nerdtonurse?

nerdtonurse? BSN, RN

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  1. Contaminated Scrubs..do you wear scrubs to the stores

    nerdtonurse? replied to Nurseismade RN's topic in General Nursing

    1) All these sources of contamination -- are people. With visitors. Now, who's more likely to spread MRSA -- me, who's in PPE like I'm treating Ebola, or the grandkid who crawls all over grandma,...

  2. First Year Finished!! Anyone else??

    nerdtonurse? replied to graceomalleyRN's topic in General Students

    Officially, I just passed the half way mark. God, I can't wait for this time next

  3. How to prevent fainting???

    nerdtonurse? replied to studentnurse74's topic in General Students

    And if you feel dizzy or like you might faint, for pete's sake, say something! I was watching a doc do an initial bandage change after a skin graft (and the doc was awesome at wound care, and a great...

  4. The ugly side of Nursing

    nerdtonurse? replied to HumorHeals22's topic in General Students

    Everybody's got their "thing" that gets to them. One nurse I work with can go wrist deep in a stage 4 sacral decube, but will absolutely turn green and hurl if she has to suction out a sputum sample....

  5. relating pathophysiology to signs and symptoms bacterial meningitis

    nerdtonurse? replied to FunkiMunki's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I will add that one of the signs I always was told to look for *stiff neck* wasn't present in the person I had as a patient with bacterial meningitis -- because the poor thing ALSO had encephalitis...

  6. I dont get it! Critical thinking questions are whipping me.

    nerdtonurse? replied to Amybeth56's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You've been given some really, really good info. Here's what I do: 1) does any answer reflect danger to Airway, Breathing or Circulation in a reasonable manner? (a person who breaks his leg probably...

  7. Can an LPN train/precept and RN?

    nerdtonurse? replied to yfloridanurse's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry it took me so long to get back to the thread, I was picking my fleas and eating my bananas..... I guess I'm in sort of a unique position. I'm an LPN, now in a RN program at the same community...

  8. Can an LPN train/precept and RN?

    nerdtonurse? replied to yfloridanurse's topic in General Nursing

    And it goes the other way, too...in LPN school, the unwritten theme was that we were the "real" nurses, and the RNs were just the paperwork jockeys. RN school doesn't address us at all (so far)....

  9. Tough Clinical Instructor

    nerdtonurse? replied to backhill360's topic in General Students

    It's awful to say, but the things you're talking about, like her staring at you about a med -- that happens on the floor all the time with new nurses. We're not being hateful. We're trying to make...

  10. New Grad, bad day.

    nerdtonurse? replied to vashtee's topic in General Nursing

    No matter what they may say, they ALL had the same kind of day when they were new....and I will tell you, I spent my first 3-ish months as a nurse feeling like I was 30 seconds from killing every pt I...

  11. What factors are important when nursing someone with depression

    nerdtonurse? replied to davidthenurse's topic in General Students

    Here's what we do....keep in mind I'm on a ICU stepdown/telemetry floor, not a psych unit, and just because someone's depressed doesn't mean they won't also need their appendix out, or have a flare up...

  12. New Grad, bad day.

    nerdtonurse? replied to vashtee's topic in General Nursing

    Think about it this way.... Everyone stayed on this side of the grass. You didn't run screaming from the building. Nobody chewed you out about anything. That's my little "Nerd Mantra" I use when I...

  13. End of 1st semester: what was the hardest thing?

    nerdtonurse? replied to R.NICU's topic in General Students

    They laugh at me because I work nights, but come in to clinicals dragging....I have to get up @ 4, leave at 0445/0500 to get to one of the clinical sites on time.... I tell them, it's one thing to...

  14. Tough Clinical Instructor

    nerdtonurse? replied to backhill360's topic in General Students

    I echo elkpark...I learned more from the hard ones than I did the one who wanted to be your friend. I'm paying you to teach me, so TEACH ME. I already have friends... There was one instructor,...

  15. There is not one person in my class

    nerdtonurse? replied to tbell2's topic in General Students

    If I wasn't an LPN working on an ICU stepdown/telemetry unit, I promise you I wouldn't be getting the grades that I am. The teachers actually told us the questions are from the last edition of the...

  16. Family Initiated Rapid Response Team

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

    We tried it and got two extremes...the ones that were calling it every 5 minutes because they wanted coke and we only carry pepsi (this is also the same pt who called the kitchen and wanted a dozen...

  17. Feeding Tube Problems

    nerdtonurse? replied to moomoo111's topic in General Nursing

    She sounds like a case of aspiration pneumonia waiting to happen. I'd be charting on lung sounds and bowel sounds like crazy. Is the pt a DNR, I hope? Has she had the PEG a long time? What I would...

  18. Can an LPN train/precept and RN?

    nerdtonurse? replied to yfloridanurse's topic in General Nursing

    Re: the original question....in my state, the list of "RN only" things is fairly small, and in others it's very large, so we may be doing an apples and oranges thing. In my state, I can't declare a...

  19. The nastiest story that I have EVER heard! It happened to me!

    nerdtonurse? replied to lovegoddess1977's topic in Nursing Humor

    I can't initiate a nursing care plan as an LPN, but would that be considered: Ineffective fecal mastication? Acute confusion r/t inability to tell your mouth from your ......? That guy (and the one...

  20. Cheating in the Classroom

    nerdtonurse? replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    When I sat for my LPN boards, there were of course other people there taking tests for other licenses as well -- not just nurses. About half way thru the test, 4 people come in, went to a person...

  21. Being a nursing student

    nerdtonurse? replied to rannRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Back during my LPN clinicals, there was one poor student who was just hanging on the edge of failing, and was a nervous wreck. The instructor told her she'd be giving an IM, her very first injection...

  22. I want to become a Nurse Practitioner, any advice?

    nerdtonurse? replied to joshindfw's topic in General Nursing

    If I can offer up a little advice...go see if you can work in a doc's office over the summer that has NPs....I'm a big believer in watching before doing. I see a lot of students in my school who want...

  23. "Your patient in 520 is in pain!"

    nerdtonurse? replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    We do have a lot of folks who are drug seekers where I work. I mean, can't keep straight where the pain is, can't stay awake long enough to hold out the arm with the IV site in it (and I mean, extend...

  24. Health care workers can be drafted during a pandemic

    nerdtonurse? replied to Anxious Patient's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What'd I tell ya? If they are going to treat us like we're military, then I want to shop at the

  25. Test question, just wanted your thoughts

    nerdtonurse? replied to RNnTrainin''s topic in General Students

    Lynette -- You're right, codeine can cause respiratory depression, like any narcotic. However, when I've seen codeine used for cough in the "real world" we do it if a) the pt has a dry non productive...