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Has anyone experienced this? I had a flu shot yesterday. Last night, about 9 hours afterwards, the injection site became very sore (which I expected). But soon after and since then, my entire right arm down to the fingers has these flare-ups of p...

How do you manage it? Currently, the nurses in our CCU float out to 3 other departments. One of those departments used to float in to help us out, but the nurses who always got stuck floating to us decided that they didn't want to anymore, so now th...

Currently at the hospital I work at, we can pretty much wear whatever we want. Most of us wear scrubs, some wear a top with scrub pants and jacket, etc. Very few wear "street clothes." And those that do - it doesn't look that bad. It's not like t...

If you can get some petri dishes somewhere and can go to the classroom about a week or so before your presentation, pick 3 kids to come with youl. Have one run their finger over a petri dish right away. Have another go rinse their hands with water on...

Get in there and do chest compressions! It's not mindless work or anything, but you can at least peripherally observe what else is going on and get more comfortable in a code situation. If you're doing compressions, no one can ask you to do meds, d...

I had a guy with priapism once. Urology came in and did the same thing - speared the patient's swollen member. He then just let the blood flow out of the needle onto the bed. Nice. Once he let the patient bleed out a couple hundred cc's, he ASKED ...

This isn't a lab value, but I was amazed... We were detoxing a young man from alcohol... giving him continuous IV Ativan and IV Haldol was given every 2 hours. The dose of Haldol was 5mg at a pop. The dose of Ativan was 40mg. PER HOUR. Groggy, but ...

I bought a magic fairy wand.. It makes "brrrrrring!" noise when you "flick" it at someone. Sure helps to lighten the mood when that thing comes out. :-)

Thanks for posting the link :-) I maintain the site. To the person who said there was only one "nursing student" entry - I've long forgotten the entertaining moments of nursing school... If you have anything to contribute to be posted, click on the ...

She is absolutely beautiful. Make sure you visit the NICU with her... nurses like to see the fruits of their labor :-)

I started out as a new grad on med-surg, working nights. The morning I put in my transfer to ICU came after a night where I had 3 admissions, making 10 patients. It was the night from hell; very sick patients. I did med-surg for 6 months and have do...

In addition to doing other research, I thought I'd ask you all if anyone has had a patient who has taken Wellbutrin throughout their pregnancy. I found a Wellbutrin Pregnancy Registry, but the info is hard to interpret. Cylert (for ADD) isn't prescri...

Ok, so I was kidding about the cheese part. Sorry. I'm looking for input. My hospital is looking for ways to reduce medication errors, specifically errors of omission and "late" meds. We have a computer-entry system that prints out orders for us. O...

Wow!!! What an excellent thread!! So much of what I've just read resonates very strongly with me. I was dx with depression in high school, was put on and off Prozac during first few years of college, then totally hit the bottom junior year and was st...

Well, I have much the same situation. I think the admins are asking for suggestions on a broader scale, like hospital-wide. I work in CCU, never have more than 2 patients, and our charge is almost always free to help out, co-ordinate admissions/tra...

ICU and ER at my hospital gets along fairly well, but there is bad blood related to a few things. Awhile back, several nurses offered to cross-train to ER to float there when our census was low. Almost all of those nurses now refuse to go to ER beca...

I am so torn!! No, I am not currently pregnant. I want to do as much research as possible so I can make an informed choice. I am not taking this lightly. It's very important to me that I do the right thing. I will certainly talk to my OB before ...

Our CNA's do typically CNA stuff: finger sticks, foleys, baths, answering lights, helping us turn and clean up patients. However, if you want to someday work in ICU, being an aide would be a great experience. You'll learn how to move patients that a...

Ah, this all sounds very familiar. I work at the same place. Don't forget about the new pumps we just got. I wonder if there is a size limit on the learning curve... :-)

Like fairone, I cannot fathom even putting a stable cvvh patient with another. Not all of our nurses are trained for cvvh; what if you're in your other room and the machine alarms? It clots off so easily sometimes. Not everyone would know what to d...

I have to agree somewhat with YogaCRNA. I work in ICU and give Propofol ONLY to intubated patients who are continuously monitored. I don't think it's appropriate for concious sedation. An 85yo 85lb patient can possibly have just as hard of a time ...

At my previous hospital, the docs were starting to put in Quad lumen CVP lines. I loved 'em! At my current hospital, we're still using triple lumens exclusively. In my search to find out more info on quad lumens, I came across info for 5 lumen CVP's!...

Yeah, I'm not aware of what 1/3 and 2/3 are, either. Thought of another one. Well, not that I found, but it was a near miss. I had a pt. on an insulin gtt that the pharmacy was mixing. One night as I was checking the bag against the care plan with ...

You're kidding me. Did they live?

I've walked in on an extremely critically ill patient who's BP had been in the 80's, but she looked so much worse. That's when I discovered that her arterial line transducer was hanging by the side of the bed rather than at her armpit. Her BP was re...