Cindy-san

Cindy-san

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  1. Uterus transplants?

    Cindy-san replied to PiPhi2004's topic in General Nursing

    That's what I don't get! Or with birth defects or something. I mean, that stuff is chemo! I handle it all the time, and we're not supposed to touch it without gloves, inhale it or whatever, especially...

  2. What didn't they teach you?

    Cindy-san replied to suanna's topic in General Nursing

    More clinical time would have been the best thing. That's really where you start building on the most important skills. It's easy enough to talk about, hard to actually do, I find. Plus, actual IV...

  3. nurses with no RN license practicing as a nurse?!

    Cindy-san replied to inschool4ever's topic in General Nursing

    I know we don't need to be medical professionals to give someone else meds an MD prescribed via certain routes. My great-aunt was trained by nurses to give her late husband his Lovenox injections. And...

  4. Customer Service and 24 hour visitation

    Cindy-san replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    This post contains so much idiocy, it is horrifying. Starting with the words "Customer Service." Leatherbound menus? Why on earth does someone in the hospital need that? Would a large print paper one...

  5. Ever lie about what you do to your MD?

    Cindy-san replied to strugglingnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I don't just tell people I'm a nurse (but I will if asked), and I hate it when my family announces that I am, namely because they think they're going to get something from other people because of it....

  6. RBC/Primary Nursing.. Oye!

    Cindy-san replied to Nurs0706's topic in General Nursing

    I'm still on the fence about it. It sounds like a good idea, but good ideas don't always end up being good things. For my unit, a Primary Nurse is supposed to build a rapport w/ the family and be...

  7. Twas the night before NCLEX...

    Cindy-san replied to locolorenzo22's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    LOL! :chuckle Good luck!

  8. I was slapped by a doctor!

    Cindy-san replied to cluelessRN81's topic in General Nursing

    That still doesn't make it ok. It's unacceptable behavior no matter what. Keep us updated on the situation,

  9. Have you ever been asked or expected to break the rules?

    Cindy-san replied to ThatPoshGirl's topic in General Nursing

    I've been asked/expected to break the rules of physics on a regular basis. We take care of so many pts, and there is so much documenting to be done, corners get cut. It happens. Ok, maybe I didn't...

  10. Pharmacist said "I don't care" regarding Vancomycin dose time.

    Cindy-san replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds like the nonsense from my old job. As in most hospitals, they had their "set times" for certain meds - 10am for "daily," 6am, 2pm, and 10pm for "q8h," etc.... The MAR was made up by...

  11. what does nursing entail?

    Cindy-san replied to CLJ1988's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing entails a lot of things. Biology, pathophysiology, knowledge about meds and all of that is very important. We are the ones with the most direct pt contact, and it's not all poop cleaning and...

  12. lovenox one dose??? huh??

    Cindy-san replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    I've had md's tell me they prefer Lovenox to Heparin b/c it is easier and faster to get to the therapeutic range. But even if they prefered Lovenox, they always made it a standing order, until the pt...

  13. Scrub color help!!

    Cindy-san replied to sbf187's topic in General Nursing

    I like my Landau's, but the pants are starting to look very worn, even though I've barely had them 6 months. The shirts are still great. I love my Dickies and Cherokee scrubs. The Cherokee I find are...

  14. Nursing burnout in the ICU or Med-surg???

    Cindy-san replied to Nacki's topic in General Nursing

    I've only really got ICU experience, but I find the newbies come and go, and the older ones have been around forever (+20yrs). And there are quite a few of them at my newer and older job. I think it's...

  15. Anyone can get into Nursing.

    Cindy-san replied to indiawhitaker's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes, we just don't see the signs. We laugh it off, make an excuse and next thing you know, well, I'd rather not think about it. Sometimes we do need someone else to sit us down and show them to...

  16. Lasix gtt

    Cindy-san replied to brissie's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    If my pt is on a Lasix drip, I usually check labs at the start of my shift, unless replacements are going in, then I wait until that's done and recheck (it's policy and a standing order to recheck...

  17. US RN to England Travel Nsg?

    Cindy-san posted a topic in Travel

    Hi, I was interested in maybe doing a stint or possibly longer of travel nursing in England. I've actually never done any travel nursing before and I was wondering if anyone had any advice particular...

  18. Nursing Students and Report

    Cindy-san replied to miko014's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in school, the instuctor got report and gave it to us beforehand. Although in senior year, one instuctor did tell us to ask for report from the nurses, and they were never very happy about...

  19. nurse vs doctors

    Cindy-san replied to monkeymedic's topic in General Nursing

    I have to be honest, if people didn't reply, I would have no idea what the original post was about. The flow of the writing (or typing, in this case), scrambled my brainwaves.

  20. No one dies in OR

    Cindy-san replied to shock-me-sane's topic in General Nursing

    OR deaths are a reportable statistic and no one wants their numbers up. So ICU's get dumped on. I hate it too. They're major disasters. If the OR can't fix the problem, we really can't much more...

  21. G tube leaking. explosive leaking

    Cindy-san replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Well, if she pulled the original out, the incision site might be too big or uneven. A large tube or bigger balloon didn't help either, huh? Still, that's terrible. She can still swallow ok, why did...

  22. I hate the NCLEX-RN Exam

    Cindy-san replied to NCLEX-RN Sucks's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I took the Kaplan course, I think it helped me pass. I did well in nursing school, but I was terrible when I first started with the Kaplan questions. They were a different from the style of questions...

  23. Just don't know what to do anymore!!

    Cindy-san replied to foxc1121's topic in General Nursing

    Staffing ratios seem to stink almost everywhere tbh. I'm not gonna lie, it's likely to be just as terrible elsewhere. What concerns me is whatever management seems to be up to. That charting pulling,...

  24. Only 19 shifts for new grad orientation Med/Surg??? whhaaaattt

    Cindy-san replied to student456's topic in General Nursing

    It's sad, my first thoughts were "that isn't too bad." But that's because my friends had 2 weeks. Yes, as new grads on med-surg (in a famous hospital, to boot), they only had 2 weeks until they were...

  25. Do they really look down on you...

    Cindy-san replied to Hey There Elizah's topic in General Nursing

    I've never looked down on them. They're some of my favorite doctors. And some of the smartest I've ever met. The ones I look down on are clueless people with a lackadasical approach to pt care who...