JBudd MSN

Trauma, Teaching

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” Thomas Jefferson

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    Transfering license to another state

    JBudd replied to ktann13's topic in General Nursing

    If you aren't actually in Nevada yet, I would use the California
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    Why do some nurses hate it in others pump at work?

    JBudd replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

    I hand expressed (learned to milk goats as a kid). Never needed a pump for any of my 3. Ducked out, washed, squeezed into the bottle and back on the floor in far less than 30 minutes. Usually got...
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    Do what now? ( How to save a stroke victim according to facebook)

    JBudd replied to That Guy's topic in General Nursing

    Lets see, diabetics prick their fingers regularly, but are at higher risk for strokes..... so we need to tell them to prick ALL 10 fingers
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    Nurses, am I crazy for thinking I can do this?

    JBudd replied to Aaron.goins3's topic in General Students

    Is a summer course of patho an option? I do online patho, and it is an enormous amount of material (minimum 20 hours a week reading and study), for a 4 credit hour course. Strongly recommend doing...
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    Real books vs ebooks

    JBudd replied to Polly Peptide's topic in General Students

    when my daughter was studying with e-books, she bought an extra e-reader, just the cheap Kindle one from Amazon, so that she could cross reference more easily. You can get a refurbished one for about...
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    Cannot seem to pass skilled portion of BLS

    JBudd replied to thatgirl37's topic in General Students

    You can actually get up on the bed if you need to, put a knee up next to the manikin. As said before, push more than you think you should! I made the bed bounce (lightweight stretcher) I was doing...
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    Discharging by Wheelchair

    JBudd replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    Same in my ER. We simply don't have time to escort every pt out. They get discharged in the room, and have to find their own way to the lobby and freedom. From the floors, as many others have said,...
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    starting IV on same arm as a mastectomy

    JBudd replied to coletanner123's topic in General Nursing

    I had a double mastectomy.... and do have mild lymphedema on the right side where they took 11 nodes. Nobody but nobody gets near that arm. But my other arm is fine, only one node out (since it was...
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    Why do some nurses hate it in others pump at work?

    JBudd replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

    I never had a problem, but that was more than 20 years ago..... I took less time to pump than the smokers did on their far more frequent
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    What did you do after nursing school graduation?

    JBudd replied to mstaurus2016's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Applied for a job, got the one I wanted, but first went to Puerto Vallarta for a week with my friend (from the 5th grade on!). Took my cap and tassel, have a picture of me on the water at the front...
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    Got to Change my Sig/Title :)

    JBudd replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    Congrats! It is a great feeling isn't
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    Med/Surg to ER?

    JBudd replied to cnbnicole's topic in Emergency

    Did you mean veteran as in military? I can see where that would lead you to being on "high alert" all the time. On the other hand, those kind of observation skills should be routine for all nurses,...
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    Is earwax removal an emergency?

    JBudd replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    Frankly, without all those non-emergent cases, we wouldn't employ nearly as many nurses as we do. Job
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    Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    JBudd replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    My black belt obligates me to teach/guide lower belt martial art students in my dojang. My nursing license doesn't say a word about it. As nurses, we are expected to do patient education, which has a...
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    Was I out of place?

    JBudd replied to rhkenji's topic in Emergency

    I don't know, it didn't sound all that bad to me. If you had said it viciously or with hard sarcasm, with a threatening never to help type attitude it would be, but since your coworkers chuckled I...
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    being called off..

    JBudd replied to SaltySarcasticSally's topic in General Nursing

    Our old contract specified if you showed up for work, you got paid at least 4 hours. They could send you home right away but still have to pay, or just send you home after the 4 hours. We usually...
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    You Know You're A Nurse If...

    JBudd replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    when you get home in the morning, and start trying to get your winter coat open so you can badge open your front
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    Job offer after clinical?

    JBudd replied to GOAL2BRN's topic in General Nursing

    We have one school and one hospital, so yeah, lots of our students get hired. Some of my former students are now my clinical
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    I let the patient took his medications without water. Is this a medication error?

    JBudd replied to leenmei's topic in General Nursing

    I was at a third world hospital, where you had to have family go buy an angiocath, tubing and the bottle of saline, & bring it all in for a nurse to be able to place an
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    Vasoactive Drips with a DNR

    JBudd replied to DaveICURN's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't use a vasoactive on a hospice patient; but if the family and the patient want to, then yes. Curious to know what the family thought the Levo would accomplish? If they thought it made pt...
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    What would you do? Provider without ID starts examing your patient without introduction

    JBudd replied to SanFranciscoRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ask him who he is, where is his badge, and what service he is with. Too many crazies out there. I once asked an unbadged man standing at my ER desk asking questions about how it was going, who he...
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    Facing my own judgments

    JBudd replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    My moment wasn't nearly so deep, but I used to figuratively roll my eyes at people who came to the ER for constipation. Seriously?? Until I developed extreme constipation (and a heck of a lot pain...
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    Patient's "right" to abuse nurses...I need your opinion

    JBudd replied to MsNewbee's topic in General Nursing

    I think you left out "NO right" LOL (yes, yes I did
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    Am I too small to be a nurse?

    JBudd replied to Sbhayes09's topic in General Nursing

    Shoot, I'm 6 feet tall and still use a stool sometimes for CPR, some of our trauma beds just don't go that low. Slight sideways remark, okay, totally sideways remark about height; when I first met him...
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    Learned something new from all of you :)

    JBudd posted a topic in General Nursing

    In a now closed thread, I posted that a spouse didn't get to call a rapid response. Several AN folks replied that they could in their hospitals, and are in fact encouraged to do so. Did not know...