nerdtonurse?

nerdtonurse? BSN, RN

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  1. Feeling Burned Out & Unappreciated!- What else is new?

    nerdtonurse? replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry you had such a rough night; I've been in ICU with 3 patients, and my charge wanting to know if I can handle a 4th because someone's going home sick and the floors can't free up a body, 2 on...

  2. Hospital frequent flyers??? Whatever happened to it being an acute care facility!

    nerdtonurse? replied to RNdiva505's topic in General Nursing

    The thing is, I've argued for people to stay longer...that little old lady or fella that for some reason is just setting off your alarm bells. I've had the "something's just not right with this...

  3. Nurse pressing charges

    nerdtonurse? replied to Girlygirl69's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    1 -- when a patient, CA or otherwise, becomes abuse, I leave. I've seen too many people get hurt because they tried to "talk down" a patient. I took enough martial arts to recognize when a sane...

  4. Why does this stigma exist in relation to new nurses?

    nerdtonurse? replied to VeraciousRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My preceptor knew she was getting a preceptee -- the shift I showed up. No one had told her, she was the most experienced nurse working that night (the other nurses had only graduated the previous...

  5. New Orientee Ticking Me Off

    nerdtonurse? replied to chevyv's topic in General Nursing

    Write him up for not following the chain of

  6. singing?

    nerdtonurse? replied to butterfly134's topic in General Nursing

    Of course, music can also be problematic....I was driving to work, and heard "Dance Band on the Titanic" "It's the End of the World as We Know It" and "Oh, Death" (random mix off my iPod), one after...

  7. Fecal collection systems

    nerdtonurse? replied to Vtachy1's topic in General Nursing

    And for pete's sake, don't put one in until you've assessed for fecal impaction. I had a pt that was just doing a little liquid seep, dayshift had put in a Flexiseal, I took it out to see what was...

  8. What are your favorite types of patients??

    nerdtonurse? replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I admit it, I'm a softy for military vets. Sometimes we find out they were on the same base my dad was at the same time, or we talk about Dinglewood Pharmacy's scrambled dogs and Lum's (Ft. Benning),...

  9. Hospital frequent flyers??? Whatever happened to it being an acute care facility!

    nerdtonurse? replied to RNdiva505's topic in General Nursing

    Send in male CNA/nurses for personal care for those guys if you've got them. We had a patient who essentially used the hospital as a flop house. He'd get kicked out of where he was staying (read:...

  10. what do you think?fired for a comment

    nerdtonurse? replied to yajaira21's topic in General Nursing

    Just assuming my position under the bus and keeping my mouth shut...well, not completely shut...aw, I'm under the bus and gripping my head off about

  11. Night shift -- can you just take it easy, please?

    nerdtonurse? replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    == and I'd work dayshift if I could afford it, but I can't. And I'd appreciate it if the folks that I hand off to realize I spent all night trying to keep the sundowners out of the floor, bathe...

  12. Administering pain meds to a sleeping pt

    nerdtonurse? replied to opossum's topic in General Nursing

    I don't wake surgical patients up to medicate them for breakthru pain; a big problem a lot of people have is that they think they should experience NO discomfort whatsoever. I had a TAH/BSO, and the...

  13. Ideas for hiding EEG wires ?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Trekfan's topic in General Nursing

    I've had an EEG as part of a sleep study...uh, why do you want to hide them? With EKG wires and dementia patients, I've ran the cords thru a section of TED hose to corral them so they don't get...

  14. singing?

    nerdtonurse? replied to butterfly134's topic in General Nursing

    I was giving a bath to a dear LOL that we knew (and she knew) wasn't going to be with us much longer. So I found myself singing "His Eye is on the Sparrow." After I finished with the bath, my pt...

  15. remember the flight attendent who quit creatively?

    nerdtonurse? replied to nola1202's topic in General Nursing

    If I knew I'd never need to work in our county again.... I'd video the boss's best buddy talking trash about her (everyone knows she does except the boss, and the BB is also the laziest person I have...

  16. Please help me figure out what happened to my pt

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

    Love it, canchaser, that's what I was thinking -- I just had to stop and run to church. When I had the patient that did that, they went from fine to going down the drain in the space of 5 minutes --...

  17. Please help me figure out what happened to my pt

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

    Okay, here's my thought. Small bowel obstruction -- you get GI contents backing up, you get pressure on the diaphram as the belly distends. You didn't mention any pedal pulses, but I've had a...

  18. How do you like to be acknowledged at work for a good job done

    nerdtonurse? replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    When I've gotten letters from patients, I make a copy and keep it in my locker. When I'm having a bad shift and want to run screaming from the place, I go pull them out and look at them and tell...

  19. Nurses in the path of Hurricane Irene

    nerdtonurse? replied to Horseshoe's topic in General Nursing

    We're just getting rain and wind so far...power flickered once, hospital's not on generator power yet. I saw that there are nurses who are going to have to stay with critical ICU patients to ill to...

  20. Ever have a patient that "turns" on you?

    nerdtonurse? replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    It happens a lot with sundowners and psych patients, and unfortunately, we don't have an exorcist on call....he'd make a

  21. Nurses in the path of Hurricane Irene

    nerdtonurse? replied to Horseshoe's topic in General Nursing

    I'm worried more about NY than I am us...we're a good ways inland, our biggest threat would be wind/flooding or a tornado (bad enough!) but when you are telling 300,000 folks to evacuate NY when...

  22. If you won the lottery would you still work in health care?

    nerdtonurse? replied to nola1202's topic in General Nursing

    If I won the big lottery (so I could set up some kind of annuity to fund the place), I'd open a hospice -- right now in our county, if you live alone and don't have some kind of live in assistance,...

  23. When an employee is a patient

    nerdtonurse? replied to LaurRN's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, read the whole thing. 1) You know how it is after a code. You've got upset family, trying to get a funeral home decision if it was unexpected, maybe waiting for someone to get there before...

  24. You just can't make this stuff up....

    nerdtonurse? posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    So, I'm working in the ICU, down to one patient because my other one got a helicopter ride to the big flagship teaching hospital in the capital....when we get a call from ER around 2 am. Patient...

  25. Confess! Whats the craziest force of habit you've done in the "Real World"

    nerdtonurse? replied to vhern246's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was at Colonial Williamsburg when they were having a reenactment, including setting up a "field hospital" in one of the buildings. I got to chatting with one of the "medics" who is a Paramedic in...