rnmi2004

rnmi2004

private duty/home health, med/surg

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  1. briefs or diapers

    rnmi2004 replied to nrsman1's topic in General Nursing

    I work adult med/surg & we say briefs. I've come across quite a few patients that use the term "diaper" or even "pampers." These are A&O people,

  2. Male Foley...Wife Watching!!

    rnmi2004 replied to mrscoozy's topic in General Nursing

    It would be up to the patient to decide who he wanted present. I'd probably do a lot of explaining while I was placing the Foley to distract them. I know if my husband was going to be cath'd he want...

  3. insulin but no syringe

    rnmi2004 replied to tammy07's topic in General Nursing

    low blood sugar + insulin could possibly = death In this case no syringe would be a good

  4. Dangerous nurse?

    rnmi2004 replied to RoyalNurse's topic in General Nursing

    When I think of the dangerous nurses I've worked with, I think of people who generally seem oblivious to or apathetic about the sub-par care they've given. I can't honestly imagine a truly dangerous...

  5. Did you ever have such a bad day, that you regretted becoming a nurse?

    rnmi2004 replied to linda2097's topic in General Nursing

    I've had the occasional day that was so bad I needed to call in the next shift for my own mental health, but not so bad I regretted becoming a nurse. It would have to be that bad the majority of the...

  6. Do new graduates RN's get ,easier patients?

    rnmi2004 replied to lovehospital's topic in General Nursing

    Since the easier/stable patients have been discharged home to make room for the patients sick enough to stay in the hospital, no one on our floor gets to take care of them. The reality is that there...

  7. Critical patient @ change of shift, which nurse is responsible??

    rnmi2004 replied to Soulsinfinity's topic in General Nursing

    If I were the receiving nurse, I'd want to get report from the nurse who knew the

  8. What I Love About Nursing Is....

    rnmi2004 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    I love patient education and

  9. Parking Lot Code....

    rnmi2004 replied to Christie RN2006's topic in General Nursing

    What an awesome story! How fortunate this woman was that the right people were there at her worst

  10. Do Nurses have to do the following??

    rnmi2004 replied to omgodzilla's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly! I am proud of the fact that any one of my co-workers, aide or fellow nurse, can ask me to help up the messiest of Code Browns, and I will go in there willingly, without batting an eye. And my...

  11. should patients be able to choose to end their life if they are in pain and dying

    rnmi2004 replied to melz34's topic in General Nursing

    Notice how my reply to you included a quote of your post that I was responding to. Your post implied that the only reason a person would suffer was due to physical pain, and the remedy to that was...

  12. Do Nurses have to do the following??

    rnmi2004 replied to omgodzilla's topic in General Nursing

    Whoever finds the mess, cleans it up. If you walk in on a co-worker cleaning up a patient, you roll up your sleeves and help out. What kind of person would I be if I made a patient sit in their own...

  13. Reglan for migraines

    rnmi2004 replied to Aneroo's topic in General Nursing

    We had a thread on here a while back about how many nurses administer IVpushes into the saline lock slowly, but then quickly flush with saline afterwards but most of the med is still in the tubing--so...

  14. should patients be able to choose to end their life if they are in pain and dying

    rnmi2004 replied to melz34's topic in General Nursing

    End-of-life suffering isn't just about the physical pain. There are certain disease processes that cause mental and emotional anguish that all the opiods in the world couldn't help

  15. How often do you get raises in a hospital?

    rnmi2004 replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Yearly. Usually. But not this

  16. Nurse, treat thyself

    rnmi2004 replied to Flare's topic in General Nursing

    I'm pretty sure most things I do to others I couldn't do to myself, just because I'm not that flexible. It's not a matter of the heebie-jeebies or anything like that. Heck, I pierced the 2nd set of...

  17. Ethics of patient bathing

    rnmi2004 replied to discontentment's topic in General Nursing

    I'm thinking the main reason they refused was because it was night shift. You can offer, but they can refuse. I'll be honest--if I were the patient who had the Xanax & Sonata, and then was asked...

  18. What books did you keep??

    rnmi2004 replied to werlp's topic in General Nursing

    I still have all the books I used in my last semester and all of my notes from nursing school! I have occasionally cracked the monster of a med/surg book, but that's it. I just haven't gotten around...

  19. Does it bother you to address MDs by their title of Doctor?

    rnmi2004 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    No, it doesn't bother me. I work with a few that prefer nursing staff call them by their first names, but most MDs around here are Dr.

  20. neurogenic bladder not a good reason to have a foley?

    rnmi2004 replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    Re-use of catheters for clean (not sterile) intermittent straight-cathing is fairly common. Ideally a brand-new one could be used every time but most insurance companies (even Medicare/Medicaid) won't...

  21. New book: "Saving Lives" and positive review in Newsweek

    rnmi2004 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I read a review in Newsweek about a recently released book by Sandy and Harry Jacobs Summers called "Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nurses Puts us All at Risk." The review can be found...

  22. Alcohol Intoxication.

    rnmi2004 replied to ghost's topic in General Nursing

    Here is a pretty good article on alcohol withdrawal syndrome for nurses: http://ccn.aacnjournals.org/cgi/reprint/25/3/40.pdf It explains the effects of alcoholism on the central nervous system and why...

  23. Have noticed racist threads right here in the past two days!

    rnmi2004 replied to lpn2icu's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow, that sounds pretty prejudiced to me. BTW, if I have accumulated paid hours and need to use them for sick days, why is that an issue? Nurses NEED to feel that they are able to call in sick,...

  24. I just can't believe this one!

    rnmi2004 replied to Scrubby's topic in General Nursing

    I'd assume the surgeons sat there because they were cowards, not because they're lazy. Hopefully they're ashamed enough that if something like that happens again they'll get in there &

  25. Examples of .....

    rnmi2004 replied to sweetie78's topic in General Nursing

    "computer on wheels" refers to the portable workstations in some