nrsang97 BSN, RN

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    Night Shift Neglect.

    nrsang97 replied to Magsulfate's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't get the idea that the OP was saying ALL night shifters were bad. Just this one bad apple of a CNA who left all her patients a mess. We have all walked into a mess on our shift no matter...
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    I Hate Surg!!!

    nrsang97 replied to ChristineN's topic in General Nursing

    I have never seen narcs as pharm to dose. I have seen that with antibiotics
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    Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    nrsang97 replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    This isn't about getting along this is about speaking and understanding a language to communicate effective. Think about it this way if I were going to go to Spain to work for a few years, then I...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    nrsang97 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I really think that is what she was trying to do. But she wasn't even close becasuse she didn't know where it was. She said "I was so sick of the beeping I just started pressing buttons." She opened...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    nrsang97 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I went into the room of a co workers pt the other night. She was busy in her isolation room and I checked her pt becase the light was on. I walk in and the pt is OOB and doing the pee pee dance....
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    Charge nurses

    nrsang97 posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    HI all! Does your unit's charge nurse have an assignment? I work in a 16 bed neuro ICU an we have an assignament sometimes a double, and it is hard to do pt care and take care of charge...
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    Rude Resident Physician!!

    nrsang97 replied to RNbabe's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    They have yet to realize that it will be us "stupid little nurses" who stop them from killing someone one day. If they were nice to us they could learn a lot from us. Things work better when we work...
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    Rude Resident Physician!!

    nrsang97 replied to RNbabe's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I wish we got to evaluate the residents on a monthly basis. Seriously. We have had some doozies lately. Not always rude, but not the
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    nrsang97 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Amen to that. I feel the same way. I kept telling this family of a stroke pt who had a bone flap removed for cereberal edema that she will NEVER get better. The son that had seen her for the first...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    nrsang97 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    rph3664, That is really sad that you have a tech that makes so many people feel that way. Why wont management do anything? There are always some people that get away with
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    Does an empty bed justify admission?

    nrsang97 replied to hdhnurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I think you administration is crazy. I have feelingthis is going to end badly one night, a pt go bad and there will be failure to rescue, or a confused pt really doing a number and breaking a hip or...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    nrsang97 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I seroiusly hope you don't want us to trach and peg your mom and then withdraw care in a few weeks. Seriously you need to do it soon or don't do it at all! ( I did want to say this to a family member...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    nrsang97 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    WTH I am on your side. I was telling someone else that this is a vent thread and to let us vent. I really don't think that was called
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    I don't want surgery!

    nrsang97 replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    Tait, I had gb problems off and on for years. Everyone kept telling me it wasn't gb. Oh boy was it. I was taking fertility meds to try to get pg. I had just stopped them (I wasn't progressing) and...
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    Need advice for Adv Mat age friend 14wks preg

    nrsang97 replied to Cassideca's topic in Ob/Gyn

    PIH is HTN induced only by pregnancy hence Pregnancy induced HTN. Sounds lke she is already doing the right
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    xanax use

    nrsang97 replied to kambra's topic in General Nursing

    It would only be a problem if you didn't have a script. Just let the person giving you the test know ahead of time and declare everything you are
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    Do your charge nurses have assignments?

    nrsang97 posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    HI all. I was wondering if in your CVICU's your charge nurse has an assignment. In my neuro ICU we do and it is terrible trying to be charge and do patient care. We are trying to get this changed,...
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    Reamed for ordering an ethics consult

    nrsang97 replied to WalkieTalkie's topic in General Nursing

    I was thinking the exact same
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    The pharmacy dispensed my mom a med she is allergic to.

    nrsang97 posted a topic in General Nursing

    my mom went to the pharmacy monday after going to her eye doctor and picked up her script. she took the eye drops and her eyes swelled shut. she had no idea why. she called the pharmacy and they...
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    The pharmacy dispensed my mom a med she is allergic to.

    nrsang97 replied to nrsang97's topic in General Nursing

    My mom did say that she no longer trusts this eye doctor and is changing to someone else ASAP. She was seeing them since at one eye checkup they were worried about her developing glaucoma due to...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    nrsang97 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I would be rich if I had a dime for every time I have said
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    Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    nrsang97 replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I am glad that you are going to get the language down better. I know Arabic is a diffiult language to learn. However I am thinking as if I am the patient and how uncomfortable I would be if my...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    nrsang97 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    For crying out loud this is a vent thread. Just because we are blowing off steam dosen't mean we don't have any
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    Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    nrsang97 replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    So I have a question for you, Saifudin, you really feel that it is acceptable to speak English in front of your Arabic speaking patients? If so then I completely disagree. If a pt is in their own...
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    The pharmacy dispensed my mom a med she is allergic to.

    nrsang97 replied to nrsang97's topic in General Nursing

    I am just glad nothing more serious has happened to her from all