dudette10

dudette10 MSN, RN

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  1. Please give me advice on your experiences with this

    dudette10 replied to roma4204's topic in General Nursing

    In this case, I wouldn't be thinking "conspiracy" about this. They probably don't know what they are going to do yet! They usually aren't all that efficient at the very top and downward...

  2. Something I Wanted to Share

    dudette10 replied to AICU RN's topic in General Nursing

    Your post was wonderful! I had two back-to-back shifts that were totally different. With the first one, I was (half) seriously ready to leave the profession. For the second one, I got to spend time...

  3. How does it make you feel?

    dudette10 replied to prettymica's topic in General Nursing

    Why do you feel deceived? Are we, as nurses, entitled to know the current or former occupations of all our patients if it has no bearing on their rehabilitative needs? I'm not trying to be mean, but...

  4. Nursing is not easy money, no gain no pain

    dudette10 replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    It's called "work" for a reason. My opinion...coming from someone who worked in the corporate world for 10 years and is now a new grad... I can leave my work and be done with it. Yes, there is the...

  5. Diagnostic test results. What do you tell the patient?

    dudette10 posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is a subject I'm still confused about. Let's say you have patient that has gone for diagnostic tests. The results are available, and you know what it says. The patient or family asks about the...

  6. How bolus infusions of NaCl may affect low sodium levels...?

    dudette10 replied to Xsited2baNurse's topic in General Nursing

    It isn't as easy as hyponatremia = treatment X. It depends on the patient's intravascular volume and underlying cause of the hyponatremia. If the patient had acute hypovolemic hyponatremia (you...

  7. What is the weirdest thing someone has been admitted to the hospital for?

    dudette10 replied to SweetsRN522's topic in General Nursing

    Lately, the working diagnoses on our SBARs have caused me and the nurses in report to look at each other with "*****" expressions. They have become more and more like colorful layman's descriptions...

  8. do nurses get employer sponsored pensionplan?

    dudette10 replied to lily1289's topic in General Nursing

    If the profit sharing plan does not invest in the company you work for, the downside you mention does not exist. If it does invest in the company you work for, or your company match is in the form of...

  9. do nurses get employer sponsored pensionplan?

    dudette10 replied to lily1289's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. My employer has a pre-tax 403(b), a post-tax 403(b) Roth (if you max. out your pre-tax contributions), and a pension plan. Pension vesting is 5

  10. infection and normal WBC

    dudette10 replied to clearblue3's topic in General Nursing

    I just want to say that that is a spot-on analogy for teaching

  11. Admissions during change of shift

    dudette10 replied to brokenroads27's topic in General Nursing

    On my unit, we have a set time. If the patient is physically on the floor before that time, the current shift gets the admission, even if it means staying over. If the patient comes up to the floor...

  12. Nope, you're not going to die tonight...... says the hospice nurse

    dudette10 replied to Old.Timer's topic in General Nursing

    That would have been much better and much more

  13. Nope, you're not going to die tonight...... says the hospice nurse

    dudette10 replied to Old.Timer's topic in General Nursing

    That's the way I perceived the commercial, and I didn't like it because of

  14. Speaking foreign languages

    dudette10 replied to wanderlust99's topic in General Nursing

    This is funny. I'm not paranoid; the fact is they DO talk about people in their own language! A lot of my coworkers speak in their own language at the nurses station. I didn't really think much about...

  15. Rn hurt by cold behavior

    dudette10 replied to RNHURT's topic in General Nursing

    I too would have been very hurt and angry by this turn of events. My best to you and your mom as you grieve her terrible accident and your job loss.

  16. syringe to collect specimen from foley?

    dudette10 replied to nursing81student's topic in General Nursing

    We use these nifty BD Vacutainer urine collection systems, which are intended to be used on the port. Extremely easy to use and very little chance of contaminating the specimen. The collection tubes...

  17. Dayshifters - do you take a breakfast break as soon as you get to work?

    dudette10 replied to Snugglibumkins's topic in General Nursing

    Nah. We didn't! Why do you think corporate cafeterias serve

  18. A new night nurse on the cusp. Tips appreciated.

    dudette10 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I’m about four months into my career, and I feel like I’m climbing a steep hill that just got a little less steep. It’s still a pretty big hill, though. I have encountered potentially critical...

  19. A good answer to those who ask our salary

    dudette10 replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. I kudo'd hiddencat's post because 1) I agreed with it and 2) I didn't feel it necessary to repeat what hiddencat said. Please don't feel as if you need to defend the posting. :) When people...

  20. Discharged at the point of death.

    dudette10 replied to DixieRedHead's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Thank you for the explanation of your comment. This was an interesting choice in words. A faith in what? A preemptive apology to the OP for unintentionally hijacking this

  21. Discharged at the point of death.

    dudette10 replied to DixieRedHead's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm not sure what you mean by that. Could you

  22. Discharged at the point of death.

    dudette10 replied to DixieRedHead's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Someone once said (and maybe it was someone here) that it used to be: you're alive or you're dead. Now it's: you're alive, you're dying, or you're dead. With all the medical technology today, it's the...

  23. Code Blue

    dudette10 replied to newnurseia's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The highlighted is the most crucial in bedside nursing. Open up your policy and procedure manual and look at the examples of appropriate times to call a rapid response. Your hypoglycemia protocol...

  24. Orientation...blechhh

    dudette10 replied to beeble's topic in General Nursing

    Try not to feel defensive during the quizzing. I know it's hard not to when you can't figure it out, but the quizzing helps you in the long run. :) No, I don't think you sounded like an ass, and...

  25. Would you have called?

    dudette10 replied to Art_Vandelay's topic in General Nursing

    It's not the nurses, often times. The doctors write in alphabet soup, and we have to decipher it, so it's something you need to learn. As for the OP, no I would not have called. Unless the patient...