LilgirlRN

LilgirlRN ADN, RN

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  1. Waiting Room Signage

    LilgirlRN replied to willa76's topic in Emergency

    Ya know we could do away with 85% of our traffic if we could only implement these machines in the ED waiting area: 1. First machine sells 10 packs of Lortab 7.5 2. Second machine sells work excuses....

  2. Charting Bloopers

    LilgirlRN replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    I took care of a bedbound patient once who was just a litttle bit eccentric. She was perfectly well groomed, no bedsores, had round the clock sitters but wouldn't let anyone touch her feet. The...

  3. RN to MD....possible or not?

    LilgirlRN replied to zinacef's topic in General Nursing

    One of the anesthesiologists where I work started his medical career as an LPN, then RN, then CRNA, then MD...so it can be done. He was about your age when he went to medical school too. Good luck to...

  4. Promethazine IV Question

    LilgirlRN replied to PMercier's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    There is no policy in my hospital either. Like many of you I learned from personal experience just how badly it can hurt. I had an ulcer last year and was in the hospital for 2 days...had 5 IV's...

  5. What is your net take home pay every two weeks?

    LilgirlRN replied to JMP's topic in General Nursing

    Lately I've been doing fairly well..only because we are so short staffed and I've been doing lots of OT with "bonus pay" of 6 bucks an hour. When I get both of those I am making a lil more than 40...

  6. What shift do you work? Why?

    LilgirlRN replied to duckie's topic in General Nursing

    For 15 years I have worked nights, with the exception of 2 months last year when I worked day shift and I hated it so much I gladly went back to

  7. Funny Names for Nurses

    LilgirlRN replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    I work in the ER with Dr. Gore and Dr.

  8. An interesting question about product placement

    LilgirlRN replied to mattcastens's topic in General Nursing

    I notice things like that too when watching any kind of medical type show. More often however, I find myself looking for mistakes that they make. I'll talk out loud to the TV, "yeah, like that would...

  9. ICU nursing vs Floor nursing

    LilgirlRN replied to nurs4kids's topic in General Nursing

    I don't even want to know, so I will stay my butt in the

  10. Help - Career Day at Preschool

    LilgirlRN replied to RNKitty's topic in General Nursing

    I bet some of them are about to become big brother or bog sister, perhaps you could give them tips on what having a new baby in the house is like

  11. spooky spooky spooky

    LilgirlRN replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    I've never seen ghosts at the hospital where I work, but I have had patients who knew they were about to die, postpone their own death until so-and-so could get there so that they could tell them...

  12. ER Doctors that are hard to work with!

    LilgirlRN replied to ERIsland's topic in Emergency

    We have a realtively new guy working with us, miost of our docs have been in our ER for about 8 years. This guy has been with us for about a year or so. He doesn't practice ER medicine, he practices...

  13. GHB Rohipinol

    LilgirlRN replied to Cathy RN's topic in Emergency

    What you've described sounds to me like a GHB OD. Patients are so completely out that many end up tubed. When they awaken, its always almost instantaneous...like they are asleep one minute and fully...

  14. ER or ICU?

    LilgirlRN replied to 502Nurse's topic in Emergency

    I was hired to work in CCU straight out of nursing school, back then we sorta doubled as ICU too when they were full. I now work in the ER and have for many years, but if it weren't for the experience...