hoolahan

hoolahan ASN, RN

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  1. Opinions on this article????

    hoolahan replied to CEN35's topic in General Nursing

    I have to say, he makes many valid points, but overall, I am not too impressed. He makes a few points that he does not explain, and so I am left wondering, what does that actually mean? "First,...

  2. Anyone ever had a kidney stone?? Yowzer!

    hoolahan posted a topic in General Nursing

    I started having excruciating flank and LLQ pain about 4 pm, just kept gettingt worse. I started forcing fluids, hoping if it was a kidney stone, I could pass it. NO way in H I wanted to go to the ER...

  3. Anyone ever had a kidney stone?? Yowzer!

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in General Nursing

    OH man that is mean. If it wASN'T A STONE, THEN THEY SHOULD WORK UP THIS ACUTE PAIN. mY UROLOGIST SAYS THAT THEY DON'T ALWAYS SHOW UP WELL ON ct SCAN, HE WANTS ME TO HAVE A SIMPLE, hit caps lock,...

  4. Starting a Home Health Agency

    hoolahan replied to DJH's topic in General Nursing

    Karen, acting DON = DON, at least it would on my resume!! That was a lot of info girfriend! Ya scared the he!! outta me! BTW, THat 10% HHA call-out, so true. When I was weekend super, I had to take...

  5. Starting a Home Health Agency

    hoolahan replied to DJH's topic in General Nursing

    lois jean, shippy shame on me for not also suggesting your name. you are business woman and nurse

  6. What Freaks You Out?

    hoolahan replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    i have tried to post this at least a dozen different times, we'll see if it goes through this time. saw this in the funnies and immediately thought of this

  7. Starting a Home Health Agency

    hoolahan replied to DJH's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! I am in awe of you. I would love to do this, for cardiac pt's. But I wasn't sure where to begin either, and how to go about getting HHA's, PT OT RD MSW ST all involved if needed as well, then...

  8. Assignment Objection/Unsafe Staffing Form

    hoolahan replied to -jt's topic in General Nursing

    I wish there was such a form tonight! BTW JennyP, I worked in a CT ICU for years and I can say that assignment is very dangerous. I was lucky enough that in my unit that guy would be a 1:1. All IABP's...

  9. Nursing students have to be virgins???

    hoolahan replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I saw that in the paper today also. That is abominable! Hand me the rat poison, I choose my own fate. And what will they do besides deny them admission to nursing school if found to not be virgins??...

  10. What Freaks You Out?

    hoolahan replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    haven't read this one in a while, lmao!! how about strange things removed from butts in the or? or should that be another thread? when i was working in pacu, i got a call one night for "removal of...

  11. Anyone ever had a kidney stone?? Yowzer!

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in General Nursing

    I am pleased to announce I delivered 2 stones today!! I never actually thought I would ever pass any. Now, thanks to all the replies here, I know how important it is to have it analyzed. I have to...

  12. Anyone ever had a kidney stone?? Yowzer!

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in General Nursing

    All of this has been quite helpful. I will continue to look for the stone. They did say, it was fuzzy on the CT scan and couldn't tell if the stone was inthe ureter or maybe had perf'd it and was in...

  13. Anyone ever had a kidney stone?? Yowzer!

    hoolahan replied to hoolahan's topic in General Nursing

    Karen, I felt the color drain from my face reading your post. How every horrible for your poor husband. I cannot even imagine 90 times!! I am no pain wimp. Had an epidural with my C-section, and felt...

  14. NERVOUS ABOUT STARTING HOME HEALTH

    hoolahan replied to Jhope's topic in Home Health

    Hi Nicki, I would suggest you go on a ride-along. Take a day off, and arrange to go with another nurse on a ride-along. I did this when I first applied to HH, and knew after the first visit, That...

  15. Critical Care Pocket Guide & Calculator

    hoolahan replied to pkr99's topic in Cardiac

    I also have the Critical Care Checkmate...love it! I also have the kathy white book, but I like the checkmate better, fits in the pocket easier, and also more water resistant pages, those tissue paper...

  16. bolus?

    hoolahan replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    The terminology differs with where you work and where you live sometimes too. Often, when changing hospitals, you hear the nurses and docs use different lingo than you're used to. For example, one...

  17. Charting Bloopers

    hoolahan replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    In my younger days, I had this surgical resident who would follow me around (he followed any female around) and claimed he could put me in lady partsl

  18. Funny things patients say !

    hoolahan replied to TAM's topic in Nursing Humor

    Sheesz, LMAO!!! I admitted an 86 yo woman to home care today. She has a lemon-sized lump on her R breast, and told me that after watching her husband suffer with chemo, she would not do that to...

  19. Nurses as independent contractors...

    hoolahan replied to NurseMark's topic in General Nursing

    Mark, I think this is what exactly is coming in the future, where else can they get nurses to staff their hospitals?? I thought of doing this myself. Fortunately, right here and now, my husband's job...

  20. a nurse's poem-I'm Sorry In Advance

    hoolahan replied to leesonlpn's topic in General Nursing

    EXCELLENT!!! I hope you don't mind if I cut and paste this onto 2 other BB's? Your name will be there! I so wish I could write poetry like that!!!! WONDERFUL!!!! What a gift you

  21. Mass Nurses vote to disaffiliate

    hoolahan replied to Hardknox's topic in General Nursing

    I asked this on the nursing spectrum board, and I will ask it here. Granted my comprehension of all the issues may not be a clear as everyone elses, but I have one simple observations/question. Why...

  22. What Freaks You Out?

    hoolahan replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Bring on the snot, bring on the gross wounds, I can take it. I can handle blood, seen liver clots from upper and lower GI tract - no problem. BUT, don't even TELL me about your period, and PLEASE...

  23. INTRA AROTIC BALLOON PUMP RATIO/RN/PT

    hoolahan replied to mror44's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    A patient with IABP should be 1:1 no matter what their acuity. Anything could happen. We may become blase about some equipment when we use it all the time but remeber this thing is IN THE AORTA! One...

  24. home health care mileage reimbursement

    hoolahan replied to adireen's topic in Home Health

    I was working as a home health nurse up until September this year. I rec'd .32 per mile, taxable. per diems didn't get milege reimbursed, but had to claim it at tax time.This is in