Penelope_Pitstop

Penelope_Pitstop BSN, RN

Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health

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  1. What becomes of them?

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    What usually is the criteria? And in case anyone is wondering what piqued my interest in this all of a sudden, I recently interviewed for a position on a peds floor that has a lot of kids who are on...

  2. What becomes of them?

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Thanks so much, Tiffy! I appreciate your searching. Maybe I can find some personal accounts of these children to give me a better

  3. What becomes of them?

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Thanks, Ashley. I wasn't aware respite care was available outside of a hospice setting. What is the quality of life for these patients? Is improvement ever seen? Does anyone know if the head...

  4. What becomes of them?

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    So what happens when the patients aren't pediatric

  5. Should small ones count? (BMs, that is)

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in General Nursing

    That sounds MUCH better than the cocktails I've created, haha. We all know prune juice and MOM. There's also lactulose and hot butter (stole that one from here) and then there's hot coffee and...

  6. antibiotic administration

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to tomjones200824's topic in Patient Medications

    This happens a lot. Or, if the port had been used originally for chemo, we wait on the oncologist's okay to access it. Also, a patient with a port probably doesn't have great veins as it

  7. Should small ones count? (BMs, that is)

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in General Nursing

    Our electronic charting system lets us specify the type of bowel movement (size, shape, color, etc). After 48 hours without the charting of ANY BM, we are prompted to complete the constipation...

  8. "No nurses of color....."

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to Queen2u's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My patient population is about 50/50 black & white (occasionally Hispanic patients and very rarely Asian patients) and the staff population is very racially diverse. I haven't really encountered...

  9. Particular Patient Populations - Do You Struggle?

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to Nurse SMS's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ugh, gastroparesis. There are probably several perfectly lovely individuals who suffer from this, but we see the same patients again and again and it's the same rigamarole. Some of them make...

  10. Stupid things that nurses say

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Now that kind of service you can't get at just any hospital. Talk about a bedside

  11. Post-code debriefing?!

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to jmdRN's topic in General Nursing

    You know, I remember a debriefing being held after a code when I was a tech in Same Day Surgery. The thing is, there was less than one code per year there, maybe one every three years or so. These...

  12. Post-code debriefing?!

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to jmdRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've been in several codes on my floor and not once have we had a debriefing. I can see how they might be helpful, though. If you think your manager may be so inclined, I don't see why you couldn't...

  13. Reprimanded in front of coworkers becoming the norm....??

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to PixieButtercup's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That entire situation is unprofessional. Frowny faces, for real? Any sort of discipline should be addressed one-on-one, face-to-face, not in an email (mass or otherwise) and not on a list....

  14. Rate to run blood?

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to KaeliF's topic in General Nursing

    We are to run the blood at 60 mL/hr for the first fifteen minutes, then I usually bump it up to 125 or so. We can run it at a max of 180 on the M/S floor. Our units are usually 290

  15. DNR- Do Not Treat?

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to GinaCat's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I respectfully disagree. Every facility is different in regards to how a patient's admitting acuity is determined. The vast majority of transfers to higher levels of care in my hospital are made...

  16. Worst night ever

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to beeker's topic in General Nursing

    I'd like to add something. Just because a person is designated as a charge nurse, does not mean that he or she is the go-to person concerning assessments, unfortunately. A lot of people are put in...

  17. DNR versus AND

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to Double-Helix's topic in Pediatric

    Okay, I may sound dumb here, but it hasn't stopped me before so... Am I understanding that these two terms are to be used synonymously? Because I see a large difference in the two. To me, DNR, in...

  18. Worst night ever

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to beeker's topic in General Nursing

    I'm with the crowd here. Why did the charge nurse care if you called rapid response? It's not like she was the primary nurse of that patient. I've called rapid responses that turned out, in...

  19. If you could post your own...

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to Daisy_08's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly! Or..."feel free to leave AMA. I will help you pack. Just sign this here paper. Kthxbye." Sidenote: Wooh, I've missed ya,

  20. Nurses visit allnurses.com for therapy...

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to Brian's topic in Nursing Humor

    Interesting and very timely, at least for me. I haven't been around much at all lately. However, I have some, well, bad stuff going on with me right now and I've started seeing a therapist. She gave...

  21. The dumbest thing I ever said to a patient.

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in Nursing Humor

    My patient had just arrived back from some test, and my friend and I were pulling her over to her bed from the stretcher. Well, the way the stretcher ended up in the room left me with very little...

  22. You Know You're A Nurse If...

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    That's what she

  23. Charting Bloopers

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    We had a patient who required an MRI, but had nipple rings of the bar variety that I guess hadn't been removed in some time. Well, she couldn't get them out and wasn't interested in having any of us...

  24. You know you work nights when.......

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in General Nursing

    I know I'm resurrecting an old thread, but I happened upon it randomly and thought of a few of my own! You know you work nights when - ...you have no issue traveling to different time zones, even in...

  25. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    Penelope_Pitstop replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You are a grown man. Act like one. You're not my only patient. Nor are you even close to my sickest patient. If you can reach your mouth, you can wipe yourself. Nope, I can't give you your pain meds...