~Mi Vida Loca~RN ASN, RN

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    How would you react? Body odor discussion.

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Nurse-rachet1's topic in General Nursing

    Except you're talking about a resident in a LTC facility. Imagine the ripe patients we get in the ER and them having to stay there everyday. The nurse bathed the patient and tried to rectify the...
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yea I know, but that night I had enough. Probably because we had hours of downtime. :| I have had to try and diffuse many situations when the patient finds out the ambulance doesn't mean an automatic...
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    Is it customary where you work to recheck BPs manually?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    How do you recheck until you get the BP you like. Are you talking about just rechecking with a manual? I don't find it bad practice to recheck an abnormal BP (again my definition of abnormal is on a...
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    Is it customary where you work to recheck BPs manually?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I often do manual as long as correct cuff size and calibration. I've never had a problem with my assessments, but I'm old school. Are you impressed with me???
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    You're not going to pull that on me

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to TeenyTiny's topic in General Nursing

    Great thread! I am off to bed so I will have to think on this tomorrow to contribute, but I just wanted to say congrats on jumping in and good for you for standing up for yourself in that situation....
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    Is it customary where you work to recheck BPs manually?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I would imagine the student not knowing falls on the school. We had to learn and check off doing manual BP's. We had to use a very hard to hear dual stethoscope with the instructor and our reading had...
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    Is it customary where you work to recheck BPs manually?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    They were always hard to find in my ER's too, always in the Trauma Bays though but we had problems with them getting put back. That said, I have often found the monitor ones to be accurate and...
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    That's what I try to remind myself as I keep the bar high!
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    question about nurses on methadone

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Ntheboat2's topic in General Nursing

    So this got me thinking about something I read on here a few months ago that I was not aware of. I don't think it would fall under this scenario though so I think this would fall under a HIPAA...
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    Is it customary where you work to recheck BPs manually?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    My practice is to recheck on the same arm and then if still really high (for me really high is probably a lot more extreme than some others definition) I will check on the other arm. If still really...
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    Questioning a doctors order

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to MrsJt's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The scary part is had she checked with another nurse that simply double checked the dose, she still would have given it because she pulled up the accurate dose. She had a order, she had the right...
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    I get that, I just don't see how her post tied into it all or would have her playing devils advocate to the things we shared. Oh well. Back on topic...... and I loathe GI cocktails. One hospital I...
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Playing devils advocate for what exactly? I am a little confused. PS I have NEVER seen Motrin given for gastritis, I have never seen liquid motrin given to an adult unless requested by the pt. Our...
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    My coworker was high and got away with it

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Volley88's topic in General Nursing

    When I read this thread I automatically think of Scooby doo and the whole "I would've gotten away with it if not for you meddling
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    Med surg 1 clinical

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Tj221's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Our first clinicals were LTC. They weren't considered med/surge clinicals so that might just be how your school classifies it. But it was very similar. More so helped with patient care and you already...
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    Alternative sites for peripheral IV access

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to MacDSlim's topic in General Nursing

    That doc is an idiot, how many docs are sticking in PIV's?? You don't stick a vein just because you can see it. That's how you get all these nurses sticking these superficial veins that immediately...
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    How would you react? Body odor discussion.

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Nurse-rachet1's topic in General Nursing

    I always have an issue with the same select type of people at work. No matter where I go. You could survey 100 people and about 95 of them would say they love working with me. But those 5 seem to be...
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    How would you react? Body odor discussion.

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Nurse-rachet1's topic in General Nursing

    I couldn't figure that out either. To the OP, sounds like a crappy situation. I think suspended you was a bit excessive. I mean just going off what you wrote and if there are no past incidences, I...
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    I went to put a foley in a patient once and noticed something off at the opening of her lady parts. It was a balloon of drugs with scratch lottery tickets wrapped around it. Ya know no big deal. Took...
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    My coworker was high and got away with it

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Volley88's topic in General Nursing

    :laugh::laugh:
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    Alternative sites for peripheral IV access

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to MacDSlim's topic in General Nursing

    I have seen IV's done in many alternative sites. EJ's can come with their own risks and patients get very freaked out about them, I have had to convince many patients to get an EJ. Central lines also...
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    My coworker was high and got away with it

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Volley88's topic in General Nursing

    If someone smiles, laughs or winks hours after eating the suspicious food it was a pot brownie.Duh!!
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    A nurse with a past

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Persephone68's topic in Nurses Recovery

    So did you not finish it? I would speak to a lawyer about this. There is a difference between getting records sealed and getting them expunged. There is a differences between charges getting dropped...
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    positive drug test

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Aveda's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Some states have mandatory reporting on any positive or refusal. I was trying to look it up for CO but couldn't find the website I once found that showed the stuff for all states. I was licensed in...
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    My coworker was high and got away with it

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Volley88's topic in General Nursing

    HAHAHAHAHA Unlike me? You know nothing about me or the kind of care I give to my patients. I sure hope you aren't this easily angered and hostile with your patients. YIKES!!! Are assumptions also a...