cherrybreeze

cherrybreeze ADN, RN

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  1. Bummed..might have foot stress fracture!

    cherrybreeze replied to Sonjailana's topic in General Nursing

    I am (finally!) recovered from a tibial stress fracture that I got in June (from running...or trying to run, I had just started!). Had severe knee pain even at rest, finally had an MRI that lit up...

  2. Calling all Nurses

    cherrybreeze replied to palo143's topic in General Nursing

    1. Med/Surg 2. not difficult, no, just very time-consuming (I worked FT while in school) 3. have been on my unit this whole time! 4. 8 year anniversary is

  3. Traction Foley s/p cystoscopy? Ouch?

    cherrybreeze replied to stellina615's topic in General Nursing

    Hm, I'm not sure....all I can say is that where I am, they're a rarity (when I started 8 years ago, EVERY prostatectomy had one!). They only use them now if someone really has some serious bleeding...

  4. *sigh*....In need of attitude adjustment!

    cherrybreeze posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I just have to vent a little bit here, sorry. I came back to work recently after being on a 2 month medical leave for a tibial stress fracture. They were kind enough to give me a little time to get...

  5. *sigh*....In need of attitude adjustment!

    cherrybreeze replied to cherrybreeze's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thank you guys, I need to get that out, and it helps to know other people understand! My sis and I are close and I can vent to her a lot, but if you don't work it, you just can't know~ Sonic~I'll do...

  6. Traction Foley s/p cystoscopy? Ouch?

    cherrybreeze replied to stellina615's topic in General Nursing

    Glad that helps...just picture the foley tubing taped like crazy to the patient's leg, without much slack on the cath, and that's what you've got (I tried to find a pic, but I couldn't). We use it...

  7. Traction Foley s/p cystoscopy? Ouch?

    cherrybreeze replied to stellina615's topic in General Nursing

    Traction is done with tape...the foley is "pulled" (not CRANKED on, but enough to let the balloon apply some pressure to the base of the bladder) and then taped to the leg (often with a LOT of tape )....

  8. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    cherrybreeze replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    To the ER nurse, calling with our umpteenth admission of the night tonite (d'oh) and talking to the CNA watching the desk/phone, wanting to get a room number for said admission and when the CNA told...

  9. Free boob job hiring perk for nurses

    cherrybreeze replied to treetop2's topic in General Nursing

    You mean I could have gotten them for free for doing what I do anyway? Rats. ha ha

  10. New grad frustrated, but trapped...in a "profession" i HATE.

    cherrybreeze replied to Sparx28's topic in General Nursing

    i'll give you the benefit of the doubt here, since i see you have only 2 posts....that's what this forum is for; questions and simply venting. that's ok, and there is nothing wrong with the op coming...

  11. Do male nurses recieve as much respect from patients as female ones do?INPUT IS GREAT

    cherrybreeze replied to david18's topic in Men in Nursing

    I think the male nurses tend to get MORE respect. Plenty of times they get mistaken for being the doctor (no matter how many times they correct the patient, they believe it anyway), and the docs that...

  12. Are nurses treated as terribly as people imply?

    cherrybreeze replied to kprince's topic in General Nursing

    I live in WI. I honestly do not know what the starting wage for RN's is here, but that varies anyway depending on if you start in a hospital, clinic, LTC, whatever. So my wage, especially after 8...

  13. No More Fingersticks for Techs!!

    cherrybreeze replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly, I think this is just another example of something that some RN's don't want to give up/are "possessive" about, in thinking that only they can do. We have seen a lot of this on the council...

  14. No More Fingersticks for Techs!!

    cherrybreeze replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    OK, after I hit post, I had to go check the profile just to make sure. I wasn't trying to be mean or start a fight, hope it didn't sound that way. But yet, pagan is an LPN (and a DANG good one, from...

  15. No More Fingersticks for Techs!!

    cherrybreeze replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    Seriously, you're being a little sensitive here, IMO. I don't think anyone is putting LPN's or CNA's down (not in the post you're referring to, at any rate, I haven't read them ALL in detail). The...

  16. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    cherrybreeze replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    To the patient who doesn't want any "fat, unattractive" nurses, since we should all be "fit and healthy" since we're supposed to be "setting examples" for our patients (I about died when I heard he...

  17. Time frame for med passing

    cherrybreeze replied to sydylo's topic in General Nursing

    We actually switched not long ago the other way around....from the half hour on each side to the hour. Of course, I use my judgement there, too.......a QID med is going to be given closer to the...

  18. How far would you go to help someone.

    cherrybreeze replied to diane227's topic in General Nursing

    I want to say that I would have taken some sort of action, but I truly don't think ANYone can say that unless they're in the situation....intervening on a beating is NOT the same as witnessing...

  19. "Atypical" Nurse? How discouraging...

    cherrybreeze replied to Darjeeling22's topic in General Nursing

    Well, we are in the SAME boat of almost 30, unmarried, no kids. I don't have a BF right now, as I'm almost a year and a half out of a relationship that I thought was the *one* and it ended up going...

  20. HELP SOME MORE

    cherrybreeze replied to justt139's topic in General Nursing

    You can obviously do your math on a calculator, but you have to know what math you are DOING or it won't be right anyway...make sense? I'm sorry, I have a hard time with people coming here to get...

  21. Your favorite nursing gadget?

    cherrybreeze replied to AOx1's topic in General Nursing

    They DO! I WAS buying my Sharpie pens at Walgreen's, but had to make a trip to OfficeMax and found a 4 pack of them.....black, blue, green, red. Heaven.

  22. HELP HELP

    cherrybreeze replied to justt139's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, we would need to know HOW you're getting those answers, if it's actually going to be of help and not just answering them FOR you. I can see from the first question that, it looks like you...

  23. "Call Back"

    cherrybreeze replied to tgirl84's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in WI too, this sounds mostly like what we do......you can refuse to be called off, and they go on to whoever's next in line (if EVERYONE refuses, the first person would HAVE to take it, but I...

  24. No More Fingersticks for Techs!!

    cherrybreeze replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, nursing is a process and not a series of tasks...but taking a fingerstick blood sugar is a TASK. A simple one at that. In the hospital, our CNA's do it (years ago when I was a CNA in the...

  25. Calling in....

    cherrybreeze replied to SweetLemon's topic in General Nursing

    If I am understanding what you are saying (which wasn't easy to do), ... that doesn't matter. Obviously a shift will be busy if there's a call in, but too dang bad, that's life. ANYWHERE is busier...