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my favorite is : my patient takes that white pill for water....Latex instead of Lasix O2 STAT will always be a favorite instead of SAT "My father was just diagnosed with old-timers disease" umm....it's Alzheimer's

I am 50/50 on the idea....what about these pts that are DNR's one day and family changes them the next and then they are chemical code on the 3rd day. What happens if this band is forgotten to be cut off. Also a patient with 4 or 5 bands is now a skin issue, as well as if you need to place more IVs and those bands are in the way. Sometimes we remove them while placing IV's, now your going to have to replace 4/5 of them?? we have basic white ID and blood bank Type and cross that is all. Fall is determined by blue star upon entrance to room and blue dot on pt ID band.

thanks for all my cards so far... i sent mine out yesterday all of them including canada, uk, and australia.... you should be receiving soon!! jen .p.s. loving my new pen!

YUP now i am definitely nauseated from that last post just the thought of the sound makes my mouth a little watery! ugh!

your ematophobic like me ! LOL ......isnt it awful!!!!!!! I WISH I COULD JUST GET OVER IT....BUT REALLY I CANT!

lol i have the same fear i work in telemetry very rarely do i see vomit or hear vomit, and if i do one of my co workers deals with it for me.... i am a bad emetophobic....but i made it as a nurse i have been a nurse for 4 years, progressive care certified and acls certified......everyone has their thing most people dont like vomit,,,,but other people like me and it sounds like you have a down right FEAR of it....but you switch off i can do anyrthing but the vomit....so i do the poop and the suctioning that some people dont like for a consitent trade off! dont let that fear stop you from nursing i am telling you it can be done.....and you will see signs of vomiting well before they vomit In order to step out of the room and call for backup!

i have my pocket book and my messenger bag, though sometimes i jjust throw some money and my kepys in my messenger bag......in the bag pens pens and oh yeah more pens, my 2 stethoscopes....you never know who is going to forget theirs at home my clip flashlight (yes i work nights) i put my water bottle in there and any food that doesn't need refrigerating.l...that is hoping i have time to eat. i love the nike bag, it is easy to wash and you can have all different colors so you could make it "manly" and i do have a locker thought nothing much is in it....i leave my bag in the nurses station because i work nights and not a lot of people are around....but when i work days i put it in the locker room

WOW!!!!yes yes and yes.....that post sums it up nicely.....especially! - --AND MOST IMPORTANT: You can do everything wrong, and they can still live; you can do everything right, and they can still die. There's only one Person in charge of that, and it's not any of us. and also the first patient you have die you will remember forever and your first patient who codes...will be traumatic!

I went to nike on line and designed my own can pick the colors and everything....i love it! it is sturdy and everything and cleans well.....it has 4 pockets total and little hidden pockets, it is a messenger bag/lap top bag. CHECK IT OUT....awsome christmas gifts also! find out their fav colors and your set! and you can have your name stitched inside! it will run you about 80 bucks but i gaurentee you will get tons of compliments on it and no one will have the same bag as you LOVE IT!

10 , 14 , 18 , and 22.....hello does anyone else feel those are odd times? wew those times patient requested? 4x day i'd do 6, 12, 18, 24.....or at least 8, 12, 18, 22 i wouldnt worry about withdrawl they were going all night 12 hours prior,,,,but as far as a pt with anxiety being discharged i would give them their morning dose prior to discharge

is the person in afib sometimes our automatic bp cuffs dont read a persons bp well if they are in afib secondary to the irregular pulse. and will give falso low or high or get no reading at all....anyway i would always do a manual to be sure

ugh me too HUGE pet peeve!!! but i have always had a problem saying colchacine it seems to always come out: Coal-ka-seen.....even though i know that is wrong LOL

i am with you it saves your tounge!

recently had a patient allergic to: mayo mustard ketchup pickles fresh fruits and a list of other meds

i started off on a telemetry unit which was funny because all through nursing school i wanted L&D, i didnt want nursery and didnt want postpartum i like the adreniline rush of L&D...but where ia pplied they do rotations to delivery, postpartum and nursery....which wasnt for me....so i decided to do tele...figuring if i ever want to do trauma, er, icu or high risk maternity i could get my cardiac experience...which in school i couldnt even figure the flow of blood through the heart without making a diagram HA HA....oh well there i am 5 years in and love it most of the time. The one thing with all tele units they are hig turn over, i like having a patient for more then 1 day which is rare but sometimes it happens and when i do i love it even more. I have learnt so much, and i would suggest that anyone starting out either do a med surge or tele floor for the experience.....i say tele only becuase you get that critical care experience and can advance, and reading monitors and starting drips is great learning experiences. my 2 cents....