brillohead ADN, RN

Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty

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    Should Healthcare Professionals Ask About Guns in the Home?

    brillohead replied to P-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Kids who are properly trained in the use of firearms actually do protect themselves and family members from intruders. This one happened just this month. Here's another one from last year. Kids can...
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    Should Healthcare Professionals Ask About Guns in the Home?

    brillohead replied to P-RN's topic in General Nursing

    No need to post to let everyone know you liked something by accident... just click on the "unlike" link and nobody will know you ever did it. The "unlike" link is just above the buttons for Quote and...
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    Should Healthcare Professionals Ask About Guns in the Home?

    brillohead replied to P-RN's topic in General Nursing

    For the record, I entered this conversation initially to address the totally fabricated statistic that "three thousand kids a year die due to guns in the home". I have NO PROBLEM with a...
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    Should Healthcare Professionals Ask About Guns in the Home?

    brillohead replied to P-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Guns also exist for hunting and for enjoyment. Trampolines and go-karts and pogo sticks have no use other than being fun...and they can cause injury and death if not used properly. How about...
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    Should Healthcare Professionals Ask About Guns in the Home?

    brillohead replied to P-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Way more kids are injured by dogs each year than are injured by firearms. Don't get me wrong -- I'm a huge dog-lover and have three Labs in my home. There is no one single answer that fits every...
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    Should Healthcare Professionals Ask About Guns in the Home?

    brillohead replied to P-RN's topic in General Nursing

    But how do people decide what method to use.... will someone with no guns in the house become fixated on a gun suicide? Vice versa? Firearms-related youth suicides are outnumbered by...
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    Should Healthcare Professionals Ask About Guns in the Home?

    brillohead replied to P-RN's topic in General Nursing

    This is the biggest point to consider, IMO -- if you want to lecture people about proper gun storage/safety, you had better be well-educated in that regard. If someone is an actual gun enthusiast...
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    Should Healthcare Professionals Ask About Guns in the Home?

    brillohead replied to P-RN's topic in General Nursing

    I never said I disagreed that improperly secured ANYTHING is a problem -- I just implied that your statistics are like the points in Drew Carey's show, "Whose Line Is It Anyway": Accidental discharge...
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    Should Healthcare Professionals Ask About Guns in the Home?

    brillohead replied to P-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, but I don't consider gangbanger homicides to be "kids dying due to guns in the home". Ditto for teen suicides -- truly suicidal teens will generally try another method if they don't have a gun...
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    Accused of sleeping

    brillohead replied to cdthorste's topic in General Nursing

    I do PDN work, and I wear contact lenses. When my eyes are just that dry that they *need* some moisture, I take a pee break and close my eyes while on the toilet. This way I'm in a fully lit room...
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    Weed and work.

    brillohead replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Anyone else now have this song in their head???
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    Stupid things that nurses say

    brillohead replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    You're welcome! I think how you pronounce it just depends on regional differences and how you've heard it discussed in nursing school. Kinda like how some people say "sent-ih-meter" and some people...
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    Trach change!

    brillohead replied to Mavsmomma01's topic in Private Duty

    The obturator has nothing to do with sterility/contamination, and quite frankly I'm rather concern that you're working with a trach patient without understanding the purpose of the obturator and the...
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    Syringe suctioning a peg tube

    brillohead replied to AngelaShone's topic in Private Duty

    ^^THIS^^ Get orders for this from the PCP or a specialist, because if anything goes wrong, you're the one that's going to be the responsible party without an order. You mention that you've "been...
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    Stupid things that nurses say

    brillohead replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Just FYI, it's spelled Yankauer, and I've heard it pronounced all kinds of
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    Ridiculous Reasons to See the Nurse

    brillohead replied to NanaPoo's topic in School

    Too bad you can't make up a form that each teacher has to fill out -- in depth -- detailing exactly why the teacher feels the need to send the child to the nurse. If they had to take time out of...
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    How often did YOU see the school nurse?

    brillohead replied to SnugglePuggle's topic in School

    No school nurses here.... Michigan is dead-last in nurse-to-student ratio because it's not legislated or funded at the state
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    You Know You're A Nurse If...

    brillohead replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    One of my goggies is going to "camp" (boarding kennel) for Thanksgiving, and he's being sent with a MAR for his Xanax and Prozac, along with instructions for easy administration: Ask him if he wants a...
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    What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    brillohead replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    PERFECT!
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    Weed and work.

    brillohead replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I am just amazed that people can go through nursing school in this day and age without drug screens every year, if not every semester. All of my school's clinical sites required
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    How do you stand the boredom?

    brillohead replied to lpn90425's topic in Private Duty

    Surfing the internet, catching up on emails, reading (book / Kindle / newspaper / magazine), playing games on computer/tablet, listen to
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    Oh, you quirky night shifter you!

    brillohead replied to dannibeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    My teenager is definitely my child.... summers and weekends he stays up all night and sleeps all day. At least he doesn't get flak from me over it -- I totally
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    Crazy Parents

    brillohead replied to maryel's topic in School

    Holy crap, talk about playing Russian Roulette with your kid's
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    Oh, you quirky night shifter you!

    brillohead replied to dannibeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    Some assignments I'm an hour's drive from home. I have at least ten different spots identified along the drive home where it's safe for me to park and catnap so I don't fall asleep at the
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    Oh, you quirky night shifter you!

    brillohead replied to dannibeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've been working days since March, and it's horrible! Who goes to bed before midnight? Who gets up at 0530? It's just not right!!! Hopefully by the first of the year I'll be back on nights again...