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Our manager is trying to convince us that a patient on CVVHD is not a 1:1 patient. This therapy requiers constant monitoring and calculation changes. Usually they are not very stable, or they could have regular dialysis. Are any of you doing this ...

:ballons: Hi, I graduated from UNLV in 1980. Started working full time in critical care and have been there ever since. I have two grown sons and a beautiful granddaughter. :ballons:

pghfoxfan, We've been seeing so much more HIT out here in the west too. What's up with that? Sometimes I really think we're driving ourselves to extinction.

I became an RN 21 years ago. I'm a nurse because I can't imagine doing anything else. I have always loved being a nurse and going to work. I work as charge nurse of a 16 bed Neuro and Surgical ICU at night. I'm 44 years old and feel like I'm beco...

You know what you do if your husband is layin in the bedroom moanin and groanin? Load up and shoot him again!! :wink2:

Corona with lime!! Well, all righty then. I'm packin' As far as a job. For a little while I'd like to be the one to design hospital rooms and nursing units. It's obvious that actual nurses are not consulted! Then I'll take my brushes and canvas an...

You have 2 nurses to one CVVHD patient for 4 hours and our manager wants us to have 2 patients to one nurse and one is the CVVHD. hmmmm, whats wrong with this picture?

We've had one inservice on the machine. The tech comes and sets up the machine, and leaves. After that, we're on our own.

You know your a nurse if you go to a buffet and think to yourself, "I've suctioned out better looking stuff than that." You know you've been a nurse a long time if you say it out loud....GUILTY!!

Last year we got the opportunity to have a bake sale to pay for our own festivities. Hold on now......this year....we got a 2 inch cactus.....in the little plastic box from the nursery.......AND....a childs bandana....all in matching white paper b...

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: OMG what do you do with the ear rings.!!!! I'll have the giggles from that long after report, thanks.

Thanks, Passing thru, it's good to know that there is someone else that has been through this too. By independent, I mean single mom, my "baby" however is 18 and in college, still lives at home. My husband died a year ago in May, and I haven't any ...

You know you've been a nurse forever if: You already have a disclaimer rehearsed if someone spots you in your scrubs at the grocery, and wants you to "take a look at this, what do you think"..........Usually, I tell them I'm a dog groomer. ...

Who reads the braille at the drive up teller? Who decided to put 8 hotdogs in a pack and 12 buns in a bag? Why will a kid let a dog that licks it's ---- kiss them and they won't let Aunt Carol near them at reunions? OH, there you go, Why do they call...

I work neuro ICU, we just got back from special proceedures with a patient that had a no-flow brain scan. So the resident doesn't want to pronounce the poor soul. He says "That's only one test". Guess he figures the guy will study harder for the n...

I know a nurse that has her head so far up her tush she's hypoxic. Shoulda been a turtle...

I think that most of the "Day Lighters" problem is that they suffer from sensory overload. ie...to many people, intercoms shouting at you, the phone nonstop. Plus, it's way to bright!!! Night shifters have to rely on themselves and each other wi...

And as always, anything I can do to make your stay here more pleasurable, please don't hesitate to ask. We want to grow with the company, be team players and climb that corporate ladder of success!!!!!! Bleeeeccckk kacyk!! oh, scuse me pardona my ...

Foley to dependant drainage. What do they think we'll do, hook it up to wall suction?!!

At our hospital, the Charge Nurse frequently has a patient assignment. This is not only because of short staff, but also, they are not replacing the Charge Nurses as they quit or transferr. There is a relief charge assigned each shift, that doesn't...

We use Baxter CCO too. If I mention ice around here, the new kids look at me like I've grown another head!!

We give verbal report about half the time,at the bedside. I like it best, you can tell the oncoming nurse,"this is what the drainage, or whatever looks like."

Mr. Heinie is our security director. Dr. Payne is an anesthesiologist Dr. Procto, actually isn't a proctologist, but should be Dr. Cox is a surgeon Then we had the medical residents last year, Dr.'s Wong, Wing, Write, and Phi..(pronounced fee)

I've been a Critical Care Charge Nurse for 16 years, and there is such a thing as vicarious responsibility. It is when you are responsible for what goes on in your abscence. As Charge, I am responsible for the unit while I'm at work. I am not respo...

We have a particular surgeon that performs "Foreverectomies" on some of his patients. You know, removes any forever the poor soul had left. I know, it's sick, I'm hanging my head.....sort of.