nowplayingEDRN

nowplayingEDRN

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  1. "The View" insults nursing

    nowplayingEDRN replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

    :roll :roll :roll You go girl....maybe you shold mail that suggestion to

  2. "The View" insults nursing

    nowplayingEDRN replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

    Venting and voicing an opinion about something you believe in and feel strongly about is always good for the soul!

  3. "The View" insults nursing

    nowplayingEDRN replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

    Any time, my sistah....any

  4. Golf Joke...heehee.

    nowplayingEDRN replied to funnygirl_rn's topic in Nursing Humor

    hehehehehe, I have a golf joke but I refuse to post it on the grounds that it is prolly in violation of the TOS These were funny

  5. "The View" insults nursing

    nowplayingEDRN replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

    No reply from the view yet, funny. That reply was fron the nurse advocacy organization. As soon as the View replies, I'll post it. And eloquence is not everything, funny.....some tiems it is better to...

  6. "The View" insults nursing

    nowplayingEDRN replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

    Oh :imbar..........thank you for all your kind words in reference to my letter. Just trying to stand up for myself and all my other co-workers nation/world wide. And Tweety....please, I encourage you...

  7. "The View" insults nursing

    nowplayingEDRN replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

    Please feel free to plagerize(sp) my letter, signing your own name and sending it off. I recieved a respose from Ms. Summers... Hi Christie: FANTASTIC letter to The View!! Really well done. Thank you....

  8. "The View" insults nursing

    nowplayingEDRN replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

    Here is a copy of my letter :angryfire Oooooooooo! I am infuriated!! Dear Sir or Madam; I am writing this letter to you to protest and condem your episode of The View aired on the 16th of June 2003....

  9. Post-op vital signs and assessments

    nowplayingEDRN replied to blue280's topic in General Nursing

    Okay...I figured the head to toe assess, wound/dsg check and neurovascular checks were a given....lol cause we do all that too. if there is an epidural or a PCA involved, the V/S monitoring stays q4h...

  10. Post-op vital signs and assessments

    nowplayingEDRN replied to blue280's topic in General Nursing

    Darn, This is how we do it where I work. Pt arrives in PACU: V/S are as follows: q5minx4, q15minx4 and q30 until transfer to the ward. Once on the ward: q4hr x24 then q8hr. If they go to the unit from...

  11. Floor nursing vs ICU nursing

    nowplayingEDRN replied to faithrn2002's topic in MICU, SICU

    Floor nursing is definitely more frustrating. Usually tere is a high patient to nurse ration where the patient to nurse ratio in ICU is much lower. And you never have the time to do everything you...

  12. The Morning After: Migraines

    nowplayingEDRN replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I am a migraine sufferer. I have had them for 9+ years and they were much worse on night shift. After years of cajoling and badgering me, I finally gave into my wonderful GP and allowed him to make...

  13. LPN to RN starting over or will LPN skills be useful for RN program

    nowplayingEDRN replied to AllieElizAbeth's topic in General Nursing

    Mattsmom81... I wasn't sure I worded what I wanted to say right and you spit it out perfectly what I was trying to say! :) Thanks for the clarification.....a cocky, know-it-all attitude will get you...

  14. LPN to RN starting over or will LPN skills be useful for RN program

    nowplayingEDRN replied to AllieElizAbeth's topic in General Nursing

    While useful for exposure and experience....I know that I went to nursing school with a few LPNs and the instructors always told them, "I know you are an LPN but you need to lay that aside and learn...

  15. Intramuscular Injection Sites?

    nowplayingEDRN replied to Nurse Bethie's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Dorsogluteal primarily and vastus lateralis as an alternative...rarely the deltoid and never the ventrogluteal. I did learn if using the ventrogluteal that the Z tract method should be used when...

  16. Patient Assessment - Respiratory Distress

    nowplayingEDRN replied to gwenith's topic in General Nursing

    I have to say gwenith, that I would be leary of using entonox in this scenario because he has a compromised resp status, but that is just MHO because I do not admin that here in our ICU/ER. Awesome...

  17. Drs. handwriting - Can you read it well?

    nowplayingEDRN replied to RN2007's topic in General Nursing

    I think that they send docs to a class on how to write illegibly. When I worked civilian, we had a doc that his hand writing used to look like the practice loops for cursive handwriting practice. If...

  18. Patient Assessment - Respiratory Distress

    nowplayingEDRN replied to gwenith's topic in General Nursing

    Kudos cab631!! As laura Gasparis says, "It takes a nurse to save your life." Karen and Sue... It's okay that you don't know where to begin. We are all here to learn from this scenario together.....so...

  19. Patient Assessment - Respiratory Distress

    nowplayingEDRN replied to gwenith's topic in General Nursing

    BTW, gwenith......excellent "game" and scenario! Kudos to

  20. Patient Assessment - Respiratory Distress

    nowplayingEDRN replied to gwenith's topic in General Nursing

    If I were in BFE with this sort of patient, I would be looking to evacuate to the nearest trauma center ASAP because of the the mechanism of injury and his Hx of smoking, he is at high risk to...

  21. Bccvn

    nowplayingEDRN replied to healingtouchRN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Congratulations!!!

  22. Difference in Needles

    nowplayingEDRN replied to fourbirds4me's topic in General Nursing

    I was never taught to use filter needles either and never laid eyes on one till I came to work of Unca Sam. However, it is safer and is the prefered method for drawing medication from a glass...

  23. Was anyone ever a floor nurse?

    nowplayingEDRN replied to askater11's topic in MICU, SICU

    Having done my time as a floor nurse, I know those guys and gals deserve TONS of credit. You say you enjoyed med/surg and step-down (cardiac) so I would recommend you try SICU. Lower, nurse/py ratio...

  24. Any PCU (Progressive Care Unit) nurses out there?

    nowplayingEDRN replied to AMV's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed that PCU is a catch all phrase. Where I worked it was commonly known as Step Down w/ Tele. Depending on the facility and what the staffing cutbacks have been you can have 6-8 pt's on days,...

  25. skunks on night shift?

    nowplayingEDRN replied to mednurse's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a kid I used to thinks that skunk smell was similar to the smell of lemons. Then I got older and had kids and accidentally got a skunk with the car and had to deal with the scent of...