nerdtonurse?

nerdtonurse? BSN, RN

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  1. Controversial new policies at Baylor!!!!

    nerdtonurse? replied to tele jelly's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I think this has more to do with what's going on at Parkland and Methodist Dallas than Baylor. Both Parkland and Methodist are at risk of losing their medicare/medicaid funding; nurses who...

  2. I wasn't hired because I failed the personality test???

    nerdtonurse? replied to loveishope's topic in General Nursing

    Can we give the personality tests to the patients, and refuse to admit the ones that are cuckoo for coco puffs? Or how about a criminal background check on anyone who wants to overnight in the...

  3. What are the advantages of being a BSN over ADN?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Whitneylou01's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Magnet status hospitals want BSN only RN's. Most of the "big hitters" only want a BSN prepared nurse, but are willing to take an ADN RN with a Bachelor's or Master's in another field as long as they...

  4. blood pressure spikes and drops, help please

    nerdtonurse? replied to mcd24RN's topic in General Nursing

    10 vents?!?! OMG, I think I need to go lay down. That's like my worst ICU nurse nightmare -- a unit full of vents and nobody shows up but

  5. Not Seeking Medical Advice, Just want to know I am not alone

    nerdtonurse? replied to lawandaluxnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I've always heard that the "pain scale" outside of cancer was MI, open femur fracture, childbirth, ovarian cyst rupture, pancreatitis/splenic rupture. I wonder what poor soul had all those things...

  6. Possible termination for HIPAA violations

    nerdtonurse? replied to Magnolia619's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Okay, everybody take a deep breath. Nobody's been fired, nobody's been reported to the BON, we're not sending anyone to a deserted island to languish their life in penance. Magnolia made a mistake,...

  7. Patient safety-escorted transport?

    nerdtonurse? replied to MAISY, RN-ER's topic in Emergency

    When I take a patient to CT in the middle of the night, and they're relatively stable, I take them on a remote monitor. If I have any idea whatsoever that they could go sideways, I pull meds from the...

  8. Good opportunity...so why the teacher backlash?

    nerdtonurse? replied to RKRobbins's topic in General Nursing

    I think a lot of it depends on where you get your education and what level of ER you'll be working in. I thank God every day that I was a LPN before I went into my ADN program, because we were...

  9. Funniest post op patient: Wish all were like her!

    nerdtonurse? replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    I don't remember any of it, but when I had surgery back in the spring, (and well oiled on some preop meds), I apparently told my surgeon that he had a cute backside, and went on about it's...

  10. It will get better...right?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Lovelymo79's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    All I can share is that for the first 6 months as a nurse, I felt like I was 30 seconds away from killing everyone I touched. The second six months, I felt like most of them had a shot at surviving...

  11. Difficult families

    nerdtonurse? replied to HurricaneCasRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I now have a mental image of one of our docs with raccoon stripes painted on his face, eating out of my lunch bag at the desk...dunking my sandwich in

  12. bad nursing care rant

    nerdtonurse? replied to ashleyisawesome's topic in General Nursing

    Sue, we all have our thing -- for me, ICU? Happy. ER? Happy. Peds? OMG. OB/GYN? *runs for the door* And sometimes, places just don't work out. It's the wise nurse who realizes they need to...

  13. Nursing makes me nuts!!!!

    nerdtonurse? replied to ksc0723's topic in General Students

    State nurse practice acts vary in what each level of nursing is allowed to do (an LPN in one state may have a larger scope of practice than a LPN in another), and I think that feeds into a lot of the...

  14. Took NCLEX PN exam twice, no luck.

    nerdtonurse? replied to Mithamo's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    The Hurst book helped me more than anything else -- things were organized in a way that I remembered them. And don't give up. One of the best nurses I have ever worked with failed the Boards 3 times...

  15. Share some of the most ridiculous patient complaints/symptoms/demands

    nerdtonurse? replied to R!XTER's topic in Nursing Humor

    We had a patient file a complaint with the house supervisor because the ice in her drink wasn't cold enough....uh...32 degrees is 32 degrees, isn't it? (She wanted the solid chunks of ice, not the...

  16. Not Seeking Medical Advice, Just want to know I am not alone

    nerdtonurse? replied to lawandaluxnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I had both chocolate and dermoid (the kind with the teeth and the hair). I ended up having everything pulled from the cervix up because of elevated ovarian CA tumor markers from something else that...

  17. ALF gone bad

    nerdtonurse? replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    What do they call the box, the hors d'oeurve platter? OMG,

  18. bad nursing care rant

    nerdtonurse? replied to ashleyisawesome's topic in General Nursing

    I don't bathe walkie talkies. If you can reach it, you can scrub it. I may get your back for you, or wash around a port or IV site if you're nervous about it, but I don't want to turn a previously...

  19. Difficult families

    nerdtonurse? replied to HurricaneCasRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I've done the "over the top" like wooh -- sometimes, that works. Sometimes they just want an older nurse because they don't think anyone under the age of 40 knows anything. In ICU, we run into a lot...

  20. Tired of being labeled when I'm trying to save a life.

    nerdtonurse? replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    *pushing a chocolate bar slowly toward the OP* You did the right thing. I see this kind of non-compliance all the time in ICU. With us, it's "well, it's getting to be the end of the month, and...

  21. blood pressure spikes and drops, help please

    nerdtonurse? replied to mcd24RN's topic in General Nursing

    I work in ICU, and vent folks can throw their BP around like a baseball. Some become septic and the only sign (outside of labs) is a bout of hypotension in a normally hypertensive person. I don't...

  22. bad nursing care rant

    nerdtonurse? replied to ashleyisawesome's topic in General Nursing

    We had a patient code and die. Expected, horrible as in the family could not, would not accept that a 95 year old with endstage everything is not going to live with a hgb of 4, active GI bleed, and...

  23. Having a hard time understanding MRSA......

    nerdtonurse? replied to 2011nursetobe's topic in General Nursing

    I think if we tested everyone who hit the door - ICU, ER, M/S, surgery, well baby clinic, literally everyone who touches the health system - we'd find the colonization numbers are much higher than we...

  24. Do people with COPD have compromised immune systems?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Poi Dog's topic in General Nursing

    Look at their labs when they've been in the hospital for weeks, if you have the opportunity. You often see low lymphocytes, even if the WBC is normal. They often "over produce" RBCs to make up for...

  25. my not so lovely night

    nerdtonurse? replied to purple10's topic in General Nursing

    uh.....hug? Drink? Nerf balls to throw until you feel better? (that last one actually works for me) I'm not in LTC (although when we have people in ICU for months I sometimes feel like I am...), but...