Krysten

This just happened last week both traumas on the same night. My first trauma was not the coolest but just the mechanism of injury was unforgettable. A guy sleeping in bed with his girlfriend, when the g/f ex broke in stabbed the guy in the eye with a screwdriver. The two guys got into a fight and not only did he get stabbed but then got hit on the head with a frying pan. So this guy comes in as a trauma code was able to bring him back and get him over to CT. So we are all thinking that the screwdriver went all the way thru right? Wrong didn't even come close to the brain. We did an EKG when we got him back the first time and it showed very slight ST elevation so we run a Tropin. Which come back positive. So this poor guy was stabbed in the eye, hit with a frying pan, had a MI, and the CT showed a SAH (which we are thinking was from being hit with the pan, falling and hitting his head). As he waiting for ICU bed my second trauma comes in. Page in to us says 40 f stab wound to abd, 18 f stab wound to chest. I received the 40yr old. She was not stabbed but butchered and still awake AOx3 She was eviscerated from left to right and you could have taught a A&P class with her because you saw everything. The other pt turned out to be her daughter who was worse, her hand had been chopped off hanging by what look to be just skin and her chest was completely sliced open just like mom's abd. Again she was awake also. (This was a scoop job since it was right around the corner). Got both of the to the OR less than 10 min, so I'm finishing charting when the police come in to tell me the whole story, not only was mom and daughter assaulted but dad was decapitated all done by there son (brother) who was 21yrs old. So as im hearing this I go back to look in on my other trauma who decided he was going to code on me as soon as I walked in. he didn't make it, but mom and daughter are still going mom was extubated yesterday, daughter still intubated and they where able to put her hand back on

I had a lady call me a "uncaring mean nurse" because she was being transport form the ed to the floor and wanted me to clean her dishes she had brought from home and ate while in the ed. I told her no i was not going to clean them you can clean them yourself when you get up stairs. She than preceded to ask my tech who was transporting to do the same and again I stated That is not our job you can do it yourself up stairs or have a family member take them home and do them. Excuse me for not wanting to clean your dishes when I hate even doing my own.

Are you looking to work in a hospital? I know my hospital St. Joes has a great GN program. I did it myself a 2 yrs ago. They get you into the area you want to work and you if you have no clue were you want to work they let you rotate thru the different floors like the ER, ICU/CCU Med Surg and even L&D. Good Luck on your search

We have a Dr that writes "put pt in gown" before he even sees the pt.

What works for me sometimes is if you double up the tourny (having two on top of each other) it helps pop the veins out. It is very tight though so don't have it sit on the pt's arm for too long

I work at St Joe's and they have a internship program also. This internship will put you where you want to work (icu) but it is up to you to have them want you. The nice thing about this internship is you are not stuck in an area if you decide that it is not for you. go to http://64.29.226.180/body_stjosephs.cfm?id=939 to fill out an application. Scroll down and find student nurse.

HHS=hysterical hispanic syndrome We use this for the ones who are crying like they just lost their loved one but came to the er for a runny nose.

I learned that if women are dx with Preeclampsia, that if she starts to have the epigastric pain that the pain is a precursor to having a seizure and more than likely will have a seizure.

our class scale is: 75-84 = C 85-89 = B 90-100 = A Our clinicals are pass/fail also BUT you have to have a 100% on the math test every year My school is changing their req and their grading scale. You will need a 80 to pass the class.

i always had huge tonsils with pus pockets all over them. they were around a +2 and +3, but when ever i went to my dr he would not take them out because i didn't have strep. In his opion, I need at least 3 reaccurance of strep to get them out. so when i was about 15-16 i switched to my mom's dr and left the ped's dr. When he saw me (and my tonsils) he told me to go to a EENT, so when i saw the EENT dr he could not believe how was able to breath and eat with out anyproblems. Cause not only were my tonsils so huge but my adnoids were also he said my tonsils were kissing and should have been taken out when this all started at 8-9 yrs old. my tonsils were useless, they did not go up or down they stayed at that size, the only thing that would go away was the pus pockets. so it has been 8 years and i have not had a sore throat since that day! sorry just wanted to share my story. But there is a reason, A) Get a second opion and B) go to a EENT they are trained for that

Our teacher told us to use Pubmed...http://www.pubmed.com and just type in what you are looking for and it will come back with everything under the sun. The problem with this search is the free ones will have a green icon sign, so that means you could be searching through for awhile. Also try http://www.Nursingspectrum.com Alot of my classmates use this one

Im still in school, doing my Ob rotation, and we are told to teach the ladies BSE. We had to do women's health at a community health clinic and even there the nurses and the Dr's were teaching BSE. I know also my personal exp. that my gyn makes sure to go over with me once a year about the importance of BSE and I am only 22 with no family hx of breast cancer. So I haven't seen anything that would seem like BSE was on the way out. Thats in my two cents

I didn't see the show but I decided to see if maybe ABC had responded to any of this on their webpage. They made a nursing blog from one of the nurses at the SG hosp. Nobody I saw had mention this so here is the web site http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysanatomy/blog.html

if you live in florida here is the data base link http://www3.fdle.state.fl.us/sexual_predators/search.asp?

I had a problem with that web address you gave so i googled nurse station and this is what it gave me instead. http://www.nursesdirect.com/