RN1982

RN1982

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  1. So, tell me again why you suddenly want to be a nurse...?

    RN1982 replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

    :sofahider :imdbb: I'm still

  2. So, tell me again why you suddenly want to be a nurse...?

    RN1982 replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

    I love Shawshank, best movie

  3. So, tell me again why you suddenly want to be a nurse...?

    RN1982 replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

    LOL. Thanks Erik. I do have that tendency to irk and offend when I speak my

  4. So, tell me again why you suddenly want to be a nurse...?

    RN1982 replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm just curious why I offended her. Whatever...back to

  5. So, tell me again why you suddenly want to be a nurse...?

    RN1982 replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

    What I find scary is when you disagree with someone and that person takes offense to the disagreement. I don't expect anyone here to agree with me and I hope they don't expect the same of me. But I...

  6. So, tell me again why you suddenly want to be a nurse...?

    RN1982 replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

    If you have a problem with a particular post, please press the report button at the corner of the offensive post. No one is attacking each other here, we are merely having a discussion. What's...

  7. Vent: Husband lost job today with no warning

    RN1982 replied to Melinurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry to hear about your husband losing his job,

  8. So, tell me again why you suddenly want to be a nurse...?

    RN1982 replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand why people are insinuating that people who go into nursing for the money cannot make caring and competent nurses. That insinuation is not necessarily true. The elitist attitude...

  9. So, tell me again why you suddenly want to be a nurse...?

    RN1982 replied to JoblessRN's topic in General Nursing

    i read your post and most of the thread with much thought. you came on here asking everyone's opinion and you got it. i think we need men in nursing and more of them. i think this thought that...

  10. Dangerous nurses

    RN1982 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

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  11. Dangerous nurses

    RN1982 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My hospital uses a lot of agency nurses and let me tell you about the ones I work with: I love them, they are experienced ICU nurses, they are great team members. I wouldn't work without

  12. Dangerous nurses

    RN1982 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What happened to the patient with the heparin

  13. Dangerous nurses

    RN1982 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The nurses who are dangerous, in my opinion, are the ones who are know-it-alls and cocky. The ones who think they know everything about everything, how to do everything and don't bother to clarify...

  14. Sleepwalker found frozen after taking Ambien

    RN1982 replied to Anxious Patient's topic in Patient Medications

    I had one too many patients who took ambien and would then do the "strip naked, pull out every line" thing, so everytime a patient asked for something to help them sleep, I suggested Restoril to the...

  15. Sleepwalker found frozen after taking Ambien

    RN1982 replied to Anxious Patient's topic in Patient Medications

    I had a friend who used to take Ambien. She said that if she didn't go to bed within 15 minutes of taking it she would be a demon. She said that she left the headlights of her car on all night, left...

  16. New CMS payment, what Hospitals are not reimbursed for:

    RN1982 replied to lpnflorida's topic in General Nursing

    I think sometimes even stage 3-4 wounds can't be prevented. I had a patient, very frail and thin, multiple intubations, on TPN/Lipds and developed a stage 3 on her coccyx and I think it also depends...

  17. New CMS payment, what Hospitals are not reimbursed for:

    RN1982 replied to lpnflorida's topic in General Nursing

    The thing that cracks me up the most is the falls, apparently in some institutions, patients have the "right" to fall but of course CMS isn't paying for

  18. no one will return the favor and HELP OUT

    RN1982 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    I have a routine too. When I come in and get report on my patients, I see them, do their assessments, chart, tidy my rooms then I go around and ask everyone if they need anything with any of their...

  19. Can we really afford any more medical advances?

    RN1982 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    No, we are poor. Put the research on hold for a hot minute..(insert joking

  20. Holding each other accountable..

    RN1982 posted a topic in General Nursing

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  21. Anesthesia and urine output....

    RN1982 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had a couple patients come back from OR and both had a difficult time urinating. Is it something to do with the anesthesia they are given in OR? Both patients initially had a decreased urine output...

  22. Anesthesia and urine output....

    RN1982 replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, the one patient who had the facial surgery, was peeing like nothing ever happened by the end of the

  23. Dangerous nurses

    RN1982 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Within reason. The doctor needs to be aware of what you are holding and why. If the patient develops adverse effects of you not giving the medication even though a doctor states that he/she wants it...

  24. Dangerous nurses

    RN1982 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A suggestion is a suggestion but you run things like dosage changes by the MD not by a pharmacist. If I ever have surgery and have you as a nurse and you believe that it's better to be hyperglycemic...

  25. Dangerous nurses

    RN1982 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't know what pharmacist you are talking to but it's obviously one who doesn't know anything but a hole in a wall. There have been numerous studies in regards to wound healing, infection and their...