harley007

harley007

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  1. Conn Nurses Meet N Greet

    harley007 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Connecticut Nursing

    Did you ever think of Cardiac Cath Lab? Very challenging and a whole new world of procedures and equipment. Patient interaction is mostly limited to the history interview, interaction and education...

  2. Do you get paid from being 'on-call'?

    harley007 replied to Toby's mum's topic in MICU, SICU

    I work in a high volume cardiac cath. lab. and full time you are on a rotating call team one 48 hr./month - and one 12 hr. week night. Part-time = 48 hr.weekend/month. We are paid $8.to $9./hour to...

  3. HELP! I DON"T WANT TO GO THROUGH CNA first...

    harley007 replied to lookingforward's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a Cardiac Cath. Lab. Many nurses think aside from a fair amount of blood, it is all high level monitoring and intensive type care. This is true but it is also giving one on one care for a...

  4. side effects of lanolin??

    harley007 replied to abracadabra2886's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Here is an example that I know of. When I had my identical twin girls in 1986, there was this big thing about having an allergy to wool that could effect a baby if you used the lanolin to prevent...

  5. Mixed Med/Surg unit with tele not being watched

    harley007 replied to Stryker's topic in General Nursing

    Years before tight UR, I worked in ICU and many times the MD's would keep patients a few extra days in ICU just to avoid sending their patients to the step-down unit that monitored it's patients just...

  6. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    harley007 replied to SRbear's topic in Pain Management

    I go to a internationally known pain MD. He works closely with our state's Attorney General to make sure that situations, like those described above, are not happening due to antiquated data and...

  7. PACU Stand By to cover ICU patients????

    harley007 replied to Silentfoster's topic in General Nursing

    I can't imagine how you do what you do as your situation is so much, much worse than mine. But our dept. does have similar problems. I work in a large interventional cardiac cath lab that naturally...

  8. Is current thinking on pain control creating drug addicts?

    harley007 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I am so happy and thankful for my pain MD and the time released pain medication he prescribes. Getting relief from pain has taken me from a person unable to work and just tolerating each day to a...

  9. How to insert a suprapubic foley???

    harley007 replied to Just wondering's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    It has been a while but, I had a number of patients with this type of catheter in a chronic rehap. setting. So, here's what we did. You use the regular cath. set but with the larger sized cath/balloon...

  10. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    harley007 replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a student nurse we did a month's rotation at a local chronic 250 bed rehabilitation hospital. We were required to get into an iron lung so we could "feel" it working. Wow, you quickly...

  11. Conn Nurses Meet N Greet

    harley007 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Connecticut Nursing

    Hi, I am a LPN who worked for one year and quickly became a Diploma RN. It's now 31 years as a RN (Boy am I getting - alright I am old.). Just started in a Intervent. Cath. Lab. position, 7 months...

  12. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    harley007 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Little girl growing up in the 1960's falls in love with "Cherry Ames" books and reads every book. (Still has them all too!) ..... then one of the wonderful "older" girls in the neighborhood goes off...

  13. Using a 30 cc baloon rectal cath for urethral drainage

    harley007 replied to elizadream's topic in MICU, SICU

    Oh my goodness, I feel like such a looser for missing that huge one! Naturally I know it is "supra" but good old spell check got to me. Now at least the other people reading my post will be able to...

  14. Using a 30 cc baloon rectal cath for urethral drainage

    harley007 replied to elizadream's topic in MICU, SICU

    I worked in a large rehabilitation hospital for 5 years. Due to the long term problems associated with urethral catheterization more than one of our patient's urethra dilated to a size so large that...

  15. any nurses fighting for their license with BON?

    harley007 replied to aainme's topic in General Nursing

    A number of years ago, my license was lost in the mail as I sent in for my yearly renewal and at the time I had been a nurse for 26 years. Four years after I had initially received my license I had a...

  16. Best & Worst April Fool's Pranks

    harley007 replied to Fran_Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    My husband was working in another state when I was 4 months pregnant with my identical twins. He knew we were having twins and I would call him with an update after my routine OB visits. On April...

  17. I had an MI on Tuesday

    harley007 replied to husker-nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Hi, Glad you have done so well! I just started working in the cath lab 4 months ago and I am major league impressed with the ER response. GREAT turn around time depends so much on the ER making the...

  18. Nurses in CT

    harley007 replied to Green Mountains's topic in Connecticut Nursing

    Have you heard of the "Hospital for Special Care" in New Britain. It is a short distance from Newington. It has been a rehap hosp. forever but now has a state of the art building. The levels of...

  19. Sexual Harrassment?

    harley007 replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a new RN graduate I had a young male for a patient. I entered the room just as he exposed himself "at full attention" Quite proud he appeared to be of his personal little toy. I asked what...

  20. SHOES: Are Dansko comfortable?

    harley007 replied to ternerzero's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I love my Dansko's! You need to remember that each pair is handmade. So, you need to try on more than one pair in your size to see which one is the best fit. I have a wide foot and the first pair I...

  21. pre-employment drug testing?

    harley007 replied to nursewriter2's topic in General Nursing

    If you have a MD's RX for a medication then you will be excused for a pos. drug test for that particular medication. I brought a note from my MD verifying this and there was no problem at all....

  22. No More Demerol IV Push???

    harley007 replied to VickyRN's topic in Emergency

    When my identical twin daughter was 12 she was diagnoses with Neurological Lyme’s Disease. Diagnosis = spinal tap with positive culture. At the time the Connecticut insurance limited treatment to 4...

  23. Most easy job in Nursing?

    harley007 replied to moliuchick's topic in General Nursing

    I just finished working as a school nurse for two private boarding schools. I do not have my BSN and in my area it is mostly diploma nurses working in these schools. I like this age group of students...

  24. How hard do you work to remove all vernix?

    harley007 replied to mitchsmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    As I was kneeling on the DR table naturally delivering my second, healthy, identical twin, I called out to the PA over at the warmer, "Please stop trying to rub off that vernix." It is so good for...

  25. Question re: lupus and fibromyalgia

    harley007 replied to KAW1962's topic in General Nursing

    I have an unusual type of auto-immune disorder but for insurance purposes I have been tagged with Fibromyalgia. I do not have psych issues nor do I have a history of abuse. I share my diagnosis with...