nerdtonurse?

nerdtonurse? BSN, RN

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  1. You Know You Really Have To Pee When......

    nerdtonurse? replied to Nursing Assistant's topic in Nursing Humor

    You look at your patient and think, "Gee, I'd better go pee before the code

  2. You know your shift is going to be INSANELY busy when...

    nerdtonurse? replied to abbaking's topic in Nursing Humor

    You come in and ALL your patients just happen to be in the rooms closest to the nurse's station. For a reason. I was running between 5 rooms where the bed alarms were going off constantly, the pts...

  3. I'm so sick of training other nurses and new grads ! Will I ever get a break?

    nerdtonurse? replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Chances are, other employers in the area will already know about how employees are treated at your facility; if you tell them you were expected to train so quickly, no one's going to say anything...

  4. How to deal with those family members who are "nurses"?

    nerdtonurse? replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    Here's what I do: If they say they're a nurse and start touching stuff, I say, "well, as a nurse you know that you are not allowed to touch the equipment/change settings. That's to safeguard YOUR...

  5. pro life to work in ER OR OB

    nerdtonurse? replied to Beebop25's topic in General Nursing

    I'm Catholic, too. But even if you don't work in ER/OR/OB/GYN you can still run into the situation. What about a person on methotrexate for arthritis -- if she happens to get pregnant (early enough so...

  6. New Grad starting on Telemetry

    nerdtonurse? replied to Del Rosario's topic in Cardiac

    I started in telemetry. *Get Dubin's EKG book. *Take ACLS. *Learn what electrolyte does what to a heart rhythm. *Get a CCRN study guide. It's a good resource for the days when you go home and...

  7. When you find someone who is unresponsive...

    nerdtonurse? replied to litchi's topic in General Nursing

    With the exception of the "you're not dead until you're WARM and dead" in hypothermic situations: The survival rate for an out of the hospital situation where CPR is required is pretty dismal...

  8. Chief complaints that made you laugh?

    nerdtonurse? replied to nickos's topic in General Nursing

    We had a guy who had everyone in the place rolling in the floor -- and this was in the paper. He'd lost his car and license d/t multiple DUIs, so he got a moped. Showed up in our ER all scraped up,...

  9. Where to take Anatomy and Physiology 2????

    nerdtonurse? replied to LoveNursing4ever's topic in General Nursing

    I used Edukan, we used a virtual lab. I worked my backside off, learned a lot. My knowledge level doesn't seem to suffer compared to the folks who went to a brick and mortar school. And the...

  10. I had H1N1

    nerdtonurse? posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Well, it happened. I haven't been posting that much recently, and it's because I thought I had a killer case of bronchitis, due to being in school full time and working full time, and I just haven't...

  11. Oh, the gossip.

    nerdtonurse? replied to LOLRN's topic in General Nursing

    When people do crap like that to me, I always think: "If that's the worst thing you can come up with as a criticism, I'm doing pretty good." I also research ways to say "bite me" in foreign...

  12. Chief complaints that made you laugh?

    nerdtonurse? replied to nickos's topic in General Nursing

    My favorite: "Near syncopy." Yup, almost fainted, so thought I'd come to the ED by ambulance....I'm not talking about people with bad hearts, high risk preggos, no, just your average person who gets...

  13. A Wardrobe Malfunction, or Why Not to Wear A Halloween Costume to Work

    nerdtonurse? replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    I just remember standing there (once we were sure the resident was okay) and laughing so hard I almost peed my

  14. A Wardrobe Malfunction, or Why Not to Wear A Halloween Costume to Work

    nerdtonurse? replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    In LPN school, we were at a LTC on Halloween, and one nurse went all out...way out...way, way far out. She dressed as a witch, complete with hat, broom, green body paint and a face mask that would...

  15. 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

    If you are so stoned you can't stay conscious long enough to say, "I want Dilaud-z-z-z--z-z-z-z-z-" then you're not getting any. If you take narcotics from home, you get narcan. And if I could figure...

  16. Pushing Dilaudid?

    nerdtonurse? replied to chacmool's topic in Patient Medications

    Yup, they will. And I've seen a patient who'd been at the hospital long enough to know how to run our IV pumps turn them on 999cc/hr, thinking they would get high off the NS that was hanging. For my...

  17. What to do when you've had it!

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

    Maisy, Sounds like my floor -- the only pat on the back you get is if someone is looking for a place to stick the knife. Of all my rotations in school, LPN and RN, the two I liked best were ICU and...

  18. Is my nursing agency cheating me from medicaid payments?

    nerdtonurse? replied to PrettyLoyalLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Medicare/medicaid fraud is serious business. Call medicaid if you are SURE they are billing medicaid/medicare for hours never worked and ask to speak to the fraud

  19. Update on infection rate

    nerdtonurse? posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Well, this weekend, 75% of the folks presenting to the ER for flu like symptoms were positive for Flu A (presumed H1N1). ICU's full of people on vents to the point where we're holding vented people...

  20. Do you actually wear gloves/gowns/masks ?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Nepenthe Sea's topic in General Nursing

    In the real world, I look at actual risk of transmission. If someone's on iso for hx. of MRSA in leg abscess 2 years ago, and the pt's skin is warm, dry and intact, and they are in for something...

  21. Should I go to work tomorrow

    nerdtonurse? replied to bunnie004's topic in General Nursing

    Not only don't go to work, but you said you were cough up brown stuff. If I had a pt in the hospital who started coughing up brown who hadn't been, I'd be on the phone to the doc, quick. Call your...

  22. Freezing cold- what can I wear under my scrubs?

    nerdtonurse? replied to caffeineRx's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I go to Walmart, go to the hunting section, and get the "pocket warmers" -- they're like a buck for 2. You crunch and shake them, and they warm up for like 8 hours. I put one inside each sock. If...

  23. OMG The Doctors at my facility are out of control.

    nerdtonurse? replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    Ericksoln -- When crap has happened to me on the job -- being outsourced, etc. -- usually I look back and think, "Man, that was the best thing that happened to me." Sometimes it takes a while,...

  24. OMG The Doctors at my facility are out of control.

    nerdtonurse? replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    This was an RRT, and he was supposed to come. At a big hospital with multiple hospitalists, I could see it. At our place, ER's the only in house docs (1 doc after midnight) we've got during...

  25. OMG The Doctors at my facility are out of control.

    nerdtonurse? replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    Ever had a doc in the ER refuse to come eval a pt who'd ripped out a trach at 0300 and was throwing copious amounts of flash edema? And had this doc tell you, "I'll come if you say he's a code." And...