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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. Bad Rep for Med Surg

    kellyskitties posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    Any med surg nurses out there have any ideas or input about why med surg has such a bad reputation and what could possibly be done about it? We see so many new nurses and experienced come and go...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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,...

  17. What are the item(s) you need most for nursing school?

    kellyskitties replied to rn2be2006's topic in General Students

    For hand lotion might I suggest carrying anything that's not alcohol based with you in your pocket - small tube of course - and then here's my big suggestion. Your hands will still get dried out - so...

  18. Cental Lines AND Coloured Caps

    kellyskitties replied to jhines's topic in MICU, SICU

    We use one for TPN, one for IVF/Meds and one for blood draws. Unfortunately, everyone thinks blue is blood or no maybe white - no no blue is TPN... It's always mixed up anyway. I try to take it...

  19. Pathetically Unethical!!

    kellyskitties replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

    We had similar suspicions about a nurse I worked with. We have a "no gift worth more than $10 rule." She didn't get in trouble where I worked for it that I know of. She did however get her...

  20. I was let go !

    kellyskitties replied to gt4everpn's topic in General Nursing

    Come to Missouri - we'll hire you!!! She was upset over handwashing! Was she also a nursing instructor? How long does she wash her hands? I don't see many nurses in reality take that long to wash...

  21. Is it me or does this sound completely off the wall???

    kellyskitties replied to Lisky90's topic in General Nursing

    I got turned around just trying to read your post! We have terrible nights sometimes. I'm told we can fill out an occurence report for such instances to demonstrate the nurse was overwhelmed just in...

  22. my first mistake

    kellyskitties replied to lilnat03's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Don't beat yourself up. In the real world there are sometimes shortcuts. I myself have left meds with an oriented pt and come back later to find them on the bed table. I ask pt why? One pt didn't...

  23. Me vs. the charge nurse

    kellyskitties replied to RachelRN25's topic in General Nursing

    I am a charge nurse and have been in similar situations. However, that BP is borderline for our facilities call the doctor guidelines, and since it was already being treated and had been noted in the...

  24. LTC or Med/surg Thoughts????

    kellyskitties replied to NCnurse2B's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If you have anxiety, medical nursing may be very hard for you. Harder than normal. Cause people will yell at you once in awhile. You have to be calm when others lose control. There's often a very...

  25. Horrid clinical uniforms

    kellyskitties replied to KungFuFtr's topic in Male Nursing Students

    The nursing class before mine wore the "bell" shirts - tapered princess seamed white long top with puff sleeves. Flared at the bottom. It had little inverted pleats at the shoulders so as they moved...