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

    I don't know how many times when I was working the neuro floor I got a call from the police telling me to take my patients phone

  2. Brain Fart: Whats the name of this CVA symptom?

    aeauooo replied to megananne7's topic in General Nursing

    goetz textbook of clinical neurology: “dysmetria refers to disturbance of the trajectory or placement of a body part during active movement, both in range and direction. hypometria refers to a...

  3. Brain Fart: Whats the name of this CVA symptom?

    aeauooo replied to megananne7's topic in General Nursing

    Would you like to know what else is on my

  4. Brain Fart: Whats the name of this CVA symptom?

    aeauooo replied to megananne7's topic in General Nursing

    ...and a CNRN to

  5. Brain Fart: Whats the name of this CVA symptom?

    aeauooo replied to megananne7's topic in General Nursing

    dyspraxia: Impaired or painful functioning in any organ. [dys- + G. praxis, a doing].

  6. job hunting

    aeauooo replied to mah2008's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a native, but I love New Orleans! You probably wouldn't have any trouble finding a job

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

    aeauooo replied to MrsMommaRN's topic in General Nursing

    i've never had a guy ask me to scratch his balls. i did have one guy who had a few suggestions for what i could do for him. i was sort of sitting on the fence between feeling compassion for his...

  8. job hunting

    aeauooo replied to mah2008's topic in General Nursing

    Move to New

  9. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    aeauooo replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

    When you can tell a doc, in all honesty, "Son, I was doing this before you had pubic

  10. Poor Management (Nurse Leaders)

    aeauooo replied to fairness's topic in General Nursing

    I think it was in the nursing leadership class I had to take for my BSN where I heard: "People don't quit jobs, they quit managers." After 16 years of nursing and staff positions in 5 hospitals, I can...

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

    aeauooo replied to MrsMommaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Another case of SAS (short-arm syndrome) Usually when someone tells me she/he hit the call button accidentally I tell the patient, "That's okay, but we charge you $20 every time you do that, and...

  12. Subordinates

    aeauooo replied to bollweevil's topic in General Nursing

    I doubt that addressing someone as "my partner" would be considered offensive by most people, but 'partner' implies equality. More often than not, I suspect that it comes down to economy of wording -...

  13. "I need you to pack my butt"

    aeauooo replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    She would have lost me at "female problem." I'm a neuro nurse - anything below the diaphragm is not my department! I

  14. Brain Fart: Whats the name of this CVA symptom?

    aeauooo replied to megananne7's topic in General Nursing

    dysmetria: an aspect of ataxia, in which the ability to control the distance, power, and speed of an act is impaired. Usually used to describe abnormalities of movement caused by cerebellar disorders....

  15. Brain Fart: Whats the name of this CVA symptom?

    aeauooo replied to megananne7's topic in General Nursing

    dysmetria

  16. Just starting your career in nursing

    aeauooo replied to elizabethtxcanm's topic in General Nursing

    "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."...

  17. Just starting your career in nursing

    aeauooo replied to elizabethtxcanm's topic in General Nursing

    Both. It's the old "Nurses eat their young" maxim, but ya gotta pay your dues. Earn their respect, show them that you want to learn. The ones who are the hardest on you are probably looking for...

  18. ever bring your dog to work?

    aeauooo replied to melisgood's topic in General Nursing

    Bring my dog to work? Heck no - he might get sick! (if I had a dog, that

  19. My pt died, lab results question?

    aeauooo replied to BinkieRN's topic in General Nursing

    Back when I worked neurotrauma we would get these guys in who were on Coumadin but hadn't had their PT/INR checked for who-knows-how-long. They'd fall off of a ladder or have some other relatively...

  20. Indian Nurses to Solve Nursing "Shortage"

    aeauooo replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Good catch! I remember reading about this when I was working on my BSN. I think the best source of information on foreign nurses working in the U.S. comes from the

  21. Any tips for overcoming isolation/depression on working 3-11 or nightshift?

    aeauooo replied to Elektra6's topic in General Nursing

    I loved working 3-11 because I was a night owl anyway. Working ICU usually means 7 to 7, and I refuse to work nights. I live in New Orleans, so having a 3-11 schedule (and being single) would mean...

  22. My pt died, lab results question?

    aeauooo replied to BinkieRN's topic in General Nursing

    Liver failure is another common cause of coagulopathy, but with that degree of coagulopathy, she would have been very jaundiced for hepatic failure to be the

  23. My pt died, lab results question?

    aeauooo replied to BinkieRN's topic in General Nursing

    A troponin of 0.67 and Hct of 20.5 is a very different picture than troponin of 68 and Hct of 6.7. The PT & INR could easily be explained if she was taking warfarin. She was in metabolic acidosis...

  24. bar coding for med administration

    aeauooo replied to quizzical315's topic in General Nursing

    We use bar coding where I work. It wouldn't be so bad if the bar codes on the packages scanned consistently. Sometimes I'll spend 5 minutes trying to scan a single med before I can give it. If I give...

  25. Flu Shots

    aeauooo replied to RNERHOUSESUPOR's topic in General Nursing

    That is your right, but the internet is a very good source for very bad information on vaccines. There have never been any documented associations between thimerosal-containing vaccines and long-term...