Vespertinas

Member

  • Content

    652

  • Visitors

    16,064

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    14

All Content by Vespertinas

  1. Vespertinas

    DNR pet peeve

    Vespertinas replied to Vespertinas's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    i already said i agreed with the point where if a patient is actively dying then we have a different situation on our hands. medication management can certainly then be considered in a different...
  2. Vespertinas

    DNR pet peeve

    Vespertinas replied to Vespertinas's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I didn't take anything out of context. You only added "if they die in a few days" after I questioned your original statement. I appreciate your clarification, though. A 96 year old should not have to...
  3. Vespertinas

    DNR pet peeve

    Vespertinas replied to Vespertinas's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Perhaps. But you said long term care, right? I may be wrong but I didn't think that meant everyone is dying in a few
  4. Vespertinas

    DNR pet peeve

    Vespertinas replied to Vespertinas's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What are they on? Antihypertensives, oral antidiabetics or insulin, flomax, digoxin, coumadin and/or aspirin, synthroid, vitamin D, iron, phos-lo, antidepressants, alphagan, statins, allopurinol,...
  5. Vespertinas

    DNR pet peeve

    Vespertinas replied to Vespertinas's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How is that possible?? I'm not sure if it's a JCAHO requirement, but every hospital I've worked in has this question in the admission database. That doesn't mean we necessarily ask it... In better...
  6. Vespertinas

    DNR pet peeve

    Vespertinas replied to Vespertinas's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sometimes they don't understand what's fixable and what's not. In my case, I had to explain to my patient's daughter that if her 93 year old mother throws another PE and we intubate, it won't end...
  7. Vespertinas

    Do nurses use their wristwatch in real life nursing?

    Vespertinas replied to northmississippi's topic in General Nursing

    That's funny this question came up bc for the first time in 4 years I had to count a drip rate just yesterday. I'm even surprised at how easily it came back to me. I don't think that Citizen watch is...
  8. Vespertinas

    3 types of shifts

    Vespertinas replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Today I was lucky enough to get to work on the "overflow unit" which is a makeshift space where ICU beds don't get filled up and med-surg patients can reside with nurses who have no idea where things...
  9. Vespertinas

    Dumb things new nurses do....

    Vespertinas replied to OhioCCRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    That reminds me of a girl I once went to school with: on one of her clinical days, a patient expired so in postmortem care her preceptor yanked a rectal tube out of the body. It ended up splashing...
  10. Vespertinas

    Dumb things new nurses do....

    Vespertinas replied to OhioCCRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've learned that if you pull back a bit first, you don't get as much pressure when you push out the bubble. Oh don't be embarrassed, I do that on a regular basis! I once worked on a floor where a...
  11. Vespertinas

    New Grad Entitlement

    Vespertinas replied to SunshineAnytime's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Depends on where you start working. I know several places that make new hires cry on a daily or almost daily basis. I'm not exaggerating. If they ask a question, they can either get made to feel like...
  12. Vespertinas

    New Flex Pool RN Losing Her Focus

    Vespertinas posted a topic in General Nursing

    In my nursing career up until now I've been detail-oriented, patient-focused, and somewhat of a know-it-all insofar as I made it my business to know everything I could about the patient's history and...
  13. Vespertinas

    New Flex Pool RN Losing Her Focus

    Vespertinas replied to Vespertinas's topic in General Nursing

    I'm just gonna PM you bc obviously we're having our own conversation
  14. Vespertinas

    C-Diff, and isolation precautions

    Vespertinas replied to katrinabreck's topic in General Nursing

    Muno, I have always felt that our contact isolation patients get neglected- I'm glad there is evidence for that available. A hospital I worked at once dispensed clear guidelines on when to begin and...
  15. Vespertinas

    If us nurses could invent something, what would we choose?

    Vespertinas replied to nursn4u11's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Then you've never heard of 1st year residents infusing banana bags in themselves on Sunday
  16. Vespertinas

    C-Diff, and isolation precautions

    Vespertinas replied to katrinabreck's topic in General Nursing

    Universal precautions do not require handwashing which is what is required to minimize transfer of c.diff spores. Again, I do not believe your facility is not isolating for
  17. Vespertinas

    Will the economy ever get better so less people will pursue nursing?

    Vespertinas replied to AddisonLawrence03's topic in General Nursing

    My mistake, you're right. Though I *think* you can still get away with optometry. Even PA school still is baccalaureate though standards are changing quickly for that profession too. In any case, I...
  18. Vespertinas

    Why can't I get it!

    Vespertinas replied to brownbook's topic in Patient Medications

    That was the funnest mnemonic to learn in nursing school. I can't help but suspect that you actually knew this one and just wanted to make me chuckle one more time upon hearing
  19. Vespertinas

    Will the economy ever get better so less people will pursue nursing?

    Vespertinas replied to AddisonLawrence03's topic in General Nursing

    She did! She said it was reading. And I'm curious if she's actually making minimum wage right now or just being
  20. Vespertinas

    Help! Anyone else work cardiac stepdown and have no tele techs?

    Vespertinas replied to working4change's topic in Cardiac

    That's the coolest thing I've heard this week. We play with the patches a bit too for
  21. Vespertinas

    Will the economy ever get better so less people will pursue nursing?

    Vespertinas replied to AddisonLawrence03's topic in General Nursing

    None of those require a masters
  22. Vespertinas

    Will the economy ever get better so less people will pursue nursing?

    Vespertinas replied to AddisonLawrence03's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. If you think only way out of minimum wage is
  23. Vespertinas

    Help! Anyone else work cardiac stepdown and have no tele techs?

    Vespertinas replied to working4change's topic in Cardiac

    Generally if your leads are on correctly (and boy you'd be surprised how many people can't even do that right), you shouldn't be getting TOO many false alarms if your parameters are set appropriately....
  24. Vespertinas

    Will the economy ever get better so less people will pursue nursing?

    Vespertinas replied to AddisonLawrence03's topic in General Nursing

    Lack of professors WAS the case but now the problem is hiring freezes. Oh trust me, we do have a "nursing shortage" already and it will positively get worse but that doesn't mean that hospitals will...
  25. Vespertinas

    xx

    Vespertinas posted a topic in General Nursing

    sorry.