blondy2061h

blondy2061h MSN, RN

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  1. Name of unit ER patients are transferred to

    blondy2061h replied to Audricus's topic in General Nursing

    23 hour observation unit? Clinical decision unit? In reality, most units get patients from the ER, these would just be units that are like extended ER/inpatient halfway houses so to speak. Purgatory...

  2. Brian Short News

    blondy2061h replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    This is unbelievably sad news. I read it first last night when I was tired and woke up this morning thinking about the poor Short family and hoping my brain processed things incorrectly. It was...

  3. Diabetic Alert Dog at work in Hospital

    blondy2061h replied to Brookieakorsie's topic in General Nursing

    This is another interesting point I haven't considered. How would you respond to alerts right away? I can't respond to pump and CGM alarms right away when I'm at work all of the time, if I'm in the...

  4. Diabetic Alert Dog at work in Hospital

    blondy2061h replied to Brookieakorsie's topic in General Nursing

    I just don't get the practicality of a dog. It seems to be a trendy thing with very little evidence to actually support it. I have type 1 DM also. If your blood sugars are still poorly controlled...

  5. Diabetic Alert Dog at work in Hospital

    blondy2061h replied to Brookieakorsie's topic in General Nursing

    Even in an office setting, what's it going to be? You, another nurse, a mom, a toddler sibling, and your black lab in a tiny exam room giving vaccines to a squirming and screaming

  6. Diabetic Alert Dog at work in Hospital

    blondy2061h replied to Brookieakorsie's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, there's no way that would fly in my bone marrow transplant unit. Too much of an infection risk. The hospital employed service dogs aren't allowed in, and when we've had patients whose dying wish...

  7. The Heat is On: Why the Temporal Artery Thermometer Should Be Your "Go-To"

    blondy2061h replied to Exergen Corporation's topic in General Nursing

    Our bone marrow transplant patients get really thrilled when the TA thermometers get a temp of 38.2 the night before discharge and we have to panculture them, restart Zosyn for another week, and delay...

  8. Triage Gems

    blondy2061h replied to R!XTER's topic in General Nursing

    Except when that's the critical part of the complaint. "I'm feeling weaker than normal, and, oh, by the way- I had a total pancreatectomy 3 weeks ago and had a 104 degree fever this

  9. The Heat is On: Why the Temporal Artery Thermometer Should Be Your "Go-To"

    blondy2061h replied to Exergen Corporation's topic in General Nursing

    I hate these things. Wish my hospital never switched to these. You must have some sales team because they're the most unreliable piece of equipment I've used outside of our bladder scanners- they have...

  10. Afib: A question of nursing judgment

    blondy2061h replied to crazycat1's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, definitely needs to go to the ER. The irregular HR might be afib. Or it might be a new third degree heart block. This one is s no

  11. Late on interview.

    blondy2061h replied to nursefromcali's topic in General Nursing

    Dobby mustn't be late. Dobby will punish himself now quite

  12. Nurse Slang Yo!

    blondy2061h replied to ladysushi's topic in General Nursing

    Looking to rent a vent- decompensating and about to get

  13. Nurse Slang Yo!

    blondy2061h replied to ladysushi's topic in General Nursing

    As opposed to shake and bake, what people used to do with Amphotericin- aka amphoterrible- infusions before they made it a liposomal formulation and took all the fun out of it. DIC- Death Is Coming...

  14. Nurse Slang Yo!

    blondy2061h replied to ladysushi's topic in General Nursing

    We used to have a chronic vent/challenging wean, trach & peg unit that I used to refer to as the Produce

  15. Nurse Slang Yo!

    blondy2061h replied to ladysushi's topic in General Nursing

    I had a BOSS that used to say "Good Lord, get that women some pillow talk therapy!" when we had people on the call light a lot. The first time she said it I had no idea what she meant, and I was...

  16. Nurse Slang Yo!

    blondy2061h replied to ladysushi's topic in General Nursing

    I love TMB. I'm going to start using that. Not that we see those patients much in transplant. But I know the

  17. Type and crossmatch

    blondy2061h replied to Tnicole09RN's topic in General Nursing

    People that get frequent blood transfusions can develop other antibodies that can effect compatibility. Not major issues, like A vs B, but less common

  18. That one random nugget of information from nursing school that you've never forgotten..

    blondy2061h replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    I has pretty much totally forgotten about that, then I got my Lucky Iron Fish (I have iron deficiency anemia) and the directions said to add some lemon or lime juice to recipes when using it to lower...

  19. That one random nugget of information from nursing school that you've never forgotten..

    blondy2061h replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    She probably went into shock from urosepsis from having a bunch of urostasis from an occluded urethra for however long it took the presumably elderly patient to make >1000 ml of

  20. Nurse Slang Yo!

    blondy2061h replied to ladysushi's topic in General Nursing

    Circling- as in, circling the drain, not doing well Celestial discharge- patient died Walkie/talkie- Largely independent patient, ie, one that walks and talks Prince/Princess- Needy patient with high...

  21. Random Drug Testing

    blondy2061h replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    My facility doesn't do drug testing...at all. Sometimes I think it's

  22. why do so many nurses post that they love the med scanners

    blondy2061h replied to the nites's topic in General Nursing

    Really not a fan of med scanning. Our system is slow and buggy. But I really hope that's not what I'm thinking about with my dying

  23. You are NOT allergic to...

    blondy2061h replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I like my checkbox + narrative system. We can add comments on every section as we go. I can use the checkboxes alone to chart a normal assessment in about 5 minutes on a patient about to be...

  24. You are NOT allergic to...

    blondy2061h replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm guessing that was aspart

  25. Walking from school at night with deer and no street lamps?

    blondy2061h replied to KatFUTUREnurse's topic in General Students

    One deer may not be a problem, but many deers can certainly be aggressive! In reality, OP- you're making a problem where there is none. In my experience, most three hour classes end a touch early so...