geekgolightly

geekgolightly BSN, RN

MICU, neuro, orthotrauma

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  1. Med/Surg to ICU

    geekgolightly replied to KayceeLeeRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    People do it with no experience all the time, so 9 months learning how to juggle patients and give meds on time and care for family emotional needs as well as patient needs as well as do proper...

  2. I'm Not Sure Nursing Is For Me

    geekgolightly replied to cdietrich404's topic in General Nursing

    There are hospitals with decent staffing ratios. Mine is one of them. I have worked in hospitals with high ratios and it's very difficult being a good nurse under those conditions. I thought I was...

  3. Staffing ratios in Houston hospitals?

    geekgolightly posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    I might be traveling back to Houston next year for my husband's continuing education (when is his education ever going to end??) and was curious about staffing ratios in various hospitals around...

  4. Nurse-Patient Ratio Legislation?

    geekgolightly replied to JGGRN's topic in Texas Nursing

    This bill is incredible! 3:1 for progressive car and 4:1 for med surg. trauma 1:1, mother baby couplets 3:1 with no more than six patients total (in case there are twins). In fact, I can't find...

  5. How Burned Out Are You?

    geekgolightly replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    floor nursing is burnout city. i am tired of floor

  6. crystalloid recusitation on pt with wet lungs?

    geekgolightly posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    floor trauma/ortho nurse here with pt came in six days ago bilat pelvic fx and now has developed ileus and also really cruddy lungs. hes tachy 100's, on 3L, has NG tube draining foul sulphur smelling...

  7. crystalloid recusitation on pt with wet lungs?

    geekgolightly replied to geekgolightly's topic in MICU, SICU

    Someday, I will comfortable enough to begin ICU; part of that comfort is going to come from reading this

  8. crystalloid recusitation on pt with wet lungs?

    geekgolightly replied to geekgolightly's topic in MICU, SICU

    This patient was on an ortho-trauma floor. I had four other patients including a fresh post-op. No other labs were ordered at that time and this patient did get really really bad within 24 hours. I...

  9. What Is the Problem With These Nurses?

    geekgolightly replied to Sheri257's topic in General Nursing

    We have a couple nurse interns on my floor. I began working there a couple months ago, and the few times I have worked with the nurse interns, they have belittled and berated me, which I found to be...

  10. What is a Credentialing Specialist?

    geekgolightly replied to mharrah's topic in General Nursing

    I was a credentialing specialist, but it was for a practice management company and did not need an RN license to do the work. my job was to ensure that all the necessary paperwork was done in order to...

  11. Please recommend hospitals in Atlanta or Savannah

    geekgolightly posted a topic in Georgia Nursing

    I might end up in one of four different places in the US, depending on which school accepts my husband for the AA (anesthesiologist assistant) program and am wondering which hospitals would be...

  12. RN to patient ratios

    geekgolightly replied to RN007's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    i've been whining about our ratios but some of you have it worse! we are tele and we take five. if we are lucky we get one CNA to 22 patients, and there is no transport team. we also staff two to...

  13. Spacenurse: Critcial Care Preceptor & Nursing Activist

    geekgolightly replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    i read your posts every time i come here,

  14. Weird Code

    geekgolightly replied to EMSChild's topic in Emergency

    Yes! I do. I posted about it a number of months ago when it happened. A woman who was full code despite end stage cancer (family couldnt let go) was being monitored by tele. Showing normal sinus but...

  15. Floor nursing vs ICU nursing

    geekgolightly replied to faithrn2002's topic in MICU, SICU

    what youre describing i do now exactly that, but with no transportation team. and like i responded to corvetteguy, i have taken care of an ICU pt (and one tele) who was multiple drips and stable vent....

  16. Floor nursing vs ICU nursing

    geekgolightly replied to faithrn2002's topic in MICU, SICU

    I've done it and didn't fall flat on my face and I have read post after post here from ICU nurses who ended up after one shift on the floor a walking wreck who couldn;t keep

  17. Floor nursing vs ICU nursing

    geekgolightly replied to faithrn2002's topic in MICU, SICU

    ?? but why does that have you enjoying ICU? i really dont get it. i happen to be ACLS, but that's only because i am interested. it certainly doesn't make me a better nurse on the floor. they "freeze"...

  18. Floor nursing vs ICU nursing

    geekgolightly replied to faithrn2002's topic in MICU, SICU

    could you elaborate? i have decided that i hate floor nursing. despise it. im caught and frustrated and am just gonna go off on a tangent and vent. i want out of floor nursing badly. im weekend work...

  19. RN vs Ancillary Staff

    geekgolightly replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    Angie is right. We are the coordinators of care and ultimately the patient is our responsibility. I am really surprised that an RT would freak out about 2L NC, the ones I know are generally lovely and...

  20. Help me sort what sort of nursing I would like best

    geekgolightly replied to geekgolightly's topic in General Nursing

    I have not considered it, but now I am. I don't know how I missed that. Thank

  21. Help me sort what sort of nursing I would like best

    geekgolightly posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi, I have been a nurse for about three years now and still don't know what I want to do, though I have always been very drawn to critical care. I found out today that a surgical floor is not what I...

  22. Help me sort what sort of nursing I would like best

    geekgolightly replied to geekgolightly's topic in General Nursing

    dont they just help docs with procedures there? im probably showing my ignorance whats ICU like for

  23. Please recommend hospitals in Atlanta or Savannah

    geekgolightly replied to geekgolightly's topic in Georgia Nursing

    thank you sharon safe staffing is the main indicator of a good place to work, IMHO. i really appreciate the heads up. i enjoy working with the homeless population and have begun to take a serious...

  24. Floor nursing vs ICU nursing

    geekgolightly replied to faithrn2002's topic in MICU, SICU

    I know I'm gonna love that, too. Like you, I appreciate assistants, but I am too much of a control freak to ever really be happy with someone else doing cares for me. I like to know e v e r y t h i n...

  25. Worried that I'm to much of an airhead.....

    geekgolightly replied to luvmy3kids's topic in General Nursing

    i do that too. its in the middle of my brain right above vitals and labs. i write down the new stuff in red so im sure not to forget or glance over and not see it. to the right is the phys assessment...