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Ok, I have this gripe with our blood bank... Whenever you need to go down and get your blood (or FFP/platelets/etc) and request more than one unit at a time, they ask if the units will be administered within 20 minutes. This just baffles me. Our poli...

A massive IVH could cause the brain to shift, causing debilitating injuries or brain death with a very very very slim chance of ANY recovery. Family probably didn't want her to suffer, especially with her PMH.

haha, a minute before posting this, I just asked my finance how to spell conscious for another post. Just a funny coincidence

Honestly, I have one of each. I work in neuro, so you need a good one to assess pupils. I usually only use the LED one on pts who are intubated/sedated/etc to get a better assessment on someone who can't talk to me. I would never shine that LED light...

Lucky. Last 2 times I got pulled over, I was in uniform... and got a ticket. So way to go! :)

Being in the hospital can be very disorienting, especially when it comes to the date. I barely know the date myself, I couldn't imagine what it would be like if I were in the hospital, being woken up day and night and being sick. I generally just ask...

Something like this just happened a couple months ago. I've had several patients die, but this one just hit me harder. It was a 99 year old woman just told told me how wonderful she slept the night before. I left the room and no more than 2 minutes l...

Most major cities have a free clinic (or several) who rely on and love their volunteers. I know it isn't as glamorous as going overseas, but they tend to always be short staffed, and there is a lot to learn in the clinics. Just a thought :)

I suppose the area of nursing you're going into affects the amount of poo and other bodily fluids you see... but the bottom line is if you're going into floor nursing, you're going to get your hands dirty... sometimes literally. Expecting a CNA to cl...

Painful stimuli is a good indication... Also if the patient repeats something you've said during the midst of the "seizure"

You'll be surprised by how much you know when you get out there, and if you don't know something, ASK. There's no shame in it. I think just about everyone felt like they didn't know anything when they first started. Heck, some days I still have that ...

I've seen it done only once. It was a patient who had a trach, then was decannulated. A few days later, they went into resp distress. So he used lidocaine through the trach stoma, then intubated orally. I'm not sure for the reasoning behind this.... ...

I use biopatches currently in NC, and I also used them in Ohio when I lived there.

I completed the ECCO program. We were to complete it at home. We did get paid for it, although we would not get paid overtime for it. We just had to turn our CEUs in from that particular section, and got paid however many hours were on the CEUs. At t...

Hey everyone! I was wondering how everyone deals with a patient who has a poor prognosis, but family insists on everything being done. Sometimes I feel like we're torturing these poor patients. Despite explanations from doctors, and educations from n...

Sorry if there has been previous threads discussing this. I currently work in an adult ICU setting, and I was considering a change and looking for a job in NICU. Are there any current NICU RNs out there who started off working with adults? I was just...

Thanks, I LOVE this! :typing

I worked in a LTAC before working in an ICU, and I felt it helped me a lot. You get all sorts of experience with vents, lines, and all sorts of other things. I was told (and agree with, at least in our unit) when I was interviewed that the acuity of ...

Started off with one boy out of 50. He dropped out after the first semester, so 0 guys in my graduating class.

Haha, that's one of my favorite scenes!

Thank you for sharing that, AliRae. It was very touching. As for me talking to brain dead patients? Sure do. I also like to give them a good bath and shave if needed before we withdraw.

I had the same problem. I started my job about 7 months ago, and had been on nights up until 2 weeks ago. Night shift is a great way to get in and learn the ropes of the particular unit, but I couldn't do it anymore. I felt like crap all the time, ha...

I think most hospitals in NE Ohio are phasing out LPNs. There may be small hospitals that are hiring LPNs, but none that I can think of off the top of my head.

I moved from Ohio where COL living was less expensive, and I still took a pay cut coming here to NC. When the HR rep told me my pay, I asked her why it was so low, and she just told me that is competitive for the area... Still ticked about it. Making...

Whaaaaa? Every place I've worked there had to be a person to hand over the blood to (be it RN, NA, secretary). I wish we could do that though! It'd make life just a little bit easier!