jenin

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1. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

   jenin replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

   But strangely, doing chest physio with young kids and teens with cf, and suctioning kids in icu, never bothered me.

2. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

   jenin replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

   Old men and sputum cups...yuk!! Just listening to them made me want to vomit...let alone the cup of sputum.....

3. When you don't hear what the docs hear?

   jenin replied to tsm007's topic in General Nursing

   Fine crackles can sound like hair rolled between your fingers next to your ear. This is how I have always described them.

4. You are NOT allergic to...

   jenin replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

   Then there are those who are allergic to ALL generic medications!

5. What is your Achilles heel?

   jenin replied to cjdmomma's topic in General Nursing

   Full Sputum pots....ick, ick, ick!

6. ect nurses

   jenin replied to 302queen's topic in Psychiatric

   I have maintenance ect every 2 weeks under general anaesthesia. I am in Australia but I cannot imagine it being done anywhere with the pt awake! No way!

7. ECT

   jenin replied to edie1's topic in Psychiatric

   I have had many ect treatments over the years. I currently am on a maintenance regime with one treatment every two weeks. I have minimal side effects. Only a minimal amount of memory loss, I think. I function, I work in a part time job as well. I am ...

8. What's your nursing kryptonite?

   jenin replied to ktliz's topic in General Nursing

   Sputum from paeds patients is fine...suctioning doesn't bother me. The only time I remember that was sickening was when a kid with bronchiectasis and a trache...and behavioural problems...aimed at me and coughed :uhoh3:. Was glad I was masked, gowned...

9. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   jenin replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   This is quite amazing...and amazingly beautiful..

10. Nurses' personal medical records

    jenin replied to Elizabeth 123's topic in General Nursing

    If someone has a mental illness that is well controlled by medication and their psychiatrist has cleared them to work then I don't see a problem!

11. I quit in the middle of my shift....

    jenin replied to newgradERrn's topic in Emergency

    A number of years ago I had a breakdown and quit my nursing studies for good in the middle of a clinical shift . I do suffer from clinical depression and all my stress just culminated during that particular shift and I broke...it was horrible. Walkin...

12. What do you think of nurses who can't spell medical terms?

    jenin replied to Mini-Murse's topic in General Nursing

    The mistake that really gets on my nerves is loose and lose! So many people write loose when they should spell it as lose . Does my head in

13. Electroconvulsive Therapy

    jenin replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

    Starting Over....I have no doubt that I would be dead without medication, at the very least . At the moment I am sure that ECT helps me to function day to day, in combination with meds. Over the last 10 years I have lost my career as a physiotherapis...

14. Electroconvulsive Therapy

    jenin replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

    I have had 3 courses of ECT as an inpatient, for depression, and currently have it every 2 weeks as an outpatient (Maintenance ECT). I think ECT has saved my life as my depression is very treatment resistant. Currently my procedure goes like this: ar...

15. Tylenol overdose and the public's ignorance.

    jenin replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a chemist as a pharmacy assistant and I am very careful to let customers know when they purchase an OTC or prescription med with paracetamol (in Australia) in it. It is currently winter, with a lot of people buying cold and flu meds OTC. Th...