AcuteCare4Life

AcuteCare4Life has 17 years experience and specializes in Cardiac,critical care,wound care, med/su.

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1. When will everyone understand things are different in the ER

   AcuteCare4Life replied to ClayH's topic in Emergency

   Actually, I do understand. I've worked on Med/Surg and Tele for years, just finished orienting a new grad. When the new grad asked the ER RN when was the patient's last BM I nearly flipped! That is...

2. Do you have a free charge nurse on your unit?

   AcuteCare4Life replied to EllaBella1's topic in General Nursing

   Telemetry 28 bed unit at a Magnet Hospital. If staffing allows the Charge RN is free from patient assignment. If staffing is not sufficient, then the Charge RN has 2-4 patients. On a different...

3. Meaning of your username?

   AcuteCare4Life replied to Flightless Bird's topic in General Nursing

   I've worked in Healthcare for 40 years, all in Acute Care. (Oh, I get on here and stay far too long, it's currently 0317. That's after working the day shift!) French Horn- lousy at marching, loved...

4. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

   AcuteCare4Life replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

   IVs are started in the AC because if IV contrast is required for imaging, the site needs to be in the AC or higher and in a 20G or larger. This is due to the high pressure contrast injector used...

5. Would you wait for Dr orders?

   AcuteCare4Life posted a topic in General Nursing

   This week has been busy at our little hospital. The heat is getting to many folks. I had just clocked out when "Cat Code" paged overhead. Stopped just a moment and thought "Hell, I better go."....

6. COB rollcall

   AcuteCare4Life replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

   Went into Radiology School 2 weeks out of High School. Talk about green and naive! A Diploma program, graduated in 1976. First job was at a Dr office/clinic in a beach resort town. A middle age...

7. Lucky he was constipated, or he'd be dead

   AcuteCare4Life replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah, had the same thing happen to one of my patients. After having 4 days off, as Charge RN, was reviewing the AM strips. Noticed the Hospitalist was DCing patient who had several sporadic episodes...

8. Com'on, you got one...What is your heart wrenching moment?

   AcuteCare4Life replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

   Ok, my turn. My baby sister, 7 years younger. Sister was 32 yr with a 2 yr old daughter. At our grandmother's funeral, Sister told me she was going in for exploratory surgery to find the cause...

9. Special Snowflake!

   AcuteCare4Life replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   When I was in the in-between stage, I thought of myself as a "Working Dog". You know, "They work us like dogs!". Now I'm proudly a COB. Oh, on another note, remember eating popcorn out of metal...

10. This week, I learned.... (7/25)

    AcuteCare4Life replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    [COLOR=#000000]2. I hate my job. I love my future job (I'm in school), but I wish I were a med/surg nurse right now. I'd unclog PEG tubes all day rather than hold down one poor soul to give them...

11. Funny Nursing Related Stories

    AcuteCare4Life replied to nursejanefw's topic in Nursing Humor

    My experience was with an older thin black man with a scrotum which hung down to his knees! I documented size & positive bowel signs! You should have heard the howls of laughter coming from the...