linzjane88

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  1. Patients who can do ADLs but want nurses to

    linzjane88 replied to destova's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Good to see she was using her big girl words....That sounds horribly awkward. Hugs. Now wipe me!

  2. I Ask For "Nothing".

    linzjane88 replied to CheesePotato's topic in General Nursing

    Cheesepotato, nascar is right- your my favorite poster! Every time I see an article from you I think "Oooh! Gotta read that!". You've got definite numchuk

  3. Got fired for changing fluid rate

    linzjane88 replied to lolakbolak's topic in General Nursing

    You know how there's two sides to every story? I bet the other one makes a lot more

  4. It really annoys me when nurses say they are going to go to med school...

    linzjane88 replied to megank5183's topic in General Nursing

    Op, I totally get what your saying! It's not like 'well, nursing was fun. Just a couple more classes and I'm a doctor!' I could decide to be a lawyer if I wanted to. Probably going to have to start...

  5. What Is The Shift You Will Never Forget?

    linzjane88 replied to bsartor's topic in General Nursing

    Two full term fetal demise' in one shift. We are a small 16 bed LDRP Unit at about 80 deliveries a month so we don't have to deal with fetal demise often, and very rarely full term. I walked onto the...

  6. How do you do double check insulin in an isolation room and scanning?

    linzjane88 replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    We do it the way Beckster has it laid out above. Draw up at pyxis in med room, verify amount, take a little sticker to scan at the bedside, and we're on our merry way. No second nurse needed in the...

  7. How do you do double check insulin in an isolation room and scanning?

    linzjane88 replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    We draw up in the med room and have someone verify dose there but no one follows us to check the patient. Wouldn't the 'waltz down the hallway and inject some random person' thought apply to all...

  8. To buy or to rent?

    linzjane88 replied to JS88's topic in General Students

    Buy the prior edition! I usually get my books for less than $20 every quarter. No teacher has had a problem with it yet. The content is 99% the same, there are just some updated pictures and minute...

  9. Best Hallucinations Thread

    linzjane88 replied to Vespertinas's topic in General Nursing

    My patient had an iv beeping "downstream occlusion "every time he bent his arm and each time it would start again he would wake up long enough to answer his phone and fall back asleep with the phone...

  10. did the md's pen go into v-fib??

    linzjane88 replied to SNB1014's topic in General Nursing

    Ha! We have had other floors tube us the order sheet before because no one on the floor wasable to decipher and we were more familiar with that particular doctor. We have also given the Dr his order...

  11. Internal Patient Transport - Process

    linzjane88 replied to Travelbug73's topic in General Nursing

    We have patient transporters who come get the patient and they take the entire chart with them when they goand being it back with the patient. I work on OB though so we are usually the odd man

  12. Mental health days

    linzjane88 replied to PediLove2147's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Our house supervisors refer to payday as "Fmla Friday" because SOOOO many sick/fmla calls conveniently are taken every other Friday. For a while our floor was out of control with sick calls. Some even...

  13. Poll: Do you skim or read your nursing textbooks?

    linzjane88 replied to na-na's topic in General Students

    Depends on the class/book combination. In m/s we used Timby as our main book. It was great! I read about 85% of what was assigned. In fundamentals? Oooh heck no! That book was painfully boring. And...

  14. End of clinical presents

    linzjane88 replied to paratroopa's topic in General Students

    THANK YOU! There is nothing that drives me more flipping insane than tacking on an extra 30 minutes to post conference while everyone discusses what flavor of muffins we should get. Every quarter its...

  15. what is the space on your neck called?

    linzjane88 replied to meghan91's topic in General Nursing

    My vote is for

  16. Whiners in the classroom?!?!?!

    linzjane88 replied to rj2011's topic in General Students

    I wish I could like this a thousand

  17. Pregnant with baby #3!?! Graduate in Dec 2013! Help!

    linzjane88 replied to curlsrocck's topic in General Students

    Hey, I am living proof that you can have a baby in nursing school and survive! I had my daughter during the middle of our first year. I personally suggest not telling anyone you are pregnant. It shows...

  18. Whiners in the classroom?!?!?!

    linzjane88 replied to rj2011's topic in General Students

    Before I was in nursing school I had no idea just HOW many annoying personality traits there are in this world. Sometimes I wish class were like Survivor and we could vote some people off the island....

  19. ATI PN Predictor--how does it compare to the NCLEX PN?

    linzjane88 posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Howdy! Our school uses the all the ATI tests in our program. We have our regular curriculum but have to take each ATI ( Peds, Med-Surg, Mom/Baby. etc) that pertains to the quarter that we are in and...

  20. Waitressing as a pre-req?

    linzjane88 replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    No kidding! Had a labor patient a while back who didn't even make ten steps into the floor before her "baby daddy" started demanding a menu. When we informed him the room service is for patients only...

  21. Why I became a nurse, the down and dirty

    linzjane88 replied to libran1984's topic in General Nursing

    "Tiny hidden patient"Ha! I love it. It's like a turducken. A patient inside a

  22. What are some of the things being done to reduce readmissions?

    linzjane88 replied to LearningAboutNursing's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Two homework questions in one night?

  23. Last minute Sanita clogs sale -

    linzjane88 replied to UTMB_Mentor's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Awesome! I got mine. Fyi, your link didn't work. I just went to Zulily and clicked under "last day".

  24. Removing a tic from a patient

    linzjane88 replied to kellycinalli's topic in General Nursing

    The former. In one shift the OP got her patient to stop spontaneously shouting obscenities. He he

  25. Retraining Displaced Workers As Nurses

    linzjane88 replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    Our small community went crazy with the retraining of workers into the "in demand"field of nursing. The paper did an article about the record student enrollments into the local community...