aeauooo

aeauooo

neuro, ICU/CCU, tropical medicine

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  1. Your Call Light is On Can I help YOU?

    aeauooo replied to MrsMommaRN's topic in General Nursing

    It's hard enough to get medical personnel to understand the principle of "treat the patient, not the number." I've seen docs freak out when the SpO2 drops into the 80s on the monitor - "He's...

  2. Stop The Title Madness

    aeauooo replied to INFIDEL's topic in General Nursing

    Now ya tell me! Here's an article from the Nursing Spectrum on the subject:

  3. Continuing Education Insight

    aeauooo replied to Manassah Bradley's topic in General Nursing

    I am required to complete 100 hours of CE every five years to maintain my neuroscience nursing certification (CNRN). 50 of those must be specific to neuroscience nursing, the rest can be general...

  4. Stop The Title Madness

    aeauooo replied to INFIDEL's topic in General Nursing

    My badge just says RN, although I wish it included BSN - not because I think the bachelors gives me more credibility at the bedside, but because of the negative attitude of other BSNs towards ADNs. I...

  5. How did you decide what area of nursing to go into?

    aeauooo replied to Sarah Bellum's topic in General Nursing

    Divine intervention. I started as a CNA in a NH where I became fascinated with spectrum of neurological deficits resulting from stroke. I applied for a position as a nurse tech at Harborview in...

  6. They sent us a 1 week postpartum pt...we do openhearts!

    aeauooo replied to MIRockstarRN's topic in General Nursing

    WHY?! a. Telemetry isn't going to tell you if your patient is seizing. b. If a patient seizes, you give them a benzodiazapine to stop it. Why call a code? c. I know squat about post-partum, but isn't...

  7. "And it's all going to be your fault"

    aeauooo replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    He didn't actually apologize to me, but he was very polite to me afterwards. I managed not to laugh, but I think the family of my patient got

  8. Stop The Title Madness

    aeauooo replied to INFIDEL's topic in General Nursing

    CNRN: Certified Neuroscience Registered Nurse MPH&TM: Master of Public Health & Tropical Medicine I plan to take the ASTMH tropical medicine certification exam in December: CTropMed Thanks for...

  9. When nurses visit loved ones who are hospitalized...

    aeauooo replied to RNcDreams's topic in General Nursing

    I once worked in a unit with a charge nurse who told me, "Don't tell the families nothin'! If they ask you a question about labs or anything, tell them they have to ask the doctor." Of course, our...

  10. Butt kissing management

    aeauooo replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    Got it. People pull these acts to get attention - in the case of your patient, it sounds like it worked on her family. After the dust had settled with the girl I mentioned, I told the nursing...

  11. Stop The Title Madness

    aeauooo replied to INFIDEL's topic in General Nursing

    I worked very hard for the initials after my name, and I'm in the process of adding several more. They are titles we have earned. The abbreviations tell people who we are, our background, and our...

  12. "Nurses eating their young" Can anyone give specific examples of this?

    aeauooo replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

    This IS a sticky subject. I could tell you my story, but it's too painful. I decided years ago that I need to let go of it so that I can move on, but it's a wound that, over ten years later, is still...

  13. "And it's all going to be your fault"

    aeauooo replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    A couple of years ago I got chewed royally out by a GI doc because my patient had only taken a few sips of her Golytle. When he had finished reading me the riot act, we went in together to look at the...

  14. Such a 'tool'

    aeauooo replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    Reemed by whom? - and why the heck should you care about the opinion of someone who doesn't know what she/he is talking about? If I had a

  15. Butt kissing management

    aeauooo replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, stridor during a 'seizure' is a dead give-away. Pseudoseizures tend to be very dramatic. Malingerers need to read the books to realize that generalized seizures are usually quiet. I've seen some...

  16. When nurses visit loved ones who are hospitalized...

    aeauooo replied to RNcDreams's topic in General Nursing

    In all honesty, I might have been able to pull out my brain and tell you her recent lab values, but if you want accurate answers to the rest of those questions, I would have told that you I'd look...

  17. When nurses visit loved ones who are hospitalized...

    aeauooo replied to RNcDreams's topic in General Nursing

    A couple of years ago I visited my mom, who is a retired nurse, after she had had surgery. When she was brought a clear liquid tray with green Jello (how cliche!) she said, "Get that out of here!" She...

  18. Second opinion, how to ask doctor for?

    aeauooo replied to dcampbell's topic in General Nursing

    At my first hospital we had an acronym; TSFO: too sick for ortho. Remember that you are a paying customer and the doctor is a service provider - you're paying for her/his service. If you're not happy...

  19. Butt kissing management

    aeauooo replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    Don't take it personally. It happens, it's really not a reflection on you, but health care is a service industry, and... draw you own conclusions. A couple of years ago I had a patient transferred to...

  20. postive TB skin test

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

    http://www.cdc.gov/tb/faqs/default.htm

  21. What you get for nurses week

    aeauooo replied to chevyv's topic in General Nursing

    I got a cheap plastic cup - the kind that are thrown from floats on Mardi gras - with the hospital logo on it - oh yeah, and a green lollipop - sucker. How apropos that I RESIGNED the same day! ...and...

  22. Archetypes in Nursing

    aeauooo replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've been all of the above at one time or

  23. Question... and please don't fight!

    aeauooo replied to JustKeepSmiling's topic in General Nursing

    Lakeview - ouch! The water lines are over the doors in that neighborhood! God love you - I live in Carrollton - high ground. The river has been up to the levee the last week or so. I've been seeing...

  24. Quick to pass judgement??

    aeauooo replied to racing-mom4's topic in General Nursing

    Re-read what I wrote, there is no contradiction, especially taken in context of the post to which I replied. "I know that I have a hard time..." I know that I have negative feelings about obese...

  25. Quick to pass judgement??

    aeauooo replied to racing-mom4's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely. I know that I have a hard time not cursing my obese patients when I go home with a serious backache from moving them around for 12 hours. It's very tough not to judge those who have 'done...