Cat_RN ASN, BSN, RN

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  1. Cat_RN

    Frustrated over a code

    Cat_RN replied to pinky22786's topic in General Nursing

    This is also probably very true. I am probably what you'd consider 'opiod- naive' and probably scare more easily than a seasoned nurse who's given many different doses of narcotics and might not...
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Cat_RN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I know, I've read more of the thread since I posted that. I still don't like it Thanks
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Cat_RN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if it's been said already, but I HATE alert and orien-TATED. It's 'oriented' people... and while we're at it.. it's not CONVERSATE it's CONVERSE
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Cat_RN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I got in report once that the pt. had MRSER (MRSA) of the nar-eese.
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Cat_RN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Now that's a good
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Cat_RN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    AHAHA. The Hoya lift. I'm from Boston and I can tell you I never knew there was an 'R' in father. I always thought (until grade school), that our dear Father was the same as going Father down the...
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Cat_RN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    BAHAHAH. I've come across that too! What the heck dialect is that anyways? My teacher always called it SON-ameter instead of centimeters and I actually thought it must be a different form of 'nursing'...
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    what I wish I could say to my AAOX3 patients!

    Cat_RN replied to Lola77's topic in General Nursing

    ME TOO. And I always think the same thing... you're on STATE FUNDED insurance.. which MY taxes pay! I'm actually working for YOU to be able to be here! Be nice to
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    First code- sort of a vent..

    Cat_RN replied to Cat_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Oops that was a typo- I didn't mean 'a line'. I meant to just write 'line', since I didn't know the term intraosseous.
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    what I wish I could say to my AAOX3 patients!

    Cat_RN replied to Lola77's topic in General Nursing

    THIS.
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    what I wish I could say to my AAOX3 patients!

    Cat_RN replied to Lola77's topic in General Nursing

    I can't think of anything to add but just want to reiterate the one about how the Hospital is NOT the Hilton! Don't ***** to me in the middle of the night about how the bathroom water is not hot...
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    Death bed visions

    Cat_RN replied to legend0710's topic in General Nursing

    I always know that someone will die soon if I see them reaching out to the ceiling to someone. Sometimes they talk to someone/something up there but no one has yet been able to tell me who or what is...
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    Frustrated over a code

    Cat_RN replied to pinky22786's topic in General Nursing

    OP, I don't think you can blame the overdose on the US tech or the night nurse doing chart checks. You ultimately were the one giving the med that caused the harm, but don't kill yourself over it. You...
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    Frustrated over a code

    Cat_RN replied to pinky22786's topic in General Nursing

    1st page. Dose was 3x the amount it was supposed to
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    post turp patient catheter wont drain Why?

    Cat_RN replied to nsgmjr's topic in General Nursing

    So the cap was the
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    I think cutsey scrub tops look ridiculous on adult units

    Cat_RN replied to AZO49008's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Haha! This is true. However, I'd never risk the whites, I'm FAR too
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    I think cutsey scrub tops look ridiculous on adult units

    Cat_RN replied to AZO49008's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I think the hospital's uniform requirements are a way of controlling what the OP is complaining of. With-out pointing fingers and creating lots of discrimination drama, they can making sure everyone's...
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    post turp patient catheter wont drain Why?

    Cat_RN replied to nsgmjr's topic in General Nursing

    YUP this one. I started flipping out one night because a guy who had such strictures and BPH that it took a urologist to cath him wasn't draining any urine and I thought the Foley was clogged. I got...
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    I think cutsey scrub tops look ridiculous on adult units

    Cat_RN replied to AZO49008's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I personally would never wear the types of scrubs the OP mentions, but, if I were a patient, I'd rather have the excellent nurse in the teddy bear scrubs than the crappy nurse in solid colors. (If...
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    Hmm, what do you think..

    Cat_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a new nurse with a (probably) pretty novice question, but here goes. Pt of mine in late seventies, admitted with ARF, UTI, dehydration, anemia, and COPD. Has hx. of an AAA that is currently...
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    What is the nurses job in regards to restraints in a nursing home?

    Cat_RN replied to ArtofGrace's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Around here it's pretty extreme. (And senselessly so, to a point..) No restraints at ALL. No ride rails, no Posey vests, no Posey MITS, no lap-buddy's, no chairs that are enclosed with wheels, you...
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    Can anyone tell me?

    Cat_RN replied to Phase2Pro's topic in General Nursing

    I think many of us thought that she was having you guys PULL the medications from the Pyxis from your own access ID's and then giving the medication (narcotic or not), to her, to then administer to...
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    Hmm, what do you think..

    Cat_RN replied to Cat_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Of course you can. Not all of them are even noticible to the pt. People know they have them, know they need to be careful and manage their BP; this patient was diagnosed in the 80's to have it. His...
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    Can anyone tell me?

    Cat_RN replied to Phase2Pro's topic in General Nursing

    Hopefully nurse's aren't pulling narc's and letting her just give them.. considering her odd behavior.. right? Goodness! I'd be leery of simply pulling med's for
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    Hmm, what do you think..

    Cat_RN replied to Cat_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, he is in actually pretty good shape for his age, has no family (which saddens me), is a full code, no POA. He's here for rehab, to go home. He's alert and oriented, and VERY aware of his...