NewWayofLife

I've worked on a med/surg telemetry floor for a while, and you will get used to when to call/when to worry, etc- until then, rely on the nursing judgement you already have and the more experienced nurses around you. Here's a general cheat sheet, thou...

"Man, how I would love some cool ranch Doritos!" I don't know what your other allergies are, but if it's just gluten, Cool Ranch Doritos are gluten free. Nacho Cheese and one of the newer flavors have wheat flour, but many of the others are gluten fr...

My one liter bottle of diet coke, 16oz sugar-free red bull, AND one or two 5 hour energy drinks.

My MIL is in a SNF over an hour away- she had a ruptured cerebral aneurysm before DH and I ever met. I don't know her that well, nor do we often speak to that side of his family (no ill feelings, DH is just bad at keeping in touch). When she was pla...

What exactly are patients doing in your hospital that you carry condoms??? :chuckle

So I had a patient last night, chest pain r/o MI with a history of fibromyalgia, depression, and anxiety. No known history of memory loss or dementia- normally independent at home. She would NOT stop crying. Literally. I'm taking report and she's scr...

I don't think that would have been possible- I barely LEFT the room (did I mention it was an ER holding area with 3 other patients IN THERE, dealing with this?) Luckily, one slept through it and the other two were too demented to understand (but were...

I don't have a lot of experience with Huntington's- but I do have a suggestion as far as the checking account. Get one where your husband has access to online banking... you can easily track purchases, make transfers, etc without him having to "give ...

Very bad advice, sorry, but colas are VERY high in oxalates, second only to tea. My urologist told me he'd kick my rear end if he ever caught me drinking diet coke again. Fresca, however, is high in potassium citrate, which does dissolve oxalate ston...

I wear my wedding set AND what's known as a "healer's ring" to work. Neither is all that expensive, so I'm not worried about damage to the rings themselves. As far as the infection control issue goes... I wash my hands well between patients, and remo...

tracheal breath sounds are heard over the trachea. these sounds are harsh and sound like air is being blown through a pipe. bronchial sounds are present over the large airways in the anterior chest near the second and third intercostal sp...

My first job as a nurse was in a facility which required nurses to wear all white. (Though we were allowed to wear a colored or print lab jacket over our whites) At first, I thought I would REALLY hate it, and the issue of heavy periods was my bigges...

I once saw a monitor read with a systolic less than the diastolic. The (new) nurse and (even newer) intern were both in total panic- this was a septic pt whose pressures WERE very low. We all kept telling them, um, guys... that reading isn't accurate...

Worcester has several hospitals, usually some positions open. Milford Regional is currently hiring I don't know whether or not Lahey clinic is hiring, but I've heard great things from people who've worked there.

of course it would be appropriate- they are always there to help. you have had a tremendously hard week- even a seasoned nurse might have been upset by a family member like that. there will be times like these, when you feel inadequate or overwhelmed...

i took a similar position while in school, and yes, i'd say the experience was definitely worth it. the number of hours sounds quite reasonable- but only you can determine if you're doing well enough in your studies to be able to devote the extra tim...

i'm from more central ma, myself. it's true, the boston hospitals are very competitive right now. i don't know if you'd be willing to look outside the immediate area, but there are many hospitals in the central ma area that are hiring. as far as bein...

oh, how i've dreamed!!!! or calling that 7-3 nurse who likes to wake you up for stupid questions at 3am to ask, did you give this med, it's not charted- when the omnicell says it was taken out on time, and the a&ox3 patient remembers taking it- e...

while i agree with the pp who said it's worth treating, i wouldn't give the idea of it keeping you from getting a job another thought. if hospitals only hired completely healthy people with no medical history (is there really such a thing??), the n...

thank you very much for bringing this issue up, i have seen it too. bi-polar disease runs in my family. i had two biological brothers, both of them were diagnosed with it. i'd like to tell you all about them, just so you can see the difference, even ...

our hospital policy is that it is never to be given iv- they stress it at least 3 times a year and have a "trick question" on the medication test about it as well.

if he was aspirating it, then yes, sq could have been used. however, roxanol (which is sl/po morphine 20mg/ml) is absorbed sl, and often dosed in fractions of an ml (i.e.- 0.5ml). when i worked a ltc, we often saw it tolerated by patients with no ab...

mine would be... your doctor is the scariest man I've ever met in my life... mine would be much the same, only to add... "90% of your doctor's patients that I've seen have come in with cellulitis. compare that to other doctors. then run screaming!" I...

i did 5 8-hour nights for my first 9 months out of nursing school, and it was terrible. if you're required to do every other weekend (as is the case pretty much everywhere around here) then you end up getting only 1 night off in a row most of the tim...

on an average night? i drink a 20 oz cup of coffee immediately upon waking up, then stop at the convenience store for my 1 liter diet coke, large sized red bull, and 5 hour energy shot. as if that weren't bad enough, i sometimes add another 16oz coff...