KaroSnowQueen RN

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    Saline flushes or Blood

    KaroSnowQueen replied to gwenith's topic in General Nursing

    We do it at our facility but don't know if it's policy, most docs just order the saline and
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    Nursing and Piercings?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to Wuiteroz's topic in General Nursing

    I think it would be highly frowned upon. I have not seen a nurse personally with a facial piercing. We have had some aides with facial piercings but they either had to take it out or if it was new,...
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    irritable bowel syndrome?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to Liann's topic in General Nursing

    My son has IBS. Nothing that shows up on tests. Stress definitely hits him hard, he will have diarrhea 12 times a day for days on end when stressed. Doc gives him Immodium and Hycosamine for...
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    have you ever "written up" yourself in an incident report?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to l.rae's topic in General Nursing

    All you guys must work in more philosophically advanced facilities than the ones I have worked at in my career. I have NEVER worked at a facility where incident reports were NOT looked at as...
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    Telephone orders...read back and verified...

    KaroSnowQueen replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, us too, started this fall. TO: Dr. Frog/KNurse,RN/RV Like that RV means squat. We can write it but does it mean the doc will admit if it 's wrong??? I seriously doubt it. So many of our docs...
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    Blocking beds when understaffed

    KaroSnowQueen replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

    Nope. If admissions tries to book too many beds too close together the individual charge nurse may refuse to take the admission, and then notifies the house supervisor, but close beds because of...
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    Sick call policy

    KaroSnowQueen replied to goldgram's topic in Nurse Management

    I think if facilities offered things like double or triple time for covering a call in on a weekend, things would be different. If Ford Motor Co. can pay their employees double time and a half to...
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    Manual vs. automatic blood pressure cuffs

    KaroSnowQueen replied to susanmary's topic in General Nursing

    Our aides do them on med surg floors. Tele floors each have their own way, some have aides do them, some have nurses, some the nurses do the first set and aides do all the rest. Machines are...
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    Making it through Nursing School with Children

    KaroSnowQueen replied to mommyrn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    YOU CAN DO IT!!!! I don't know how I did it, but I did, and you can too. I started LPN school when I was 23, had a 3 year old, a 2 year old, a drunken husband, non supportive parents and was six...
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    Patient demands, "I want a different nurse"

    KaroSnowQueen replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

    Happened to me. Pt's family stated to charge nurse next day, that no one was ever in room with pt day before. Charge nurse had been off day before. Luckily I had charted a BOOK on this pt. The...
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    Questions about dying patients...

    KaroSnowQueen replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in General Nursing

    My two most memorable episodes of a pt dying were these: The first was a sweet elderly lady dying and several rowdy family members were actually standing over her bed arguing and acting very...
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    Oral contrast for CT

    KaroSnowQueen replied to djleon1's topic in Radiology

    Either the radiologist or sometimes the md ordering the
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    Oral contrast for CT

    KaroSnowQueen replied to djleon1's topic in Radiology

    The MD writes the order for with or without contrast specifically. If he fails to specify they do it without. Radiology brings the contrast to the floor, gives it to the patient, and then comes and...
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    Undecided whether to become a letter Carrier or R.N?

    KaroSnowQueen replied to Lisa24's topic in General Nursing

    GO WITH THE POSTAL JOB!!!!! I have tried for years to get on at the post office! My mother in law worked there. She retired at nearly full pay after twenty five years (age 52 for her), plus she...
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    No holiday pay!!??

    KaroSnowQueen replied to jessjoy's topic in General Nursing

    I have been in nursing for over 18 years and in the last five years only have I worked somewhere that paid holiday pay. The other places did not even offer days off in return. Last job paid holiday...
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    Depressed and beginning to hate my job

    KaroSnowQueen posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am so sick of being a nurse at this point I am ready to quit. It seems like every single day for the past month, someone somewhere out there has gone to complain about me. Actually it has only...
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    Depressed and beginning to hate my job

    KaroSnowQueen replied to KaroSnowQueen's topic in General Nursing

    This is a terminally ill patient and this was NOT a big change from his previous values earlier in the day. I had spoken with the MD earlier that day and he was more upset about the creatinine going...
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    Depressed and beginning to hate my job

    KaroSnowQueen replied to KaroSnowQueen's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks so much you guys! I posted this am and went out to spend all the money I had on Christmas for the kids - great treatment for depression.....Walmart, the Mall, and Cracker Barrell!!!!!!!!!!!!...
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    Blood Glucose Monitoring

    KaroSnowQueen replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in LTC and aides did not do fingersticks. Now I work in the hospital in a different neighboring state and the aides do ALL the fingersticks. They also draw blood for labs. At my facility,...
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    Stripes

    KaroSnowQueen replied to Paprikat's topic in General Nursing

    Stripes and their placement denote the school you attended. I graduated from a school where we wore a small cap with a single royal blue stripe. My first job was in a neighboring town that had their...
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    Dementia/rape trauma syndrome

    KaroSnowQueen replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

    I tend to think she is acting out something that happened years ago. We had a patient who would hold a dolly all day long, and when you took it away for bath time or whatever, if she couldn't see it,...
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    Pyxis systems ???

    KaroSnowQueen replied to Jammer's topic in General Nursing

    We do not use the Pyxis for all med passes, but it has all narcs, phenergan, ASA, other common meds so if pharmacy hasn't deliveered, we can get them quickly. It's a piece of cake, and beats the...
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    Funny Names for Nurses

    KaroSnowQueen replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    We have a general surgeon named Dr. Dedman - he's actually pretty good. And a Dr. Babee, but he isn't ob or
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    spooky spooky spooky

    KaroSnowQueen replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, and one more thing. The next day after my mother died, my sister and I went to her house, to get clothes for the funeral home, photos of her since it was closed casket, etc. While there, the...
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    spooky spooky spooky

    KaroSnowQueen replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    This is not work related, but it really happened. Five years ago, my daughter, her best friend and I went to the next town to the Walmart. While in the store, by the biscuit case, my daughter said I...