Cathlabnurse46

Cathlabnurse46

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  1. loving life

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to raisonbrancruch's topic in General Nursing

    always remember this part of robert frost

  2. loving life

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to raisonbrancruch's topic in General Nursing

    Hello RBC... welcome. Here's my story that I posted yesterday on "why I became a nurse". But fist a funny story about an elevator trip I had in my hospital some years ago... maybe 12-15 years. I was...

  3. is it just me?

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to cloudstrife1ph's topic in General Nursing

    so welcome to your first experance in the transition from ideaism to the real world of health care. as a student, you are fairly isolated and learn what is "ideal", not always what is happening in...

  4. Gift for Nurse

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to kad11's topic in General Nursing

    Well they are closing 600 stores due to this economy.... too

  5. Gift for Nurse

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to kad11's topic in General Nursing

    yep... I have done the spa packages, nice coffee machines that grind fresh beans, the littman stephoscopes seem to have been a trade mark for me being a cardiac nurse. I've done it as mile stones,...

  6. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Don't the sex shops do that? What will you do, host a "pleasure party"? I can see it now, invite Dan Hannah or the Croc Hunters family!

  7. I can't cath to save my life!

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to espritjolieRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes... but this way I don't have to digg around to find it! The cath with hit the next hole (or come back out at you). I have to place foleys while patients are on the cath lab table.... drapped and...

  8. I can't cath to save my life!

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to espritjolieRN's topic in General Nursing

    for some woman... FLIP THEM OVER! Some time even on there side. I can honestly say that I never was not able to cath a female ( was never taught this way but found out when I owned and ALF and had...

  9. Imposter Alert?

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to xjenn's topic in General Nursing

    check the link... the is a picture on the page. It would make a great topic for a PPP and intersting for you instructor to know that a fellow teacher even had been

  10. Life Crisis

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to markfrc65's topic in General Nursing

    A short story: When I was in nursing school I had a room mate named Lee. Lee had sickle cell and every 6 weeks or so (depending on how much we partied) he had to have transfussions due to crisis. His...

  11. Imposter Alert?

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to xjenn's topic in General Nursing

    what is a "nursing imposter alert"? i never knew these existed. there was a story locally here in tampa a few weeks ago about a nursing instructor a phcc (pasco hernado community college) who taught...

  12. Digoxin Error, How should it be handled? Worried for a Pt.

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to WVStarFish's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed, LPN's scope is a dependant lic. However, I have seen LPN worth 2-3 RN's and would trust thier judgement. Is there another nurse who you work with that can make a

  13. Digoxin Error, How should it be handled? Worried for a Pt.

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to WVStarFish's topic in General Nursing

    you have a nursing license.... it is your responsibility, if he is your patient, to notify the physician. it is my understanding (i don't work in a long term care facility... but i owned several...

  14. Digoxin Error, How should it be handled? Worried for a Pt.

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to WVStarFish's topic in General Nursing

    i hope this is the bigger error! half of .125 is .0625. technicalities! at half the dose the pt serum dig level would be too law to cause harm. the issue is, is his heart rate now too fast (which...

  15. Gift for Nurse

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to kad11's topic in General Nursing

    I always gave a nice litman stephoscope to friends and

  16. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Lamaz, I love the way you think, especially politically. I'm a political animal. But were are taking about 26 years ago when I got into nursing. Hell back then I go free health care coverage,...

  17. Who went to Keiser College?

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to Hind12's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I said in another thread that from what I have seen..... they give me good students to teach. They are attentive, willing to learn and better preparred than the community college

  18. keiser college

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to kiya05tall's topic in Florida Nursing

    We have Keiser students come to our hospital and I can tell you that most of them are better prepared than the community college students. I teach all the students who come to my area (the cath lab)...

  19. First day as an RN - words of advice

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to luvtosmile's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I can't remember my first day! It was 23 1/2 years ago.... I think the long term memory is going too. Your going to have a "transition" from CNA mode to RN mode which is not bad, it means your more...

  20. Ethical and moral dilemma

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to pdaddy's topic in General Nursing

    i'll post this link to a wsj artilce on the lead. we don't "explant" the leads often as the risk of myocardial wall rupture is higher than the risk of leaving a lean in place. we no longer use this...

  21. new nurse facility missing a narc

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to sparkles_2221's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I would also say that benzos are common to narc addicts... it eases them down. They should be locked up and counted. My sister was an adict. I lost her in

  22. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    As I posted on the stories side of the forum, I spent many years in a Shriners Hospital. But this is not why I became a Nurse, it made me a better nurse and more comfortable in hospitals, but not why...

  23. new nurse facility missing a narc

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to sparkles_2221's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    So some facilities still use the old "shingle sheets"? This is why many places use a PIXIS or other electronic/computerized system. There are so many ways to get around shingle sheets and not a...

  24. Ethical and moral dilemma

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to pdaddy's topic in General Nursing

    This is acutally a fairly "common" event with a certian lead. Or should I say becoming a more common event. Of the major manufacturers of devices, all but one have had lead or device recalls in the...

  25. measuring pulsus paradoxus

    Cathlabnurse46 replied to akvarmit's topic in Emergency

    From the link above Pulsus paradoxus or paradoxical pulse: This is an exaggeration (>12 mm Hg or 9%) of the normal inspiratory decrease in systemic blood pressure. To measure the pulsus paradoxus,...