ChristyRN2009

What do you think of this story and the facts surrounding it? I have tried to find the specific medical error or series of errors that happened to cause this girl to die but I'm not having success. If you just read the mother's account, its confusi...

I feel the same kind of fear. But I try to get through it by thinking of ways that show me I'm a good enough nurse. Like the fact that my patients usually are very pleased with me. And the fact that my supervisors are always complimentary or at le...

Why is it so hard to accept that some people are just evil? Oddly enough that wasn't all that clear to me until I became a nurse and realized that some people are just that way. Does that mean I treat them differently or that they don't deserve tre...

Yeah, I love how in nursing school and on boards its drilled into our heads that nurses can only witness consent signature, not inform the patient. Yet when I bring the consent into my real patient for a cardiac cath, they don't know what it means a...

Your loved one has assitis. They were born with it. Its incurable and terminal. They will die a victim of assitis. See the way you get yelled at when you try to help them? And they know you and supposedly love you? Well, its worse when I "Nurse...

I know a nurse on our unit who spends so much time on the phone making booty calls I cannot for the life of me understand how he ever sees his patients. Seriously. What sucks is we and mgmt all know it, but no one does anything about it. But let m...

Oh my, so sorry this happened and I can't imagine how I'd feel if one of my coworkers died, especially in this manner. Can you take a mental health day? I dont know what else to say. I doubt you are burned out, sheesh, someone you knew in a person...

Don't report it because you don't know if its true or not. It could actually backfire on you- i.e. she says something about you that's untrue and while its false, it may delay or prevent your progress. What you need to do is keep your head down, yo...

Whew. Thats a bigun. Well my highest was 98. So what was the outcome of the patient, was it a stemi or nstemi, or what was the course of their treatment. That kind of troponin would freak me out thinking the patient might blow a ventricle. Shees...

In the South here too, and its rare I don't get thanked verbally in my shift. We also get a fair amount of cards, flowers, donuts (thank goodness). But I also work on a unit with high patient satisfaction scores, so maybe that's it too? ETA: I shoul...

I think you missed the point. Someone may have given her a banana at some point in her life, but it wasn't that morning. Plus, seriously, just give her some bicitra wait a bit and its fine (not ideal, but hey, what happens when someone has emergenc...

I've worked both shifts, and at least at my place both shifts complain about each other. The big difference seems to be that while day shift might moan and groan during report, that's the last time they are doing so because you run your tail off the...

I had a somewhat similar situation as you just recently, and I am doing the same thing. Ultimately, as I replay in my mind I could've done things slightly differently but the outcome would've been the same. Ive been a nurse for two years and it see...

Any updates, OP?

I'm really sorry to hear about you mom's passing. I can't imagine (and neither can another single person) completely understand your issues and how you feel about this situation. My only concern with what you've posted is that you seem to have this...

I would've had to make a mystery phone call within ear shot of that phlebotomist saying "man, my HIV/Hep C/Swine flu/cholera is acting up..." And laugh while she washed her hands with bleach... But I am evil that way. Any task with blood involved bi...

Even if we speak in generalities and don't disclose locations, names, dates, etc? Really? I don't understand but I've seen admonitions on a couple of threads lately that I saw no real violations on. I understand being cautious but I use these thre...

And coumadin is not the first line of defense in PE, neither is LMW Heparin/lovenox, not that I've seen. Its straight IV Heparin along with coumadin until coumadin is therapuetic. I really rarely see people sent home on injections, and this may be ...

I agree with some prior posts in that the MD was shortchanged information which ultimately led to poor care for the patient. Who is responsible? Why did your supervisor go over your head and call the MD? It is your license on the line, I would thi...

I see, thanks for clearing that up. Well then I still think urosepsis, might not have been acute renal failure because I think he would've had off chemistries plus I see now that he did have some urine. I could theoretically see him having a normal...

I am the sole provider for me and my 2 kids. Well, I should count Peter that I rob to pay Paul too.

Well I guess I'm confused then, did you say you cathed him? Its late and I'm not firing on all cylinders.

He had no urine return when you initially cathed him for no urination? Acute renal failure may be a possibility if that's the case. Could also be a sign of a larger multisystem organ failure picture which leads me right back to urosepsis.

His CBC was normal after or before he tanked? ETA: My broken thought process was clinical signs point to urosepsis absent the labs. And with my second post here I was trying to figure out the timeframe for the labs. I still think urosepsis.

Green drainage from his urethra? Urosepsis. Hope ya'll did a U/A and C&S when you put the cath in.