Sugarcoma

Sugarcoma RN

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  1. New nurse with job that is causing anxiety and depression

    Sugarcoma replied to nurseGi's topic in First Year After Licensure

  2. New nurse with job that is causing anxiety and depression

    Sugarcoma replied to nurseGi's topic in First Year After Licensure

    OP do not be disheartened, other nurses have experienced similar. The brutal reality of your situation is that you have found yourself on one of those less than stellar units (probably why they were...

  3. Best complaint you've heard?

    Sugarcoma replied to ColleenJune's topic in School

    Hilarious!!!!!

  4. Not a real nurse huh?

    Sugarcoma replied to kkrlaa5512's topic in School

    OP just know that if you were a "real hospital nurse" you would still get comments like these. Don't you know that Med-surg nurses are glorified waitresses and only ICU RN's are REAL nurses? Or that...

  5. rant

    Sugarcoma replied to mmc51264's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hmmm, sounds to me like you are not always sleeping but always working! Next time DH starts going on about your sleeping I would look at him and say "Why don't you go for a drive in your new car?"...

  6. I just can't do this anymore...

    Sugarcoma replied to ruthiemk's topic in General Nursing

    You say that your husband quit a job once without consulting you at a time when you needed the money. I imagine that you have some pent up resentment over that, but it seems you have accepted it...

  7. Who Cares About Us

    Sugarcoma replied to mid2348's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have always worked in environments where I developed friendships with my bosses and coworkers (small offices). We became like family in some cases. I would call in sick and they would inquire...

  8. Critical Thinking: you have it or you don't. Agree or disagree?

    Sugarcoma replied to LTCnurse11's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Critical thinking......I still cannot adequately define it. Kind of like Justice Potter who said of obscenity "I can't define it but I know it when I see it." For me it means a sort of fluidity in...

  9. Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

    Sugarcoma replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

    Part of me really wants to know the back story and eventual diagnosis on this one, the other part of me is really afraid to know lol! I think you win for strangest

  10. Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

    Sugarcoma replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

  11. Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

    Sugarcoma replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

    AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Great reply canoehead! I am going to use this one the next time I have a fake seizure

  12. Feeling like a servant

    Sugarcoma replied to nurseywifeymommy1's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I would like a t-shirt which says the following: RN=Registered Nurse NOT refreshments and

  13. Mouth crud

    Sugarcoma replied to liveyourlife747's topic in General Nursing

    Just the nurses/techs with the secret razor stash. We are supposed to tell family to bring in clippers and shave them

  14. Going to ER from ICU. Help!

    Sugarcoma replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in Emergency

    I think your ICU background will serve you well in the respect that you will be used to things changing quickly and having to pick up on that and act fast. I think ER nursing is multitasking to the...

  15. Mouth crud

    Sugarcoma replied to liveyourlife747's topic in General Nursing

    Esme12 and 1dreamer, great suggestions! I will definitely try both of

  16. Mouth crud

    Sugarcoma replied to liveyourlife747's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with you. Unfortunately it happens pretty frequently on my unit. People get busy and it gets overlooked. Our day shift RNs have to ambulate any one not on a vent, round with docs, meet with...

  17. Mouth crud

    Sugarcoma replied to liveyourlife747's topic in General Nursing

    I want this too!!! This sounds

  18. Insulin and Levophed drips on cardiovascular unit

    Sugarcoma replied to heartnurse2012's topic in Cardiac

    For the insulin drips I would specifically ask management how they plan to address the Q1 accuchecks. Will this be shared between PCT and RN or will the RN be responsible for all of them? In my...

  19. Mouth crud

    Sugarcoma replied to liveyourlife747's topic in General Nursing

    I am so jealous!!!! I want

  20. Mouth crud

    Sugarcoma replied to liveyourlife747's topic in General Nursing

    Mouth crud...I HATE mouth crud. The only other substance that frustrates me more is the soap scum film on my shower door. What exactly happens to bodily secretions that causes them to morph into an...

  21. Weaning dementia patients

    Sugarcoma posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Does anyone have any ideas or tips/tricks to use while attempting to wean patient's who are suffering from severe dementia? How is this done where you work? Are you able to give them medication...

  22. Weaning dementia patients

    Sugarcoma replied to Sugarcoma's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    We are not allowed to use Haldol under any circumstances for the heart patients. Occasionally the general sx docs will order it or seroquel. We do not have Precedex yet, we were supposed to get it a...

  23. Fevers In CCU

    Sugarcoma replied to Nursingbride12's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I had no idea that tylenol wasn't approved as an anti-pyretic by the FDA. I am going to have to look that up. Very interesting. I personally prefer ibuprofen for fever but I can never get a doc to...

  24. homosexual patients

    Sugarcoma replied to miray19's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have cared for many homosexual patients in my career and like the posters before me have said I treat them exactly the same way I treat anyone else. I also treat their partners the same with...

  25. Discrimination of Men as nurses?

    Sugarcoma replied to bonestAx's topic in Men in Nursing

    Most of the discrimination I have witnessed against male nurses came from patients. Especially older females who are fearful of a man seeing them naked. I have had families a couple of times refuse...