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  1. Chest Pain "Addicts"

    RunningWithScissors replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing

    Of coorifice these folks always get the whole workup each time they come in...enzymes, labs, cxr, heparin or lovenox. Then, 4 days later after all is neg, they still sit with their IVP pain meds...

  2. Chest Pain "Addicts"

    RunningWithScissors posted a topic in General Nursing

    We've got a few chronic "resident patients" who come in every other week, stay for weeks, then go home for 10 days or so, all with histories of having coronary interventions in some distant past....

  3. Chest Pain "Addicts"

    RunningWithScissors replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing

    Good grief, Earl, I hope you coded that poor fella...must've been an arrhythmia to go THAT fast. We're talking here about the folks who use their past cardiac histories as a crutch to lay in bed, get...

  4. Glen Beck's hospital experience

    RunningWithScissors replied to emmycRN's topic in Nursing News

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

  5. Chest Pain "Addicts"

    RunningWithScissors replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing

    These folks all heave mediports just for their narcotic-receiving pleasure. Hey, come on down to General Hospital, the drug emporium of the US!! Sometimes I feel like a licensed drug pusher...does...

  6. Glen Beck's hospital experience

    RunningWithScissors replied to emmycRN's topic in Nursing News

    I am a viewer of Glenn Beck's CNN talk show, and occasionally peruse his website. Apparantly, Mr Beck had a hemmorhoidectomy during the Christmas break and (being a recovered alcoholic) had some pain...

  7. UPMC to take away RN sign on bonuses effective 2-29-08

    RunningWithScissors replied to dorselm's topic in General Nursing

    No sign on bonuses in my area, but hospitals ARE offering generous tuition reimbursement....which is fine for those going to nursing school (it is almost always the techs that get this benefit, very...

  8. What ice storm? Get yourself to work!!

    RunningWithScissors posted a topic in General Nursing

    So we had a major ice storm last weekend, 2 inches of ice by morning, and 1st time in 20-odd years I can't get out of the driveway, roads are impassable in this rural area. Apparently, 20 miles away...

  9. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    I had 2 patients last week alone call the dr's office to find out when they're coming to discharge them. Didn't make them arrive any earlier,

  10. Am I assessing today's nursing situation accurately?

    RunningWithScissors replied to marie-francoise's topic in General Nursing

    Well it seems like a clinical nurse practitioner is what you may want to be. I became a nurse because my mother expected me to. I knew nothing about it 30 years ago when I entered school. I would...

  11. Rich nurses?

    RunningWithScissors replied to tiij's topic in General Nursing

    Let's try to cut through the bull cr_p, shall we? A plumber does not need a degree to perform HIS trade, and makes much, much more per hour than a nurse. Electrcians also don't need a degree, same...

  12. Warning Signs a hospital is about to change hands

    RunningWithScissors posted a topic in General Nursing

    Anyone go through a buy-out? What were the "warning signs" ahead that you now recognize? My hospital has a hiring freeze and the census has been half normal (3/4 of beds full) for many months now,...

  13. Do nurses support physician assisted suicide?

    RunningWithScissors replied to NightOwl0624's topic in General Nursing

    There was a story in the past week about a man who was in a coma for 19 years and awoke to the wonders of the 21st century. Hmmmm...... Tweety and Tazzi, seems we can agree to disagree. I don't know...

  14. Do nurses support physician assisted suicide?

    RunningWithScissors replied to NightOwl0624's topic in General Nursing

    I linked the two topics (assisted suicide and organ transplants) because, to me, these are two things that I have moral difficulty with. Although I fundamentally agree that it is to no-one's advantage...

  15. Do nurses support physician assisted suicide?

    RunningWithScissors replied to NightOwl0624's topic in General Nursing

    OK, I'll elaborate. If, as a nurse, you knowingly with-hold life-saving interventions, even though the family or patient requests it, you are technically committing murder. Let's look at it the...

  16. Nursing 10 years ago

    RunningWithScissors replied to kauffman's topic in General Nursing

    Let's see.....going back JUST 10 years ago: There was less focus on "customer service". The patients did not expect 4-star treatment and food. Smoking was allowed on premises and half the staff...

  17. Do nurses support physician assisted suicide?

    RunningWithScissors replied to NightOwl0624's topic in General Nursing

    I did not read the entire list of responses, but i must make this point. Every time we honor a DNR request we are essentially assisting in suicide. Every time we disconnect tube feeds or IV fluids or...

  18. Bedside/Face-to-Face Shift Report

    RunningWithScissors replied to Northwest_RN_4's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. When i clock out I leave out a different hallway than my assignment, otherwise I get stopped in the hall by visitor or patients wanting this or that (me with coat and purse on)...you just...

  19. 5% albumin

    RunningWithScissors replied to Susan9608's topic in General Nursing

    I hope this is all just theoretical....there is NO WAY any nurse should be messing around with albumin concentrations, esp. in a pedes unit!!! Let the pharmcay supply the correct...

  20. i had a couple Qs about nursing..

    RunningWithScissors replied to skyzthelimt's topic in General Nursing

    And don't forget, it is most likely that your pay will not be any higher in a critical care unit than on a general unit....some hospitals will pay a few pennies per hour more for specialty...

  21. "problem patient"

    RunningWithScissors replied to Nurse2bducky86's topic in General Nursing

    I am in 100% agreement here. Look, if it requires 1:1 to keep this guy's diet on track, come on, what do ya think he's going to do when he gets released??? Medical management is NOT prison, people...

  22. Unfinished tasks from previous shift?

    RunningWithScissors replied to pirap's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing is a 24-hour job; some things just have to roll over for the next shift to pick up and run with. What's wrong with just telling the doc "it's hung now, it's OK" without going into the whole...

  23. Hey ER, what takes so long???

    RunningWithScissors posted a topic in Emergency

    Got a call from the House Sup to place a NH pt with HTN, gave him a bed and no sooner than I hung up ER calls to give report. They say the pt got some Clonidine in the field but only Ativan in ER....

  24. Undermining Authority

    RunningWithScissors posted a topic in General Nursing

    I floated to another unit last week, one that has a very bad reputation throughout the hospital for nurses who don't have good thinking skills. Even the physicians don't leave orders with staff...

  25. Undermining Authority

    RunningWithScissors replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing

    Our usual SSI starts at 100; that is, blood sugar minus 100 divided by 10 or 20. Our endocrinologists like LOW sugars, and actually that is current evidence to support the lower the sugar, the better...