seasonednurse78

I once had a female patient who was in the process of passing away. She had a such a look on her face as she said, "Oh, how beautiful!" I had no idea what she was seeing, but I knew it must have been something indescribable and wonderful. She then...

I was 22 when I graduated from LVN school and went to work in ICU/CCU in 1978.

What a fun thread! I graduated nursing school in 1978 and have many years' experience, hence the name. At the time, I couldn't come up with anything more creative. :)

The Tastee Freeze reference is that while wearing my hair up high on my head, I looked like soft serve on a cone. I can't wear my hair like that anymore because it gives me a headache.

Hey, "what's with the bun" is better than being called Tastee Freeze. That's what I was called when I had my hair pulled up on top of my head way back in the day.

Oh man! Thanks for reminding me about the "double shot" penicillin (2.4 mu - 1 injection for each side). I gave a few of those back in the day working for a family practitioner and had absolutely no qualms giving them either. My thought was if you...

OMG! Those shoes and that polish! I do remember using Kiwi polish for my white nursing shoes. After putting so many coats of polish on those shoes, they would start to form little cracks. I was really happy when we could stop wearing them and wea...

Code Blue used to be "Dr. Heart". Not emptying NG cannister until it was full. We use to mark the cannister each shift to indicate how much drainage the patient had. Patients stayed in bed for days post-op before getting up and ambulating. More cas...

Oh yeah, I remember gurneys too!

What a fun thread! Here are some I remember: LVNs/LPNs working in ICU/CCU (I was one of them and it was my first job fresh out of school). Post MI patients were not allowed ice or coffee. Running "strips" on monitored cardiac patients in CCU and int...

We must take care of ourselves first. I don't know about you, but usually a crisis is preceded my little red flags and warning beeps that I probably should have paid attention to before something becomes a crisis or spirals out of control. Do you thi...

Yes, you will definitely be using math in nursing school as well as on the job extensively. I think having a book like Math for Nurses is a good start. A book like that usually covers a lot of information you need to know for determining medication...

Pharmacy (Pharmacist) hands down. I worked in a hospital pharmacy setting for several years and really enjoyed it. It was very interesting and challenging. I felt I was helping people without having to do hands-on nursing. It really opened my eye...

I remember picking up the coffee habit as a nursing student (that was a very long time ago). We had to be at the hospital to listen to report at 6:45 a.m. and the coffee was what got me going in the morning. I still need that caffeine jolt in the m...

There is a lot of good information regarding Hospice Nursing under the nursing specialty section of allnurses. :)

The best thing to do is contact the Board of Nursing. If things aren't clear in the Nurse Practice Act, call and speak with someone. It is amazing that Missouri allows a CCHT to push heparin in dialysis but does not allow an LPN to push IV meds (wit...

I suppose I have never really made the connection until reading everyone's posts. I too am a nurse from a dysfunctional/abusive family. When I think about it, it does make sense that someone who grew up in an environment that one had no control of ...

This is one for the books and from my mother who, in the past and on more than one occasion, would talk about someone and say, "so and so fractured their such and such but it wasn't broken."

My ex-husband called me at work one day after his doctor appointment and said "I have bilingual hernias." I busted a gut laughing. He had bilateral hernias. Now, I can't help wonder what language his hernias were .......

Rachel, AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association) and AAPC (American Academy of Professional Coders) are the only two organizations whose credentials are recognized nationwide. Both offer online training and certification testing at ...

I have several stories to tell but will start with one my husband told me. Several years ago before we were together, he was working as a radiology technologist in a hospital. It was a busy night in the trauma center and a gang member was brought i...

I remember being at the bedside of one of my patients as she was passing and she had a faraway but very peaceful and happy look on her face and she said, "Oh, how beautiful!" She then told me she loved me as well as her daughter who was also at her ...

1. Smoke, even though they have had bypass surgery, hypertension, etc. 2. Ask for medical information from me and then argue that what I tell them is not correct. 3. Tell me that they fractured a bone "but it wasn't broken". 4. Have a general neg...

Hello everyone. I was looking at job postings on a healthcare system website today and saw several positions listed for cardiovascular technicians. The duties included patient care, pulling arterial lines. The only qualifications for the job liste...