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  1. Bizarre!!

    RoadRunner replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    We had a nice old lady in our CCU who coded, was declared dead and then stripped off all her IV, catheters, etc... You know the drill. So, we all are at the nurse desk when the bell rings from her...

  2. Is This True? (extra coccyx bone, tail?)

    RoadRunner replied to Meerkat's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't know about extra bones or tail (!!!) but I would suggest you go see an osteopath for your coccyx pain. I don't know if you have osteopaths were you live (not chiropractor, but osteopaths!...

  3. MRSA Room-mates?

    RoadRunner replied to Butternut's topic in General Nursing

    We don't put a MRSA patient with a no-MRSA patient but we try to regroupe them if we can and if it's

  4. Does anyone have a walk in my shoes program

    RoadRunner replied to mugwump's topic in General Nursing

    What exactly is a walk in my shoe program? You work in another departement for a day? I'm curious. Never heard of that where I work.

  5. Has anyone ever been assaulted by a patient?

    RoadRunner replied to OUBobcat94's topic in General Nursing

    Spirit1, you got me thinking.... What other work environement does not press charges against violent clients? (I'm not thinking about dementia or neuro challenged patients here) Jail? How...

  6. Thyroid Storm?

    RoadRunner replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in Emergency

    Thyroïd storms are a rare complication and can lead to multiple organ failure. The only time I had to care for a patient with this syndrome, she developped heart failure so bad she had to had a...

  7. Protocols for nitric oxide (NO) inhalation

    RoadRunner posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    There's a great debate where I work on the precautions we should take when treating a patient with NO since it might be toxic for pregnant women. We have no specific guidelines other than "if you...

  8. Four Star ICU Visitors

    RoadRunner replied to Ruby Vee's topic in MICU, SICU

    Had that one too. This guy had an MI while doing it with his mistress. Oh the creativeness of the medical staff who had to explain what had happened to his wife! But she found out because it looked...

  9. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

    RoadRunner replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Me again, sorry but couldn't pass this one. Sarah was COMATOSE!!!!! not DEAD!!! Comatose means you still have some reflexes, some brain activity, something! When you're dead, your not comatose!...

  10. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

    RoadRunner replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    I just saw this thread and didn't took the time to read all the post, so I'm sorry if what I say have been said before! It's just that I'm working in an organ donation team (not the transplant team...

  11. 4 hours between shifts

    RoadRunner replied to dinkymouse's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work, 8 hours are mandatory between shifts or I'm not covered by insurance and risk being suspended if it's know by my nursing board... If I were you, I would try to know what's permitted by...

  12. "Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative" structure

    RoadRunner posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    I was wandering if any of your hospitals is participating in the "Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative" structure and how is it working for you. We improved in a lot of ways since we did but when...

  13. Injections- still pull back?

    RoadRunner replied to angelbyte's topic in General Nursing

    Guess what? It happened on my very first IM! I should have bought a lottery ticket that day,

  14. Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

    RoadRunner replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    I live in Canada where the americain dollar cost almost 1.50$ canadian so when we have to give ativan or haldol or whatsoever to a patient who REALLY needs it, we ask for an "USA

  15. Is my patient going to die??

    RoadRunner replied to RN2Bn2006's topic in General Nursing

    I'll just add that nursing means "caring" a lot more that "treating", so, I think what you did was great. We sometimes think that a procedure or a medication is more necessary than our empathy but in...

  16. Unit Shift Managers

    RoadRunner replied to Butternut's topic in General Nursing

    I was what you call a charge nurse for about 4 years in ICU, night shift... and didn't get too much free time!! I didn't take patients but I did everything PJMommy said they do in her hospital plus -...

  17. Letters of condolence

    RoadRunner posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    Is there any ICU's out there who sends letters of condolence to family of patients who died in the unit? I know of palliative-care units who does it but in a unit like ICU??? Our family-intervention...

  18. What do you bring home with you?

    RoadRunner replied to Stitchie's topic in General Nursing

    Besides the usual all-the-above, I once went back home with the keys of the narcos cabinet of my unit. The hospital had to change the locks on the cabinet and they charged me with the bill... Very...

  19. Embarrassing moments...

    RoadRunner posted a topic in General Nursing

    Tonight, at work, we were discussing our most embarrassing "nursing" moment. What's yours?? I think mine is when I asked a patient who had a gastrectomy and liposuccion for morbid obesity (he weighted...

  20. Critical Care Nursing?

    RoadRunner replied to msummar_smc's topic in General Nursing

    I've been working in ICU for almost 13 years now and still love it. It's dynamic, never routine. I feel like I haven't stop learning and that keeps me challenged. It's been changing a lot though...

  21. Bad choice of words

    RoadRunner posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    It happened to me this morning. After my 35 years old patient was extubated, she had a lot of secretions. So I told her to cough and try to spit them out. She couldn't, but she said she had swallowed...

  22. Nursing and Piercings?

    RoadRunner replied to Wuiteroz's topic in General Nursing

    You know what? If my facility forbidded piercings and tatoos at work, they would cut off half of the nightshift staff I work with!!!! Some have eyebrow, tongue and multiple earring piercings, and...

  23. spooky spooky spooky

    RoadRunner replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    ICU ghost... Everytime something strange happens in the unit (and it does!) we say "it's just the ghosts". But something strange is always happening in bed 1 room 96. I work nightshifts and we go get...

  24. Restraining patients

    RoadRunner replied to LinnetLegs's topic in General Nursing

    Since May, we have a new policy at the hospital where I work. We have to ask for a written consent by the patient (!) or a member of his family to use restraints ...... I work in ICU, and let me...

  25. Cardiac Assessment Documentation

    RoadRunner replied to Youda's topic in General Nursing

    Damn!!!