Perpetual Student

With the blood of my enemies!

Being 6' or taller and looking like you can lay down a whooping PRN.

That's nothing, my mom cuts up anyone who slights me in anyway. I'm getting tired of her using all of the gas in my boat to dispose of the bodies.

Ha, that is very silly. Why on Earth would she use two bags of NS? The part that cracks me up is that the two 100 ml bags almost add up to the 250 ml bag she was complaining about. She'd probably stroke out if she saw that I use a liter bag most of t...

It's an IV start, not a fist to the face. Don't feel bad. Just do the best job you can.

What? Were you able to pass the NCLEX (or boards if you've been in the game long enough) without divine intervention?

I expect people to say please and thank you regardless of the setting. I always do. I don't let it bother me if they don't say 'em, but it certainly colors my overall opinion of someone. I once out of habit said "thank you" when handed a speeding tic...

I was quite surprised by how much it added up to. We made a little game out of guessing how much money there was once I poured it into a container (it came out to 950 cc of change). There was around a half inch thick layer coating the bottom of my lo...

You'd better consider early intubation for airway protection. I can't imagine you staying conscious long if you were to take a shot for every fomite.

I wouldn't worry about it. If you remember next time you go in just credit the patient. Money! I empty my pockets into my locker every day after my shift. During some down time a few weeks back I gathered all of the money at the bottom of my locker...

In my experience that supervision wasn't necessarily present in the room for routine medication administration, particularly near graduation.

No, you cannot work in the hospital. You were unable to read the ancient thread that you resurrected--the thread which conveniently answered your question.

We all know PACU nurses are the coolest. :flamesonb I have the utmost respect for all nurses who do their jobs well. There are a lot of different roles that need to be filled. From NICU to geriatrics, and level one trauma center to the tiniest CAH. H...

If someone gave me lip as to why I medicated someone for pain I'd bust 'em in the lip. OK, probably not. But it would be very tempting. It is inhumane to leave someone to suffer like that. Some of your coworkers are very ignorant. Unfortunately, as a...

I'd be happy enough with middle of the road. What scares me are the people who are so pathetically ignorant that I question their ability to take care of a healthy dog, let alone a sick patient.

If someone asks a question that seems legitimate I like to answer it if I can. What annoys me is when someone doesn't even look something up at all. There's a search function for a reason (AN has a great search function :) ). I'm always hesitant to p...

I've never worked med-surg, so I can't address the best way to divide up the work and so on in that setting. I have, however, oriented nurses (mostly experienced ones going to a different job) and precepted students. I want to add a few tips to make ...

This, and the stuff you just think is plain cool. I remember next to nothing about that stuff that I can fire off readily. I even found it rather interesting at the time, but it was just so alien to me and it's now quite removed from my day to day ...

I am POSITIVE that I'm going to die someday. Ok, in all seriousness I LOVE my job. There are moments I want to yell or bash my head into the wall, but overall it rocks. There are good jobs out there, but there are a lot of lousy ones, too. It's like...

That vet tech really needs to work on her resume and approach to obtaining a nursing job. She's possibly a very bright, skilled person. That said, she really shouldn't list those skills worded in a way that proclaims competence in those things as it ...

Look into the acuity of the patients and frequent diagnoses of the smaller ICU. Is there a mix of medical and surgical patients? What types of surgical patients are seen? Is there a cath lab or are STEMI patients shipped out immediately? Is it a s...

That resume excerpt is absurd. I try to laugh but only tears come out. I take it that one is from the vet tech? I wonder if she developed that on her own, or if her school's folks who help with resume writing came up with that. If it's the latter, I...

I've obviously titrated my alcohol intake well, as I just had a brilliant thought! Zombies are fomites! They are nonliving and capable of transmitting infectious organisms!

Oh, sorry OP, forgot to answer your question. I've never done it, but it is something that is safe and reasonable to do. Just be careful to maintain sterility.

TPN or did you maybe mean TPA? I'm really struggling to figure out how TPN would do anything other than lead to one heckuvan infection