nerdtonurse?

nerdtonurse? BSN, RN

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  1. Beta blockers and exercise

    nerdtonurse? posted a topic in General Nursing

    Had a 50-ish patient the other day who was in for passing out -- asked his wife to hand him his pills after lunch, and instead of taking his protonix, she gave him one of her high power BP meds by...

  2. Beta blockers and exercise

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

    Yeah, I did the "please check with your PCP before beginning any exercise program" thing, but it's just been rattling around my head. Researching on the net seems like a 50/50 split -- some feel like...

  3. Preceding Nurse Never Completes her work

    nerdtonurse? replied to bsnanat2's topic in General Nursing

    I had a similar situation at a prior employer -- nurse was the boss's BFF (and snitch) and so nothing happened until she managed to kill someone on a heparin drip after I was long gone. We all knew...

  4. If There Was A Major Epidemic / Pandemic Would You Report For Duty?

    nerdtonurse? replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    The thing that scares me most about this topic is -- just because we're having an outbreak of Mad Tsars disease or what ever the crisis du jour is, it doesn't stop the MI/CVA/GI bleed/DKA/OD/ETOH...

  5. do you think I should be written up?

    nerdtonurse? replied to daisymae65035's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, this happened, you can't undo it. So, fix the system that allowed it to happen. For critical meds -- abx, anti-rejection meds, serious heart meds (I'm not talking about 6.25 mg of lopressor...

  6. If There Was A Major Epidemic / Pandemic Would You Report For Duty?

    nerdtonurse? replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Have you noticed what "dying of old age" actually looks like? Dementia, incontinence, recurrent GI bleeds, CVAs, cancers, decubes? Needing vitamin D because you never get in the sun? Never feel the...

  7. The Mockery of Nursing

    nerdtonurse? replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    See, I went a different way. I pictured a critter that was a bee at one end, a dog at the other.... Heard a new one just this morning as the nursing students strolled in....talking about how they're...

  8. The Mockery of Nursing

    nerdtonurse? replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What's going thru my mind when I read these posts: 1. My teachers/students/coworkers are jealous of me and trying to get me into trouble...uh, probably not. You're probably scaring the living...

  9. The Mockery of Nursing

    nerdtonurse? replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Netglow, I went to school with that

  10. The Mockery of Nursing

    nerdtonurse? replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My favorite: I wanna be a CRNA, but I stink at chemistry and math. I don't see why I need to be a nurse first, since all I want to do is put people to sleep. I don't see why I need to waste time...

  11. A Rough Nursing Shift...

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

    We had 2 codes one night, 30 minutes apart. Neither one should have been a full code, but the family wanted us to "do everything." So we did, and we beat the poor first patient to pieces (she was...

  12. Etiquette in the OR?

    nerdtonurse? replied to trauma_lama's topic in Operating Room

    You will see this kind of behavior off and on as long as you are a nurse. We've had people who were 500...600...and even a couple of 700 pounders. Our lifts stop at 400. We do not have the...

  13. exposure to the Operating Room

    nerdtonurse? replied to wishiwereanurse's topic in Operating Room

    I spent more time in the OR as a LPN student than as a RN student. I liked it, but working with surgeons all day? Some are okay, but most need a plunger to get their head out of their, well, you...

  14. ABANDONED

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

    I spent one horrible night trying to get consent for a surgery on a NH patient who was pleasantly demented -- called all 4 kids, and found out that he'd raped, beat and brutalized his sons and...

  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

    Amen, Angelfire. If I had a dollar for every time I wanted to say, "If you don't want us to help you, why'd you come to the hospital?" I could

  16. 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

    So that's where Ice Cream went...I swear, I had a patient just like that. We used to draw straws to see who got stuck with her. I kept thinking I'd do a blood draw and pull up ice

  17. NPs practicing as DRs

    nerdtonurse? replied to SkiBumNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    A Ph.D is usually called a doctor in academic settings -- you have a Ph.D in astrophysics, you're Dr. Jane Smith to students and other faculty, in papers, etc. You're Ms. Smith, Ph.D everywhere else....

  18. do your instructors do this?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Dre2416's topic in General Students

    Sounds like what I went through. The people who worked their tails off passed. The people who wanted everything spoon fed to them didn't. It cut the number of students in half, which is what they...

  19. Swearing: hugely unprofessional, mildly irritating or a normal part of speech.

    nerdtonurse? replied to loveoutloud's topic in General Students

    The worst offenders where I work are the MDs. F this, an F that, and I don't mean "femur." Nothing I say or could be said could match the horrible stuff we all see some nights -- dead kids, people...

  20. patient death from PE

    nerdtonurse? replied to RockingItInTheER's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen people who came in for shortness of breath end up dying from a PE -- one person was known to be non-compliant with her coumadin, because she didn't like having to drive in from the country...

  21. Passed NCLEX, 75 ?

    nerdtonurse? replied to ~PedsRN~'s topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Hurst worked for me. 75 questions. Graduated Mothers Day, May of 2010, took my boards June 1st and passed. I did hurst online, and had been studying since April. Of all the study guides I looked...

  22. Max on Levophed?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Nurse_Sophia's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I was thinking the 30-40 had more to do with risk of limb loss than anything else. We have a limit of 80, and we've had docs that would come in and crank it up until the patient's feet and hands were...

  23. Getting horrible scores on nscbn tests

    nerdtonurse? replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I just took my RN boards in 2010. I did well on the ATI tests because... ...don't flame me.... I picked the dumbest, stupidest answer available. Not the wrong one, just the dumb one. For example:...

  24. LTC incident, what are your thoughts.

    nerdtonurse? replied to wearyLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand what you did wrong. I do that all the time. If I have a non-verbal patient who I can't tell if they're in pain, nauseated, or just nervous, I hit them with Zofran and either...

  25. How do you take your meds when working nights?

    nerdtonurse? replied to tiredmomof2's topic in General Nursing

    I take my BP med at the beginning of my shift, since it's the beginning of my "day." On my days off, I still take it around suppertime. That just seems to work for me, your mileage may