dudette10

dudette10 MSN, RN

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  1. Newbies Who Want to Pay ZERO Dues Schedule-Wise

    dudette10 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My reply would have been, "You didn't see it coming, noob. Don't worry, I fixed it." Just kidding! It's quite possible, however, that her proclamation that the patient was "just fine last night" was...

  2. Ebola here in Dallas USA

    dudette10 replied to HappyWife77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    From the article (thank you, Canada!) That's not a lot of virus necessary to infect another human

  3. Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    dudette10 replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And they will have hazmat suits to clean an empty home, but HCWs caring for infected patients wear one-size-fits-all gowns that don't cover your calves or back.

  4. Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    dudette10 replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    While the thumb hooks and ill-fitting sleeves go flapping around. The standard PPE is looking worse and worse

  5. "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    dudette10 replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    So they updated it to droplet? CNN just did an update, and they went to a NY hospital to talk about their protocols. The protocol is the standard droplet/contact PPE, with the blue gowns, clean...

  6. "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    dudette10 replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And didn't Brantley get infected despite use of PPE, but where was the CDC in throwing him under the bus? I rarely get angry with news reports--I'm a little more easy-going than that--but this is...

  7. "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    dudette10 replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Best equipment, yes, but "extensive training"? In what? We aren't providers. The only brush up on training would be for proper donning and doffing of PPE. Nurses who have been extensively trained in...

  8. "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    dudette10 replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And it could have been aerosolized during

  9. "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    dudette10 replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And if we nurses demand the buddy system and better PPE, we will be vilified as not doing the jobs we were "called" to

  10. "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    dudette10 replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thank you for that. I am upset that so many of my colleagues are jumping to say that this nurse did something wrong with her PPE. We don't know what PPE was used or the condition of the PPE, but she...

  11. Will the Texas ED RN become a scapegoat in the Ebola patient discharge?

    dudette10 replied to preddish's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Not "the" nurse talked about in this thread--the ED triaging nurse on Duncan's first trip to the ER. This story is talking about a bedside nurse taking care of Duncan inpatient who has preliminarily...

  12. BSN Only? Give me a break!!

    dudette10 replied to michaelvgrigsby's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I was completely wrong. In addition, look at this:

  13. How has Obamacare affected you and your employer?

    dudette10 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Well, considering the 2010 ACA linked patient satisfaction with reimbursement, I think it affects us all, and not in a good

  14. BSN Only? Give me a break!!

    dudette10 replied to michaelvgrigsby's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    It's not enough to have just 120 credit hours; you must have 60 gen Ed and 60 in a major. No community college is approved to confer bachelor's degrees. They just aren't, although some partner with...

  15. BSN Only? Give me a break!!

    dudette10 replied to michaelvgrigsby's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    It doesn't make much sense to pursue, let's say, a master's in English literature when you are a nurse and you want to stay a nurse. To answer your question not posed to me,yes, I guess I am saying...

  16. Discovered a possible diversion of meds, now what?

    dudette10 replied to msnurse123's topic in Patient Medications

    No. The OP could see from the Pyxis that the Dilaudid was pulled at 0600 by a certain nurse for a certain patient, then that same nurse charted manually that two doses of 1mg each were given at 2000...

  17. Nurses Who Don't Want to be Nurses

    dudette10 replied to mindofmidwifery's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I had a day like that yesterday. Thank god for teamwork! Two nurses in particular really helped me by taking vitals and passing meds to my other patients while I spent three hours calling two rapid...

  18. Patient satisfaction or patient dissatisfaction

    dudette10 replied to Brian's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I had a patient (who I actually liked, btw) complain to me about the care he received in his residential facility. He said my hospital was like a Hilton, and his facility was like a Super 8. Mind you,...

  19. Patient satisfaction or patient dissatisfaction

    dudette10 replied to Brian's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Did ID not see you for five days after the consult was placed? What was their rationale for not giving you a PICC? Why did you need a PICC? Did you have extravasation of the vanc or K-rider through...

  20. Blood pressure-weird jump when taking it

    dudette10 replied to Communitynurse365's topic in General Nursing

    Was it an auscultatory gap? I've seen those in dialysis patients due to decreased vascular "stretchiness" Don't laugh at my creative use of pseudo-medical terms. I'm tired and I can't think of the...

  21. Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    dudette10 replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And according to ATI, one of the two standardized testing companies used in nursing schools, gloves can be removed with the gown. I, too, was taught to remove gloves with the gown. Have many of us ben...

  22. Flu Vaccines. A Hassle?

    dudette10 replied to ChooSoul's topic in Disaster Preparation

    A Facebook friend linked an anti-vax site that used raw numbers from VERS to claim vaccines are dangerous. So, I went to VERS and looked at individual reports. Any report, no matter how ridiculous,...

  23. Nurses don't do anything

    dudette10 replied to Dtermnd2Bgreat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Only two times have comments about what we do gotten under my skin, and both of them were from patients. One said, as I was introducing myself during hand-off, "I remember you. You waited on me...

  24. home meds

    dudette10 replied to mpccrn's topic in Patient Medications

    Can you suggest a less time consuming method? How about sealing them in a properly labeled bag in front of the patient and having the patient sign the seal? Got that idea from duty-free alcohol...

  25. home meds

    dudette10 replied to mpccrn's topic in Patient Medications

    We have to specifically ask if they have home meds with them, and then confiscate them if no one is available to take them home. Historically, there have been situations where patients get confused...