blondy2061h

blondy2061h MSN, RN

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  1. this is why I want to call off on my last day

    blondy2061h replied to treeye's topic in General Nursing

    Good grief, is this your career or middle school? You have one day left. Suck it up. The nursing community is small. You don't want to end up blacklisted, or even with bad references. How many people...

  2. Lost new grad pediatric nurse

    blondy2061h replied to ehauser's topic in General Nursing

    Floating is miserable. There's a reason it has such a reputation for being miserable amongst nurses, and it's all the things you've said. My advice to you is to look at what you're doing now as your...

  3. A Close Call...

    blondy2061h replied to evastone's topic in General Nursing

    Even if taking a verbal order for a medication during, you need to confirm the "5 rights" of medication administration to confirm you are accurately following a complete order. This includes...

  4. High Flow Oxygen

    blondy2061h replied to LovinIt2010's topic in General Nursing

    The NG shouldn't be so big it totally occludes the

  5. Taming Naso-Gastric Tube (NGT) Torture

    blondy2061h replied to RobbiRN's topic in General Nursing

    I may be one of the only nurses that has never put in an NG tube (need special priveliging at my hospital), but seems logical. I especially like your point of going in and talking to the patient...

  6. Paediatric IV infiltration :(

    blondy2061h replied to charlimoon's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds like you handled everything perfectly. You will stop obsessing

  7. Cut Right Thumb- Can I Still Be a Nurse?

    blondy2061h replied to Thumberino's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I work with a nurse missing multiple fingers who manages to do everything just

  8. Cathing past an enlarged prostate... HELP!

    blondy2061h replied to NurseSTEAM's topic in General Nursing

    What recommendations did the urologist have? I would think continuously trying to intermittent Cath around it would be traumatic and worsen the problem. Perhaps temporarily switching to an indwelling...

  9. Looked up old nursing schoolmate. Odd situation...

    blondy2061h replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Whoa, you're a grandma? I always pictured you as a young

  10. Child Life Specialist vs Pediatric RN

    blondy2061h replied to futurern118's topic in General Students

    Well it all comes down to whether you appreciate financial security or are independently wealthy. My hospital has somewhere between 0-1 child life socialists, but is constantly hiring peds nurses. I...

  11. Ethical issue regarding antipsychotic

    blondy2061h replied to ksusn's topic in General Nursing

    Just goes to show the huge stigma mental illness

  12. Ethical issue regarding antipsychotic

    blondy2061h replied to ksusn's topic in General Nursing

    This somewhat reminds me of a situation I had years ago. I wasn't the patients nurse, but was working that night. The patient was refusing lasix because he didn't want to be up peeing all night. He...

  13. Ethical issue regarding antipsychotic

    blondy2061h replied to ksusn's topic in General Nursing

    If his seizures are pseudoseizures it is antiseizure in his

  14. Nursing homes and diabetics

    blondy2061h replied to justme.kimberly's topic in General Nursing

    Every facility's charting is going to be different. No one can comment so broadly. If you have concerns about your sister's care, ask to speak with the nurse manager or a patient

  15. Insulin pen organization

    blondy2061h replied to Nurseb52's topic in General Nursing

    Do they not fit in the patient's individual

  16. Healthcare insurance

    blondy2061h replied to Colleenj19's topic in General Nursing

    Colloquially speaking they give me insurance in the same sense that they give me a paycheck. Yes I earn it through a contract I have with them in exchange for my skilled labor as part of a benefit...

  17. Healthcare insurance

    blondy2061h replied to Colleenj19's topic in General Nursing

    I like being a nurse because my employer gives me

  18. The wait is killing me

    blondy2061h replied to fydrn2019's topic in General Students

    I got my acceptance letter 14 years

  19. 1 nurse gets assaulted by a cop HUGE STORY, what of the many assaulted everyday

    blondy2061h replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Cops are professionals charged with protecting people and thus held to a far higher standard than an alcoholic withdrawing in desperate need of a banana bag and some Ativan, the demented elderly, the...

  20. TPN PICC Line Occlusion

    blondy2061h replied to Sunshine716's topic in General Nursing

    If the patient is no longer on TPN do they still need central access? How do you know it is the TPN? I would try the TPA

  21. On call, but missed call

    blondy2061h replied to msannaa7711's topic in General Nursing

    I've tried to call people in on hospital provided pagers and not gotten responses until a panicked 3 hours later when the page finally comes through. I have had it happen with my pager, too, though,...

  22. What was your scariest threat from a patient or family member

    blondy2061h replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I can't recall any family members personally threatening me. Another nurse I work with did find herself in the back of a room with a family member shaking a fist in her face threatening to "mess [her]...

  23. omg I forgot to give report!

    blondy2061h replied to kellicutshair's topic in General Nursing

    I was on the 7p-7a shift. Because of the way two schedules backed up to each other I ended up working 6 12 hour shifts in a row. My manager felt terrible about it, so she put me in charge for the...

  24. Typical cellular data use in NS

    blondy2061h replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    In the watch app on your phone, under settings, general settings, wake screen, there's an option for how long it stay "woke" on tap. Change it from wake for 15 seconds to wake for 70

  25. Can I be discriminated against for political beliefs?

    blondy2061h replied to helloego's topic in General Nursing

    My Facebook is by and large pictures of my cat and commentary on the current weather. That type of Facebook account has served me