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  1. Silly reason for ER visit?

    pinksugar replied to DolceVita's topic in General Nursing

    A broken toe hardly qualifies as an emergency, no matter how you slice it. However, most people don't know that there really isn't anything that docs and nurses can do for it, so I don't think that it...

  2. Physical Assessments: Do Any Nurses Do Them

    pinksugar replied to romie's topic in General Nursing

    Uh, I have never worked on any floor where nurses don't assess their patients. That sounds pretty shady to me. You are not wasting your time doing them. I have caught many a problem and nipped it in...

  3. Should Staff At Nursing Homes Be Banned From Having Cell Phones With Cameras?

    pinksugar replied to chase4myheart's topic in General Nursing

    I cannot imagine why anyone would want to look at naked photos of nursing home residents. Really. I really can't. I think that someone that is sick enough to want to do something like this will find...

  4. Sick of NURSES who say they HATE NURSING!! Another Vent

    pinksugar replied to SDA3694's topic in General Nursing

    Most nurses that I know that 'hate nursing' don't actually hate taking care of patients. What they hate is administration, politics, and all of the paperwork and regulations that keep nurses away from...

  5. Special tubing and stopcock for diprivan??????

    pinksugar replied to criticalHP's topic in MICU, SICU

    I've never heard of using a stopcock on diprivan tubing. Moving a stopcock around, especially with a substance like diprivan, *especially when the tubing is only changed every 24 hrs* just sounds...

  6. MICU vs SICU-why the rivalry? Can't we all just get along?

    pinksugar replied to sassyrn333's topic in MICU, SICU

    I totally agree with TurnLeftSide. I worked in a combined SICU/MICU/CCU and all of the patients are the same - sick!! I do not get the rivalry at all. Any nurse on a critical care unit is working...

  7. Fake Nails

    pinksugar replied to Coloradogrl's topic in General Nursing

    I don't wear them, but many of my colleagues do (nurses and doctors alike). We aren't supposed to wear them, but they never get reprimanded, so I guess it's

  8. Why does everyone groan when I say I'm going to take a neurosciences position?

    pinksugar replied to GoECU's topic in General Nursing

    More power to you for taking that position. I think it takes a special person to do neuro, and I am not that type of person. LOL I can't stand taking care of neuro patients. Give me my cardiac folks...

  9. Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it

    pinksugar replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I know!!! I love it when visitors ask me why I am making their family member stay in bed when they have an 8 French sheath hanging out of their leg. I had a patient the other day that actually told...

  10. Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it

    pinksugar replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    LOL!!! I don't know why but this irritates me to no end! When some random visitor comes up and starts asking about their mom I usually say "And she is??" and then they give me a sheepish look and say...

  11. Nurses that "eat your lunch" during report!

    pinksugar replied to allthingsbright's topic in General Nursing

    There is a nurse on my floor that always asks lots of inane questions during report and is just very rude and aggressive in general. It is annoying, isn't it? If I don't know the answer I just tell...

  12. Do facilities sometimes try to get rid of more experienced, more expensive nurses?

    pinksugar replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. This has happened at some of the facilities I have worked at. Scary for the patients, and scary to a newer nurse such as myself. I love the old-timers, love having them around, and love being...

  13. silly nursing question, hope u can answer it...

    pinksugar replied to ErinDel's topic in General Nursing

    The only things we practiced on each other were taking pulses and manual blood

  14. Lantus

    pinksugar replied to LEM1234's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, I absolutely would have given it as well. A BS of 70 is just fine for most

  15. What's the reason for a RN to be snippy to a new post op pt. ?

    pinksugar replied to momofqc's topic in General Nursing

    I externed on a med-surg oncology unit while I was in NS, and that is not for me. More power to any nurse that can handle that. I don't know how anyone could take really good care of that many...

  16. What's the reason for a RN to be snippy to a new post op pt. ?

    pinksugar replied to momofqc's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, maybe it is because I am a critical care nurse, but I would never let the family do any of those things, especially walk them in the halls or record their I&O's. We always walk our own...

  17. I was just laid off

    pinksugar replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Huge hugs to you, Sue. It is THEIR loss. That job was just a stepping stone to new and better things for

  18. What's the reason for a RN to be snippy to a new post op pt. ?

    pinksugar replied to momofqc's topic in General Nursing

    Heehee. Posts like these make me glad we have a two visitor limit policy. As soon as a third person starts bugging me for a chair (and these are tiny rooms, mind you) I get on my sweetest face and say...

  19. No nurse is going to answer this honestly but here it goes........

    pinksugar replied to c_beshore_rn's topic in General Nursing

    I never get my meds out on time because pharmacy never sends them, or they are never in the patient's pyxis profile. Thankfully everyone has this problem so management doesn't care!

  20. When a patient is dying, am I expecting too much?

    pinksugar replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked oncology/hospice in the past and yes, I do think you were expecting too much. Families just don't see the things that we see and they don't understand the signs of death like we do. That...

  21. Dangerous nurses

    pinksugar replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That is the primary nurse's and the instructor's faults, not the poor little nurseling's fault. Why didn't the vent back-up alarms sound? Why wasn't the student supervised closely in an ICU setting?...

  22. Descrimination: A full hot meal or soup and a sandwich

    pinksugar replied to Truth66's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work at a hospital that had one of the busiest ER's in our entire state and all of those ER nurses not only took a 30 minute lunch break, but they also took a 30 minute dinner break. I am...

  23. Descrimination: A full hot meal or soup and a sandwich

    pinksugar replied to Truth66's topic in General Nursing

    I find it profoundly disturbing that many of you think that the OP is lucky to get a lunch break. I work critical care and I can tell you that I always take a lunch break. I use the bathroom often as...

  24. I Contracted HIV

    pinksugar replied to sarahwv's topic in General Nursing

    I am so sorry Sarah. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers, and I will continue to pray for a vaccine and a cure for this terrible

  25. What Would You Like to Chart if You Can Get Away With It?

    pinksugar replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I have actually charted a lot of things that are very similar to some of what is written here. I have found that one of the best ways to discredit a patient is by putting their direct quotes right...