Dalzac

Dalzac LPN, LVN, RN

CCU,ICU,ER retired

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  1. Retired, now what?

    After 35 yrs of critical care nursing, I found myself disabled and forced into retiring. I hated it! There some things I loved in some areas and one of those was rhythm interpretations. I found a job...
  2. Going back

    I know this is truly a God deal. I mean My hubby said it all. " Okay let me point it out to you. You are in a room with a couple of other people and you only work 3 days a week. It is a closed...
  3. You know you work nights when.......

    There is a place in the city I live that has a beer and pool joint open at 7 am and the oly folks that go there are hospital people,firefighters and
  4. I watched a seasoned ICU nurse with a pt. that had multiple face fractures, smashed sinus cavities, broken cheekbones, forehead, jaws, nose just smashed to pieces. It was my patient and I wallked in...
  5. Dont wanna be a floor nurse..

    I had a a unit manager that was over the ICU 2 months after she got out of nursing school with an AD no less. She brown nosed her way into the position. I rememberr once days was short and she had to...
  6. So irritated!

    Turn all your unresponsive patients TV to cartoons. Worked for
  7. night shift question

    In the 35 yrs of nursing before I retired, I worked the majority of that time on Nights. The only time I worked days was when my kids were teenagers and I found out my house was party central. I...
  8. No, I am not going to do that

    It happens everywhere. I worked in a hospital that had a prison ward. So we had several that would come in to ICU occasionally. I had one patient that was an OD but he was just in for observation. The...
  9. My ex marine hubby does the same thing it's downright
  10. I worked with a nurse that had an eating disorder. She weighed in at close to 400+ lbs. She would actually eat everyones lunch! I had to leave my lunch in another department. Nobody did anything to...
  11. The float nurse from the floor won't take any vents so you get
  12. What do you do on the drive to work?

    I used to sing to all the golden oldies(60's and 70's) or listen to audio
  13. Rheumatology

    As a aptient, I just loved my nurses at the clinic. Excellent IV skills are a must! They have to be gentle. My hands are a gnarled mess that hurts all the time. It feels like someone is constantly...
  14. How do you handle this?

    Once I had a pt. in his 40's and he had a huge MI. He looked bad and was getting more critical by the minute. When I called his doc all I got was drunk gibberish. He made absolutely no sense. I ended...
  15. Nursing caps

    photos at graduation is the only time I wore mine and that was 1979. I have no idea where it is
  16. Good opportunity...so why the teacher backlash?

    I am so glad I had the instructors on my side in school! I worked as a monitor tech-CCU tech before I went to school and was promised a job when I got out. I went to LPN school and our instructors...
  17. Become a successful Nurse if you hate A&P?

    I absolutely loved A+P! I underrstood it better when I compared it to how a car ran. When I was a teenager my dad taught me how an engine runs and what it needed to run good. He didn't have any boys...
  18. Pain control in narcotic addicted pt

    Hmmmm I wonder since I am addicted to my pain med if my rhematoid psoriatic arthritis that causes my joints to twist in directions they aren't supposed to go, can just survive on advil.I am a stoic...
  19. I test postive with a severe reaction (necrosis) and it to, took forever to heal. I had a new boss that insisted I get tested again even when I told her I can't. The hospital provided wound care for...
  20. Are the "chest thumpers" new?

    In the early 70's I rode on a mobile coronary care unit and we had one The only time we used it was when we had long transport times I hated them they broke so many ribs and I thought they did more...
  21. Comfortable shoes? Do they exist?

    I started wearing running or jogging shoes usually by nike or skechers and then I started wearing plastic clogs I never went back to shoes after the clogs And now I don't work but I still wear my...
  22. What You Do Best

    Doctors liked for me to take care of their sickest patients becaue I am "On
  23. can they use this against my license?

    I guess they could but it is highly unlikely. Reports to the BON are usually big mistakes and other stuff like that For the most part it will go into your personel
  24. Critical Care Training?

    Check around other big hospitals some of them have a Critical Care course. They usually have them around May and December. They usually have them for new grads. I know when I graduated, even though I...
  25. My horrible hospital stay. What would you do?

    Nope I had to retire I have a bad limp and have to use a