mesixfuture

mesixfuture

Peds, OB-GYN, CCU, ER, Corrections

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About mesixfuture

mesixfuture has 5 years experience and specializes in Peds, OB-GYN, CCU, ER, Corrections.


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  1. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Teenage boy presents to the ED, hasn't voided in 23 hours d/t erection d/t um..pleasuring himself with....oragel. Oragel? Yeah, I still can't figure out what the inspiration for that one
  2. Unsupportive 'team' members

    You definitely need to do something about this problem ASAP before some serious patient harm comes down. Nobody likes to have to write up a fellow employee especially when you're new. You can try...
  3. Tattoos and nursing

    I have two tattoos, both that I got after I became a nurse, they are both on my back and always covered when I go to work. I don't think they should have to be, but I made a concious decision to have...
  4. Does GPA matter in terms of getting a job?

    love the quote! is this an rn or lpn program that has the 80% cutoff? i'm in an rn program now, but i know when i went thru lpn school our grade cutoff was high. good luck in your program
  5. Young Eating Unit Secretaries

    I love both of our unit secretaries, even though one of them has more conspiracy theories than J. Edgar Hoover. Poor old gal always thinks everybodys out to screw her over. But I digress..due to the...
  6. Witnessed an RN stealing medication

    Uh, yeah. If that crap is really happening, and you know it and don't say anything, then it's your fault too. Report
  7. Nursing diagnosis please

    I'm a peds and ob nurse, so I don't have a lot of cardiac experience, and when it's happening to you personally...well all kinds of stuff runs thru your head. I've always been a little tachycardic...
  8. Is anyone else terrified of needles??

    I had an accidental stick in nursing school once. We were practicing on oranges, my syringe and my hands were sticky, so my hand slipped and all 1 and 1/2 inches of the needle slid down the side of my...
  9. Growing Thick Skin.

    I don't think working in the ER has anything to do with growing a thick skin. I work on a WIC floor and we have some of the thickest skinned nurses you'll ever see. But then again we code babies,...
  10. Patient reactions to L&D nurses who have never had children

    I feel your pain, Girl. I've been a nurse for two years this June and I've always worked in women's and children's services and I have no kids. It comes up often, usually beginning as a...
  11. My unit is going down the tubes...

    If you don't get out soon, there will be no cover your a$$ measures because you won't have an a$$ left to
  12. Med/Surg to L&D?

    When hiring for L&D, no experience is of any help to your resume except L&D experience, and maybe a little postpartum or some nursery. You are just as likely to get hired after nine months of...
  13. more than nursing professionals wearing scrubs

    I disagree with color coding scrubs just because I went to a private school for thirteen years and I enjoy not having to wear the same thing every day. However, I do agree that nursing should wear...
  14. Suggestons for ER miscarriage

    Does your facility's blood bank carry RhoGAM? Any missed AB whose blood has an RH - factor, must recieve RhoGAM to counter the RH antibodies that have the potential to abort the next
  15. LO's that KNOW IT ALL

    I feel your pain. I was looking thru one of my peds patient's recent clinical results for an H&P and found a note from an ER doc that read something to the effect of "discharged pt to home,...