nerdtonurse?

nerdtonurse? BSN, RN

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  1. WHAT were they thinking at that Nursing Home???

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

    Whatever the practice setting, there's going to be someone who graduated with the lowest possible passing score, the most attempts to pass the NCLEX, etc. I've seen patients in LTC/telemetry/ICU...

  2. Religion in the Room

    nerdtonurse? replied to SeeTheMoon's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Your religion (yes, no or maybe) is completely up to you. Don't let anyone make you feel bad about what you feel, or don't feel, this job's hard enough as it is. In your shoes, I'd probably tell them...

  3. Troubles with eyeglasses

    nerdtonurse? replied to Mrs Badcrumble's topic in Emergency

    No line bifocals. And while I've had fellow nurses get lasiks, even if I had 20/20 vision I think I'd wear clear lenses. There have been too many times when I've gotten sprayed in the face and been...

  4. Religion in the Room

    nerdtonurse? replied to SeeTheMoon's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I've prayed with patients and their families, always when it's initiated by them, and I keep it generic. I'm Catholic in the rural south, and a lot of patients want to know a) who's my "people," b)...

  5. Why are so many new nurses having problems?

    nerdtonurse? replied to okchug's topic in General Nursing

    I see a lot of people who get in to nurse for either of 2 reasons -- all the money they'll make (Ha...haha....hahahahaha) or to "help" people. Sometimes you really can help someone, sometime you can...

  6. While you're at it...can you clean my poop too?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Miller86's topic in General Nursing

    My take is -- if you can reach it, you can wipe it. If you're on a vent, sedated, immediate post surgery, have contractures, etc., that's one thing. I've also told people that if they don't start...

  7. OK. Now this is getting outta hand.

    nerdtonurse? replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    Dang, Ericsoln, I wish I worked with you, you'd make the shift a

  8. OK. Now this is getting outta hand.

    nerdtonurse? replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked in male dominated fields (computing) and a mostly male workplace is different. I've seen them go out and started punching each other in the parking lot, and the backstabbing is still...

  9. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    To my DKA patient...don't tell me you check your blood sugar 4x per day...I can see your fingertips, and they look like the last time you got stuck was when I stuck you the last time you were here...

  10. Lies of the ER.....

    nerdtonurse? replied to Cari Turner21's topic in Nursing Humor

    Ones I hear: I can't be pregnant, it's something I age (while her baby is crowning). I tripped on it, naked. (apparently, a lot of folks prepare salads and vacuum and dust objects in the nude). Ash...

  11. Skills Fair Ideas?

    nerdtonurse? replied to kimmie4476's topic in General Nursing

    accessing port-a-caths -- we don't see one for a month, then we have 5 hit the unit in a single shift, seems like.... Post cardiac cath/intervention care Proper use of lifts (and while there was some...

  12. Lactated Ringers vs .9NS

    nerdtonurse? replied to Cindy 17's topic in General Nursing

    Who gets LR -- a burn/trauma/surgery patient, as above mentioned, but often the LR on a surgical patient is Dc'd once they hit the floor or within 12 hours. Why? Think about this. Who doesn't get LR...

  13. your favourite??

    nerdtonurse? replied to butterfly134's topic in General Nursing

    Patients always tell me "I didn't feel a thing" when I give injections -- what they don't know is that the first "people" who I have shots to were large farm animals and the cats/dogs on the farm. If...

  14. TSA asks a 95 y/o women to remove brief

    nerdtonurse? replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Too bad she didn't take off the diaper and smack him in the head with it. This woman was a nurse, she was one of us, and this was beyond disrespectful. To my knowledge, the TSA has not been...

  15. Terms we will not admit to using

    nerdtonurse? replied to gwenith's topic in Nursing Humor

    dadfo -- drunk and done fell over. JNK -- just needs killing -- reserved for child molesters/abusers/rapers who suddenly have chest pain when arrested. Idiot with jerk on a rope -- patient who sends...

  16. your favourite??

    nerdtonurse? replied to butterfly134's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, thank heavens, I thought I was the only weirdo who liked wound vacs. I have seen huge, and I mean Grand Canyon huge wounds heal up with those things. They are

  17. What would you have done??

    nerdtonurse? replied to Sun0408's topic in General Nursing

    I'd have pulled up the vitals from the prior night (if they were there) to see if this person consistently drops down when they are in deep sleep. However, I'd be worried I had a person having reflex...

  18. BP: how high is too high (at 2am)? i.e., when will Pt stroke out?

    nerdtonurse? replied to allthesmallthings's topic in General Nursing

    I'd have called for BP meds/Ativan to ward off DTs, and that's how I would have phrased it. What most of our docs look for is change -- if a person's been 160/94 for 3 days and hops to 170/100, and...

  19. your favourite??

    nerdtonurse? replied to butterfly134's topic in General Nursing

    When someone comes into ICU in deep trouble, and you can actually make a difference -- they clue in that it's time to start managing their diabetes, or CHF, or COPD or whatever, and you know if you...

  20. The Patient I Failed

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

    It's amazing the spectrum of response to impending death. I've had people who couldn't be in the room, we had to go get them from the waiting room and pull them into the crying room when the patient...

  21. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    Go home. If you're in ICU and you're well enough to complain about not getting bottled water, you need to just take your hypochondriac self on to the house. No, your problem is not bad luck, bad...

  22. Patients "waiting to die"

    nerdtonurse? replied to RescueNinja's topic in General Nursing

    I've had pts like that, ones where you could not believe they were still there when you came back to work. I had one guy who'd fallen out with his son....and I just knew he was waiting for his son to...

  23. Spouses/Visitors In Patient's Beds

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

    I'm usually too busy to care, but....I had a pt with a packed belly wound, MRSA from head to toe (nares, wound, blood, etc.), and the girlfriend would crawl in bed with him at night. I kept telling...

  24. Things you'd LOVE to tell the doc and get away with it....

    nerdtonurse? posted a topic in General Nursing

    Since the patient version is so popular, and I had a bad weekend (and no hope for a better one this weekend....) You've been giving this schizophrenic Alzheimer's pt 10 mg Ambien, plus 50mg Benedryl,...

  25. Is there any problem being a pre-med nursing student...?

    nerdtonurse? replied to TJ_vladin's topic in General Nursing

    I've wanted to take the MCAT just to see where I'd place....but then, I'm a glutton for