RoadRunner

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 room... My collegue went to find the lady sitting in ...

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! there's a huge difference!) They do miracles with thos...

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 possible.

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. Thanks!

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 wonderfull...

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 heart transplant... In a 24 hours period, she "coded" t...

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 think your pregnant, you won't take care of this patie...

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 suspicious... The patient was intubated and unconc...

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! You're... DEAD! Sorry again! :chair:

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 or the OPO, only the donation one, sounds a bit com...

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 law in your state and by your employer... Good luck...

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 we read the reports of some hospitals, it's pheno...

Guess what? It happened on my very first IM! I should have bought a lottery ticket that day, no?

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 dose"

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 cases like these (and you'll learn with experience...

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 - managing emergency admissions/discharges on the u...

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 commitee has come up with this idea that I think ca...

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 very funny... not to mentionned embarrasing!

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 over 500 pounds) if he had any family, you know w...

I work in ICU and the unit is an open space 6-beds unit. Well, yesterday, while "coding" a patient (actually during the intubation), the wife a another patient comes at the bedside and ask me if I could please come shave the beard of her husband "'ca...

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 since my first shift :new technologies, older patients...

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 them instead. To which the doctor said "So, you're...

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 guess what, they are wonderful nurses!!!

Like JMP, I think too that ICU is the best kept secret of the hospital. I hardly see myself work anywhere else than there. It's been 12 years... and counting!!!

If I may ask : are those still working as nurses???????