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 NOT important information from the ER. Get the b...

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 note; does the Charge RN get paid more for charge? My...

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 concert music.

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 during the imaging.

5. CRAZY / GROSS / NASTY

   AcuteCare4Life replied to kvn813's topic in General Nursing

   He should have "lost" a lot more than his license!

6. 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.". Arrived to find a male pt very diaphoretic, gray and...

7. 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 man came in with CP. The doc does an EKG, turns to ...

8. 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 of bradycardia to 34 during 3 day admission. Ask...

9. 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 of her pelvic and lower back pain. This was schedu...

10. 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 bedpans? After all they had been autoclaved!

11. 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 antipsychotics to prevent them from hurting me or thems...

12. Yikes I'm Getting Old!

    AcuteCare4Life replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Yes! Getting older, working fulltime in MedSurg and flip flopping from 7A to 7P shift is EXHAUSTING! Then add in 3 young grandchildren (9,7,5 years old) & their Dad (here, but working beyond fulltime hours), and Hubby and I have begun to need na...

13. Funny Nursing Related Stories

    AcuteCare4Life replied to nursejanefw's topic in 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 staff room (we recorded report for the next shift)...