Dragonnurse1

Dragonnurse1 ASN, RN

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  1. I Should Be in Jail

    Dragonnurse1 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I too had a Munchhausen's by proxy but here I was able to call child services immediately and the child was removed from the mother. A 3 yo that called me a M*****F***** and his mother thought it was...

  2. Why Do Nurses Quit?

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    GinnyMI i agree with you. I graduated in 1993 from an ASN program. Our school had 100% passing rate back then and when I started working I had already had 3 semesters of hands on in clinicals. Just...

  3. Seasoned Nurses VS Newbie Nurses

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Alexx_xox's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing school is to nursing as law school is to the practice of law and the police academy is to policing. School gives you the basic knowledge, the outline if you will with some parts written in...

  4. How Working the Night Shift Can Be A Death Sentence

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Carol Ebert's topic in Health, Stress Management

    There are those that have different circadian rhythms and I am one. Left to my own devices I have always been a night person preferring to sleep during the day. I worked nights for just over 9 years...

  5. Pain medicine to drug addict?

    Dragonnurse1 replied to MrBlueSky's topic in Patient Medications

    The doctor wrote orders for pain meds so there is no excuse to withhold them from the patient. Doctors will take the patients history into consideration when writing orders. Hell, I had an ortho...

  6. Living Will Tattoo

    Dragonnurse1 replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    In my state I have seen any number of patients DNR's ignored at family request. One must have a living will with medical proxy on file with each hospital in my city in order to cover their wishes...

  7. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    Dragonnurse1 replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    I worked in an ER for 9 years, 4 months and 17 days and never made a med error. The closest I came to a medication error was when I first graduated and was on my 2 weeks or days. A physician, well...

  8. Are You Cut Out to be an Emergency Department (ED) Nurse?

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Emergency

    Would never have worked in any other department. I loved the ED and nights too. The wicked sense of humor is spot on. However the saying is "Greet 'em, treat 'em and street

  9. Why Do Nurses Quit?

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Yes beekee, I was like you. I graduated my program in 1993. I graduated on a Friday and was working on the following Monday. I got 2 weeks of orientation to the hospital policies, you know the...

  10. Nursing @ 32?

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Firstina's topic in General Students

    Started school at 38 with 4 kids, began working at 40. I wish I had gone into nursing

  11. Husband is not ready for me to go to nursing school!!

    Dragonnurse1 replied to hamolady's topic in General Students

    I went to nursing school with 4 children, 10, 4,2,1 and my husband worked swing shift on the PD. I had some night classes for my non nursing courses and days for everything else. I cooked and fed the...

  12. I'm having doubts about nursing... :(

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Texasstudent0's topic in General Students

    Nursing is kind of like police work, 90 percent routine and somewhat boring with 10% sheer hysteria. Are you an adrenaline junkie? Are you wanting something exciting? You may need to either rethink...

  13. If not nursing what other career would you have done?

    Dragonnurse1 replied to nurse2bnoob101's topic in General Nursing

    I would have stayed in computers. I seem to be rebuilding 4 custom rigs yearly anyway. Or have a professional rescue for dogs (I have 8

  14. Driving after night shift is scary.

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Rufian's topic in General Students

    I worked 9 years 4 months and 17 days all on nights in the ER and never had a bit of trouble with my driving. No accidents, no tickets no running off the road. My circadian rhythm has always geared...

  15. Fill In The Blank...

    Dragonnurse1 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    We are traveling and Grandma stopped talking 2 hours

  16. Doctors Say the Darnedest Things

    Dragonnurse1 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Worked nights in the ER. Patient and her partner come in and the patient has a towel over her head covering her face. Seems that a cucumber became "lodged" and required the assistance of the Doc to...

  17. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    Dragonnurse1 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    For our hospital the change took place when the administrators decided patients were customers and the customer is always right. Patients do not always know what they need but when administration...

  18. Suspended for a Medication Error

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in an ER for 9 years 4 months and 17 days all of them on nights except for my first 2 weeks right after graduation. I had a physician tending to a patient with an injury to her nose. This...

  19. Thinking about leaving nursing school

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Student1713's topic in General Students

    if you do not mind continuing your education in Psychology then change now. If you already know that nursing is not for you do not waste your time with it. My son was trying to go to nursing school...

  20. Did you choose nursing because it was your "calling"?

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Corgilicious's topic in General Students

    I was always a care giver. I tried other jobs but nothing fit but I thought I was too old to start nursing school. I applied on a bet with my Mom 21 years after graduation high school and I was...

  21. New Grad Starts in ED !!!!!! HELP !!!

    Dragonnurse1 replied to LouDogg's topic in Emergency

    Congrats on the ED job. I graduated on a Friday and started the ED on the following Monday. You have been given some really good advice. I have one more piece - pace yourself. If possible make a...

  22. Has pain scale contributed to opiate problem?

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This thread is listed as "Has pain scale contributed to the opiate problem" but after reading all the posts it has devolved into something else. It has become a battle ground over addiction vs pain...

  23. Reason for IV fluids

    Dragonnurse1 replied to Matt8700's topic in Emergency

    Our ER had 3 tracks, fast, Chest Pain Center and trauma. The track patient rarely got hep locks or IV's (unless the patient was a kidney stoner or had N/V >1h for children or 5h for adults) but in...

  24. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    Dragonnurse1 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Skylark, I burst out laughing at this.....reminds me of some of my nights. Too

  25. Peritoneal Dialysis in the ED?

    Dragonnurse1 replied to robrn1123's topic in Emergency

    Any dialysis patient in our ER had a dialysis RN that was called in to take care of that patient. No ER nurses were tied up with this