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    Registe (red) Nurse

    RedWeasel replied to RedWeasel's topic in General Nursing

    yea I was then thinking maybe it could be a red scrub shirt...yeah legal issues...always that huh? However I thought we could not be sued for providing CPR but maybe that is just for laypeople, yeah...
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    Wearing Cologne to work Yes Or No

    RedWeasel replied to KarmaWiseRaven's topic in General Nursing

    my problem is that I am paranoid that my deodorant isn't working. I am always worried that if pp start discussing their deo (what they wear etc) they are trying to hint. But I shower RIGHT before work...
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    new rehab nurse - should I stay? (long-ish post)

    RedWeasel replied to Boogs's topic in Rehabilitation

    yes they are demanding ... think about it (not being rude here-just an a+b=c thing). The CVA TBI patients are told they cannot get up alone, must wear a gait belt. If they do get up alone they get a...
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    Fall precautions

    RedWeasel replied to sonsonly's topic in Rehabilitation

    all of our seatbelts must be able to be released by the patient or it is considered a restraint. Siderails x4 is a restraint and needs to be reviewed q24 hours at our hospital. Thing is no matter what...
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    A humbling story....reminder of why rehab nursing is amazing

    RedWeasel replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in Rehabilitation

    aw....yeah...one thing I learned quick...never put words in their mouths...and don't try to reason with confused pts....you will lose everytime. If they are happy in 1937...why force them back to...
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    Anti-HIV

    RedWeasel replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

    maybe there was a legal issue with the pt maybe passing it on to another person...and though the pt refused...it was legally okay to test him? I don't know....that is
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    ARE YOUR PATIENT ASSIGNMENTS "FAIR?"

    RedWeasel replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes I feel like I get the harder patients because I can 'handle' it. Just because most of the other nurses on my shift are more recent graduates. Sometimes that is fair, sometimes it isn't. It...
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    Dressing changes

    RedWeasel replied to litlamp's topic in General Nursing

    also just a note on dressings. It is best not to throw on a bunch of abds on a wound that keeps bleeding. I was orienting and heard about a pt who had had a fempop bypass. He kept oozing blood. A...
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    Dressing changes

    RedWeasel replied to litlamp's topic in General Nursing

    one of our docs wants nothing on his tubes after insertion. Nothing. Weird, but there it is...we just sop up the gunk when it presents
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    When to wear gloves!?

    RedWeasel replied to LaurRN's topic in General Nursing

    plus you know those confused patients...you can be cleaning them up and they stick their hand down their and scratch, then you have to take a toothbrush (one time use) to clean their nails...and who...
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    When to wear gloves!?

    RedWeasel replied to LaurRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think it is a matter of not transferring something from our hands to the tubing, and then having been transferred into the tubing. It could happen. Why risk it? Gloves, always
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    Doctors getting angry??

    RedWeasel replied to emtj's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What bugs me about angry doctors is how they can be really mean to you (whatever cooks their goose) then get embarrased by their behavior and the next time you talk/call/see them they are all nice and...
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    Dodo Birds We all Know and Work With

    RedWeasel replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    but what about what she could transfer from herself to equiptment or Dr(then pt) or directly to pt via her bare
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    Infusing TPN

    RedWeasel replied to rileygrl11's topic in General Nursing

    yeah! true I have never seen a nurse replace an old cap, or not wear a mask-or have the pt wear a mask. Use sterile gloves....I suppose it could happen but when you even go to change the dressings...
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    Scared Of Poop!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

    RedWeasel replied to nursingstudent424's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I was told by another nurse that after doing a bowel program (supp + digital stimulation -which is manually inserting a finger and rotating it along the rectal wall to stimulate defecation for SCI...
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    Scared Of Poop!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

    RedWeasel replied to nursingstudent424's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Some nights I come home and actually suddenly smell the poop (it can be very distinctive per each pt as you all know) I had cleaned up earlier....I am sure it is in my head, as I have showered and...
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    Scared Of Poop!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

    RedWeasel replied to nursingstudent424's topic in First Year After Licensure

    One thing I like to tell pts (if appropriate for that pt) when they say they hate to have someone clean them up is "I am sure in the past you have helped people out when they were temporarily unable...
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    Scared Of Poop!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

    RedWeasel replied to nursingstudent424's topic in First Year After Licensure

    my thing I was afraid of was blood and wounds-turned out to be not so bad. Now, Phlegm is another thing. I don't work on pulmonary (probably couldn't) but we do suction a lot of patients -- here is...
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    IVs

    RedWeasel replied to sureshooters wife's topic in First Year After Licensure

    what makes me feel calm about IVs at our facility is that each person gets two shots. If you don't get it after that you are 'off the hook'-course you then have to find someone to get it in. Lately...
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    Evil Doctors

    RedWeasel replied to James_Adam's topic in General Nursing

    sometimes they have really bad days too....and after seeing some nurses and how they speak on a phone when calling them for orders (I have rambled myself a time or two)...anyway one of our docs is...
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    Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    RedWeasel replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    this isn't exactly from work but one Christmas my Aunt and Uncle brought a video of Ansel Adams photography to watch. The side of the video from a library read "Adams, Ansel." I appreciate him now but...
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    HYPOGLYCEMIA:Seizure...code

    RedWeasel replied to EJSRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have had other nurses tell me to wait to give OJ on a diabetic patient who is clammy and cool. Wait to see what the BS is. I don't care what it is. I know she isn't looking at me and she is not...
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    Your boss insists on employees taking flu vaccine

    RedWeasel replied to seenitallERnurse's topic in General Nursing

    yeah there is a difference in the shot not working (like last year) and thinking it gave you the flu -----I know what you mean many pp thought it gave them the flu---we had to correct them and state...
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    Your boss insists on employees taking flu vaccine

    RedWeasel replied to seenitallERnurse's topic in General Nursing

    yes that too.....Pp say it is rare but where I work I see it all the time.....and there has to be a reason they tell pp who have had GBS NOT to get flu shots...i won't go into all that
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    Your boss insists on employees taking flu vaccine

    RedWeasel replied to seenitallERnurse's topic in General Nursing

    i am in the midwest and we had to take the flu shot or else we had to take a class, verbally tell why we refused and sign a paper (what so if we get sick and a pt gets the flu they can pin it on us)...