mskate

mskate has 8 years experience and specializes in Burn, CCU, CTICU, Trauma, SICU, MICU.

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1. Ever had a patient or family members fire you?

   mskate replied to KeepItRealRN's topic in General Nursing

   I have been fired from a handful or two of rooms. I consider it a wonderful thing! I don't have to deal with you, even better! :) One time I was coming on shift with 2 patients. Separate rooms, you...

2. Pyxis - The Ultimate Fomite

   mskate replied to Turtle in scrubs's topic in General Nursing

   A bunch of people I work with rub their fingers on their foreheads or on the skin behind their ears to pick up skin oil. I think it is *disgusting* and I alcohol gel my hands after using the machine...

3. Protecting teeth during intubation

   mskate replied to mahalo366's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

   It depends on how urgent the intubation is... sometimes we will use an alcohol swab over the teeth - but most people don't like to use anything because if it moves, it is risky for an airway...

4. The most scariest thing...

   mskate replied to debRN0417's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Every time I have had to work a code in an MRI scanner. No access to your aline, too much artifact to read the EKG properly, shoddy MRI compatible IV pumps that don't program drugs into them... Having...

5. Work bags: What do you take and what's in it?

   mskate replied to PediNurse3's topic in General Nursing

   Phone, Android Tablet and their respective chargers, wallet, stethescope, water bottle, granola bars, make up and other toiletries including floss, mouthwash, toothpaste, mini-deodorant (everything I...

6. That one patient that haunts you.

   mskate replied to FancypantsRN's topic in General Nursing

   a 19 year old girl who was in the wrong place at the wrong time... she was shot 19

7. um this does not seem right

   mskate replied to meghan91's topic in General Nursing

   No, just squeezing a bag that it is attached to tubing in a pump will not do anything at all to fix air in the line. However, if your coworker took the tubing out of the pump and THEN squeezed the...

8. Help me get some peds perspective about attachment?

   mskate posted a topic in Pediatric

   So, this is about a friend of mine who is a relatively new, new grad. She worked as a nanny before nursing school and couldn't find a hospital job, so she started doing pediatric home care as a new...

9. Nurses eating and drinking at the nurses station

   mskate replied to Yiggs's topic in General Nursing

   Its not a JACHO thing, nor is it an OSHA thing. Its generally considered to be an infection control issue - which is why some places don't care about it being in the nurses station, but still regulate...

10. Nurses eating and drinking at the nurses station

    mskate replied to Yiggs's topic in General Nursing

    We always have snacks, chips, cookies, etc... set out on the counter at the nurses station for us to grab as we go by. We also have a little snack closet to that we drop some coins in and it is...

11. Cried at work... in front of a doctor!

    mskate replied to scorpio82's topic in General Nursing

    I have been made to cry by MDs too when I was a new grad... it sucks. I feel your

12. What is your policy on this?? Pacer question.

    mskate posted a topic in General Nursing

    When a patient loses cardiac activity and dies, coded and all, - actually pronounced dead... What does your hospital do about their pacemaker? Do you allow it to keep firing and send the patient to...

13. How are agency nurses being treated in San Francisco?

    mskate replied to sn03's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Working agency nursing (I'm assuming you mean a registry set up and not a traveler) is hit or miss. It pays SIGNIFICANTLY less than the standard pay of the staff nurses. When I occasionally pick up a...

14. Spouses/Visitors In Patient's Beds

    mskate replied to jpmrt's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I do not allow people in the bed. I have IV lines, medications, foleys, etc... even on the "healthy" patients and obviously for my sick ones, its an even bigger no-no. The ONLY time I let someone...

15. Would you take a pay cut?

    mskate replied to nicu4me's topic in General Nursing

    Come work in the San Francisco area!!