tvccrn

tvccrn ASN, RN

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  1. Complain to whom? Anyone?

    tvccrn replied to LuvMyGamecocks's topic in General Nursing

    You might see if the facility has a patient advocate.

  2. Crazy Thing Pts Say or Do

    tvccrn replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Patient came in symptomatic bradycardia. Patient's chart stated allergy to adenosine. When the patient was asked what happened when she took adenosine..........Her heart rate sped up and she was...

  3. Time to take Action

    tvccrn replied to elfinM's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think that would go a long way in making things better for nurses. We definitely need to band together and make changes. It would be a good thing for ALL involved, nurses and patients alike if we...

  4. Time to take Action

    tvccrn replied to elfinM's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    PLEASE REALIZE, I AM A NURSE AND AM MERELY ASKING FROM A DEVIL'S ADVOCATE POSITION!!!!!!!!! I lived in Massachusetts when this was started there. I attended the local congressperson's meeting on this...

  5. Closing the unit

    tvccrn replied to JenTheRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I used to work in a small rural hospital and our OB unit was eventually closed after about 5 years of only have 70 births a year. It would not have paid to keep and RN on the unit when there wasn't...

  6. questions about Post operative care

    tvccrn replied to lil_penguin's topic in General Nursing

    What kind of place is he having the surgery at that you aren't allowed to see him? That would definitely NOT be my first choice for a procedure. As for the care, 23 hours (in most facilities) is...

  7. questions about doing CPR

    tvccrn replied to ajaxgirl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    What actions would you need to defend. If you start the code when you find someone down, you are doing what the patient wants. If you don't because whatever reason, then I can see needing to defend...

  8. Not all doctors can read ekg strips?

    tvccrn replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Why would he read any in his office? Most of them go to the cardiologists for a final reading. Heck, here the primary doctor wouldn't even see the EKG at all.

  9. questions about doing CPR

    tvccrn replied to ajaxgirl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    You were clear. It still doesn't matter..full code means full code. In the nursing home, in the hospital, in the ambulance. Full code = full code. I'm not saying is perfect, if you know they are...

  10. strange request?

    tvccrn replied to love2shop's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Some people aren't aware of the process to baptize. Not everyone is catholic or privileged to clerical process.

  11. NONCOMPLIANCE, why be at the big H? in the first place?

    tvccrn replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Arwen brings up a point, if the patient is, for whatever reason, near the end of live I see no reason to push treatment on them. Let them enjoy what time they have left. BUT, if they aren't and the...

  12. questions about doing CPR

    tvccrn replied to ajaxgirl's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I don't think it matters where you work, a full code is a full code. That means if you find the person unresponsive and not breathing, no pulse, you start CPR. I would think your facility is...

  13. Rules for the ER (long)

    tvccrn replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    Then why bother to go to the ER. If this is all you want you can get that at home for free.

  14. Mandatory Patient HIV Testing after Needlestick Injury

    tvccrn replied to S.T.A.C.E.Y's topic in General Nursing

    Mine happened as I was trying to get the air out of some dialysis tubing. I was in the PICU and the machine alarmed. According to the dialysis nurse, all I had to do was take a clean needle and pull...

  15. would you like to work in a place like this?

    tvccrn replied to gilbertonline's topic in General Nursing

    Where is this place? I want to go there.

  16. Career change?

    tvccrn replied to bklynborn's topic in General Nursing

    No dispute, just trying to clarify some misconceptions about the areas of the hospital that aren't considered floor nursing. I wish you luck in finding something. I do think that administration of...

  17. Career change?

    tvccrn replied to bklynborn's topic in General Nursing

    It's not necessarily the work loads, it's the physicality of the job. Just becasue we don't keep our patients as long as the floor nurses do, doesn't mean that we don't work just as hard. In the...

  18. What would you bring?

    tvccrn replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    Why didn't the nurses tilt the bed a bit to help. That's one of the first things our nurses do when they get our patients from the cath lab. That way the patients are still straight but not totally...

  19. Trouble c accents at work?

    tvccrn replied to Suninmyheart's topic in General Nursing

    Well, the quiz had me from being from the West, but it did say that I could be from a big Southern city like Dallas. And that's close.

  20. Career change?

    tvccrn replied to bklynborn's topic in General Nursing

    I would clarify what is meant by no bedside nursing. The endoscopy, cardiac cath and PACU can be just as strenuous or more so than bedside nursing. It could be that the administrative route would be...

  21. we're pregnant

    tvccrn replied to medsurgnurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Congratulations!!!!!! I do know what you mean because we are as well...May, 2007.

  22. Deathbed visions

    tvccrn replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in nursing school I worked the weekend in a NH. We had one patient who was one of those little old ladies we would get up in the into the wheelchair and she would putter around all day...

  23. When is it ethical to talk about religion with a patient?

    tvccrn replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Suesquatch, I was replying to a post made by GardenDove about why non believers are so disturbed by something they don't believe in. That's why the quote was above what I posted. I myself wasn't...

  24. When is it ethical to talk about religion with a patient?

    tvccrn replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    This is a very good point. I feel if you don't believe, then what's to get all worked up about. Makes me wonder if they real know what it is that they believe in. Tazzi, I'm not part of a mainstream...

  25. When is it ethical to talk about religion with a patient?

    tvccrn replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I would have a hard time with a nurse who did this. The religion I follow doesn't believe in pushing (for lack of a better term) what we believe on others. To me religion has it's place, but only...