nerdtonurse?

nerdtonurse? BSN, RN

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  1. Toxic Healthcare Personalities

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

    My top six toxics....and by toxic, I mean the ones who drive the good ones away --The NM who's forgotten the first word in her title is NURSE --The "divide and conquer" manager -- tells one employee...

  2. Help! Constipation Schultz Cocktail Recipe :-)

    nerdtonurse? replied to vyper's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure we've named it, but we do 1/2 hot coffee 1/2 microwaved prune juice with a lactulose chaser. Just go ahead and sit them on the BSC when they finish swallowing....Thar she

  3. Dealing with horrible smells....

    nerdtonurse? replied to cdb1208's topic in General Nursing

    Apparently, my orfactory nerves have burned out, about all I can smell now is a GI bleed / golytely prep -- more subtle things, I don't smell them

  4. Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

    nerdtonurse? replied to TXRN02's topic in Nursing Humor

    At our hospital, if we have a code on the unit, it blasts out the speakers (one of the nurses who won't leave the station if the place is on FIRE said she "didn't hear the code" when one of her pts...

  5. Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

    nerdtonurse? replied to grace90's topic in Nursing Humor

    "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits (with apologies to my "sisters in arms") Through these fields of destruction Baptism of fire I've watched all your suffering As the battles raged higher And though...

  6. Orders you wish you could have written in the chart...

    nerdtonurse? replied to NurseKatie08's topic in Nursing Humor

    --1 baseball bat, topical application to cranium, until pt stops biting staff --1 fentanyl suppository PRN for nurse with PIA patient --300ml of Outback's "Walleby darned" PO q1h, until nurses' urge...

  7. GI Bleed

    nerdtonurse? replied to RiverNurse's topic in General Nursing

    First, it wasn't so long ago that I was in your shoes, and I remember what it's like. Here's the nerd "5 cents on GI bleeds" --When they come from the ER with a note that they had melena or bloody...

  8. Too much sadness this shift...

    nerdtonurse? replied to praying_mantis's topic in General Nursing

    :icon_hug: I can deal with the patients, it's when the family and visitors go down that freak me out. No history, no allergy list, no med rec, just there ya go. We had something similar (dying wife,...

  9. Bigger is not always better!

    nerdtonurse? replied to ruralnurs's topic in General Nursing

    :clphnds: Ruralnrs, you guys could look after me any time! Awesome job! And dang but I'd have to call those others and say, "well, we won't need the bed, WE SAVED

  10. Is there any relation b/w glaucoma and no PERRLA?

    nerdtonurse? replied to kooko's topic in General Nursing

    I had a pt with bilateral glaucoma who threw a stroke in the middle of my shift...and her normally "fixed" left pupil blew, just like a non-glaucoma -- no iris left at all. Now, is that the norm, or...

  11. do you check after your nursing assistants?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    One thing working against us where I work is we are so short, management has actually told us (when we reported a CNA who just gave us the same BP on ALL her patients for the 2100 vitals and the 0100...

  12. Nurse and Firefighter

    nerdtonurse? replied to mfisher6's topic in General Nursing

    We've got two at our place who are both RNs and FD/EMTs, and they have some of the sharpest skills I've ever seen. They can also start IVs in veins I can't even palp. I guess that comes from starting...

  13. Nurse and Firefighter

    nerdtonurse? replied to mfisher6's topic in General Nursing

    I know two folks who are RNs and EMTs, and they have some of the sharpest skills I've ever seen. They can also start an IV in veins I can't even palp -- I guess it comes from starting IVs in people...

  14. First medication error & on new graduate orientation :(

    nerdtonurse? replied to gardenia09's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Don't beat yourself up; my preceptor told me "there's two kind of nurses; those have or will make a med error, and those that lie about it." I've made them -- I gave gabapentin that had been DC'd...

  15. Diagnoses you never thought you'd see?

    nerdtonurse? replied to KarafromPhilly's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a LPN in the middle of RN clinicals, surgical rotation, GYN/OB cases.... Pt comes in with a mass in the uterus, turns out to be dermal cyst -- yup, hair, teeth, basically the ova tried to perform...

  16. Insulin Administration Pre-Surgery

    nerdtonurse? replied to puppyrules's topic in General Nursing

    Ours is pretty much surgeon dependent. One wants like truern, one says give a half dose of R on sliding scale, one says it's better to give the insulin, they can always push d50 (!). Me, it's...

  17. Can Nurses Give Stitches?

    nerdtonurse? replied to swimincatz's topic in General Nursing

    Never put any in.... I've taken out a lot of staples (and please, PLEASE if you're new, and get an order to "remove half of the staples" it means every other staple, not just the top or bottom...

  18. Res. who is constantly falling

    nerdtonurse? replied to ExtraShotNoWhip's topic in General Nursing

    Won't use anything that doesn't flush? Turn off water to the toilet, get a strip of duct tape, put it over the handle on the toilet, and tell him it's broken, and he has to use the bedside commode...

  19. Forgetting to chart PRN narcotics or other PRN meds

    nerdtonurse? replied to lolalolacherrycola's topic in General Nursing

    We had an incident 2 weeks ago where our computers went down, and didn't come up for HOURS. We're giving meds (mostly by memory) since we're not supposed to print out med lists d/t HIPAA. I called...

  20. Hospitals stopping 40kK match?

    nerdtonurse? replied to PennyNickelDime_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Ours

  21. Does any Rns who work in a hospital have LPNs assigned to them?

    nerdtonurse? replied to lovehospital's topic in General Nursing

    As an LPN, I can do anything except cancer drugs. I'm ACLS certified, and have completed the Acute Care Course at my hospital. I do initial assessments and interviews (but they have to be "validated"...

  22. Do Nurses have to do the following??

    nerdtonurse? replied to omgodzilla's topic in General Nursing

    Who do you think does it? I'm curious. My great aunt thinks its all the "orderlies" -- Um, I haven't seen an orderly outside of a black and white

  23. Has being a nurse made you tougher in other aspects of life?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    All you have to do with the plastic bags is hold the edge taunt and blow across it, they open every time, that's how they are separated in the factory via machine (when a place buys the bags precut)....

  24. Has being a nurse made you tougher in other aspects of life?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I used to take more crap. I don't anymore. Life's too short for you to treat me badly. A mean spirited NA (who thinks she's God, but don't get me started) used to upset me when she'd make snippy...

  25. What Happened To The Nursing Profession?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Anxious Patient's topic in General Nursing

    A fish rots from the head down. Example: I had a patient with a BP of 94/52 pulse was 48. Pt was a DNR, terminally ill. BP had been in that range for the last 3 days. I held the 100mg of lopressor...