Coffee Nurse

Coffee Nurse BSN, RN

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  1. How do I transfer non ambulatory pt from WC?

    Coffee Nurse replied to cutescrubs's topic in General Nursing

    My suggestion is that if your supervisor has told you not to transfer this patient on your own and you try to do so anyway, your employer is going to offer not one iota of sympathy or support if you...

  2. What is the "tension to ET tube" in NICU setting

    Coffee Nurse replied to BoxFish's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Agree with Emm_RN, tension/traction means pulling the ETT away from the baby just a bit. Be careful especially if you use tape to secure, as this can accelerate the loosening process and cause you to...

  3. What's your favorite nursing task?

    Coffee Nurse replied to beekindRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh man I love when you can hear something rattling around in the chest and finally pull a suction catheter out of the ETT/trach with a big old glob hanging off the end of it. That resistance you feel...

  4. 12 hr night nurses-how many recovery days?

    Coffee Nurse replied to RatherBHiking's topic in General Nursing

    It's different for everyone, as you can see from this thread. I'm always fine on the second day after a night or string of

  5. 12 hr night nurses-how many recovery days?

    Coffee Nurse replied to RatherBHiking's topic in General Nursing

    Just one. I basically do whatever my body says on the day I get off work -- sometimes that's napping in the morning or afternoon, or sometimes I'm able to power through to the evening. After a good...

  6. Latest on RaDonda Vaught case

    Coffee Nurse replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Anyone else getting shades of this? It's a good thing, isn't it, that nurses aren't kindergarteners who don't know any more than "red means

  7. Latest on RaDonda Vaught case

    Coffee Nurse replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    So you encounter something you're unfamiliar with, and rather than doing even a bit of superficial research (seriously, a five-second Google search told me what "ignoratio elenchi" means), you proceed...

  8. I did this so in trouble

    Coffee Nurse replied to Flossy73's topic in General Nursing

    Nope, still confused. Were you meant to be the shift coordinator or a floater? I don't know the exact setup of your hospital but I would imagine those are very different roles. In any case, if you...

  9. Per diem rejections

    Coffee Nurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    So, so frustrated. Just got a rejection email from a per diem position I applied to four months ago, without so much as an interview. Same thing happened at a different facility maybe eight months...

  10. Per diem rejections

    Coffee Nurse replied to Coffee Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    O.o So I just looked at my phone, turns out I got a voicemail at literally the same time from the nurse manager asking if I want to come in and see the unit. You know, I try not to rag on HR in...

  11. 1 year experience, feel like i'm getting worse

    Coffee Nurse replied to melschmidt28's topic in General Nursing

    This was my thought as well. OP, do you have a former preceptor or a nurse that you trust and work with frequently whom you could ask for feedback on your current

  12. Snowflakes

    Coffee Nurse replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed wholeheartedly with this. Same goes for mocking people who need "safe spaces." Just because someone is not personally dealing with an issue, doesn't mean it's necessarily not a real problem...

  13. Resetting IV pump volumes: Dangerous or common safety practice?

    Coffee Nurse replied to aepoisson's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I was taught to set a 4-hour VTBI and I still do this. That said, everywhere I've worked has always had hourly documentation of the total volume infused, which should be another catch of a pump set...

  14. Do you know of any nurses that changed careers?

    Coffee Nurse replied to Vtachy1's topic in Nursing Career

    I worked with a nurse who left to go into furniture

  15. When you thought it was patients you needed to watch...

    Coffee Nurse replied to smf0903's topic in General Nursing

    How are you getting this? This isn't at all what the article

  16. Blazer to a nurse extern interview?

    Coffee Nurse replied to themurse133's topic in General Nursing

    When in doubt, especially in something like an interview, always err on the side of more rather than less formal. Better to look overdressed than sloppy or

  17. So over it!!

    Coffee Nurse replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

  18. Charge Nurse Questions

    Coffee Nurse replied to jlm-mltc's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly, I do wonder how people who think this forum is "toxic" manage to survive in the actual world on a day-to-day

  19. Charge Nurse Questions

    Coffee Nurse replied to jlm-mltc's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry I and the other posters wasted our time trying to help you improve a survey that will net you exactly zero useful responses for a project that I assume is rather important to

  20. Junior Sister

    Coffee Nurse replied to gracious0609's topic in United Kingdom

    Will you share your pay rise with us if we help you get a

  21. Charge Nurse Questions

    Coffee Nurse replied to jlm-mltc's topic in General Nursing

    Curious as to what sort of insights you think you'll get from these questions? They're too broad and vague, and asking only for yes/no or 1-5 responses, so all you'll glean is the awareness that some...

  22. New Grad RN: Struggling With Finding a Job

    Coffee Nurse replied to nurse_bri's topic in General Nursing

    Found your problem. NYC -- in fact, most large metro areas -- are saturated with new grads, as they're desirable places to live and tend to pay better. You need to either apply to pretty much...

  23. Nursing student in need of advice

    Coffee Nurse replied to Morelaur288's topic in General Students

    Are you taking steps to address your anxiety? Your first year or so out of school is going to be stressful in many ways whether you're in ICU or LTC, so it almost doesn't matter where you

  24. Homework

    Coffee Nurse replied to Khushi123's topic in General Students

    We aren't here to do your homework for you. Why don't you try it and bring your work here for

  25. Neonatologist

    Coffee Nurse replied to Millshel's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Huh. That's an interesting structure. But if they're going to be so outside-of-the-box in their offerings, they seriously need better advisors on