BlueEyedRN

BlueEyedRN

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  1. Is there ANY department in nursing that I can avoid cleaning up poo?

    BlueEyedRN replied to Future-nurse's topic in General Nursing

    All you poo avoiders need to spend some time in the ICU. It took me about three weeks to get over being grossed out by poop in its many many forms. I couldn't change a baby's diaper without gagging...

  2. Dave Barry's Colonoscopy

    BlueEyedRN replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    My poor brother-in-law (28yo) had a colonoscopy last month at a hospital that didn't use sedation. He didn't realize that it was something you really should be put out for and didn't think about it....

  3. Precepting new BSN grad/having trouble

    BlueEyedRN replied to Mudwoman's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I started with a girl who had a BSN and was always telling everyone that. She was the most frustrating person to work with ever. You couldn't tell her anything and giving report was like getting...

  4. My bad attitude

    BlueEyedRN replied to jessiern's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Whatever happened to the management philosophy, "If you take care of your employees, they will take care of you." Why is it that with nurses, the philosophy is to beat them into submission? It makes...

  5. VENT... beware- not a happy post

    BlueEyedRN replied to Sue Damones's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! That is the unit of my dreams. I need to find a new hospital.

  6. Why the Customer Service emphasis?

    BlueEyedRN replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    You know, if nurses could get a 15% tip, we may just find it in us to be as accommodating as any patient could desire. :) My mom actually had a little old patient who handed her a napkin with her...

  7. I'm gonna sue you

    BlueEyedRN replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    I had a pt who was very verbally abusive, screaming at the top of his lungs about how we were using "cruel and unusual punishment" and how he was going to sue us. Finally, he called me an f-word...

  8. VENT... beware- not a happy post

    BlueEyedRN replied to Sue Damones's topic in General Nursing

    This really gets to me too. And the infuriating thing is that it is usually those who see themselves as educators and volunteer to be preceptors that are nastiest. The sentence that gets to me the...

  9. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    BlueEyedRN replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    Rules must be broken in certain circumstances. Otherwise this perfect judicial system of our would not exist. I actually did have the pleasure of reading all your posts and everything you said shows...

  10. ICU: Nurses Wash Patients + Make Beds?

    BlueEyedRN replied to nyforlove's topic in General Nursing

    We have aides that hold the patients over while we clean them up. :) They also do blood sugars and 12-leads. I've never been on or even heard of an ICU where the nurse wasn't involved in cleaning...

  11. Heimlich Maneuver for the first time

    BlueEyedRN replied to antidote's topic in General Nursing

    Holy smokes! What a terrifying experience! I'm steamed on your behalf. GRRR.. Close calls of any sort stick in your head and take a little time to get over. I sometimes still get teary when I...

  12. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    BlueEyedRN replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    The problem is that you give all these examples where the answer is very clear cut. The fact is that you will come into situations in nursing where the answer is much more difficult to find. We had...

  13. Need some advice from experienced/senior nurses

    BlueEyedRN replied to IloveNY's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I totally know what you mean. I was a really good student, top of my class, worked crazy hard for my grades and I was used to being the best. And then I started as a nurse and it was very...

  14. I want to be a nurse!!!

    BlueEyedRN replied to Iwant2banurse!'s topic in General Nursing

    I did an accelerated 2nd-degree BSN program which was nice because that first degree counted from something. My first degree was in Accounting which does make things a little more difficult because...

  15. Neonatal Brain Death

    BlueEyedRN posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We had a pregnant pt come in who was in a car accident, they did an emergency C-section, coded the baby for a while, and then declared her brain dead and brought her to the mommy to die. In the ICU,...

  16. If you had to to do all over again...

    BlueEyedRN replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    The only thing I would do different is to become a nurse sooner. :) I love being a nurse. I never wanted to be one until I was a mommy and thought it was a possibility. It is definitely crazy...

  17. Things you'd like to say to your co-workers, but never would ....

    BlueEyedRN replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Don't make a snooty remark like "it must be nice to not have anything to do" when I take 2 minutes to ask the unit secretary about her sick son as she's walking out the door. I have been running my...

  18. have you used chemical restraint?

    BlueEyedRN replied to diamondmeadows's topic in General Nursing

    That reminds me of a time we used vec on a patient with a GI bleed who refused blood transfusions. Her Hgb was so low (less than 3 at one point), that the intensivists decided to paralyze her...

  19. would like day shift to remember there are two others!

    BlueEyedRN replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    :chuckle:chuckle:chuckle I love that :chuckle:chuckle:chuckle What peeves me is that when our day shift had a really busy day, the manager buys them lunch or dinner for after their shift. The doctors...

  20. Question about HIV and patient confidentiality

    BlueEyedRN replied to AZO49008's topic in General Nursing

    In reality, not everyone uses standard precautions 100% of the time. Of course we know we should. But every once in a while, I can't feel that one viable invisible vein with gloves on and I take one...

  21. nursing shortage? how about equipment shortage?

    BlueEyedRN replied to MagnesiuM's topic in General Nursing

    We are always fighting over IV pumps and pillows. Our big frustrating is running out of supplies. Sunday nights are the worst. We'll always run out of lab tubes, dressing supplies, foleys, and...

  22. Do I let this nurse take the blame...?

    BlueEyedRN replied to zamboni's topic in General Nursing

    If the nurse was inexperienced, I could understand her not knowing what was going on (sort of--you should know there are two places the tube can go), but a GI doctor should have recognized it...

  23. I'm sick of taking care of Room 505 !!!!

    BlueEyedRN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    There have been patients on our unit that were so horrible to take care of that we made a list of who had them each day so that their care was spread out evenly over the nurses. It was a perfect...

  24. What was your gpa when you got accepted to an RN or LPN program?

    BlueEyedRN replied to RNsoon!'s topic in General Nursing

    3.8

  25. recycling- seriously

    BlueEyedRN replied to jenna_rn's topic in General Nursing

    It is totally sick how much garbage we make. It really bothered me when I first started. What irks me now is how much paper we use. We do computerized charting now and they always talk about...