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Considering I ALWAYS wear my badge on my waist (always have had horrible pictures on badges), I'm pretty sure that he didn't realize that i was a "coodinator". Nope, i kinda noticed him staring, out of the corner of my eye, but was pretending not to notice. After that night, I always had a jacket on when he came around.

when I was still a "unit coodinator" (that's what it said on my badge- coodinator), a doc was in late one night writing orders. I want to take them off, and read "mri breast with contrast, r/o cva". I ran it by three nurses and they all agreed tht that was what it said. Any guesses as to what he had been staring at the entire time he was writing orders?

Sorry it took a second to get back...i am an ICU nurse. I don't have clinical ladder, and I've only been out of school for 4yrs. Not removing my husbands over head from the equation (which takes up about 75-80%) of what comes into his practice, yes hour for hour, I make more. If i work the same hours and say work agency, I could make 2-3 times what he makes. And still not have the headaches that he has. If you don't feel deep down in your bones that this is the life for you, you will not make it past undergrad, let alone med school, residency, and fellowship.

It just sorta seems to me that if you are this wishy-washy about going to med school, then it probably isn't the best place for you. being a physician is getting harder and harder. you mention 60+ hour weeks? My husband is an ob/gyn...try100+ hour weeks. he's been up since 0800, and is still at the hospital now (0020) waiting to section a pt. he does this 6/7 days per week. And oh, yeah...I make more per hour than he does. As hard as medicine is getting, you need to really be dedicated from day one, not wishy-washy.

Sounds to me like a combo of both failure and sepsis. Why no Dig? Works great for a-fib, increases co, slows the rate. We use it frequently for a-fib c rvr.

We've had a recent rash of acinitobactor baumanii. Also, histoplasmosis is a very interesting one.

i was asked if a ventilator and a respirator were the same thing. This from the family that wanted to sue us because dad was 98 and dying from end stage chf. Even better, had a sweet little 80 something lady say that she didn't want to take her lovenox. When i pushed the point to find out why (not to force her to take it), she said "I don't want any of that rat poisen". say what? " isn't that what they use to kill rats?" took twenty minutes to explain the difference.

Here is all of the spanish that I know: 1. tu tienes une cabeza de caso. (you have a head of cheese) 2. Une mas cervesa/tequila por favor. (one more beer/tequilla, please) 3. Donde esta el bano? (where is the bathroom?) 4. el burro sabe mas que tu (a jack*ss knows more than you). hope this helps.

I once came home after a series of nights, while my husband was away at a conference, only to find that my babaies had dug a hole (4x4) in the wall about 6in up on the wall. after that, i left them in their cage all night while I was gone. They delt with it. I just learned to feed them earlier, and not give them much water after 5pm, and they slept most of the time. It worked pretty well.

really, really sorry for your friend. give her our love and prayers. I had a strange thought, and maybe this is agood idea, maybe not. But sorta along the same lines of shaving your head with her, maybe wearing an ace wrap or really tight support bra so that in the interim she doesn't feel like the only one without, and at least doesn't look like the only one without. that probably sounds strange, but i think if I lost both my breasts, I would be really tired of seeing everyone else's. Also, just give her time, and love.

Just the other day, I had a patient terminally weaned, from levo and dopa, and the vent, and lived with a pressure in the 40-50's and a sat of50-60% for 5 days. This does happen. people die when they are ready. And yes, we've terminally weaned people off pressors and vents, and ended up sending to ltc for months. While these things are not the norm, they do happen. Sorry to hear about your grams. Prayers with you.

You said that you really liked this doctor, so consoder this. At some point, this tech is going to do the same thing to someone else, and then this doctor is going to get sued, and/or another patient or yourself is going to get hurt. someone needs to say something because he may not realize what is going on.

We once admitted a drunk guy whom they had found in front of the bar having been beaen quite badly. His sons showed up (this was baout 0300) carrying a CHIHUAHUA!!!!!!. The best part is that the dog and the boys lived with mom and dad....yes, you guessed it. the boys left mom at home, but brought the chihuahua. The best we could figure was that the dog must have been the designated driver.

I'm beginning to feel like my little baby has grown up and gone so, so far astray. I was tryning to get advice for (ahem ) New Nurses, and I got an exposition on grammer, and tangent about the best place to fart, and a mention about nipples. Loving it. Personally, I love to go into my sedated vent patients rooms...wait maybe i'll just start a thread about it!

i'm a girl!!!!! anyway, nub is the progression of saying newbie, into n.b. into nub. if you say n.b. fast enough, it sounds like nub. and besides, it got everyone's attention! and for any new nurses that might have been offended by the term, i say that this applies to that bit of advice where i said "don't take it personally". it also applies to the bit i forgot to say, but will post now: 6. learn to laugh about it, whatever it is. like being called a boy if your a girl.