Hilinenursegrl

Hilinenursegrl

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  1. Is it possible to just get it???

    I graduated May of 2007. I had this very same discussion with a nursing student friend of mine our first semester. It's not like I was in a medical field before I went to nursing school, I was a...
  2. Verbal charting for nurses?

    All of our charting, except traumas, are done electronically on the EHR. The program we have is very user friendly and once you get used to it is a breeze to use. We have alot of check boxes to...
  3. add your funny TRIAGE complaints from pts

    " I was bit by a raccoon" True "I was bit by a gopher" True "I locked myself out of the house when I went out to have a smoke and had to break the window with my elbow b/c my baby was in there" Not...
  4. Staff Carrying Pyjamas On Night Shift!!

    I work in a very tiny, read 4 bed ER at an Indian Health hospital on the reservation. You can imagine, we are never very busy. Exception is tonight, starting my shift by walking into a 4 pt MVC!...
  5. Double Glove with HIV positive patients

    They are called universal precautions for a reason; they will be your best protection universally across the board. I don't feel there is any need to "double glove" I work in the ER with lots of...
  6. hippa violation

    Well we are all waiting to hear the update. If it matters anymore, I think this was a HIPPA violation as you learned this information, and shared this information, as a health care
  7. We too lost a fellow student. She had a heart attack in the first semester of second year. We were allowed to give her family a pin in her honor and made a speach about all her hard work and how she...
  8. I was pres of my class, 2007. It was 2 weeks after my 13 year old son was killed. I gave a speach something No one trips over a mountain it is the pebbles that we stumble on, make your way through...
  9. can anyone help

    I agree that answer four is the best answer. Remember all may be correct but what is the best correct answer. This response is the best because it opens the door for the pt to talk more about the...
  10. Poked myself with a syringe

    Here we also draw up the med in the med room, switch needles;using the "scoop" technique" then administer them and place them in the sharps without recapping. Atomic I would be interested to know how...
  11. tips to handle Fri-Sun almost 14 hr night shift?

    I work a 7-730 shift 45 miles from my house. One week I work 3 shifs the next I work 4. I get up at 5 am and get home between 8-830pm. I work in an er so it can be busy busy. The plus side is I work...
  12. Which Do You Prefer???

    My sister bought me an Ultrascope last year for my birthday, personalized and everything. I love it. Not only does it look good, I can hear everything. As for shoes, I bought some Rykas on sale...
  13. Who Watches ER?

    I find myself doing that ALL the time when watching shows like ER, House or Grey's Anatomy. MY SO finds it very annoying
  14. One of our instructors told us if they ask if it is our first time we can say no and not be lying because we have done it in clinical lab. Of course just say no its not my first. They don't have to...
  15. " Go ahead and call the admin, do you want me to dial the number for you" "This is an emergency room, I'm sorry if you have had to wait for over an hour while we were trying to save this heart pt in...
  16. In my school it was absolutely forbidden to practice sticks on each other. Due to the risk of infection and such there was a policy in place that we could only practice on practice pads and fake...
  17. The worst or strangest orders you have seen...

    "Once in awhile when a peds patient dies, the doctors will order stuff like that for the parents. I've also seen sleeping meds ordered for family members." My 13 year old son was killed last year....
  18. When the end has come

    I found out my grandmother had passed when the funeral home called my house at 5 am to ask for my mother (Iwas 16) I asked to take a msg since last I knew she was at the hospital with my grandmother,...
  19. Patient's Safety

    I'm not sure about your facility but where I work there is a chain of command and we don't just go straight to admin before going though the other channels first. Look up your policies and procedure...
  20. What do you consider your anniversary date?

    Well I graduated in May of 2007, Got my license in Dec 07, and started my job here in April 08. I consider that my "aniversary" because that is when I actually started "being" a
  21. mistakes made during your first year...

    No one can top this one and I will NEVER forget it. It was sometime within the first couple weeks of my very first nursing job ever, in the ER of all places. I had an order to give IM phenergan. So I...
  22. The worst or strangest orders you have seen...

    "Valium 5mg po now, give to patient's wife for anxiety." This past summer my uncle went through a prostatectomy-sp?- and the docs were more concerned about my aunt and her anxiety and panic, it was...
  23. The worst or strangest orders you have seen...

    "Not an order but it is printed on our MARs: Ducolax suppository per rectum (is there any question?) Please remove foil before inserting ...Makes you wonder who the idiot was that forgot to remove the...
  24. Worst doctors orders ever received

    We have an MD that frequently orders urine Hcg's to R/O pregnancy on abd pains and before getting back or abd. films. That's fine, but on our hysterectomy patients?? Also he will order a urine hcg and...
  25. Charting Bloopers

    As I was reading through the chart of a pt I was taking care of I noticed that the clinic doc, one of the most loved in the facility charted, "Cyst on left tit" I almost peed myself reading that note....