dudette10

dudette10 MSN, RN

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  1. Nurses, Crowdfunding and your dreams!

    dudette10 replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I suppose this is NOT the place to say I'm fed up with my Facebook feed filled with people's hands out via

  2. How do you get results without being rude?

    dudette10 replied to lisaogden6's topic in General Nursing

    If you are answering call bells, tell the nurse each time the light goes off for the patient to request it. In the meantime, ask the patient if a reposition might help. Not much else you can do as a...

  3. Hourly rounding. Are you kidding me?

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

    Should be accountable, but often aren't. There is one floor and one shift I work on where the CNAs are awful. They do give bedbound patients baths but never enter the rooms again except for vitals...

  4. Nursing portfolio

    dudette10 replied to hawksrn2014's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work, the nursing portfolio is used for the career ladder, i.e. going from Staff Nurse I to Staff Nurse II. Ours should contain our CEU certificates for that license renewal cycle, proof of...

  5. JUST a nurse

    dudette10 replied to Knights Nurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    One day, I had an intern ask me why I didn't go to med school. I asked him very sweetly, "Why didn't you go to nursing school?" and turned around to see and hear one of my favorite hospitalists...

  6. Family member Hell

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

    Quite a few times, but they've never acted like that. All the nurse family members, especially the ones that work at my hospital, have been fantastic. Have taken care of a doctor's wife and a...

  7. IV tubing port selection for Y-site

    dudette10 replied to DatMurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not understanding your question. Are you asking where you should y-site or are you asking if you should y-site a IVPB at

  8. How common is charting ahead in ICU?

    dudette10 replied to SilleLu's topic in Critical Care

    Unrelated, but q4 head to toe assessments on a MS floor? That's

  9. Has being a nurse changed your outlook on...

    dudette10 replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    If the patient was young-ish with few co-morbidities, I would have the doc discuss his DNR decision with him. The patient might not understand that he has a very good chance of recovery from cardiac...

  10. Answering the phone without accidental patient information release?

    dudette10 replied to IndianaISNurse's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Patients have to specifically opt out of hospital directories or has to provide restrictions to whom this information is given. Unless the patient has opted out or provided restrictions, confirming...

  11. What kind of shift report was that?

    dudette10 replied to proud nurse's topic in General Nursing

    We do 12s. If I'm getting the patient back, it can go something like this: Me: Anything new? Other nurse: Nope. Me: Ok, moving on. One time I got all five patients back. Report took less than a...

  12. Has being a nurse changed your outlook on...

    dudette10 replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. So much so that my husband is not my POA. My ex-SIL who is a nurse is my

  13. Should high absenteeism be cause to be fired?

    dudette10 replied to Emergent's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    That's illegal in my

  14. Me... Me... Me: A Sense of Entitlement

    dudette10 replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    I've had the kinds of discussions in this thread with attendings and consults, not just nurses. Anyone who works in healthcare for any period of time has a very human reaction to the

  15. epic nursing communications vs epic orders

    dudette10 replied to Lvuv's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    That happens most to us when the new interns come in. They can't find the real order, so they put it in as a nursing communication. We call them back and tell them to put it in correctly because no...

  16. One of my favorite patients nearly made me cry.

    dudette10 posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Busy day a shifts ago. First rounds had to send a patient to ICU for severe sepsis. From the moment I walked into the room until the time I returned to the floor after delivering him to ICU, an hour...

  17. Yay!! I get the poop magnet award!! Who else is so fortunate?!

    dudette10 replied to RunninOnCoffee's topic in General Nursing

    I get the poop the poop magnet award when I work rehab or our in-facility SNF for sending patients back to acute. When the manager sees me on his unit, he always asks which one of my patients will I...

  18. Hourly rounding. Are you kidding me?

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

    I had one guy today take a full three minutes to take two pills. About drove me

  19. whats the main cause of stress that RN goes through at work?

    dudette10 replied to yayita's topic in Health, Stress Management

    It's being pulled in a million different directions at once, by everyone who feels that their need is more important than the next persons. This goes for administration, coworkers, doctors, and...

  20. Could this be construed as "abuse"?

    dudette10 replied to Pat_Pat RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Has she recently started complaining about the BP cuff? Is it only on one

  21. rainbows and unicorns

    dudette10 replied to ceccia's topic in General Nursing

    I had an elderly expressive aphasia patient due to an old stroke, but completely alert and oriented with appropriate gestures head gestures for yes and no. I had her for three days straight, but I...

  22. I. Just. Can't....

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

    Yes, there is. It's either New Jersey or New York that requires patient or family consent to a DNR. It is by statute, not regulation nor case law. With respect to the bolded type, I need to read...

  23. I. Just. Can't....

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

    This is an excerpt from one of the links. Coincidentally, it uses the exact same analogy about heart surgery that you used previously in this thread, Muno. The conclusion that author comes to,...

  24. I. Just. Can't....

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

    It has a lot to do with it, if you are able to put yourself in a place where you are terminal, dying, you want to be a full code, and the doctor is saying no. I can imagine that it would be much...

  25. I. Just. Can't....

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

    Oh, the main page is all full of absolutes. The cases to the right (Case 1, Case 2, Case 3) is where it gets wishy-washy. Metastatic cancer is on that list. I just reported one in this thread....