ShayRN

ShayRN

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  1. MORPHINE and Dying Patients

    ShayRN replied to constantlylearning's topic in General Nursing

    How about saying an OVERDOSE of morphine can hasten death, but used properly it is an excellent drug to use for pain control and air hunger in end of life care. THAT would be more

  2. MORPHINE and Dying Patients

    ShayRN replied to constantlylearning's topic in General Nursing

    AAAHHHHHHHH:banghead:

  3. WANTED: smokers and smokers that have successfully quit!

    ShayRN replied to annful24's topic in General Nursing

    1. how long have you been a smoker? i smoked for 16 years. 2. how often and how much to you generally smoke cigarettes? when i was a smoker, it was at least a pack a day. 3. what is your reasoning...

  4. How far do you drive?

    ShayRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Our much loved medical director put his notice in today. Rumor has it he is going to a town about 45 minutes away to open a new inpatient facility. I asked him if I could come too and he laughed,...

  5. pt post cardiac cath

    ShayRN replied to OBstudent0321's topic in General Nursing

    How about Lack of Knowledge regarding procedure. Your assessment can include what she does or doesn't know about open heart and the plan of care can include teaching regarding sternal precautions,...

  6. This is what happens when you don't feed the nurses

    ShayRN posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    Had a really rough night on Labor day. No break for 10 hours. My co-worker and I decide to go out to Perkins for breakfast. Well, they are running behind, really far behind. (We waited over 1hr...

  7. Good news leads to identity change

    ShayRN replied to AR_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Congrats!

  8. quick question....

    ShayRN replied to jenpan's topic in General Nursing

    I work inpatient Hospice and we call TOD all the

  9. Assignments that you are not qualified to take

    ShayRN replied to mycatmax's topic in General Nursing

    I think a call to risk management is in order. If you tell a charge that you are not comfortable with an assignment, then it should be changed.

  10. things friends/neighbors have asked you "because you are a nurse"

    ShayRN replied to aloevera's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe I should start reminding people I am a HOSPICE

  11. Salary at UPMC in MICU - HELP!

    ShayRN replied to SweetCakesCCU's topic in General Nursing

    That would be grounds for divorce in my house,

  12. I can't believe I stood up to one of the 'bullies'!!!

    ShayRN replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

    Good for you! I can't stand bullies. Had two night turn nurses start giving a new girl a really hard time, to the point she shook whenever they were both on. I walked into the med room one time and...

  13. Should I be upset? Or am I making a big deal out of nothing?

    ShayRN replied to redhead09's topic in General Nursing

    They can find ways. When I was in nursing school they let one guy all the way through to the last semester when an instructor took a disliking to him. He flunked his clinical with her. (Don't know...

  14. Should I be upset? Or am I making a big deal out of nothing?

    ShayRN replied to redhead09's topic in General Nursing

    Sad to say, but there is a teacher like that in every nursing school. I recently worked with a WONDERFUL stna who was in ns. She had a problem with a professor and complained. Next thing you know...

  15. weird situation

    ShayRN replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

  16. Sooooo done with the verbal abuse!

    ShayRN replied to miko014's topic in General Nursing

    Add one more person to my list of people to admire. He is at the top of the

  17. Sooooo done with the verbal abuse!

    ShayRN replied to miko014's topic in General Nursing

  18. Nurse manhandled by doctor

    ShayRN replied to Scrubby's topic in General Nursing

    Just wanted to say...Anyone who has been a nurse for any length of time knows how much courage it took to stand up the way you did for your co-worker. You have my admiration and respect. Please keep...

  19. Nurse manhandled by doctor

    ShayRN replied to Scrubby's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat:

  20. Patient with maggots in head

    ShayRN replied to RD_Congo's topic in General Nursing

    I would assume that if deposits its eggs in a warm moist spot, ie..Tissue with excellent blood supply. As far as how long before eggs hatch, I looked it up and the article said 12-24 hours for the...

  21. Patient with maggots in head

    ShayRN replied to RD_Congo's topic in General Nursing

    We were just talking at work the other day about a similar situation. Man in an area ECF had brain cancer and the tumor was coming out of his skin. There was a fly in the building and the next thing...

  22. Working alot of hours on NO sleep, and a Dangerous CNA. Moral support PLEASE

    ShayRN replied to WVStarFish's topic in General Nursing

    I have a very easy solution to this particular problem. Call off. No way would I go to work on 3 hours of sleep. Then they will blame YOU for the med error you make. I have told all my employers on...

  23. New LPN, should I go back to hospital CNA instead of long term care?

    ShayRN replied to LrElizabeth7's topic in General Nursing

    Why do you have to do one or the other? Why not check into a doctor's office or some other type of setting? Our home care team just hired 5 LPN's on a "crisis unit." The LPN that just started in...

  24. Watch out - Its Death Angel!

    ShayRN replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    The angel of death for us is almost always the new girls. It just never fails that when someone new starts she has a death every single night she

  25. Medicine Crusher's

    ShayRN replied to CrazyMommy's topic in General Nursing

    I have always in the past taken a paper towel and give them a quick wipe before using it. We have a really nice one where I work now. It has little plastic bags that you poor the pills into and...