KaraLea

Good for you!!!!

I have attended many funerals of former patients. The one I remember best was a 14mo old child who had been in our long term facility since just a few days after she was born. There was nobody there but the immediate family and those of us from the facility who could make the 4hr round trip to be there. The young parents were very thankful that we came and it gave us closure. We had all come to love this child like it was one of our own. Also, when my Grandmother died last year many of her nurses from the nursing home came to the funeral home. All of my family was extremely thankful that they came.

You will want it listed in your chart as an allergy/adverse reaction and tell your pharmacist to list it in their files as well so that you don't have this happen again.

In other words my allnurses sisters, PLEASE get your mammograms and yearly exams as well as self breast exams. I would hate to loose any of you in this way. And for our allnurses brothers...don't think you can get off easily. You get your prostate exams as ordered PLEASE!!!!

My latest would be the woman who came into Med/Surg with UNTREATED Breast CA. She had been sent home the day before because there was no longer anything we could do for her and she wanted to die at home. Well, it must have been a long drive to get home because she stayed that night in a hotel where she fell and landed on the floor chest first. The CA had eaten to the outside and there were a bunch of "blisters" on the breast which burst when she fell. There were huge open, draining wounds to the breast now which we had to "dress" with chux pads...These were the only things that would fit. Just layered chux ans towels over the breast. We had to keep her in a Resp isolation room because of the stench alone and you could still smell the rotting flesh in the hallway everytime the door was opened. By the time I came on, she had become unconcious without obvious signs of pain, though we did have Roxinol ordered for her. This poor woman died later that same day and I called my doctor for a mammogram the next day. It really scared me. This CA had been caught early enough, but she had refused treatment.

Phenergan is much worse for causing this, but Reglan will too. I just loved it when I was working Med/Surg and ER would bring in a new admit with report saying...90yrs old, we gave her Demerol and Phenergan IVP and she is FREAKING...Have Fun Y'all. AAAUUUGGGHHH!!!!! But to get back to the subject, YES Reglan can cause this with some people and even with the benadryl it will sometimes take awhile for it to wear off.

My Hero, into the line of fire without fear... ?

1 1/4 hrs each way, I don't mind the drive too much. I just listen to the radio, CD's, and Audio Books the whole way.

I have seen it before also, in a LTC patient who had long term indwelling cath. Pt also had reoccurent infections and whenever he had another infection, he would get extremely confused and start pulling on catheter, causing further splitting of the member. Doc said this was from erosion and the pulling combined.

Basically, it's that the Cardiology III is a bit PRICEY!!!!! If you can afford to buy it now and can keep it on your person at all times during clinicals, fine. But they seem to "grow legs" really quick.

I recieved a Littman Cardiology II SE when I graduated from nursing school. It was a gift from my brother and his family. I loved it, but so did someone else evidently as it "Sprouted Legs" as someone else put it. I just bought a Cardiology III today and am keeping it on my person at all times. These are wonderful steths, but better for after you graduate. The Littman Lightweight is a good one for school, not as pricey, but keep a nametag on it anyway just in case...

I've never been pregnant myself, but this is what makes me feel like throwing up everytime...Someone else's emisis, listening to them heaving. Sight, smell, and sound...Yuck!!!!

Oh, really? They were fine? What was pt #1's chest pain level yesterday? What was pt #2's respiratory rate yesterday? What was pt #3's Blood sugar yesterday? AND, just why do you not have the same assignment today that you had yesterday? Maybe we should switch assignments and you can take care of all of these "FINE" patients...

Take care of yourself Wendy. Our thoughts are with you. Hope you are feeling better soon.

I posted this quiz in the first place and I only got 5...I guess I am younger than I feel.

Sleepyeyes, I love your signiture line...I live in the Texas Hill Country and our canyon just celebrated it's sesquicentennial this past weekend and we used that verse for our theme.

Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about! Ratings are at the bottom. 1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines 8. Newsreels before the movie 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive -6933) 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S&H Green Stamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice trays with lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your! age, If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt! :confused:

Not only that, but document as if your notes were going to be read by a prosecuting attorney in a court of law in a year or two...

Jolt is a soda that has three times the sugar and caffiene than other sodas. If you want to see me literally climbing the walls, just give me some of that stuff. Mountain Dew and Big Red sodas have alot of sugar and caffiene too.

If this happened over a year ago, then I don't think you could be expected to remember exactly what happened. Just go by what you charted. I have had more experienced nurses tell me to chart as if that note is going to end up in court a year or so from now. In other words, document...document...document.

All I have to carry with me is 2 blue pens, unit keys keyring, and med-room keyring. Not to mention change for the soda machine. I keep my scissors in my bag in the med-room, I work Psych so can't have anything in my pocket that can be used as a weapon. 2 pens because I can't seem to keep them for long and I do not like the ones they provide here so I bring my own.

My pockets, the one day I didn't have any pockets I locked myself out of the med-room twice. :imbar :imbar :imbar

Sorry, I meant Dysthymia :imbar :imbar :imbar

I have a question about Hypothalmia. I know that this is a Low grade depression, but can anyone tell me anything more than this?

Actually, I had allready given this patient her ativan and it wasn't phasing her at all.