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aeauooo

neuro, ICU/CCU, tropical medicine

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

    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?

    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?

    Would you like to know what else is on my
  4. Brain Fart: Whats the name of this CVA symptom?

    ...and a CNRN to
  5. Brain Fart: Whats the name of this CVA symptom?

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

    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?

    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

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

    When you can tell a doc, in all honesty, "Son, I was doing this before you had pubic
  10. Poor Management (Nurse Leaders)

    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?

    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

    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"

    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?

    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?

    dysmetria
  16. Just starting your career in 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

    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?

    Bring my dog to work? Heck no - he might get sick! (if I had a dog, that
  19. My pt died, lab results question?

    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"

    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. 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?

    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?

    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

    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

    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...