NurseDennie

NurseDennie BSN, RN

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  1. Incident report happy nurse

    NurseDennie replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    I thought charting had *always* been the be-all and end-all. No? If it's not documented, it didn't happen. If it's not documented correctly, it didn't happen correctly. Love

  2. Do you have to be ACLS certified to give conscio conscious sedation?

    NurseDennie replied to Jbahoffman's topic in Gastroenterology

    I'll bet it boils down to a $$$ issue. When I was on the floor, the job didn't require ACLS so the hospital wouldn't provide it - only the BLS. On the floor, I assisted in CS several times....

  3. Incident report happy nurse

    NurseDennie replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    Hi. Most - I guess ALL of the incident reports about me were BY me. Mostly I was Covering My A&&. For instance - I was drawing up demerol into a syringe, and dropped the full syringe with...

  4. Do taller people need longer stethoscopes?

    NurseDennie replied to eventsnyc's topic in General Nursing

    I started out as a tech whilst I was in nursing school, and my tech orientation was on the pulmonary floor. I decided that I needed the LONGEST steth tubes I could find!!! You need a bit of distance...

  5. HCA - Creates Own Temp Staffing - Allstaffing Agency

    NurseDennie replied to nightingale's topic in Agency Nurses

    Well, if you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. HCA is all about making money. Ask any nurse at a HCA hospital! To the hospital admin., the agency situation must be galling. To a hospital,...

  6. Potassium error kills newborn

    NurseDennie replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    My heart goes out to the family and the staff involved in this. Even hearing about a med error like this renews my feeling from nursing school. The instructor told us of a med error that one of our...

  7. What Freaks You Out?

    NurseDennie replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, me too. Seen it all, smelled it all, wore some of it, and it didn't affect my lunch at all. But Chewing Tobacco grosses me out SOOOOOOOooo badly!! I was afraid of grasshoppers when I was a kid...

  8. Trivia: When was smoking banned in all US hospitals

    NurseDennie replied to mario_ragucci's topic in General Nursing

    ktwlpn - you said you can't imagine smoking at the med cart, and I can't either! That would be like having a coke on the med cart and sipping in between patients, or having a cookie or something like...

  9. Temps

    NurseDennie replied to rondafan's topic in General Nursing

    LOL P_RN. Amen to that! Love

  10. Temps

    NurseDennie replied to rondafan's topic in General Nursing

    I have no idea about the tympannic temps. When the first came out, my kids were still young enough to go to the pediatrician, and the nurses there griped about them no end. I'm sure they've improved...

  11. Temps

    NurseDennie replied to rondafan's topic in General Nursing

    Nooooo - It's kind of a thing that you keep in mind, but if you take a rectal temp, then you should chart THE TEMP YOU GOT and that it was rectal. (Same thing with PO and ax temps, if they're...

  12. body removal...

    NurseDennie replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    LOL Thisnurse!!! That was great! And DonMurray, I agree with you. As a matter of fact, I had just been thinking that the people in the hospital HAVE to know what that special gurney is holding....

  13. spooky spooky spooky

    NurseDennie replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    How about this? I'm replying to my own post! I went to the Amazing Randi's web page, and there are a lot of references to John Edward. *sigh*. Randi says that it's called "cold..." Oh rats, the...

  14. spooky spooky spooky

    NurseDennie replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse4kids - wouldn't THAT be funny? My kids are grown I'm OLD!! And besides, whenever I was pregnant, I had painless birthing dreams. That was pretty much my confirmation even before the test....

  15. spooky spooky spooky

    NurseDennie replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    I knew this spooky thread couldn't stay idle TOO long, but here it is me, reviving it! Okay - take this with a grain of salt, but I always have a dream about losing a tooth before someone I know...

  16. Night Shift Differential

    NurseDennie replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm on salary now, research nurse, and I don't work any shifts per se. The last hospital I worked paid +13% for 1500-1900 and then +15% for 1900-0700. But are you saying that you work rotating...

  17. PAIN as the 5th vital sign ..What's it about??

    NurseDennie replied to prn nurse's topic in Pain Management

    I agree that chronic pain is a major problem in any number of ways. There are some pain clinics here that advise that if you have something that causes chronic pain, then your focus should be on...

  18. What do you do when you are assigned patient is a someone you know?

    NurseDennie replied to shavsha's topic in General Nursing

    It depends on the circumstances. I've taken care of friends that were nurses on my floor (my best friend hurt herself at work, and then had to be in hospital for about 4 days. I was off that day,...

  19. spooky spooky spooky

    NurseDennie replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know about the rest of you, but I find that Houlihan's story was strangely reassuring. I've always said that people get a "hand over" and that people who are in extremis never talk to their...

  20. HELP!! JCAHO is coming!

    NurseDennie replied to AmandaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I would add this - don't answer anything they don't ASK. Don't volunteer. Be sure you know all the things that the hospital has posters up about - like what does PASS stand for in a fire drill, and...

  21. spooky spooky spooky

    NurseDennie replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with Dawngloves (really cool name, that!). I think that sometimes when somebody is having a really hard time leaving, that somebody or maybe a group of people, will come "back" and help them...

  22. Charting Bloopers

    NurseDennie replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    How about "patient D/C home in wheelchair, voiding excellently." I LOVE that one and giggle about it at odd moments (and yes, I do have quite a few odd moments). It conjures a mental picture of the...

  23. Right handed? Left handed? Spell? Can't spell?

    NurseDennie replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Caroline - I am in awe. I used to make extra money by betting people that I could write one word with one hand and another at the same time with the other. I can still do it - I just checked. BUT...

  24. Right handed? Left handed? Spell? Can't spell?

    NurseDennie replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I was born leftie, changed to rightie in school - how does that work? I think I spell pretty well, and I believe I have an above-average vocabulary. But then, I think everybody THINKS they spell...

  25. Embarrassing moments?

    NurseDennie replied to canna42's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hi. I think most nurses have suffered from the a$$ lock, I don't know if my co-workers and I coined that description, but it certainly works, doesn't it? Employee health - what can I say? Actually...