ORNurseAngie

ORNurseAngie

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  1. pancreatitis and demerol

    ORNurseAngie posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    Had a young patient the other day with pancreatitis, pretty much from drinking so much. Patient was receiving Dilaudid 2 mg Q 4 hours prn pain. Was getting it every four hours pretty much but would...

  2. RN to Pharmacist

    ORNurseAngie replied to spopeye's topic in Nursing Career

    There are lots of avenues to explore in pharmacy not just retail in the cvs or walgreens. There are pharmacists that work clinically in the hospital and dose meds like coumadin, tobramycin, vancomycin...

  3. Hateful, mean nurses

    ORNurseAngie replied to CupCakeRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I would find evidence of them abusing their patients and report them to the board of nursing. How stupid and

  4. Advice for the New Cardiac RN

    ORNurseAngie replied to ElizabethRN10's topic in Cardiac

    I too just took a job in telemetry step down unit after pretty much six years of medsurg, give or take the couple years I spent as an OR nurse. I am a little nervous as this is a larger hospital than...

  5. St john Main hospital

    ORNurseAngie replied to Ms.RN's topic in Michigan Nursing

    what about the area? is it a bad area? is it scary to drive

  6. Highest paid specialty in nursing ?

    ORNurseAngie replied to Elleveein's topic in General Nursing

    Do we really have to ruin a perfectly nice informative discussion by being rude to each other? Lets be professional

  7. isolation

    ORNurseAngie replied to optimusgts's topic in General Nursing

    we do not isolate patients for MRS anymore, although I forget why. The infection control nurse told us why but I

  8. Medication pass times

    ORNurseAngie posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    I have a question regarding medication pass times. At the hospital I currently work if a medication is due at 1000 we have an hour before and an hour after to complete the med pass. Is this the norm?...

  9. Attention OR Nurses

    ORNurseAngie replied to anneles's topic in General Nursing

    I love working in the OR (even if I currently am not doing it right now). It is totally different type of nursing. A periop training program will definatly help you out quite a bit and don't expect to...

  10. nurses and spelling

    ORNurseAngie replied to Bormio's topic in General Nursing

  11. nurses and spelling

    ORNurseAngie replied to Bormio's topic in General Nursing

    I think that you are very

  12. To those who have been pregnant and working

    ORNurseAngie replied to NickiLaughs's topic in General Nursing

    I just previewed my post after I sent it, can you say holy run on sentences. Wow what happened to that BSN degree, certainly doesn't show in my writing skills!

  13. To those who have been pregnant and working

    ORNurseAngie replied to NickiLaughs's topic in General Nursing

    I am presently pregnant right now working on a busy med surg floor on midnights. I am the charge nurse and I take a full 6 patient load, I am just getting back into med surg after two years of working...

  14. how to you deal with this?

    ORNurseAngie replied to HeatwaveRN's topic in General Nursing

    Difficult to deal with for sure. I often times wonder why in the world do these people come to the hospital then. Document, document notify physician and consult social work and psych are all great...

  15. IV push hydralazine or labetalol - tele?

    ORNurseAngie replied to klone's topic in Ob/Gyn

    At my hospital tele nurses can push both, for hydralazine just frequent b/p checks for labatelol must be on telemonitor like a bedside telemon. On the medsurg floor medsurg nurses cannot push either...

  16. bad mgmt + bad decisions=burnout?

    ORNurseAngie replied to sasha2lady's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Absolutely true. I worked med surg for three years day shift and night shift and eventually lost it. I was ready to quit nursing all together. Then I got a job in the OR it was my dream job. Scheduled...

  17. Defensive Charting

    ORNurseAngie replied to Oranges3420's topic in Medical-Surgical

    It is tricky at first to figure out what to chart. Dont' write stories simply state the facts. Chart any procedures you do and patient response, chart pain and pain meds. The main thing is to stick to...

  18. Inappripriate things you've seen a CNA do?

    ORNurseAngie replied to Silent Prayer's topic in General Nursing

    i HATE that one, If a patient is asking for a bedpan give them the bedpan for GOD sakes. If u are too lazy to do it then ask me the RN and I will gladly give the patient a bedpan. Most of our...

  19. Why aren't we assessing patients?

    ORNurseAngie replied to bluebelle0604's topic in Medical-Surgical

    It happens way more than you know. I don't know how many times the very same thing happens to me except I find all kinds of things such as rashes in the groin that noone knew about. My favorite was...

  20. Med/ Surg Patient to Nurse Ratio

    ORNurseAngie replied to pilpusher's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I work on a busy med/surg/tele floor where we are only supposed to max at six patients a piece day or night. Typically it ends up that we take seven and I've been told by the nursing supervisor that...

  21. OR SIGN ON BONUS

    ORNurseAngie posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello all I am in a huge dilemma. I recently last December signed a contract for a sign on bonus for 10,000 dollars. I was told today that my job has been eliminated at my hospital however they have...

  22. longest surgery?

    ORNurseAngie replied to love2shop's topic in Operating Room

    Diep flap's last forever, never done one myself but seen them last from 0730 am to midnight and then come back in the middle of the night because it doesn't take, sucks! The nurses and techs have...

  23. Providence Hospital and recession

    ORNurseAngie posted a topic in Michigan Nursing

    I've heard about some of the other hospitals recently are cutting back on staff and non clinical employees. Has anyone heard anything about providence. I am about to accept a position there in the OR...

  24. Providence Hospital and recession

    ORNurseAngie replied to ORNurseAngie's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Yeah the sad thing is those politicians do not care or are too stupid to figure it out. If our country loses 3 million jobs due to the collapse of the auto industry we are going to be in big trouble....

  25. Planning a huge move to Ann Arbor, suggestions greatly appreciated

    ORNurseAngie replied to pdaddy's topic in General Nursing

    I live very close to both u of m and st. joseph in ann arbor, although I do not work at either of those hospitals. During nursing school I did med surg at St. Joe's and psych at U of M. Both are nice...