CRNI-ICU20

CRNI-ICU20

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  1. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Who needs a lunch box, when you have all those convenient places to tuck food??? I bet she's a riot at a grocery store.....tucking whole hams under her dress, etc....omg! I am going to be sick...

  2. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I worked in an ER, west coast, and a freq. flyer with asthma and CHF came in with fluid overload, low sats, and shortness of breath. This woman was nearly 400 lbs. The usual treatment was foley,...

  3. They make me feel like a failure

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to iriska_meller's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Just because people can test well on ivy league entrance exams, does not ensure that they have the social skills to go with it. Your question was "how do I handle these kinds of comments?" First:...

  4. Nursing 10 years ago

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to kauffman's topic in General Nursing

    dontcha know that ten years in nurse years is equal to 100 years in regular people years??? WE move at 186,000 miles per second (the equivalent of the speed of light) I went back into my nursing...

  5. I say this patient is being abused...

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is classic domestic abuse behaviour. Look at what is normal: a husband who comes in with a wife....and when a question is directly posed to the wife, the NORMAL husband waits for the wife to...

  6. help

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to bumbee78's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    bedrest....you do not want the clot to break apart and circulate back into the heart or pulmonary vascular system.....DVT is the primary source of pulmonary

  7. Should I be offened or not?

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to Cmariehart's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think you should be offended....I just think you should consider that old axiom by Mark Twain: "It's better to keep your mouth shut, and let people think you are stupid, than to open it and...

  8. How did you know "your calling"?

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to goldie66's topic in General Nursing

    I knew from the time I was three years old that I would one day be a nurse. It was this "knowing" inside of me. I had always been very facinated by how the human body functions. I always was the one...

  9. has anyone ever worked at Banner Health?

    CRNI-ICU20 posted a topic in Arizona Nursing

    HI, I am curious about a job offer that was offered to me from Banner Health in Phoenix? I am wondering if the wages they promise and the double overtime shifts they are saying that they will pay is...

  10. has anyone ever worked at Banner Health?

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Hoozdo, What do you mean by "bad street cred"?? I guess I don't understand your lingo....sorry! can you elaborate?

  11. Smelling Cancer?

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to MikeyJ's topic in General Nursing

    OH...we nurses have very good smellers! Pseudomonas anyone?? How about the smell of a staph infection? ewwww! bleh! My former Anatomy and Physiology prof. had us all bring urine samples to lab one...

  12. Name hospital and salary--everywhere

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to mistydave's topic in General Nursing

    $37/hr plus benefits....chicago burbs....22 years experience

  13. Discouraged

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to ZootRN's topic in General Nursing

    unwanted touch is unwanted touch...ie sexual assault...duh. as for the crazy pants family member.... I do not know why families are so intent on attacking the VERY person who is caring for their loved...

  14. Say something or not?

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to pannie's topic in General Nursing

    before this person charts another lie, you better tell the doctor.... and before this person has another human being's life in their hands, you better tell the doctor.

  15. Who Would Like To Be Part Of The Lose Weight And Get Healthy Team?!

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to Batman24's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    HI.... just checking in....I have been successfully losing weight....exercising....and feeling alot better....riding my bike...walking....doing some weights... I started the nutrisystem weight...

  16. Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to grace90's topic in Nursing Humor

    how about...."Stayin' alive...stayin' alive" by the

  17. RN from h#ll

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to bshaw96's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    these types are very easy to unseat....usually they are completely rigid and uncompromising people...and maybe display OCD issues.... These are the types that will completely destabilize when they are...

  18. Should I be mad at Hospice? My mother...

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to Roland's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    roland, my condolences to you for your mom. The grief must be really tough right now, because you have this question mark in your head. I think the others here have given a good explanation, although,...

  19. Boniva-Fosamax = atrial fibrillation ?

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

    Boniva also comes in an IV PUSH form, once a month. crni I have given these, in the dr.'s office, with monitoring, and have not seen a problem. I suppose it does have a little to do with the calcium...

  20. Central Lines???

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

    {doing it "your own way" or even according to the infusion nursing society can get you into deep trouble if you are called into a courtroom.} msdobson: actually, the infusion nursing society sets the...

  21. Cadavers?

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to feisty_lpn's topic in LPN to RN

    yes, had cadavers in training. no...it didn't bother me... my spiritual beliefs helped me alot here, because I believe that we are spiritual beings in a human form (body) not the other way around,...

  22. Central Lines???

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

    The Infusion Nursing Society has great central line care and flushing recommendations. In addition, many facilities are now recommending JUST NS for lines, as opposed to heparin....in evidenced based...

  23. Tonight I get my pin!

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to onesunniegal's topic in General Nursing

    YOU ARE JUST THE BEE'S KNEES!! WOOOOOHOOOO!! HAPPY DANCE..... WHAT A GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT!! You earned it and wear it proud!! sigh....brings back good memories!!

  24. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

    after snorting what I was drinking straight up my nose....!! I am enjoying this thread soo much....gosh you people are a hoot! Here's some of my phrases.... to the patient being wheeled in wide awake...

  25. how would you feel as a pt?

    CRNI-ICU20 replied to crissrn27's topic in General Nursing

    I think I heard the original line on a Seinfeld