to grnvillechick's topic in General Nursing

    Two incidents reports are definitely called for....both occurence are

  21. Ativan, insulin, alcohol drips on floors?

    misti_z replied to susanmary's topic in General Nursing

    Like I mentioned before our insulin gtts are adjusted per q2h BS checks and with 5 other patients it is hell. Thank god for wonderful techs!! :kiss We often have heparin gtts as well. Our hospital...

  22. Ativan, insulin, alcohol drips on floors?

    misti_z replied to susanmary's topic in General Nursing

    We frequently have insulin gtts on my floor--renal. BS checks q 1h, and usually have 5 other patient. No alcohol gtts. Have given Ativan 2mg q2h IV push with our DT precaution protocol holding

  23. What Freaks You Out?

    misti_z replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I too have seen the xrays.....OMG!!! Last week we admitted a 837 pound male! It was nasty, he had weeping cellulitis. He stunk, stunk, stunk! We ordered an 'oversized' bed before he got to the...

  24. sitter usage

    misti_z replied to babsRN's topic in General Nursing

    We too use sitters for the "houdini" patients and suicide precautions, but sitters come out of our cost center. Only heard of family paying for a sitter one time....very wealthy family very elderly...

  25. Stethoscopes

    misti_z replied to Lisa32's topic in General Nursing

    I have a Littman Classic II SE, that my husband got me for graduation, it is wonderful--especially compared to the $30 one I had in nursing school!!! Do not lend it to anyone, definitely. And...