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  1. Please share something GOOD that happened at work!

    confused101 replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    One night about a month ago I sent a 93 year old man to the unit intubated. Then I got a 99 year old woman who came in without a UTI. Yes, I said without. I am still so amazed and proud of the...

  2. Tis the season for new docs

    confused101 replied to TXTraumaRN's topic in Emergency

    My favorite is when you call about something and they ask what do you think? I say I don't think anything about the guy who says 8/10 pain and walks around with his PCA pump and half zoned out. :)...

  3. Tis the season for new docs

    confused101 replied to TXTraumaRN's topic in Emergency

    Exactly!

  4. pain meds

    confused101 replied to onduty23's topic in Medical-Surgical

    If I have 2 different pain meds. IN this example dilaudid and percoset. I will give the percs first. Reassess in an hour(ideally), most of the time it is two because of other people. Then if they...

  5. Nurses, Policemen and Firemen

    confused101 replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Almost 2 years ago, I posted about nurses grieving as one of their own dies. I was dealing with a coworker and a friend of mine that died. The unit was in aw at the time. The friend was a...

  6. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    confused101 replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh my goodness. I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. I can just imagine the 86 year old women going at it with her fists. Oh

  7. What is the funniest thing that you have seen while working?

    confused101 replied to 2benurse2008's topic in General Nursing

    rotfl

  8. sleeping pills

    confused101 replied to SWAT_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah on the benadryl. I use it when I have to go in the next night and can't sleep. I have the clearest sinuses on the unit and some good sleep. Never am groogy at work either. Can take it up to...

  9. riverside anyone?

    confused101 replied to mommy2BCD's topic in Ohio Nursing

    Riverside is now magnet. I work there and I'm very happy with

  10. Scared of going to night shift

    confused101 replied to iLovemyJackRT's topic in General Nursing

    I don't work three in a row. I only work two. Can't do the three in a row yet. I have always worked either evenings or nights. Like the other posters say get up and do something. Some nights my...

  11. Violating a Code Status...

    confused101 replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    Last time I worked I intubated at 93 year old man. Stroke in Feb. a&o times 0-1. Aspiration pneumonia from tube feed. Peg tube, sunction every two hours just to think your helping. Family...

  12. Lantus insulin question

    confused101 replied to evans_c1's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    I work on a dialysis/renal/diabetic floor. I always call the Md if the BS is at or below 100 if getting Lantus. Most of my pt's are on a sliding scale too. I have seen pt.'s go 300's to 15 with...

  13. Nursing school while raising a family

    confused101 replied to jewelshouse's topic in General Nursing

    I got married 2 months before I started my 4 year BSN program. My husband was working 40 hours+ at a computer programmer job. Just started that for a year and this was after the bubble burst, so...

  14. Question about preoperative medication

    confused101 replied to msteresa97's topic in General Nursing

    are they talking about sedative meds like versed or something

  15. Easy question on pancreatitis- who's smart?

    confused101 replied to Guest219794's topic in General Nursing

    resting=no

  16. Salem Sump NG Tubes

    confused101 replied to annmariern's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I never and we just got

  17. Newbie Needing advise

    confused101 replied to MedicGA's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Yeah about the MD's. That is why I can't do OR. Can't get yelled at all the time or think that they are God

  18. Nurse Rounding

    confused101 replied to Margeincharge's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I have to do every hour before 11pm then every 2 hours. The Rn and techs are supposed to rotate every other hour or time. I thought it was only on my floor. Now I floated to another after our floor...

  19. BSN does not mean better... Sometimes education is overrated!

    confused101 replied to lovegoddess1977's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I have said before that I think the skills checklist should be required in BSN too. I got my BSN and I have noticed a difference in some schools nurses. I was one that had trouble with the whole IV...

  20. Assisting with micturition

    confused101 replied to mobilmedic's topic in General Nursing

    I have put the urinal where it needs to be in the bed or helping a pt. stand up. Some men say they can't pee in the bed and have to stand up. No big deal. I hate when men expose themselves for the...

  21. Doesn't it seem like forever

    confused101 replied to gt4everpn's topic in General Nursing

    Give a week. Call HR. If no response I always start calling the supervisor or manager of that floor to get an interview. Sometimes take it in your hands. It's not them that pays the

  22. drawing up small amounts of meds?

    confused101 replied to LanaBanana's topic in General Nursing

    When I push morphine through a CIV, I take a 3ml syringe and draw the medication out of the syringe/vial. I then take a prepackaged 10ml NS flush, open it, and inject the medication into the flush...

  23. drawing up small amounts of meds?

    confused101 replied to LanaBanana's topic in General Nursing

    We have 10mg/1ml morphine at my work. We just got the carpuject system in Feb. We used to have ampules for morphine and dilaudid. My thumb was so sore after two nights in a row working because...

  24. Violating a Code Status...

    confused101 replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    I had a pt. come from the ICU with a central line. Pt. is A&O times 1-2. Never saw family at bedside. Pt. has unstable b/p and blood sugars. Treated and everything was ok. I go home and come...

  25. which journal to get?

    confused101 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello all, In the past I have gotten Nursing 2007 or whatever year it is at that present time. I have thought about other journals, but when I was a student I thought this was affordable and I...