elizabeth8503RN MSN, EMT-B, NP

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    Update: A Lesson in Family, Ethics and End of Life

    elizabeth8503RN replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    {{{{{{{{{{{{{{Tait}}}}}}}}}}}} Your struggles with your grandmother sounds very familiar. About this time last year I went through something similar with my grandmother. She started in with...
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    A funny and warped FACES pain scale

    elizabeth8503RN replied to SlightlyMental_RN's topic in General Nursing

    tooooooo
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    Funny Nursing Dreams

    elizabeth8503RN replied to abbaking's topic in Nursing Humor

    So... last night I had a scary nursing dream. In my dream my BF was covered in blood, then he started to pee out this bright red blood, full of clots. He told me that this happens all the time,...
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    The Special Language between you and your Home Care Patient

    elizabeth8503RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Everyone has their own little terms for specific things....these are a few that I have been taught in my time taking care of a rather interesting quad. (all of these "terms" have been created by the...
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    MORPHINE and Dying Patients

    elizabeth8503RN replied to constantlylearning's topic in General Nursing

    I lost my gpa M to a heart attack post LLL amputation last October. Immediately following his MI, he was lucid, able to talk, and manageable. As the night wore on, and his heart began to further...
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    Get it off your chest! What's the rudest thing a doctor ever said to you?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to vhern246's topic in General Nursing

    I was working LTC just out of nursing school, we had a new admit, and at the beginning of my shift (11-7) the patient seemed to be fine, VS all within normal, LCTA. 2 hours later: BP was bottoming...
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    Diagnoses you never thought you'd see?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to KarafromPhilly's topic in General Nursing

    My late grandpa (he died in October) had both of his breasts removed for possible breast cancer. Turns out they were just benign
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    Funny Nursing Dreams

    elizabeth8503RN replied to abbaking's topic in Nursing Humor

    Recently I had a very weird dream about a girl who tried to commit suicide by swallowing a tree (yes a tree.... trunk, leaves, roots and all) When I asked her how she managed to do this...she told me...
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    What did you do before you were a nurse?

    elizabeth8503RN replied to CAPPYBARA BREAKFAST's topic in General Nursing

    -Subway Sandwich Artist @ 15 -CNA @ 18 (studied to be CNA while still in high school) -LPN @ 20 (got my license 6 weeks after turning 20) -RN @ 21 (got my license 2 months after turning
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    heart fluttering

    elizabeth8503RN replied to 21police's topic in General Nursing

    We can't give you any medical advice. Keep that appt with your
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    The Other Professions of Nursing

    elizabeth8503RN posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    When you became a nurse they never told you that you would also have to be sooo many other things like....... - Housekeeper: must be able to pick up after any and all messes -...
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    More Questions/Prayers Needed

    elizabeth8503RN replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    Got more lab results in.... My baby sis's anemia has resolved itself. X-rays to her hands show no indications of abnormal results, and that her growth plates have yet to close (which is normal for...
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    More Questions/Prayers Needed

    elizabeth8503RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    sooo.... my baby sister has started track this year. she just turned 13 last month. problem is, her joints have been swelling up, mainly her ankles. she has been icing them down for the past several...
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    body fluids, vomit, feces, smells, etc.

    elizabeth8503RN replied to chijon512's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I'm just lucky...I have NO sense of smell....or rather a very very very blunted sense of smell....(I have had this non-sense of smell since I was either born or very little) If something has a...
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    your nursing decison

    elizabeth8503RN replied to dark40's topic in General Nursing

    I was in 4th grade when ER came out. My mom was home, and wanted me to sit down and watch it with her. I was hooked immediately. Granted I now know that ER isn't as realistic as I was led to...
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    More Questions/Prayers Needed

    elizabeth8503RN replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks sooo much for your post. I know that the medications now have improved so much over the years. But right now its the not knowing whats going on that is killing us. I hate to see my baby sis...
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    More Questions/Prayers Needed

    elizabeth8503RN replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    When I say that she is athletic, I mean in her build, she is about 5 foot, 4 inches, although, she may be about 5 5 by now, and probably doesn't weigh much more than 120. She is tall and skinny....
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    More Questions/Prayers Needed

    elizabeth8503RN replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    Sooo....Got back from the doc.... His thought is that the swelling may be a reactive arthritis. When she arrived to the doctor's office, she had no swelling to show, but, he stated that if she were...
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    More Questions/Prayers Needed

    elizabeth8503RN replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    I am not asking for medical advice.... That is why I am going to the doctor tomorrow with my baby sis. I am just needing to talk about this with someone that understands medical stuff...(my family...
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    More Questions/Prayers Needed

    elizabeth8503RN replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    Over the past year or so she has been on antibotics once or twice for tonsilitis or similar issues....but her ankles only started to swell after she started to run for track. Her hands/fingers have...
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    More Questions/Prayers Needed

    elizabeth8503RN replied to elizabeth8503RN's topic in General Nursing

    Juvenile RA can be diagnosed as early as a year old (according to my Diseases book) my baby sis is 13, and in order for it to be diagnosed as Juvenile RA, it has to be diagnosed under the age of 16....
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    Almost Fainting

    elizabeth8503RN replied to cashew1's topic in General Nursing

    The two times that I can remember nearly fainting was when I forgot to eat for like an entire day (I know...I know...thats not good...but at the time I had just been put on a medication that decreases...
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    Are you sure its not a full moon!?!?!

    elizabeth8503RN replied to ilovejose22's topic in Nursing Humor

    sounds like some of the days that I had while working over in the psych ward.... gotta love it.... and those were just the play ole regular
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    Nursing is not recession proof

    elizabeth8503RN replied to Bluekitteh's topic in General Nursing

    From what I can see.... it looks like you and I are in the same boat...being in Iowa and looking for another job... IT STINKS....but hopefully things will change....GOOOOD
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    Elective induction

    elizabeth8503RN replied to amped12's topic in General Nursing

    My mom has four children...me and my three younger sisters. I was born naturally. My next younger sister was born an emergency c-section due to the fact that she thought she was gonna come out like...