Christy1019 ASN, RN

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    Most Stressful Day

    Christy1019 replied to TSgtRodrigues's topic in Emergency

    Omg, being a first time auntie I can totally sympathize. My sister called me at work when my niece fell and smashed her face. I was near tears looking at her swollen, bloody little
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    Common nicknames for hospital items.

    Christy1019 replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had no clue that stuff came in a
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    Ebola here in Dallas USA

    Christy1019 replied to HappyWife77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I know we aren't supposed to use text speak, but that post begs for a
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Christy1019 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Umm they would have to call a code brown if that happened to me
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    Identifying and differentiating smells

    Christy1019 replied to Martial's topic in General Nursing

    Ooh I just thought of one... BMs after lactulose smell like buttery popcorn
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    Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    Christy1019 replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Would it make any sense to take off the super contaminated gloves, put on new gloves to take off the rest of the PPE, then remove those gloves? If nothing else, maybe it'll decrease the risk of...
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    Identifying and differentiating smells

    Christy1019 replied to Martial's topic in General Nursing

    Remind me to never eat any beef dishes at your house if they come out smelling like c diff and gi bleed Lmao.
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    Bladder Cocktails?

    Christy1019 replied to guest744967's topic in Emergency

    Could this be instilled every few days in pts with permanent or long term catheters to help prevent
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    Sepsis

    Christy1019 replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    3L sounds like way too much just for the fever and tachycardia when the BP is
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    Ebola here in Dallas USA

    Christy1019 replied to HappyWife77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yeah its amazing how Jesse and Al haven't shown up in Africa yet... . That would require them to do some REAL work instead of race baiting for personal
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    Funny things patients say !

    Christy1019 replied to TAM's topic in Nursing Humor

    Omg I'm dying!!!
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    Voluntary Euthanasia

    Christy1019 replied to GARY_FL_NURSE's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What kind of medication do they prescribe for the physician assisted suicide? I'm only wondering because most of us have seen failed suicide attempts despite taking a whole bottle of some narcotic,...
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    Sepsis

    Christy1019 replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    My last facility, a 120 bed ED level 1 trauma center, routinely used CVP monitoring and the Vigileo for Scvo2 monitoring (one of our attendings was the internationally renowned sepsis guru Emmanuel...
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    Sepsis

    Christy1019 replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    I'm generally pretty comfortable with sepsis treatment and basic pathophysiology, but I was wondering, if a pt comes into the ED who is septic, but also happens to be have significant CHF, fluid...
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    Most drips at once

    Christy1019 replied to delphine22's topic in MICU, SICU

    Out of curiosity, did your pt live? If so, did they regain any useful
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    Please stop! Little things that are just bad practice.

    Christy1019 replied to JBudd's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I was wondering the same thing
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    Why would nitrostat be given?

    Christy1019 replied to Roxannee's topic in Patient Medications

    I've seen glucagon used for that same
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    Are American hospitals ready for Ebola?

    Christy1019 replied to texarkana 551's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I keep thinking to myself, how the heck would I start an IV on an Ebola patient? I sometimes have a hard enough time palpating a vein with one layer of nitrile gloves on a normally hydrated pt, but...
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    Why would nitrostat be given?

    Christy1019 replied to Roxannee's topic in Patient Medications

    I've never heard of those two being given for
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    Cyclic vomiters (drive me up the wall)

    Christy1019 replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    I've noticed a trend that our CVS pts also tend to drink from the sink when they are told they can't have water. I don't know much about CVS, but I wonder if its because they feel so thirsty, because...
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    My PT called 911

    Christy1019 replied to joyful_wanderer's topic in Emergency

    Lol one of the petitioned patients in our hospital did that as well! However, we weren't sure if it was on a smuggled cell phone or if our operator just wasn't paying attention. Our pt was however,...
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    Nauseous vs Nauseated (another grammar lesson)

    Christy1019 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I have seen and heard Eboli, and noticed that people seem to think it us a plural form of Ebola, I.e. "Those Eboli patients"
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    Nauseous vs Nauseated (another grammar lesson)

    Christy1019 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    You would have loved the florist's sign that I saw a few years ago... "Rose bookays $12.99" Lmao I thought it was a joke but it stayed up for quite a while
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    Voluntary Euthanasia

    Christy1019 replied to GARY_FL_NURSE's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm not sure what meds are used for euthanasia, however your example is actually medically assisted suicide I believe. However, if I develop an awful, debilitating disease, I.e. crutzfield Jacobs...
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    What Docs Don't Understand About Nurses

    Christy1019 replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Although I'm sorry it hasn't quite worked, I LOVE this