KinshuKiba

KinshuKiba

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About KinshuKiba

KinshuKiba has 5 years experience and specializes in Emergency Medicine.


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  1. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    It was my first year of nursing school, and we were still cutting our teeth on nursing home rotations. Because the nursing homes were relatively small, a lot of us got patients that other student had...
  2. Happy Emergency Nurses Day!!

    We got: -meals from pharm vendors. -a "thank you" email from the director's secretary. -15 or so of us got prizes from, again, the pharm vendors. That's all. Nothing else. Certainly nothing from the...
  3. Please help with school project

    How long have you been an RN? 5 years. What is your educational background? ADN What was the first medical job you held? Nurse's Aide on a medical floor and in an ER If you had it to do over again...
  4. I guess managment was trying to be creative about reminders, but it sound annoying and somewhat creepy to
  5. Traumatized by pt's attempted suicide

    Sometimes it just happens and there's not a darn thing you could have done differently or better. And it applies to everything. There's a small 2 year old little girl that lives inside my head: she...
  6. Curiosity

    Thanks to all of you for your comprehensive replies. Things do seem more clear to me, and let me say, once again, that it touches and moves me to listen to things you have been through and recovered...
  7. Curiosity

    Up front, please know that I mean no disrespct. I am not an impaired nurse, and therefore understand that I can't really understand. But I haunt this particular board because the struggles that you...
  8. Drug seekers: where's the compassion?

    I'm all for compassion; I'm all for helping and giving patients anything they need to feel better and heal. But what do you do when it's obvious that a particular patient is abusing the system? Let me...
  9. fuzzywuzzy: That's what Sue said. Mind you, I wasn't there, but I don't think Sue was the kind of person to
  10. Nicely undermining you.

    Southern wisdom: You can say whatever you want about anybody you care to, as long as you follow it up with ,"...bless her/his
  11. Not mine but a good one: My friend Sue was working as a traveler for a small ER somewhere in Arizona. One day, they had an older woman come in complaining of green leaves growing out of her lady...
  12. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    When a patient begins complaining about a clear liquid diet... "You're forgetting: tequila is a clear
  13. The most comfortable Nursing Shoes

    Another advantage Crocs have: $30-$40 a pair. I bought a pair of MBTs for $250, and never wore them enough to make me feel it evened
  14. The most comfortable Nursing Shoes

    While it does depend on the person, I recommend Crocs. I have worn Crocs for 4 years now, and as an ER nurse who is always running, I find that their combination of lightness, cushion, and relative...
  15. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Working the ER at my last hospital, they put me out in triage. "Advice" calls were often sent out there, under the assumption the triage nurse was less busy than staff. So, the phone rang and I...