nerdtonurse?

nerdtonurse? BSN, RN

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  1. Brain farts

    nerdtonurse? replied to linda2097's topic in General Nursing

    Not medicine, but critical to nursing... Have you ever been so tired at 0400 that you forget to put the coffee in the strainer and the pot back under the spigot part of the coffee maker (fill up the...

  2. Prayer/positive thought request for a fellow nurse

    nerdtonurse? replied to flightnurse2b's topic in General Nursing

    Prayed, and lighting a

  3. Incident Reports and Staff

    nerdtonurse? replied to drknyko's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Hi, and welcome to the dark side of nursing...the blame game. When you go see your NM, here's what I'd have straight in my mind: 1 -- was I the charge nurse? I'm one month off orientation, no ma'am,...

  4. 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 keep giving your CHF, ESRF grandma soda, you're going to kill her. And don't tell me you're not, our hospital does not stock the orange soda you've spilled all down her gown. No, you can't move...

  5. LPNs in RN programs -- do you get bored?

    nerdtonurse? replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in LPN to RN

    Our "bridge" meant I didn't have to do first semester clinicals, didn't have to take nutrition (was in the lpn program). I just wish I could have tested out of the basic stuff, and just hit the areas...

  6. when co-workers throw each other under the bus

    nerdtonurse? replied to jam2007's topic in General Nursing

    Geez, I hate "divide and conquer" management. If they get us all fighting and "tattling" on each other, they we're not watching what THEY're doing.... The only good thing about the "tattlers" is...

  7. What do you love most about nursing?

    nerdtonurse? replied to ToxicShock's topic in General Nursing

    We had a little lady on our unit, came in one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel, massive CVA and bowel obstruction on top of it. Seriously, we all thought she was going to die, and she's...

  8. What the Heck Moments!

    nerdtonurse? replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    We get those...are we supposed to intubate them, then pick them up by the arms and legs and sorta slosh them around trying to move the blood back and

  9. Brain farts

    nerdtonurse? replied to linda2097's topic in General Nursing

    Not mine, but you can't make this stuff up.... Friend of mine on shift comes and gets me, says, "I want a witness." Okay, not a good start. Go in the room, lady with CHF, SOB, foley hanging....

  10. Where do you think the nursing problem / shortage begins??

    nerdtonurse? replied to Misslady113's topic in General Nursing

    I'd be happy if my managers would just TELL me about changes on the unit without me finding out in the middle of getting my tushy chewed -- if we've changed TLC caps from vendor A to vendor B, put out...

  11. interdisciplinary rounds, hints for improving info I provide

    nerdtonurse? replied to jamkpb's topic in General Nursing

    Don't know how they do it at your place, but we only do IDT when things go wrong -- usually, REALLY wrong. When my pt's been a focus of an IDT, what I focus on is WHY this person is brought to the...

  12. 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

    I'll never forget the patient who told me, "honey, you're so attentive, you'd make a great waitress." I so, SO wanted to snap back, "Well, a great waitress wouldn't wipe your toosh, because it would...

  13. Why do the elderly have AMS with UTI's?

    nerdtonurse? posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've been wondering about this for a while, and I can't find a good answer. Why does an elderly person often have AMS when they have a UTI? It's not the infectious process in general (you don't see...

  14. Why do the elderly have AMS with UTI's?

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

    Thanks everyone. The more I think about what you've said, the more it makes sense. Guess I was just looking for a zebra, and ignoring the horse standing on my

  15. What would you do in my situation? just looking for opinions.

    nerdtonurse? replied to Nina2bRN's topic in General Nursing

    All I could think was, "yeah, and if you DIDN'T take the baby to the ER and there was a bad outcome, it would have been 'Parents neglect suffering child, resulting in esophageal perforation and...

  16. Knowledgeable vs. Caring Nurse

    nerdtonurse? replied to maab's topic in General Nursing

    I care enough to try to be smart...and my first thought was the nurse manager is eliminating a nurse she perceives as a threat to her because she's bright, and maybe the nurse manager's not. I've...

  17. Share your "problem patient" stories!

    nerdtonurse? replied to nitenite's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had one that was a guy, weight 435, c-diff. He would get on the BSC, then want to be back in bed, back on the BSC, back in the bed, literally every 5 minutes. What's worse is he would refuse to...

  18. Do You Regret Becoming A Nurse?

    nerdtonurse? replied to ladylou88's topic in General Nursing

    Let's see...in my life, I've been a map maker, an assistant manager in a retail store, a computer programmer to analyst to disaster recovery engineer for a multinational. Worked a lot of different...

  19. Question for Current Nurses

    nerdtonurse? replied to ASUGirl703's topic in General Nursing

    How long have you been a nurse? 2 years Do you feel that there is a shortage of nurse educators? Yes If yes, do you feel that it affects the number of students accepted into nursing programs? In our...

  20. Yelling Doctors, How do you handle them?????

    nerdtonurse? replied to Danielle7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I had a doc that was shrieking at me one time because the pt has a bad outcome (well, gee, if 1--you didn't order a pre-op antibiotic, and 2--dayshift didn't catch it and call you, and 3--now the pt...

  21. 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

    Especially after the complete (*#*@( of a night I had last night.... Does it say "WAITRESS" on my ID? No ma'am, it does not, and I'm NOT calling people in at 0300 because you want a grilled cheese...

  22. Why do the elderly have AMS with UTI's?

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

    Thanks! I was thinking about folks I'd had with liver failure, and how they get the super high ammonia levels with resultant AMS, and was trying to figure out if maybe there was something intrinsic...

  23. Nurses STOP telling me to be a RN ! PLEASE

    nerdtonurse? replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    To the OP, I'm doing the same thing you are -- but instead of children, I'm home looking after two aging parents and trying to keep their mortgage paid. I get the "why didn't you go straight for the...

  24. Nothing like a good kick in the face

    nerdtonurse? replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a tall girl (6 foot), and built like the good German stock on my dad's side "Yah, der mule died, so Helga pull the plow...." At 3 in the morning, when someone goes crazy, they come get me to help...

  25. What tricks do you use to make your day more bearable?

    nerdtonurse? replied to LilyBlue's topic in General Nursing

    When I'm having a bad day, want to throw everything straight up in the air and tell the patients "vaya con Dios" and head out the door, I do the following: 1 -- Go in the bathroom. Pray. Curse....