Dalzac

Dalzac LPN, LVN, RN

CCU,ICU,ER retired

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  1. Moving to OKC area

    Dalzac replied to USA987's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    I worked at Integris Baptist for a while, I hated it. I have worked at St. Anthony's for almost 15 yrs and I love it. If you like pysch St Michaels is good, an affiliate hosp with St Anthony's. There...

  2. Drug seekers "Drug of Choice"

    Dalzac replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    I hope the last few replies have helped a few nurses to understand how hard it is with chronic pain. I am fortunate enough to have a kind and caring doc that helops me. I am a nurse in ER and what the...

  3. Will a Shaved head keep you from getting hired?

    Dalzac replied to ocb_dave_ocb's topic in General Nursing

    Looks okay to

  4. What was IV tubing made of before the invention of plastics?

    Dalzac replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

    Some syringes were made of glass. They had to have a needle sharpener for needles to get the burrs off. rubber for gloves and iv tubing and foley catheters. I think the glass syringes were for some...

  5. OOHHHH The Arrogance of Some Doctors!!!

    Dalzac replied to Katydidit34's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Few years ago my father became very ill with a rapid heart rate of 220 and my mom called for an ambulance because he became very confused with the heart rate as well. She had them take him to the ED...

  6. Medical decision Unit or Chest Pain observation

    Dalzac posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I have recently taken a job in a new unit in the hospital The people in er call it a medical decision unit but the offical title is going to be Chest Pain Observation unit. It hasn't opened yet but...

  7. My patient fired me!

    Dalzac replied to InfoNurse1595's topic in General Nursing

    Don't take everything a patient feels about you to heart. I was fired once by a patient who felt I was too fat to take proper care of her. (I am overweight but not that much) She actually told the...

  8. "Natural" birth

    Dalzac replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Natural child birth for me was I delivered to fast to get an epidural,

  9. Tom Cruise on Postpartum depression

    Dalzac replied to LizzyL&DRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I just read the whole thread and have to say something. Anything Tom has to say is his own uneducated blather. Anyone who is educated, for instance Brooke with a degree from Princeton, will just...

  10. Nasty medical students

    Dalzac replied to Tony35NYC's topic in General Nursing

    Nope to both questions He had applied to our ER resident program but I am sad to say they rejected him. The attending ER Docs thought he was a

  11. Nasty medical students

    Dalzac replied to Tony35NYC's topic in General Nursing

    I have to laugh. several years ago I had a med student tell me to never call him by his first name and to address him as "Dr." He did this in front of 4 ER docs who immediately became quiet and just...

  12. have you guys ever done this?

    Dalzac replied to inwyte's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in nursing school I had 3 little children 2,3,5 and a very sick husband who was diagnosed with brain CA and had 2 craniotomies. The only thing that kept me going was the fact I knew he was...

  13. Legal Rights as a RN with DUI conviction

    Dalzac replied to ERRN2005's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know about your state,but in this state the BON will refer you to the peer assistance program. If you have hac 2 dui's there is a problem and it isn't with your BON. The way they look at it is...

  14. What's the funniest thing you've heard a patient say?

    Dalzac replied to MistyDawnRN06's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had a tiny shrivelled very old lady that I was having a hard time cathing her so I got one of the other nurses in the unit to help me and we still had a hard time. this tiny ancient woman looked at...

  15. what's in your pocket?

    Dalzac replied to srknurse's topic in Emergency

    Tape,preferably the plastic tear-away stuff,scissors,3-4 pens drug rep kind, hemastats x2, alchohol swabs, and flushes in the pants as

  16. Did anyone try to talk you out of being a nurse?

    Dalzac replied to following_faith's topic in General Nursing

    Love the disclaimer and now I know who really hates LPN's. I have worked in Critical Care for 25 yrs as a LPN, and have just recently transferred to the Emergency Dept. I make damn good money as a...

  17. Medical decision Unit or Chest Pain observation

    Dalzac replied to Dalzac's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    St. Anthony, The unit is going to be on the 4th floor and at the opposite end of the hospital The Ed doctoors will write the

  18. What's your favorite procedure?

    Dalzac replied to javanurse2000's topic in General Nursing

    I love interpreting difficult rhythms and starting

  19. Is being a nurse ever boring?

    Dalzac replied to brazuca's topic in General Nursing

    what is "down time?" I have never experienced that. I work in a big hospital and just left ICU to go to ER. No one there knows what "down time" is either. No you won't be bored

  20. What do patients say that irks you?

    Dalzac replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I guess I was in a crabby mood once when a mother did that to me. As soon as she said it I ask her "Is there a particular reason why you want that child to be deathly afraid of

  21. Funny Sign In Slips

    Dalzac replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    A little off topic but had a visitor tell me she used to be a nurse and knew all about car-wreck arrested, and bamboo

  22. What squicks you out?

    Dalzac replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

    I can deal with every thing that has been posted here except gray matter! I have actually passed smooth out seeing that stuff. And now heres the laugh, I work in a very busy ER. But if the stuff is...

  23. We lost a mom

    Dalzac replied to LauraLou's topic in Ob/Gyn

    That is a wonderful site my son died unexpectedly last March and his legacy is on that site as

  24. Trauma: Life in the ER.

    Dalzac replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    I was working the night Paramedics was filming in Oklahoma City the night of the May 3rd tornado. I was on screen a nanosecond on that one. We were so busy I didn't pay any attention to the film

  25. What would you do if diabetic pt. has 14 blood sugar.

    Dalzac replied to Sue7573's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    the very first lesson I learned from the old ccu nurse handed down to the new ccu nurse "Treat the patient not the monitor" not the same thing as the fsbs but you get the drift. If the patient was...