Cat_RN ASN, BSN, RN

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    What I have learned during bedbaths

    Cat_RN replied to mamamerlee's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yes! This one too! Please don't forget to shave the little old ladies hairs on their chiny-chin-chins. I'm sure in their younger years they would be mortified to have those there! It's just...
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    What I have learned during bedbaths

    Cat_RN replied to mamamerlee's topic in General Nursing

    Peri-care!!! Super important and I feel oft times it's getting neglected. Then comes fingernails, and, betweeen showers, under breasts, skin folds, and TOES. Please, clean between their toes! And of...
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    I want to be a RN but don't want to deal, with you know...

    Cat_RN replied to Back2Nursing09's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you! That feeling doesn't come too often, but I do feel honored to care for someone in their last dying days, especially when I knew them when they were 'living' so I've already established...
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    I want to be a RN but don't want to deal, with you know...

    Cat_RN replied to Back2Nursing09's topic in General Nursing

    :redbeathe The law of conservation of energy and 1st Law of Thermodynamics! Energy is constant, neither created or destroyed. Scott, this is EXACTLY how I think as well! I find many people don't...
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    I want to be a RN but don't want to deal, with you know...

    Cat_RN replied to Back2Nursing09's topic in General Nursing

    I also wanted to add, the feeling of accomplishment and reward from the very first time a family member tells you "Thank you for being there for my Mom, you can never know how much it means that she...
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    I want to be a RN but don't want to deal, with you know...

    Cat_RN replied to Back2Nursing09's topic in General Nursing

    Death and dying are as much a part of nursing as living is, especially in long-term or hospice settings and also oncology. It's not the glamorous aspect of being a nurse but it is just as important to...
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    Nursing school: Bizarre practice in learning to bed bath..

    Cat_RN replied to Cat_RN's topic in General Students

    It's the crassness of your posts that is disturbing people. Whether you mean it or not, you are coming across as being unsympathetic and intolerant to the concerns of others that you can't relate to....
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    Nursing school: Bizarre practice in learning to bed bath..

    Cat_RN replied to Cat_RN's topic in General Students

    Likewise!
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    Nursing school: Bizarre practice in learning to bed bath..

    Cat_RN replied to Cat_RN's topic in General Students

    Um, even if it weren't my SO, I'd still have given the same reaction to any person telling me this. Has nothing to do with this. Why would I care if he were bathed by another guy as they are...
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    Open mouth ... Insert foot

    Cat_RN replied to Meg88's topic in Nursing Humor

    HAHAHAH- I've had this happen to me with a man named Kelly as well! I didn't think I even had the right patient, I was so embarassed. ULGH- I've also called a woman with VERY short hair who was...
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    Open mouth ... Insert foot

    Cat_RN replied to Meg88's topic in Nursing Humor

    Personally I don't think you should be embarassed at all! Being gay isn't anything to be ashamed about and I'm sure he doesn't think so;) I think you could have made a funny quip back to him about it...
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    Skin prep on open areas...

    Cat_RN replied to gabrielle76's topic in General Nursing

    Oh my, you definitely need to bring this to the DON. Covering up what IS a pressure sore and calling it 'moisture related' and simply putting SKIN PREP on it is abusive. I know pressure sores are evil...
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    Skin prep on open areas...

    Cat_RN replied to gabrielle76's topic in General Nursing

    Oh my, you definitely need to bring this to the DON. Covering up what IS a pressure sore and calling it 'moisture related' and simply putting SKIN PREP on it is abusive. I know pressure sores are evil...
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    confused

    Cat_RN replied to crodriguez's topic in General Nursing

    Possibly the OP's first language isn't
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    Good LPN programms in Tampa, FL

    Cat_RN replied to irene27's topic in General Nursing

    Galen, HCC, PHCC- further north in pasco county. Keiser is expensive, but HAD a good program. (Don't know about now). PTEC (pinellas tech) is 'eh', haven't heard amazing things about it however one...
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    State is coming and I'm a wreck..

    Cat_RN replied to cebuana_nurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We have to wash our hands BETWEEN each eye's drop. If you're giving hypotears one drop to each eye QD, you enter room, wash hands, set up 3 clean barrier tissues on table, (eye drops are in one tissue...
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    Odd rituals at work

    Cat_RN replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    I do the EXACT same 'ritual' as the OP. Seriously, the sani-wipes, the towel on the chair, the cleaning all the counters I'm going to be working on, the keyboard, phone, and buttons on fax machine...
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    Co-administration of Zyvox and albuterol?

    Cat_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    We received a notice from pharmacy on a patient prescribed the antibiotic linezolid (Zyvox) and albuterol inh, referring to MAOI's (that linezolid apparantly has MAOI-type properties?) interacting...
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    What are MS patients like?

    Cat_RN replied to tokebi's topic in General Nursing

    I've heard nurses describe them as manipulative, controlling, and contriving often times against anyone and everyone around them. I do see some of these qualities in many MS pt's. I don't know if...
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    Does Anyone Document NDE's?

    Cat_RN replied to rashana's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure. My mother watched her own code from up above when she was 43, but I don't know if the nurse documented her
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    First code- sort of a vent..

    Cat_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Not 20 minutes before I had checked on pt. She was taking to me, no s/s distress, no change in condition, o2 was on 3L via N/C through a concentrator. The next thing I knew the aide was calling to me...
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    First code- sort of a vent..

    Cat_RN replied to Cat_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Nope, not frothing, no sudden edema or any other outward signs of distress, just appeared to be asleep and not breathing. Very quiet, I was still on the same hall doing my morning meds. I heard...
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    what I wish I could say to my AAOX3 patients!

    Cat_RN replied to Lola77's topic in General Nursing

    We also don't know how to program or troubleshoot malfunctioning
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    Frustrated over a code

    Cat_RN replied to pinky22786's topic in General Nursing

    Oops I read that as 'opiod-naive nurse', not patient. As in a nurse who's not given many high doses of
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    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...