kellyskitties

kellyskitties has 3 years experience and specializes in Med Surg - yes, it's a specialty.

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1. Unusual Names for Medical Diagnoses

   kellyskitties replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

   the rheumatism - rheumatoid arthritis reflex - acid reflux I've heard prostrate so many times I'm pretty sure I say it wrong half the time. Or I take "dilaudinum" - so is that dilaudid or laudinum?...

2. Older Nursing students

   kellyskitties replied to MarieD's topic in General Students

   The nursing class that graduated before mine had a social security age great grandmother (I'm not sure of her age but they said she was probably the oldest nurse that had graduated ever). She said...

3. Factory worker one day ... nurse the next?

   kellyskitties replied to helikias's topic in General Nursing

   OK, first off, all you folks with extra unemployed nurses send 'em to southeast Missouri. We sure need them. Now, as for factory workers. Let's not turn folks away from nursing because of where they...

4. Question for a experienced RN

   kellyskitties replied to shanika1m1's topic in Medical-Surgical

   First of all, congrats on becoming a nurse and enjoying your med/surg job. I love M/S myself. Second, a masters degree does not mean NP. You can get many different masters degrees. Third, take...

5. hourly rounding

   kellyskitties replied to suni's topic in Medical-Surgical

   Our hospital also began AIDET and hourly rounding. As many things go, it fell away and was lost by the nurses eventually - sacrificed necessarily by our desires to actually take care of the patient...

6. There's a Mousetrap In My Med Cart

   kellyskitties replied to 99percentangel's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   I agree, even the 1 hour before and after is a rat race with as many patients as a nursing home med nurse has to medicate. I work med/surg and they just determined we have had too long to pass our...

7. Incompetent nurses

   kellyskitties replied to medicrnguy's topic in General Nursing

   I have a confession to make. I am an RN. I care for patients on telemetry. I am terrible at cardiac and telemetry. HOWEVER, when the phone rings and they tell me about a rhythm change and I do not...

8. Crash Course?! Thoughts on RN education

   kellyskitties replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

   OK, first I got to get this off my chest. Most of the fields of nursing you listed are bedside nurses. Unless you are in community health, home health, legal nurse consultant, doctor's office etc...

9. What would you change about your scrubs?

   kellyskitties replied to daisygirl_001's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

   Maybe offer the option of elastic waist with drawstring front (little lower on the waist) or just elastic waist (sitting higher on the more traditional woman) - both with mega pockets and same trendy...

10. Bad Rep for Med Surg

    kellyskitties replied to kellyskitties's topic in Medical-Surgical

    You are correct, you can't always turn around the patients and make them better. But sometimes you can. I distinctly recall moments I have really made a connection or caught an illness going...

11. what do you all think about 12 hour shifts?

    kellyskitties replied to emmycRN's topic in General Nursing

    I thought 3 12's sounded great when I started. Then I found out it's not 4 days off. Oh no. I work nights. 7p-7a. It was 3 days, then one day totally exhausted that I just slept away - plus slept...

12. Bad Rep for Med Surg

    kellyskitties replied to kellyskitties's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Our hospital sets a max goal of 8 pts per nurse. Due to short staffing this winter there was one night I had 13 - just one night and our manager did stay almost the entire night to help us get...

13. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    kellyskitties replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    To clarify my "walking in you" - obese with acute generalized edema. She was both. Weeping all over - arms, legs, face, abdomen - everywhere. And since my last post I nearly had a urinal poured...

14. pain meds

    kellyskitties replied to onduty23's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Many times I have a pt in pain that requires more than one pain med. I usually give PO meds 45 mins to 1 hour (if pt not appearing to be a true 10/10 pain pt - otherwise start with dilauded). Then...

15. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    kellyskitties replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Walked into extremely obese (like u see on tv folks) pts room and realized I was standing in something that went "splat splat splat" when I walked. Looked down - lots of clear liquid? Water? Oh no,...