V. Nightingale

V. Nightingale

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  1. I was a PT in my hospital YIKES!!!

    V. Nightingale replied to beckymcrn's topic in General Nursing

    I found myself in a similar situation back in February. Worked all weekend, felt tired and listless on Monday and Tuesday, and woke up Wednesday with a sharp pain in my right ribs. Like any real ER...

  2. The fingernail police!!

    V. Nightingale replied to RN92's topic in General Nursing

    You must not need your job as badly as I need mine. Seriously, it's not an issue of personal hygeine, or of employers wanting to control us. It's an issue of infection control and patient safety....

  3. Foreign Objects in Body Cavities

    V. Nightingale replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    We had a guy come in with a vibrator of some kind up his rectum, beyond the, uh, point of manual retrieval. When we called the GI doctor, he asked,"So does he want me to take it out or change the...

  4. i need to get out of this

    V. Nightingale replied to New CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, you sound utterly miserable! I'm so sorry that you're having a tough time with your job. Believe me, most nurses have felt the exact same way at one point or another. It doesn't sound like you...

  5. residents in the er

    V. Nightingale replied to RN92's topic in Emergency

    I used to work in a teaching hospital, and oh! how we dreaded the month of June, when new residents made their arrival on the scene. I enjoyed listeneing to the lectures the attendings gave, but it...

  6. 107.1!

    V. Nightingale replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    The highest I've seen was 105+; it occured in a patient who was a few days post craniotomy. Apparently his hypothalamus took exception to the disturbance. We wrapped him in a cooling blanket and...

  7. Things I've learned from my ER patients...

    V. Nightingale replied to SouthernERNurse's topic in Emergency

    No matter what their vitals are, if your patient starts talking about going home to be with Jesus, you'd better park the crash cart outside their

  8. Welcome to the ER. Please observe the following rules. (mild rant)

    V. Nightingale posted a topic in Emergency

    Rules for the Triage Area 1. Please fill out the triage form completely. We specially like it when you fill out the part that says "reason for coming to the hospital" as it prevents us from having...

  9. Why can't people just be sick at home!? (RANT!)

    V. Nightingale replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Emergency

    I don't think anyone is belittleing those private pay folks who come in with legitimate emergent problems -- if your child is having a seizure, or you're in status asthmaticus, the ER is where you...

  10. What's your craziest story of the ER

    V. Nightingale replied to debo_lpnER's topic in Emergency

    One Friday night I was working when a guy comes in by EMS with several lacerations on his hands, arms, and shoulders. None were very deep but they did require stitches, and as we were cleaning the...

  11. Awful, awful week!!!

    V. Nightingale replied to flashpoint's topic in Emergency

    Yuck, what a dreadful week! There are simply no words for some of the things you've had to see. It sucks; the patients you've had are the ones that stay with you (mentally) for a long long time....

  12. patient lingo...

    V. Nightingale replied to athomas91's topic in Emergency

    I think my personal favorite is "I had to have a hickereckomy cause of my fireball tumors." (Translation: I had to have a hysterectomy because of my fibroid tumors.) Or, what I actually saw written...

  13. Baptist Princeton (Birmingham)

    V. Nightingale replied to GeorgiaGirl's topic in Alabama Nursing

    I worked in the ER for 2 years. It was a pretty good place to work. There were things I didn't like, but you'll find that with any job. I made great friends there and had a manager who was good to...

  14. Please hang up the darn phone!

    V. Nightingale replied to Tink RN's topic in Emergency

    Oh yes! Been there, seen that. Can't get them triaged or treated because they're too busy chatting. Of course, I have been known to simply say (very sweetly) "Ma'am, you need to hang up the...

  15. Welcome to the ER. Please observe the following rules. (mild rant)

    V. Nightingale replied to V. Nightingale's topic in Emergency

    I can't believe this thread has gotten this long. Glad to have made some folks laugh, anyway. I think the number one rule for the ER (and any other HC falility) should be "Being sick does not give...

  16. Welcome to the ER. Please observe the following rules. (mild rant)

    V. Nightingale replied to V. Nightingale's topic in Emergency

    Y'know, Erin, that's the hardest thing about ER, especially triage -- sometimes even patients who are obviously sick or in pain have to wait, because other, more acute patients arrive at the same...

  17. Welcome to the ER. Please observe the following rules. (mild rant)

    V. Nightingale replied to V. Nightingale's topic in Emergency

    Wow, three pages:eek: . My rules are half joke, half response to a hellacious three days in the ED. It just seemed better to blow off a little steam here by making a joke than to have a meltdown at...

  18. Jacksonville AL

    V. Nightingale replied to guru's topic in Alabama Nursing

    Hey, like I said before, I don't know a lot of the instructors who are there now. Dr. Latham, Deb Curry, Paula Cosper, Marilyn Bougere, Dr. Lavender . . . they were all there and I had great...

  19. resigning

    V. Nightingale replied to nurse62's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    When I resigned from my last job, I just stated in my letter that I was resigning for personal reasons. I also requested in writing that I be paid for my leftover vacation time. No problem on...

  20. Jacksonville AL

    V. Nightingale replied to guru's topic in Alabama Nursing

    I graduated from JSU 4 years ago and despite what mrdoc says, I feel very confident in the education I received. There were a few instructors, though, that needed a whack with the clue stick. Deb...

  21. etomidate

    V. Nightingale replied to TinyNurse's topic in Emergency

    We also use etomidate in the ED, and nurses push it, but it's never ever done without the doctor standing at the bedside, along with a third person who is present and ready to ventilate the patient if...