ScarlettRN

ScarlettRN

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  1. If your could do it over you would do. . .

    ScarlettRN replied to Masters's topic in General Nursing

    I had a LOT of clinicals while in school for my BSN. The nurses who were ADNs in my class did not do any med-surg, peds, psych or OB clinicals, just the community health portion. As far as I can tell...

  2. Physician/Nurse relationship

    ScarlettRN replied to Moho's topic in General Nursing

    My mother was an ICU nurse for 20 years and worked with this doc who had the infuriating habit of keeping dead people alive on vents because the family asked him to do everything he could for mama. My...

  3. Another pain thread

    ScarlettRN replied to sharann's topic in Pain Management

    In my ER we have a Ketamine protocol for peds so the doc can set bones and suture as needed. Ketamine seems to maintain resp and gag reflex, etc better than other conscious sedation meds. The patient...

  4. Have you ever taken care of a celebrity?

    ScarlettRN replied to BarbPick's topic in General Nursing

    Since we are on the subject, it is an all TOO common error. I took care of a family member, who has since died, of Fred Thompson while he was still senator of Tennessee. It was a lazy Saturday...

  5. In One Sentence; if you weren't a nurse, you'd be a ________

    ScarlettRN replied to OCCHCanada's topic in General Nursing

    If I could do it all over again and knew I wouldn't fail... I would buy old houses and renovate them. Sell them for double or triple their value and move to another house. I would be a real estate...

  6. Doing away with agency nurses. Interesting article.

    ScarlettRN replied to Gomer's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder how something like bidding works in practice. It has always been my opinion that flexable hours (more than just the 7-7 grind) and doing higher pay for certain critical times at the hospital...

  7. Nurses, Would you go into nursing if you had to do it all over again?

    ScarlettRN replied to 4everpeace's topic in General Nursing

    As of today, I can say I cannot imagine being anything else but a nurse. I consider it a calling. BUT when I was working med-surg with the huge patient loads and all the stress, I caught myself...

  8. Haldol IV??

    ScarlettRN replied to dabestrn's topic in Emergency

    LOL, You call it a B52. We called it the Memorial Triple. Our ER doc did an unofficial study and called it his BACC pain protocol (belly achers & chronic complainers). Actually, the Triple was...

  9. Pain Medicine for a dying patient ...

    ScarlettRN replied to Tweety's topic in Pain Management

    During the first year out of nursing school,I took care of a patient who had tried to die a couple times and ended up in ICU before the family finally decided to let him be a DNR. He had lung cancer,...

  10. Sexual misconduct between nurse & patient.

    ScarlettRN replied to tgibson3770's topic in General Nursing

    About 10 years ago a male LPN had a lot of stories circulated about him. Most of it involved female staff people, including a 17 year old aide, but there were a couple of stories about a female...

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

    ScarlettRN replied to RN2007's topic in General Nursing

    I guess if you work in a pharmacy, it is harder to decipher a script the way we can based on the diagnosis and the context of the

  12. LTC Screamers

    ScarlettRN replied to gizzy76's topic in General Nursing

    I work with an ER doc who is positive that half the world's ills could be cured with Haldol. Since it is also an antipsychotic, it might be worth a check. We have an LTC patient in the hospital right...

  13. Charting Bloopers

    ScarlettRN replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    I am reminded of the oldie but goodie from the infertility specialist who wrote to a consulting colleague, "Between the two of us, we should be able to get her

  14. Do you nurses get breaks?

    ScarlettRN replied to marilynmom's topic in General Nursing

    I have to say, the best thing for someone who wants to go into nursing to do is to get a job as a tech. Nursing is nursing. The tech work is the basic primary work of any nurse who is at a bedside, so...

  15. Pain scale

    ScarlettRN replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Pain Management

    konni, I just went thru something similar to what you are going thru and I went the week before surgery and went into the doc's private office, not a room, and we talked about pain. I wanted his...

  16. Pain scale

    ScarlettRN replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Pain Management

    I just remembered some cases when I worked the floor a few years ago. We had a patient who would be admitted for something or other, usually asthma exacerbation where she was forcing an expiratory...

  17. Pain scale

    ScarlettRN replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Pain Management

    I guess I need to clarify a bit. I work with a variety of doctors in the ER and they all approach pain in different ways. As a nurse, *I* have no control over what the doctor orders, I can only bring...

  18. Pain scale

    ScarlettRN replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Pain Management

    I said something profound the other night, grin, and just remembered it while thinking about this subject. We were talking about school and how amazed I STILL am that I graduated college with a...

  19. Nurse is a nurse is a nurse

    ScarlettRN replied to Dayray's topic in General Nursing

    Should we go back to wearing caps? (ducks) How about color coded uniforms? I wish there was an answer to this question. My mother is a CCU nurse and has been on the unfortunate receiving end of care...

  20. Pain scale

    ScarlettRN replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Pain Management

    Memphispanda, I remember the pain rule from school well. That being said, once I got into the real world practicing in the ER with the drug seekers, I realized a few things about the pain scale. First...