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  1. Sick over a mistake I made

    brownbook replied to EmilyrenaeRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Great advice as usual from JKL33. These things happen. I worked out patient surgery, and have heard this happens inpatient units also. A patient goes home with their saline lock IV still in. Yes...

  2. Peds home health: dealing with trach and vent

    brownbook replied to MSB's topic in Home Health

    I feel for you. YouTube is a good resource. Best of luck. This may be bad advice, but if somehow you can appear confident, but at the same time ask the parents how they've been doing trach care and...

  3. Not adjusting to night shift

    brownbook replied to nurseontheway's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I think 5 hours of sleep is great. Counting how many hours you sleep is meaningless irregardless whether you work 5 days a week 8 am to 5 pm, or just had a baby, or are old and retired. How you...

  4. Questions

    brownbook replied to ER_RN07's topic in Gastroenterology

    I'm impressed....you really have it down

  5. Questions

    brownbook replied to ER_RN07's topic in Gastroenterology

    Are you, the nurse, able to keep up with noting the location of the specimens. If several, or many, specimens are taken, who records or remembers where each one was taken

  6. Should I have accessed her port?

    brownbook replied to guest947568's topic in General Nursing

    I agree completely. It makes absolutely no sense. I can't imagine a situation where a nurse who is competent to access a port to not use it. My gut feeling is the ER nurses weren't comfortable...

  7. Patients that interfere with another patient's medical treatment

    brownbook replied to Mandy2016's topic in Emergency

    Thanks

  8. Patients that interfere with another patient's medical treatment

    brownbook replied to Mandy2016's topic in Emergency

    What is CIWA and 5-2-50 Booty

  9. Should I have accessed her port?

    brownbook replied to guest947568's topic in General Nursing

    Can or should a nurse who has never accessed a port access a port? That is what my rationale was in saying don't access it. Hopefully accessing ports is, or will, become common knowledge, maybe an...

  10. Nurses that “only do it for the money”

    brownbook replied to AFJ32780's topic in General Nursing

    I can't believe this post has so many responses......my husband kind of pushed me into nursing...kicking and screaming.... (long story). I enjoyed the class work, hated clinicals because I was scared...

  11. Nurses that “only do it for the money”

    brownbook replied to AFJ32780's topic in General Nursing

    I'd say those nurses are coocoo! I think the pay is great but there has to be a less stressful way to get rich. Working in a 24/7 industry; blood, poop, pee, and vomit. Sign me up

  12. Monkey Bars

    brownbook replied to BluebellRN's topic in School

    Not a school nurse, just a mother/nurse. But geeze...should we keep the kids indoors sitting at their desks all recess? I have fond memories of twirling round and round on the monkey bars. I know...

  13. Should I have accessed her port?

    brownbook replied to guest947568's topic in General Nursing

    This is what we went by.....NO ONE SHOULD BE ACCESSING A PORT if they are not qualified....you do not want someone who saw it done once, or has done it "occasionally" in the past, messing up a port!...

  14. Seattle is Dying

    brownbook replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Your a little cynical ?. All I can think of is agencies that try to provide services for the homeless somehow profiting? It's like the myth that scientists/doctors know the cure for cancer but they...

  15. Seattle is Dying

    brownbook replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you, I was trying to think of some response along these lines....let's label each other, that is one solution that has united people and solved many local and nation wide problems. I'm a...

  16. Seattle is Dying

    brownbook replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Obviously a very complex issue. I don't trust some statistics. Not that it is a great situation, but a person, or multiple families, living/sharing a house or apartment can be considered...

  17. New nurse overutilizing ED tech

    brownbook replied to thepitbull's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Maybe first of all, unless you're the charge nurse or supervisor, tell the techs to document specific examples and talk to the charge nurse. However it is nice they feel comfortable telling you. Tell...

  18. smokers and coughing

    brownbook posted a topic in General Nursing

    Why do people who smoke say they can't get over their cold....don't they have a clue that smoking and a chronic cough often go hand in hand? Honestly I understand smoking addiction and understand...

  19. What are your perspective on Mandate Fairness?

    brownbook replied to ashagreyjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Geeze Louise.....I'd find some doc in a box, or Internet doc to give me a psychiatric dispensation. But personally I think the whole mandated 16 hour unexpected shift stinks...you guys voted on this...

  20. Did I make the right choice?

    brownbook replied to Toaster's topic in General Nursing

    I understand your response, but I assume this was the case of a facility using an agency nurse to temporarily fill in, could be just for one shift. The facility expects these agencies to send a nurse...

  21. Did I make the right choice?

    brownbook replied to Toaster's topic in General Nursing

    SNF and LTC are the same thing. SNF is skilled nursing facility. I would have not taken the

  22. Write Up's and Potential Termination for Pain Reassessments

    brownbook replied to MiralaxOnIceRN's topic in General Nursing

    I do this all the time, it is easier with paper charting. The system is set up so you have to cheat and lie to survive. In the fictional book The House of God, published in 2010, residents/interns...

  23. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

    brownbook replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nursing Humor

    I'm not sure about this? A healthy young female driving her car hits a telephone pole. Is dazed, minor head wound, gets out of the car and a live electrical wire arching, twitching, on the ground hits...

  24. Questions

    brownbook replied to ER_RN07's topic in Gastroenterology

    A tech in the GI room is exactly like a tech in an OR. Knows all the equipment the surgeon might need and I ready to hand them to the surgeon. I only floated to GI nursing....the tech set up the...

  25. Graduate in May need advice as to where I should start.

    brownbook replied to 19Kristin's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I love psych and psych nurses...however my gut says you should give med/surg a try. If it doesn't work out I would think you could get a job in a psych unit. A nurse is delusional if during school...