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That's what I get for trying to browse at work. I got stuck on the second page. Lol! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

BS. Hell, I've even got personal-use OTC stuff from the pharmacy while I was working. That's what OTC means. No RX necessary.

I work ICU and the last time I said it was quiet at work I ended up having to land a txf from PCU who rolled thru the door in Vfib with a belly full of peritoneal dialysate. Nope. Not saying it again. Luckily they had already been tubed and the intensivist was on the floor.

In my Trauma/SICU we get a lot of closed head injuries which means bolts, paralytics, and frequent neuro checks. We're also the general surgical ICU (we have an 8 bed CV where all the hearts go) so we get lots of open bellies, complex wounds (no major burns though), chest surgeries (if there is no room in CV), and ortho. Lots and lots of ortho because of the traumas we get. We also get medical overflow if needed. Because of how complex trauma pts can be they tend to hang out long, get trachs and pegs, and have multiple, multiple surgeries and wounds. I've only been in SI for 6 months but I love it. CV and MI can get really boring to me even with the interesting patho, but there's not a ton of hands on work to do. I love getting my hands dirty with lots of wounds.

My unit is trialing enclosing the nurses station in glass to help reduce noise. It's actually working, and it looks nice because there aren't obvious seams, besides a few sliding windows like in a doctors office. Well, I'm walking past and my charge nurse gets my attention and I obviously can't hear her, so I go to stick my head in the window. Well, the way the light was hitting the very clean glass made it look like it was open. It was not. I slammed the face full-on into the glass. I have never seen someone laugh so hard in my life! Luckily I didn't leave a nose print.

I like the one that sounds like a def-con/nuclear missile alarm. Definitely enough to get me up and moving!

I just really love poop. j/k

A doggie! Oh, how I want a dog.

I was just licensed by PA and did not have to disclose anything voluntary. Fortunately I have never been involuntarily committed, but I don't even remember having been asked any questions about that. As everyone else has said it does change from state to state.

Diet coke or diet dr. Pepper!! But really if its IV just skip all the flavor and give me straight caffeine.

That was one of the cutest videos about death I've ever seen!

I'm so glad we've never had fill-in-the-blank questions. My teachers base all of tests off the NCLEX test plan, and knowledge level questions like this one are never on them. You're teacher is being ridiculous about the order thing. It's neither head nor tails whether thrombus or embolism is put in either blank.

Honey badger don't give a s**t. I'd probably give my "spirit animal" though, a tiger. Big, orange, and lovely.

I only use the 10/10 scale because of charting, but rely more on the pt's description of the pain. Usually this works well, and I can give them a suitable med from their PRN list, it doesn't work well when the dr decides to prescribe based on the numeric scale. That really annoyed me when I did stroke rehab. It was impossible to premedicate my patient with how the orders for her oxycodone was written. Now for me, I sprained my lower back muscles a few years ago and they went into totaly spasm. I could not move without screaming in pain. My mom needed to call 911 because I could not get myself off the kitchen floor, or even turn myself without almost passing out. I still felt silly answering 10 on the pain scale because I know it's relative. So who am I to say that I have 10/10 pain when the person next me has half of their arm hanging off? Guilt makes me do funny things sometimes.

Our terms are broken up into six units, each ending with an exam. Exams are dependent on the number of hours of material presented per subject. It's three questions per hour of material taught. A three hour lecture would have nine questions on that unit exam. There is also a cumulative final exam. Grading is pretty standard at 75% is a C, and you must have a 75% average across the six unit exams and the final to pass. All projects, and clinical work are pass/fail.