GardenDove

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  1. Tylenol overdose and the public's ignorance.

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had a Tylenol overdose pt yesterday, suicide attempt. In my opinion, the public is grossly undereducated about Tylenol and it's effects on the body. My pt had people rallying around him all day...

  2. I have patient gown dyslexia

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    Even after 14 years of nursing, I still get confused by patient gowns. What idiot came up with such a confusing design? I have to figure it out each time how to get the correct snaps to line up. The...

  3. Mormon Undergarment

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a 94 year old gentleman tonight, pleasant, somewhat vague fellow. I was rearranging his many blankets when I noticed that he had some unusual nylon long underwear. I commented to him that I had...

  4. Bed Baths, I dread giving them.

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    OK, so now I'm going to split my 0.6 FTE on our small rural hospital 6 bed CCU/Stepdown unit half and half, 12 hour days and 12 hour nights, since some rare weekday dayshifts opened up. I'm keeping...

  5. What do you think of JCAHO?

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    I keep hearing more absurd edicts from the joint commission. They've banned certain commonly worn shoes called crocs. They've banned pens that go around your neck. They also seem to have many other...

  6. What makes you nervous about or irritated with a new grad or orientee?

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've noticed alot of threads lately from new nurses who seemed quite stressed out, which I can totally understand, I've been there for sure. So I thought I'd start a thread from the other POV. This...

  7. Do you count resps every time you do vitals?

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    This question is to find out how many nurses actually count resps every single time they take

  8. Patient as Customer model of healthcare

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital has in the last couple of years initiated a number of changes. One of them is that in much of our correspondence from upper management the patients are refered to as 'customers'. What do...

  9. Coworker complained about her husband half the night.

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    Last night I worked with a nurse who has worked at my hospital for 3 months. She moved to our state for her husband to complete an educational program. She has 3 kids. I have not worked with her very...

  10. "The last place I worked, we did things differently!" (and correctly)

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    What about nurses who come from other facilities, who constantly critisize the way things are done where you work? They are always talking about where they previously worked, as if it were the gold...

  11. How far do you live from work?

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    How far do you travel to get to

  12. Self Mutilation

    GardenDove posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I started posting on a teacher's website and it looks like I'm already considered the nurse in residence there. Anyways, I was invited to comment on a thread where a highschool girl confided to her...

  13. Pt dies on BSC today

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    We were helping an old gentleman, DNR, to the BSC. He was an endstage CHF pt on BiPap. I helped get him on the BSC, where he had the last BM of his life, then proceeded to die. We got the easy lift to...

  14. Medicine: Have we gone too far? And, is our system ethical as a whole?

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes I disagree with some of the things that I do in my job. I'm sure we've all felt this, such as a 95 year old full code on a vent, or other such scenarios. Personally, I feel like medicine...

  15. What do you think of Nursing Care Plans?

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    What do you think of Nursing Care

  16. The 'Image' of Nursing

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    We hear about the 'image' of nursing. We've seen attempts by nursing leadership to improve it's image. Some say that the whole NANDA thing was an attempt to make nursing seem more 'professional' in...

  17. smallpox vaccine gone awry

    GardenDove replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in General Nursing

    They lure unsuspecting highschool kids with big promises. I'm very supportive of our troops, the whole situation is very sad and desperate over there, where the locals will blow themselves up, or...

  18. New Nurse 6 Months-float ?

    GardenDove replied to SALLYSMG's topic in General Nursing

    Why are all your words capitalized? I didn't read your whole post, but I gather that you were floated and didn't like it. I've always enjoyed floating, I just act really dumb and they are always nice...

  19. phone calls no outsider would believe

    GardenDove replied to JBudd's topic in Emergency

    She was more pleasant that the barking dog, that's for

  20. phone calls no outsider would believe

    GardenDove replied to JBudd's topic in Emergency

    LOL, I was wondering if I could slip a few metoprolols to a nearby barking dog with an irresponsible and unpleasant owner, just to slow down the dog's heart and make it go 'to sleep'. I was so PO'd at...

  21. smallpox vaccine gone awry

    GardenDove replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for agreeing with me, I always appreciate that. I just don't trust the government and I think the drug companies are in cahoots with them, and they're all

  22. The 'Image' of Nursing

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    What is a 'disturbed energy field'? That sounds like New Age mumbo

  23. smallpox vaccine gone awry

    GardenDove replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in General Nursing

    Many people say that 'Gulf War Syndrome' was the result of the ridiculous quantity of vaccines that the troops were forced to receive, which was an assault on their immune systems of such magnatude...

  24. smallpox vaccine gone awry

    GardenDove replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in General Nursing

    I mean, what a ridiculous example of an unneeded vaccine, of a disease that WAS successfully wiped off the planet, but the government subjects our servicemen and women to it, on the slim chance of...

  25. smallpox vaccine gone awry

    GardenDove replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not surprised. No, I didn't receive the vaccine and I think the hysteria over this was absurd. I actually had the smallpox vaccine at age 6 anyways. I'm so sick of our government and the...