daverika

daverika

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  1. You Know the patient is going bad when...

    daverika replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

    you come back from lunch and the see the code cart disappearing into your (previously stable) patient's

  2. All White Uniform Dress Code?!!

    daverika replied to keludtke's topic in General Nursing

    This is pretty disrespectful...it's fair to mandate cleanliness, short nails, bathing, tidy hair...but forcing you to wear a UNIFORM? Why white? I agree with the poster who thinks it harkens back to...

  3. Got my 1st butt chewing today - humiliating!

    daverika replied to RN2Bn2006's topic in General Nursing

    Ist of all the only people who can "reprimand" you are your direct and indirect supervisors. What this jerk did to you was abuse. If you stop thinking of him as your superior and begin treating him as...

  4. Will you work during a Pandemic?

    daverika replied to Goju's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am one of a handful of actual staff members that sit on our hospital's disaster committee, in a system that is actively preparing for a variety of disasters (volcano, earthquake terrorism, pandemic,...

  5. Dumbest thing you've done in nursing??

    daverika replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

    Regarding accidentally unspiking a pressurized flush bag,I did that "back in the days" we used D5 in the pressure bags. Fortunately I took the brunt of the blast, not the patient. Unfortunately it was...

  6. Dumbest thing you've done in nursing??

    daverika replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

    This is probably not the dumbest but I think it is the funniest...I was a relatively new ICU nurse and had been sent "STAT" to the OR with a replacement pacemaker box, as the one on the patient was...

  7. Please help...How can I handle my professor?

    daverika replied to toriphile23's topic in General Nursing

    tdub, i disagree, i disagree, i disagree! we should never tolerate abuse or grovel for being unavoidably detained, people should understand we are not fast food providers or the cable guy, but...

  8. In Icu Are Is There A Preference For Whites

    daverika replied to tammyg652's topic in MICU, SICU

    I did a quick mental review of the colleagues I work with and had to laugh...to start with,at least 25 % of us were born outside the US. Our recent hires include people born in the Phillipines,...

  9. Quick info on SBAR?

    daverika replied to Dakkon76's topic in MICU, SICU

    We are starting to use this system in our hospital for all "hand-offs"...dept to dept, shift to shift, and even nurse to nurse for lunch breaks. I have been told it is part of this year's JAHCO...

  10. Aussie nurse studying NCLEX

    daverika replied to susieok's topic in International Nursing

    Hi, susieok, I don't know much about sitting the NCLEX outside the US but I would be glad to share payrates. They do vary and nurses on the west coast (Wahington State, Oregon and California) usually...