LovingNurse BSN, RN

Oncology, Triage, Tele, Med-Surg

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    Varicose veins here I come!!

    LovingNurse replied to It's Alisa's topic in General Nursing

    The Jobst stockings are nice. I had varicose veins at your age, started sclerotherapy but didn't keep up with it. By the time I went back for more injections I was told my veins were too bad. One doc...
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    Too Many Appendectomies!

    LovingNurse replied to Lily C.'s topic in General Nursing

    We had 3 acute appey's admitted to the same on-call surgeon one recent night. Must have been running a
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    44 year-old woman with DVT dies of PE--- ???

    LovingNurse replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

    We recently had a woman admitted with DVT. The E.R. doc had ordered TEDs to be applied bilaterally. The nurse who had the patient asked me for my opinion and I wasn't comfortable sharing b/c it's...
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    ob-gyne wards...

    LovingNurse replied to pauiee_d.'s topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat: I've had lots of GYN surgeries and only had a male once and it was very uncomfortable. I was tempted to refuse but didn't --- (I had to have packing removed & was mortified!) Yes, he...
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    Bathroom Inservicing

    LovingNurse replied to barbyann's topic in General Nursing

    Our restroom has a bulletin board with info too. I actually think it's pretty effective because the same info can be up in other areas where I'm just zooming by so I don't notice or read them....
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    Vitamin K - IV route & clarifications

    LovingNurse replied to LovingNurse's topic in Patient Medications

    Thank you; it just seems to make more sense to
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    40 year old starting NS and taking the ACT

    LovingNurse replied to powers2004's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Powers2004, Kudos to you for going after your goal. I'd worked in the medical field for years and knew "some day" I'd go back to school to get my RN. Even though I had a boat load of credits that...
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    wrong injection for the patient

    LovingNurse replied to nursey2008's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Thanks for the update, Nursey. We are only human. (God made us that way., don't ya know.) You have grown from this ordeal, and helped others by posting here and reminding us to be careful. Wishing...
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    Patient Abandonment???

    LovingNurse replied to Kitty The Dog's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I vividly remember it being stressed during a legal lecture by an RN, JD ... that walking out d/t unsafe practices is *not* abandonment *if* you didn't accept the assignment to begin with. You didn't...
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    wrong injection for the patient

    LovingNurse replied to nursey2008's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'm so sorry. Sending a (((hug))) your way.
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    A Thanksgiving Message

    LovingNurse replied to country mom's topic in General Nursing

    Beautiful. Thank you for sharing. :bowingpur Pass the Kleenex, please. *Sniff*
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    Will I be neglectful and selfish?

    LovingNurse replied to 3rdgenRN2B's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Gamba - I wasn't being nasty at all.. and I sure as heck didn't mean to slap ANYONE in the face. (Sorry) My point was that I didn't have money, but my time was something I could give that was of...
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    Lactation Consultant

    LovingNurse replied to KungFuFtr's topic in Men in Nursing

    :omy: No offense, but I'd be very uncomfortable with a male. I'd decline. Sorry. Signed, Miss
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    Will I be neglectful and selfish?

    LovingNurse replied to 3rdgenRN2B's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Call me old fashioned, but please don't throw tomatoes at me - I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED being home with my kids. I went back to school when they were in middle/high school. Being their mom was the BEST...
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    Husband needs help

    LovingNurse replied to ohiobiker's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I ditto everyone else's ideas and just wanted to remind you - the stress as it is now is temporary. Hang in there. There's nothing you can do to lighten her school stress - (guys sometimes want to...
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    This one is a liability! What should I do?

    LovingNurse replied to Dr.Nurse2b's topic in General Students

    Dr. Nurse2B - It is difficult to watch someone throw their life away, but you don't need the monkey on your back that this guy is trying to put there. :monkeydance: Maybe you can obtain some...
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    This one is a liability! What should I do?

    LovingNurse replied to Dr.Nurse2b's topic in General Students

    Why are the professors looking to you to support
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    Autism

    LovingNurse replied to Snickerdoodles's topic in General Students

    The first three that come to mind are Consults! : Speech Path, P.T. & O.T. :bowingpur They rock when it comes to things like this! Private room. Allow/ Encourage family to stay, if they can. Not...
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    please answer this question about traction!

    LovingNurse replied to limonada's topic in General Students

    I don't have much ortho experience, but we've ad a run on hip fractures recently and I asked this same question. I got two different answers from two different nurses - one said ya gotta pull them up...
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    Ways I have heard Metoprolol pronounced...by medical personnel.

    LovingNurse replied to stillpressingon's topic in General Nursing

    I had a nursing instructor who called the musculoskeletal system the Musk U lo- Skull EAT al system. One of my biggest pet peeves is nurses who say on-A-cology instead of
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    Biopatch or similar

    LovingNurse replied to minnimouse's topic in General Nursing

    They're required for us. Our biopatches are blue on the side that goes up, so I remember "Blew
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    Nursing Habits: Sleeping Pills

    LovingNurse replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    Our cut-off is 0100 so the patients aren't groggy in the morning. I let the patients know ahead of time about "last call." Ambien is our standard formulary sleeping pill and I don't care for it...
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    medicine without a license

    LovingNurse replied to georgianurseRN's topic in General Nursing

    The wording isn't that the ORDER is being changed. The order is what it is. What was administered was under the ordered amt. due to pt refusal. I don't get where folks keep saying the ORDER was...
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    medicine without a license

    LovingNurse replied to georgianurseRN's topic in General Nursing

    Are we misunderstanding your question? Did she change the order for the dose - or just give half the dose based on pt. request? If she changed the actual order on the M.A.R. - that is wrong. If she...
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    How to flush a 2way Foley Cather

    LovingNurse replied to saulgoodman's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I use the sample port on the drainage tubing. No need to open the