nerdtonurse?

nerdtonurse? BSN, RN

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  1. Are you aware of how you conduct yourself in public?

    nerdtonurse? replied to rkitty198's topic in General Nursing

    When you live in a rural area, it's hard not to run into people. I have ran into pts at the grocery store, etc., and it's weird. That's work. I'm home and not at work, so don't pull up your shirt...

  2. Another Outrageous Visitor Thread

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

    One of my least favorites was the mom (60's) who's son was ever so attentive. Ever so. When she had a BM, he'd clean her...and clean her...and yes, at 3 am one night, the telemetry went crazy, we go...

  3. Question for a Nurse from a nursing student

    nerdtonurse? replied to Rookie12's topic in General Nursing

    Please describe what your nursing education was like and how nursing was influenced by the outside world” in reference to technology I'm in a rural area, so my "library" during school was the...

  4. Are You Popular At Work?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    Down here, we can say just about anything to anybody or about anybody, as long as we end it with "bless her heart..." Like: "If it took her any longer to bathe a patient, she'd have to get a license...

  5. Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    nerdtonurse? replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had a pt who was the biggest pain in the tail the floor had had in months. When she didn't have the nurses swearing or in tears, she had the support staff refusing to go into her room and the CNAs...

  6. Portable, Hand-Held CT Scanner

    nerdtonurse? replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    Portable yes (video reminds me of them doing a stat portable chest on the floor) http://www.neurologica.com/ Handheld? I don't see how it would work. But, then again, the first computers took up a...

  7. Dangerous nurses

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

    There's 2 on our floor. One thinks it's okay to increase a heparin drip when the APTT's > 250. One will have an order for PO narcotics that she will give IV without an order. Both reported....

  8. Weaker nurses at night?

    nerdtonurse? replied to LeeniesMomRN's topic in General Nursing

    I would say that the doc is a horse's rear. In fact, what I'd love to tell the dear doc is: You may diagnose the patient and prescribe meds. But at 3 am, when you're sound asleep and your patient...

  9. Are You Popular At Work?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    None of us truly knows how we are perceived by others. But a couple of things did make me feel good. I was outside a room checking a chart when I overheard the patient and the CNA talking. Pt said,...

  10. It's still mild right?

    nerdtonurse? replied to peace_solace's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Definitions of severity are always difficult to quantify -- I know it's changed since I became a nurse. It used to be bad flu if it kept me home -- now I consider it bad if you end up on a vent. My...

  11. It Just Keeps Coming

    nerdtonurse? replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    :icon_hug: I went with my dad after his colonscopy, and the doc showed pictures of the huge polyp he pulled from the ascending colon. He told my dad it was a pre-cancerous adenoma, but had he not had...

  12. Things you would love to say to your fellow nursing students!

    nerdtonurse? replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Students

    Oh, God, you're not applying for an externship at my hospital, are you? I was looking forward to your absence for the next 3

  13. med-surg nightmare

    nerdtonurse? replied to tikka's topic in General Students

    I have a bad habit. If I'm really, REALLY angry, I tear up. I had a CI that used to make me crazy, and I'd take half a benedryl before clinicals (benedryl doesn't make me sleepy or stoned, it just...

  14. Which book is the best for lab reference values when at clinicals?

    nerdtonurse? replied to notthereyet0's topic in General Students

    You can get either the Mosby or the little hand held flip, but honestly, I'd get a 3x5 card, write down the norms ***at the hospital used by your clinicals*** and then put wide clear packing tape over...

  15. Night Shift? When do you exercise?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Rabid Response's topic in Health, Stress Management

    When do I exercise? Running to codes... Seriously, I did karate for years until I tore up my knee. Now, I practice a kata (can either be very energetic or more like tai chi, depending on what I feel...

  16. Street Drugs and Brain Aneurysms

    nerdtonurse? replied to ybstressed's topic in General Nursing

    I've had pts (a lot of crack in our area) who come in with a EF of 10-15% at the age of 25, just from their drug use. I had a pt, frequent flyer, always pos for coke. They're whining because...

  17. What to do in the summer to prepare for 2nd level of nursing!!!

    nerdtonurse? replied to hnt1987's topic in General Nursing

    In our program, we're going to be doing psych and OB/peds. So I'm going to try to pick up some PRN time down on one of those units (I'm already an LPN at a hospital). I'm also going to do a little...

  18. Chest tube came out!

    nerdtonurse? replied to julieK's topic in General Nursing

    Don't forget you want the patient to perform the valsalva maneuver when you apply the petroleum gauze to try to "burp" any trapped air out of the chest thru the chest tube

  19. Threatened by Patient Family

    nerdtonurse? replied to Susan9608's topic in General Nursing

    A good friend of mine was stalked by a guy she'd went out with twice. He broke in to her apartment, she'd come home and find her underwear spread all over the bed with "presents" on them, and her cat...

  20. What's the difference between REAL LIFE and MEDICAL TV-shows?

    nerdtonurse? replied to sergei1989's topic in General Students

    I have yet to see a doc ever do compressions. The average age of patients on our floor is 75. Most "patients" on tv are cute and young. The average age of our nurses is late 40s. The docs are even...

  21. This Old Nurse

    nerdtonurse? replied to CapNurse09's topic in General Students

    Awesome! I figure I'll be about that old by the time I get my NP....assuming I don't go stark raving bonkers

  22. Murphy's Laws of Nursing | Life of a Nurse

    nerdtonurse? replied to Roy Fokker's topic in Nursing Humor

    The one night you try contacts instead of your normal glasses, you will put foam on your hands leaving the room, shoot the foam directly into your eyes when you start to rub you hands, and spend the...

  23. How to tell you've worked too many shifts in a row

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

    My sister and BIL came for Christmas, and they asked me why I'd put the hairspray in the fridge and there was a roll of christmas cookie dough on the sink in the hall bathroom. In my own defense,...

  24. Things to do on night shift

    nerdtonurse? replied to epg_pei's topic in General Nursing

    Down time? There's supposed to be down time? Night before last, I didn't even get to pee until 0400....and I do 7 to

  25. you know you are in for trouble when.....

    nerdtonurse? replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    When the brand new butt kissing idiot the NM hired is following all the LPNs around to "verify our clinical skills" but charts good pedal pulses bilaterally on a double AKA. When said wonder nurse...