nerdtonurse?

nerdtonurse? BSN, RN

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  1. Open mouth ... Insert foot

    nerdtonurse? replied to Meg88's topic in Nursing Humor

    Okay, this one makes me blush to even remember.... It had been one of THOSE shifts, okay? I usually do manage to fire up a brain cell or two when I give report, but we'd been running from vent to...

  2. What To Do When Dating A Co-Worker

    nerdtonurse? replied to bobber's topic in General Nursing

    You can also try the "I'm thinking about your future" kind of thing, spin it that you want her to be held in high regard for complete professionalism. I'm not going to get on the "don't fish in the...

  3. why be nice?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Flipper911's topic in General Nursing

    Some people are just mean, nasty and suck the life out of everyone they meet. These people, like everyone else, eventually either end up as a patient or the family of a patient. Nothing you do will...

  4. Code Brown

    nerdtonurse? replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

    I keep hearing this, especially from new grads, who hit the floor and and are shocked that they are expected to touch pee/poop/vomit/blood. Who on earth is telling these students that? Schools who...

  5. Biggest Misconception about nurses you've heard

    nerdtonurse? replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    1 -- we all want to marry doctors 2 -- all the patients sleep at night 3 -- WE get to sleep at night 4 -- we get paid a lot of money. Er...compared to what we risk (lawsuit, Hep C, HIV, meningitis,...

  6. How can nurses avoid burnout?

    nerdtonurse? replied to nolamor's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen experienced nurses burn out because they were used up. "Oh, Jane used to work in an oncology office, give her all the CA patients." Well, maybe the reason Jane's here is that she doesn't...

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

    nerdtonurse? replied to vhern246's topic in Nursing Humor

    Yelling in a sports bar, "Dang, I could hit that vein from HERE" while watching football. Seriously, I think you could have got a 14 in that man's vein, they were huge, HD or no HD

  8. OK, ummm............well...........

    nerdtonurse? replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    My aunt that's a retired nurse said the radiology dept at her hospital kept a set of "I have no idea how that ended up in THERE" xrays. Erik, next time you get him, tell the pt that if he keeps...

  9. Lawyer who is a nurse

    nerdtonurse? replied to Ms Tusevljak's topic in General Nursing

    Try forensic nursing for a couple of years first; it will teach you a lot about the legal system in the real world. If you want to practice before the Board, you need some time as a nurse and I think...

  10. If you were critically ill, which of your colleagues would you want assigned to you?

    nerdtonurse? replied to kidsndog's topic in General Nursing

    I had a friend who was also an EMT. If I ever went down on the job, I'd absolutely want her working on me. She had a TON of real life, trying to die beside the road experience. Calm, cool, smart,...

  11. Any funny misconceptions/misunderstandings when you first started as a nurse?

    nerdtonurse? replied to AOx1's topic in General Nursing

    We had a guy who had a diagnosis of "malignant nevis." So, being new, I'm asking one of the other nurses why the doc wouldn't just say melanoma or basal skin ca or whatever. Patient's family member...

  12. Check this out... Funny and not funny at the same time..

    nerdtonurse? replied to wifeandmomoftwo's topic in General Nursing

    My "diagnostic" is -- "Gee, i can't get the Ativan into the IV with this arm shaking like that." If they spontaneously stop seizing in the arm with the IV...there ya go. Seen it a lot at my old...

  13. TB question

    nerdtonurse? replied to RachelBa's topic in General Nursing

    I always turn red, but never get the dreaded lump; the employee health nurse said it's an immune system reaction to some component of the injection. She told me as long as I didn't feel "stacked...

  14. OK, ummm............well...........

    nerdtonurse? replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    I keep giggling about this...I can just see taking a look at the "affected area" and going, "Sir, are you missing a pen, pencil, TV remote, fingernail scrub brush, and a small

  15. New Grad in ER with unsafe practice - Advice please?

    nerdtonurse? replied to R!XTER's topic in Emergency

    Every hospital has horror stories; you don't have to nose around the internet very far to find flagship hospitals that have transplanted hearts into incompatible recipients, cut off the wrong limb,...

  16. New Record

    nerdtonurse? replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Beats my record; most I've ever got out at a pop (with the pausing so I don't cause the person to have a whole new problem) was 1400. But they had to self cath at home, so maybe it just stretched...

  17. OK, ummm............well...........

    nerdtonurse? replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    Poor Erik. I'd say get the guy a colonoscopy, except he'd probably be like Bill Murray in "Little Shop of

  18. Instructor reamed me even though nurse said I did right thing..what do you think?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Angels_wearScrubs's topic in General Nursing

    To the OP: the reason I brought the coag stuff up was that happened to me in LPN school, and I got burned -- pt started bleeding, I knew what the heparin drop was and the APTT was, but nobody told me...

  19. What's in your pockets?

    nerdtonurse? replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    Pt data, L thigh pocket. Wound care stuff (scissors, alcohol preps, flushes, tape) R thigh pocket. Penlight, pens, markers R scrub pocket. L scrub pocket is "my" stuff -- iTouch with Skyscape,...

  20. Instructor reamed me even though nurse said I did right thing..what do you think?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Angels_wearScrubs's topic in General Nursing

    First rule of nursing school -- the instructor is always right, ESPECIALLY when she's not. I've had pt's crash on me as a nurse, and you've got some great advice. You will have MDs act just like your...

  21. When HIPAA can KILL

    nerdtonurse? replied to Zookeeper3's topic in General Nursing

    I've also seen docs hide behind HIPAA because "I don't want to get into the middle of a mess." Much better to let the poor woman come to terms with her loss, find love again, and then find out she's...

  22. Taking care of doctors....

    nerdtonurse? replied to proudnurseRN's topic in General Nursing

    I looked after a sweet little old guy for a few days, pleasantly demented. Turned out he had been the "town doc" for one of the teeny tiny towns nearby, and had a constant stream of flowers,...

  23. A nurse friend of mine passed away: A WARNING TO ALL

    nerdtonurse? replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    I had thought a lot about being a hospice nurse, but being in a rural area, if things started to go sideways in that last house at the end of a 3 mile dirt road, help simply isn't going to get there...

  24. Troponin of greater than 300! What is the highest you have seen.

    nerdtonurse? replied to nlhnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

    Which troponin? T or I? Highest troponin I I've ever seen was a 7, and I was practically running down the hallway waving my arms like Jack Sparrow yelling, "I need transport, and I need it NOW."...

  25. Nurses rally for national law mandating ratios for patient care in hospitals

    nerdtonurse? replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The hospitals locally have started saying (to head off any calls to our senators, I guess) that if they get mandated nursing staff, they are going to cut everyone else, including the cleaning crew. I...