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I've got this!! I am a nurse with stage 4 BC Dont ask how I feel-unless you really want to know. Talk about tings other than C help her fel normal-movies? Most people dont know what to say-so they say nothing. that hurts Texting Hi I'm thinking of you is easy to do I hate get well cards

she just had mastectomy on right. avoid that arm for sticks and bp's. place arm band with warning on rt arm A mastectomy puts pt at risk for lymphedema in that arm. she is more at risk the more lymph nodes she had removed

I am just wondering what other docs do for pain control after port placement. I have worked in IR over ten years, have given conscience sedation for a lotta ports. then I had one placed for chemo/BC. When that lidocaine wore off it was painful. had to get script for pain meds! pain lasted good 1-2 days. granted it was a left port, and he had to do a lotta tugging to get it in. But has got me wondering if other docs are ordering pain meds for port placement. I realize the order should come from the oncologist. many women in my support group experienced same as me btw tx all done

I've been a nurse 20 years now, three weeks ago I had major surgery. MostHorrible experience of my life. If your patient is in pain. Treat it! The longer you let someone agonize in pain, the harder the pain will be to control. 0.2 of dilaudid for agonizing post op pain-don't waste your time. And don't tel me pca s are only protocol for double mastectomy. Everyone s pain is diferent . Turn off the GD light Be your patients advocate-if there roomate has tv and light on-tell them to turn them off after reasonable hour. Don'tExpect your post op pt to empty there own urine or throw up. If your going to put urine hat on toilet, please label with patient name . And don't forget you may treat me bad as a patient, I may be too tired in am to complain to your NM, but know that I will complain to hospital administrators.

I'd talk to there manager. I'm in procedural area. Can't imagine letting a patient leave my area soiled. We are a team. that is basic care.

I've never heard of putting a JP to wall suction. and I work in IR where we place JP's. Is there that much pus that it needs wall suction? If IR is still open I would call them. just seems odd

I'm not a school nurse but work in IR. I'm wondering what everyone elses school policies are on throwing up. Almost monthly our recovery room nurse is called by her 1stgraders school nurse. Child has thrown up. Its always after lunch. she throws up once and is better. seems this child just throws up easily. I've picked her up twice. she's not sick. comes to my house plays/has a great time. i'm trying not to make it such a fun time for her. It really puts us in a bind since we're down a nurse then. The nurse and principal said it was policy that if they throw up they have to go home. asked for the written policy and they couldn't find it. was just wondering what everyone elses policies are. This little girl is very smart, I think she has figured out how to work the system to get herself out of school. I don't mind picking her up when I'm off, but she's starting to miss a lot of school

I wouldn't really call a peg replacement surgery. its more of minor procedure. very quick, very easy. down in Interventional radiology the Doc/NP/PA puts a small/thin wire down the peg tube they deflate the balloon and pull the old yucky tube off and then they slip the new tube on over the wire this is not a emergency procedure, don't call us after 3pm thinking its going to be done today

and whats the worst that can happen? if you don't quite pass you will do remediation where you come back and the instructor runs through scenerios with you

would you'll recommend taking it online? i'm looking for a online stats course. Everything in my home state of Va reguires a math class prerequisite, so I'm looking outside of Va. Any recommendations? I need it to complete my MSN-I'm just starting and figured I'd get it out of the way

Can anyone recommend a online statistics class with no prerequisites I'm not really a math person. I'm just going back to school to get my MSN and thought I would get my stats class out of the way. also going to takes ethics online too. I found one offered online. I'd like to find something in my home state of VA but all nothing is offered online without prereqs someone did mention a online course through colorado comm colleges That would be a little cheaper than taking the course at a nearby university and having to sit through a class guess I better get used to it

Cecilsgirl-I initially thought you were one of my coworkers, but I think you work in longterm care. we have someone that when one FMLA runs out he gets another one for something else. around here all you need is a signed note by doctor. Our FMLA'er is transfering at end of month, but sadly they aren't replacing the position. budget cuts very frustrating I can't work any harder or any faster

I'm at a cross roads in my career too. Been doing this hosp thing for 18 yrs now. and its back to horrible again. i've decided to go back to school advance my degree and figure it out there. maybe I could teach/ maybe I could do NP-but deep down not sure If I want the stress of that. but maybe its less stress than I got right now. I'm giving myself a long term goal of 5 yrs and then they can kiss my....

its awfull where I'm at too. I'm down in Interventional radiology. Our upper management seems to like to fire the little people-transporters, assistants. lost like 5 transporters in last few months. management just posted the job opening like a few weeks ago. I just get so frustrated with upper management. I really have no idea what they do. guess they don't know what I do either. our dept has gotten so busy its not even funny. guy had to wait 5 hrs to get back the other day for a G tube replacement-it takes like 15 min to replace one. we are short nurses-we had horrible rash of pregnancies, and FMLA. we constantly work short. so in short my little dept is saving money by not rehiring people when they leave. If you are alittle transporter that makes 9/hr or a assistant that helps with stocking/ordering/etc and make very little -nope not going to replace. so don't freaken talk to me about the scores. I don't really care about your damn scores.

I wasn't there for this one, but I heard about it. I work in IR doing. and one day with our head doc they played a trick on him Had a Mr Bear in the room for some sort of procedure. the doc comes in room and its a great big bear under the drape wish we could bring mr bear back to dept