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Call the doc with VS. Tell him about the patient's pain and/or lack of BM and bowel sounds, any abdominal distention. I would also ask for permission to place an NG to low intermittent suction before the patient perforates. It sounds like an ileus...

It is an air leak. I would take the dressing down and ensure it is patent and leave the patient on wall suction. The latest information I've read said not to use vaseline impregnated gauze around the chest tube, and only to tape the dressing on thr...

Really? Where do you find the time? I have a full team of five CABG's. I am primary and I am charge.

If you know so much. What are you doing here? I can't help people that won't help themselves

A lot of guys gravitate to critical care areas. I don't care if a nurse is gay or not, just do your job and be professional. When someone asks me, I tell them I'm not that sweet. As far as ADN vs. BSN. I have found the ADN usually have spent more...

Hi. I work the night shift on a CV-Stepdown unit.

We always managed to get to work. Although sometimes the snow was deep and you had to wait for a plow to go through or take an alternate route. Wisconsin has advantages and disadvantages like anywhere else. Spring is usually cool and wet. Summer ...

I have had similar experiences. If you give a bully an inch they will walk all over you. They will continue to do so until you stand up for yourself. No one can take advantage of you without your permission. Forget the people pleasing and co-depe...

Do you have any solutions? Or do you just like to instigate things and let others clean up?

Have you talked to a lawyer? Did you pay your fine and fulfill your obligations? If so, speak to a lawyer about having your record expunged. Experience is what we get when we don't get what we want.

I grew up taking care of my non-compliant diabetic mother. In 1985 I was found dead in a housefire. I died twice more in the hospital. The nurses and docs did not give up on me. I survived for a reason. The best way I could think of "payback," w...

I gave up on agency nursing and am about to return as a CVICU-Stepdown staff nurse. Now if I can just put up with BS. Wish me luck.

It sounds like you are trying to work your program instead of the program of AA. My way did not work. I needed the input of people from all walks of life. The 1st Tradition states: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends u...

Nine years! That's a lot of days, and all in a row.:urck: Keep up the good work and be good to yourself.

Talking about this in a forum is irrelavant. Try calling and writing a "real letter," to your congressman. However, I'm not sure more bureaucracy will provide a solution.

As the jailer once said, "Why do you keep coming back?"

How professional!:imbar Just where do y ou find the time to play grabass?

I believe that is called 20 X 20 hindsight. I guess it all depends on your perspective. What ever happened to the original topic?

Congratulations! 25 years is quite a milestone. As my sponsor pointed out to me, "There is honesty and there is suicide. What are you practicing?" You sponsor 8 people and work full time? Where do you find the energy?:nuke:

It doesn't bother me at all. I've found many patients don't recognize me or I them, out of the hospital setting. Many people are self absorbed and are more worried about themselves. I like to meet other nurses at meetings. We understand each othe...

You rescue the security guard being beaten by a patient. Before hand the battleaxes, (nurses), didn't have a kind word to say. Afterward they said they didn't know what they would have done without me. Too late I had another contract. Or when the ...

Do you like being a "tool" of management? Do you care about your patients or fellow nurses? Or are you just in it for the money?

Spike you're right, AA doesn't work, you have to do the work. Going to meetings is not enough. Am I willing to change? If not I'm just wasting my time and my life. What was always there when I got into trouble? Me. If I'm so smart, how did I get ...

As my sponsor of 18 years says,"There is honesty and there is suicide. What are you practicing?"

Thanks Angie O. This is why nursing as a profession is screwed up. MO is also a right to work state. But what do I expect from the,"Show me state." But then again who else would elect a dead guy to be governor?:imbar