nerdtonurse?

nerdtonurse? BSN, RN

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  1. Centralized Telemetry

    nerdtonurse? replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

    They're about to start that with us, and we're all saying we're just going to hang out in the tele room for charting and getting our tele strips -- an empty nurse's station is going to be SOOOO...

  2. Any nurses you dread giving report to?

    nerdtonurse? replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

    I usually don't have any problems, except with one nurse, Miss PB. First word "prissy" and second word, you figure it out... She comes in late every day, she has to go get her coffee, then she has to...

  3. I want to be a nurse..what is it like?

    nerdtonurse? replied to kgheen09's topic in General Nursing

    As an LPN now in her RN program....nursing is a wonderful life, BUT... You'll see the best and worst in humankind. You'll have days where you float 6 inches off the floor because a person said "thank...

  4. student nurse

    nerdtonurse? replied to leanne24's topic in General Nursing

    I think the real issue isn't that a person needs to be a CNA, it's that the student needs to know that being a LPN or RN doesn't get them out of the "icky" side of nursing. One person I met doing the...

  5. feeling bad... pt died

    nerdtonurse? replied to beachbum3's topic in General Nursing

    Keep one thing in mind; just because someone's dying doesn't turn them into a saint. A dying jerk is still a jerk. I've had both the sweet little folks that it's breaking your heart to see them go,...

  6. Carrying Equipment Outside of Work

    nerdtonurse? replied to OldMareLPN's topic in General Nursing

    If you are a nurse, several states MANDATE that you stop -- Minnesota being one of them. I carry a blanket, towel, CPR mask, gloves, fire extinguisher and a jug of distilled water, along with a nice...

  7. When it's the visitor who needs the ER....

    nerdtonurse? posted a topic in General Nursing

    Had family visiting a patient last shift, and when I walked in to do my initial assessment, etc, did a double take at one of the visitors. Before I could even open my mouth, he said, "I don't feel...

  8. GI bleed, increasing frequency?

    nerdtonurse? posted a topic in Gastroenterology

    I know I haven't been a nurse very long, but even in the time I've been one, it seems like I'm seeing more and more GI bleeds on our unit. There's no obvious common denominator -- we get the...

  9. Morphine doses while dying?

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

    When I saw that order, I would have gently pulled the doc aside and told him I couldn't "C" off the order as written, wording my request in such a way as to tell him I was concerned about HIM getting...

  10. Morphine doses while dying?

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

    Oops, made an

  11. Nursing Theory: Are these folks crazy?

    nerdtonurse? posted a topic in LPN to RN

    Okay, I'm in the Fundamentals class (mentally drumming my fingers and hoping we get to the good stuff soon...). We start with theory, and I'm reading along and get to Martha Roger's theory of...

  12. Patient Care or Man Handling???

    nerdtonurse? replied to hippylady7211's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Seroquel? Also, has he been screened for a UTI? I had a pt on our floor in her 80's and she was so wild it took all of us to just change a brief and wash her -- that classic stiuation of a little 90...

  13. ulcer dressing won't stick

    nerdtonurse? replied to mickeymouse123's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If you don't have the specialty dressings (we carry them, but the odds of finding what you need at 3 in the morning are not great), take a rectangular shaped dressing, cut one point like the underside...

  14. Nursing Theory: Are these folks crazy?

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

    I actually called the BON to ask why I had to take this again (in any LPN bridge in the state) -- their answer was, "well, we had to do it." I kid you not, you can't make up stuff this stupid... I...

  15. Who worked during nursing school?

    nerdtonurse? replied to hnt1987's topic in General Nursing

    I'm an LPN, working full time on a telemetry/ICU stepdown unit and going full time on my RN. I have no life I have sleep deprivation I have lost my ability to spell I can't tell you want my family...

  16. Help...Resuscitation needed

    nerdtonurse? replied to Iam46yearsold's topic in General Nursing

    We had one of the ambulance chasers in town come in to the ER with CP/SOB that Monday the market tanked -- his 401k went down 300,000 dollars. A friend in the ER said they've had a lot of 'money...

  17. Nursing is not always recession-proof

    nerdtonurse? replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    I know last Monday when the stock market tanked, the ER was full of chestpain/palp/anxiety -- one of the lawyers in town lost 300,000 dollars, and had a MI and got shipped up the road. Maybe the ER...

  18. Ticked off a Chaplin today

    nerdtonurse? replied to pielęgniarka's topic in General Nursing

    I teach RCIA, and there's such a thing a "baptism of desire" -- it means if you want to be baptized but there's no available priest, your desire is sufficient for the sacrament to be "real." Now...

  19. "I don't have the money" OR "I don't have a ride"

    nerdtonurse? replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

    I was down in the ER "looting" their Dibold for meds we were out of (3 in the morning, and our pharmacy has banker's hours, grr....), when a parent brought in a 5 year old kid. No big deal, million...

  20. got deleted on another site

    nerdtonurse? replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like another family sailing with Cleopatra down "de

  21. A name for Computer on Wheels

    nerdtonurse? replied to butterfly9's topic in General Nursing

    Um....we just call them

  22. What would be reasons why someone didn't like L&D?

    nerdtonurse? replied to Sarah LnDHopes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    When I was in nursing school, I'd actually thought I'd love L&D, maybe even become a midwife. I love working with kids at church, I'd seen everything from cats and dogs to pigs and cattle born,...

  23. Ticked off a Chaplin today

    nerdtonurse? replied to pielęgniarka's topic in General Nursing

    Keeping in mind I'm Catholic.... If Father Dingbat comes up and starts trying to get into it with you again, tell him "Mrs. X was my patient, NOT YOU." I had a problem about 2 months back, pt was in...

  24. fake CPR cert.

    nerdtonurse? replied to QTQN2NV's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, how do you even START that conversation with someone? "Hey, Cindy Sue, I gotta quick way for you not to have to sit thru the CPR renewal class, got 20 bucks?" You watch, we'll start having to...

  25. This just fries me!!!!

    nerdtonurse? replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    First of all, congrats on your success! Second, anywhere you think you want to work, tell Miss Diana that they aren't hiring. You don't want her anywhere near you in a work environment; I've seen new...