RedSox33RN

I'm from New England, and always called 'em johnnies too. When I moved to the south last year and called 'em that, I got the WEIRDEST looks. They had no clue what I was referring to! I finally said "gown?" and they got it, but we ended up in a big...

Disagree all you'd like, but it's been proven. I would provide the link if I could find it, but it's been a while since I wrote the paper for nursing school. I never said it was an abundant amount, just that it is there. I'm not a scientist so I'm...

No, it most certainly is NOT a dead horse when children are exposed, especially if those children have other illnesses.

Would I say anything? No, not unless they were good friends. Like posted before, if those kids have ever seen a doctor, they have probably been advised. I also find it interesting how many smokers say that they don't smoke with the kids in the hous...

Oh no!! I'm hoping they weren't going to try and re-attach it! Glad the patient didn't find it! That wouldn't have done much for her nausea and vomiting.

I'm so sorry! I know that is probably the fear of most healthcare people, and am sorry this has happened to you. I am glad your ped said you don't have to stop breastfeeding. I was a extended-bf mom, and would've missed that more than anything. Lo...

I absolutely did NOT settle for being a nurse. I entered NS in my mid 30's, and it had been a dream of mine for 10 years before that. However, my previous career, marketing and advertising, was lucrative and I became a mother a year after I was mar...

I never give anything when NPO either. I even learned the hard way in nursing school, not to give any amount more than a tablespoon of ice chps if those are ordered. I had one that would just let 'em melt and drink them. Luckily my instructor and ...

If you have kids to think about, forget Fayetteville NC. The schools there are HORRIBLE, unless you are in the "right" district. I was glad my kids were with my ex-h and didn't have to go, since I couldn't afford private school. There is a lot to t...

Oh yeah!! Don't ya love it? I tell my pts in no uncertain terms that I will not tolerate cell phone calls when I'm in the room with them or trying to get a history or something, so they need to turn it off or whatever. When I'm not in there, chat a...

I just moved from Fayetteville, NC, and the hospital there is a biggie (over 11k pt monthly) but the pay rate does stink. They pay more for experience, obviously, and the cost of living isn't quite so high as where I am now, but you could probably g...

It does take a while, but even if you just do chest compressions, which is all I did on my first code, or hand over IV fluids or whatever else is needed, you will learn. It is a constant learning process, and every code I'm involved in, especially w...

Sorry you had to go through that, Mandasue. How awful for you and the others. Stealing from anyone is bad - the newly deceased is just horrendous though. Every trauma I have been in we do the same thing - everything from cut clothes to what was in ...

Our ED/hospital just recently had to fork over $90k (yup, that number is right!) to a woman who "claimed" that her some ridiculous sized diamond earrings were missing after a visit to us. No one could prove her wrong, so the hospital paid 9or insura...

There is no excuse for that kind of stupidity or abuse. If people want to be parents, they need to get rid of all their damn laziness that says you can leave a kid in the car while you "run errands" because it's "easier" to do it without the child. ...

exactly!! i don't think people can equate the "e" in "ed" with "emergency"!! since when did a cold with 100 degree fever in an otherwise healthy 32 yo man become an emergency?? lol

The food service service worker has a little "speech" she must give each time it is wheeled into the ED waiting area, about 3 times a shift. She says if the person is there for any abd pain or been told by the triage nurse NOT to eat, she is not allo...

I ended up moving to NC to find work. I had a MA and NH license, but couldn't find full-time work. Not only was I able to get into the area I wanted as a new grad that I couldn't in MA or NH (the ED), but the rate of pay was way better, and I got a...

I think if the patient if familiar with it and has done it before, why not? I've had patients that put in their own Foley's at home, so when they're in-patient for some reason, if they want to continue doing it themselves, we give them the supplies ...

Nope, I knew that - I was being sarcastic. These people would rather wait 8 hours to see a doc for a cold, rather than 30 minutes at an Urgen Care. Plus our ED has a free food service cart, so that brings a lot of them in!

It would be interesting to know, especially with 3-tier triage instead of the 5-tier I was taught. 5-tier can be hard, because some of it is subjective, and some docs order everything for say, a migraine, while some don't. A lot of nurses disagree...

When our ED is insanely busy, like during cold and flu season, we have often treated people in "chairs" in different areas of our ED. We have several of these areas in our ED (it's big, around 60 beds). It's not private, but some things, like fast ...

That's what I thought also. I know in my state the BON states that on their website, or that one license must be INactive before issuing the other.

I wouldn't say anything unless I was 100% positive. Careers can and have been ruined by false accusations.

In our ED, we waste liquid narcotics in the sink, as per protocol. Pills are not as easy, so we tend to just put them in the sharps container. I've heard of people in some facilities actually dismantling a sharps to go after a wasted pill, but that's...