anon456 BSN, RN

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    Let's hear about your worst shift ever!

    anon456 replied to mamax3's topic in General Nursing

    Q1H glucose checks and Q1H neuro checks on two peds patients, one not very cooperative, and almost hourly adjustments to the fluids based on the blood sugars. I had to do full sets of vitals on those...
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    Caring for broken nurses

    anon456 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So sad. When I was doing my psych rotation in nursing school I met one such nurse, too. She seemed really nice and I was sorry she had so many troubles to deal with. I just found out that a former...
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    ADN Nurses Being Forced to go Back to School?

    anon456 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    This subject hits close to home. I am middle aged and settled in my life and family duties and all that. Thought I was done with school. Have a previous Bachelor's in a non-nursing degree and have an...
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    Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal immigrants or face arrest

    anon456 replied to Hotfornursing's topic in Infectious Disease

    What else can you do with them? That is the difficult questions at hand. If there are sick children involved, they need care. It would be inhumane to just ship them back to the border and let them...
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    Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal immigrants or face arrest

    anon456 replied to Hotfornursing's topic in Infectious Disease

    I don't think there is anything they have that we don't already have in the U.S. The measles outbreaks are in large part happening with people who chose not to vaccinate. I have seen more lice,...
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    Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal immigrants or face arrest

    anon456 replied to Hotfornursing's topic in Infectious Disease

    A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland...
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    Coordination of care

    anon456 posted a topic in General Nursing

    What can a nurse do to assist in the coordination of care between specialists? I work with a complex pediatric population and they have multiple issues. The MDs come and leave separately and order...
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    GT feeding stopped after family's wishes

    anon456 replied to zmaldon's topic in General Nursing

    This just happened with an older distant family member. She was able to make her wishes known. She was unable to swallow and had been using an NG tube. She said she disliked the NG tube, it felt very...
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    Most challenging nursing department

    anon456 replied to rose89's topic in General Nursing

    I work in the Pediatric ICU. I have not worked anywhere else, so I can't say for sure, but I can't imagine any place being harder to work than where I do. I see things that would make a seasoned war...
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    how much hire level math is required for nursing?

    anon456 replied to AspiringRN27's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Or more
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    Have you ever puked/fainted/etc at work?

    anon456 replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

    I think that would have required a lot of therapy to get over.
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    Going from peds home health to hospital

    anon456 replied to sarah2416's topic in Pediatric

    I agree with above. Especially if you work with complex
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    how much hire level math is required for nursing?

    anon456 replied to AspiringRN27's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Most of the math I use every day I learned in high school (solve for x) and chemistry (converting several factors at once in one long equation). I find that I use the latter in drip rates because I...
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    Whooping cough redux; your story?

    anon456 replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I did the same with my kids. My youngest was very sickly and I also felt it was better to spread them out rather than give so many at once. I was not sure she could handle it. But she was roughly on...
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    Whooping cough redux; your story?

    anon456 replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am a peds nurse and we are required upon hiring to provide proof of *recent* pertussis vaccine or titers. I have nursed a few babies through pertussis and it's just awful. There's not much we can...
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    Have you ever puked/fainted/etc at work?

    anon456 replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

    Almost puked several times. Got to that stage were I was gagging and heavily salivating and had watery eyes. I have learned the hard way that I cannot watch a doc poking in and out of people over and...
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    Could it be a heart attack or Pneumonia?

    anon456 replied to Isis Phoenix's topic in General Nursing

    What's his O2 sat showing? What does his chest rise look like? Does he have retractions? Does he look panicked? How is is color, cap refill, and temperature of hands and feet? Is he fully oriented?...
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    Being a SAHM after graduation

    anon456 replied to KatarinaCoffman's topic in Nursing Career

    Coming in late here, but here's what I would do: Get hired at a full time job and stay working full time until you have a baby. Then after the baby is born you can still work 1 shift a week or do PRN...
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    Assumptions

    anon456 replied to Isitpossible's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I just made the mistake of assuming that a young man dressed in navy blue scrubs that I had never seen before, who walked up to me to ask how the patient did overnight, was a resident. I started...
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    Problems nurses face that no other professions understand

    anon456 replied to alcal's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Top 3 Difficulties for me: 1) Not having the advanced education to easily find another position if I need or want to. Experience doesn't count as much as having those letters behind your name anymore....
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    NOC with kids home for summer break?

    anon456 replied to 4boysmama's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Your kids are old enough to leave you alone while you sleep. You might even pay the older two to babysit -- but they only get paid if they keep the noise down and don't trash the house. ;-) Try to...
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    If you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans

    anon456 replied to gvrn13's topic in General Nursing

    I have had several co-workers have babies in the first year of employment. People will understand. You still have many months to do your orientation and training, take maternity, and come back to...
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    How did you change?

    anon456 replied to openyourmind's topic in General Nursing

    I wanted to be med/surg and work with older adults. I knew I did NOT want to do peds. I did not want to see sick kids. After several unsuccessful job interviews I was hired into peds ICU/stepdown. I...
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    I was written up and put back on orientation

    anon456 replied to Kalicokats's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    What JustBeachyNurse said. Oftentimes it's just a matter of providing education to the family about why they child must remain NPO for the time being. They obviously want to see their child get better...
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    Need a seasoned nurse's advice

    anon456 replied to marvelmom's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I'm so sorry you are going through this!! We have had several promotions on my unit and as far as I know never had this problem. In fact the former CNAs are often the best RNs. It sounds like you need...