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    Do you love/hate your profession?

    Gompers replied to AngelicLady's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, please keep that in mind when visiting this website! Every profession out there has it's ups and downs, it's politics, it's management problems, etc. There is really no getting away from that....
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    DNR and Narcan?

    Gompers replied to Lurksalot's topic in General Nursing

    if it's a one-time dose for a non-hospice patient, you can give narcan to bring the pateint out of it. but a hopsice patient's body has become addicted to the morphine over a long period of time, so...
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    Do you ever have good days as a nurse?

    Gompers replied to NurseLatteDNP's topic in General Nursing

    I'd say that the vast majority of my days are good ones. Or should I say nights? Once in a while I'll leave work and be utterly deflated, because things didn't go right. Whether my assignment was...
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    Taking a child off life support

    Gompers replied to vaughanmk's topic in General Nursing

    I agree 100%. In our NICU, we rarely see complete brain death, but rather we'll see massive, irreversable damage. I don't just mean a brain bleed, I mean where hydrocephalus has taken over the brain...
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    wedding rings at work

    Gompers replied to tofutti's topic in General Nursing

    I have one of those and they are truly comfortable! You don't even feel them, they're so smooth inside. Very nice. A lot of my friends (nurses and otherwise) have these gorgeous diamond-studded...
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    wedding rings at work

    Gompers replied to tofutti's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't want to take off my wedding ring everyday so I chose a plain white gold band (polished edges, brushed center for some interest) as my real ring. My engagement ring stays at home now. The...
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    hospitals still use non-needless systems?

    Gompers replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    We have these. Each port that is needle-less has a rubber hub with a white circle around it to show that it's accessable by the blunt "needle-less" needles. So many of my coworkers use regular...
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    Profanity in nursing notes

    Gompers replied to findingmywayRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm glad to see this. Usually I'd write, "Patient's family very angry" in the nursing note if it was necessary...but one time I didn't. This baby had just come to our unit and just got sicker and...
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    I hate nights-feeling depressed

    Gompers replied to Jesskanurse's topic in General Nursing

    All great suggestions! You mean seasonal affective disorder (SAD), right? I've considered getting one of those lights, too. I'm usually okay, but my husband gets very depressed without sunlight,...
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    Any Tips on Washing Whites?

    Gompers replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Iron Out is good stuff - I used it at my parents' house back when they had well water. It kind of bleaches things though - I once washed a white blouse with blue flowers and they all but
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    Family members as patients on your unit

    Gompers replied to KAW1962's topic in General Nursing

    Do you mean are there hospitals that don't LET nurses take care of their family members? If so, YES. I don't think any hospitals would allow that, unless it's a tiny rural hospital where this isn't...
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    Are breastpumps available for use for nurses?

    Gompers replied to ladybugsea's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Many NICUs and some OB units will have breast pumps available for staff to use if patients are not using them at that time. HOWEVER, finding the time to leave your floor, pump, and rehydrate might be...
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    Family members as patients on your unit

    Gompers replied to KAW1962's topic in General Nursing

    I still don't understand that. Why am I not allowed to look at my OWN chart? The whole point of HIPAA isn't to withhold information - it's to keep medical records private. But if they're your own...
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    Check out this picture...

    Gompers replied to prmenrs's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hispanic preemie baby boys are infamous for looking like little old men around here. And I challenge anyone to look at a newborn chimp and a hairy little preemie and try to tell me that evolution...
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    Securing OGTs

    Gompers replied to millyk30's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We always tape our OG tubes with a moustache-style tape. We use either duoderm on the checks and 1/2 inch white fabric tape for the moustache, or we'll just use pink Hytape. By doing the moustache...
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    Pain relief you can buy at a pharmacy?

    Gompers replied to letina's topic in Pain Management

    There are no narcotic pain meds available over the counter, so anything you buy at a drugstore yourself is fine to take while working. It's people who have chronic pain issues whose doctors prescribe...
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    Check out this picture...

    Gompers replied to prmenrs's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I've seen that before! It's so
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    want to help out a friend BUT.....

    Gompers replied to hhrhrn41's topic in General Nursing

    Now THAT concerns me. They aren't allowed to prescribe medications either! Only a medical doctor (and in some places, a nurse practitioner) can prescribe medication! The over-the-counter stuff like...
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    Nipps, Pipps, N-pass....

    Gompers replied to prmenrs's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We do them Q1H because it just makes things fool-proof. It's so easy, why not do it, we figure. We do NAS whenever we handle a baby. With a micropreemie it might be Q6H, with a feeder-grower it's...
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    Is there a doctor or nurse on board this flight?

    Gompers replied to Gompers's topic in General Nursing

    I believe they are - the flight attendant I talked to knew how to use the AED and everything. But this man I encountered wasn't coding. He was conscious with a good heart rate. There was nothing...
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    Which college would be best for nursing?

    Gompers replied to dorachan's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Not always - some schools guarantee you a spot in the actual nursing program from day one. There is no applying later on - if you are excepted into a college's school of nursing, you are a nursing...
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    Nipps, Pipps, N-pass....

    Gompers replied to prmenrs's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We had trouble getting people to chart pain scores at first, too. We were doing it only with vital signs (Q1-4H depending on baby's condition) and then were supposed to chart another pain score an...
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    celebrity deliveries

    Gompers replied to mugwump's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Lots of sports babies! My mother-in-law was the L&D nurse for the wife of a Chicago Cub. He was a rookie at the time, and it was their sixth child so she said it was pretty much a do-it-yourself...
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    What the heck...we have had a run on toilet babies!

    Gompers replied to BittyBabyGrower's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Actually, the majority of toilet babies we've seen have been from the ER. Usually the mother didn't even know she was
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    testosterone and curly hair?

    Gompers replied to LanaBanana's topic in General Nursing

    Don't know about testosterone, but I think that hormones definitely have something to do with hair texture. I had pin-straight hair during my childhood, and when I hit puberty it curled up. Same...