GardenDove

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 yesterday, got the clearance from mental health to be ...

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 hardest part of nursing is patient gowns. Figuring ...

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 never seen underwear such as those. He just smile...

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 nights for my weekend obligation. In our unit, baths...

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 annoying and time consuming requirements. I think th...

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 shouldn't be an opportunity to be sarcastic or uncha...

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

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 you all think? Should we think of our patients as...

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 much, but once before she opened up about her marr...

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 standard.

How far do you travel to get to work?

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 teacher that she used to engage in self mutilation...

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 get him back in bed as he was dead weight at that...

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 often goes too far, especially in prolonging end of ...

What do you think of Nursing Care Plans?

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 it's own right. I personally thought it was ridiculo...

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 behead their enemy. These young people of ours deserve...

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 and give me an easy assignment. Of course you don'...

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

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 that woman when I walked down to politely inform ...

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 corrupt.

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

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 that it caused damage. The government has always us...

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 some terrorist getting his hands on some smallpox tha...

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 ridiculous hysteria they whipped up after 911, now we are s...