anon456 BSN, RN

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    The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

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

    A patient who had been harmed by a preventable trauma years earlier (due to parental negligence) , with resulting brain damage. Patient was rushed to our hospital and their life was saved. We get this...
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    Alarm Fatigue, Silencing Many Hospital Alarms Leads To Better Health Care

    anon456 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    We have some cardiac repair patients whose normal sats are 75% to 85%. So we have to set the alarms accordingly. Which is fine if they are on O2, we know to turn it down if they are above 85% to...
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    Alarm Fatigue, Silencing Many Hospital Alarms Leads To Better Health Care

    anon456 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Our policy is to visualize every hour and set the alarm for a max of 2 hours of fluid at a time. It can be a pain to dig that arm out of the bedsheets every hour, but I have also seen an arm blow up...
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    Has anyone taken care of a celeb?

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

    On a related note, does your hospital make a note on the patient's file or census information if their family is a big person in the hospital (administration, relative of a staff member, someone who...
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    Has anyone taken care of a celeb?

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

    We had a the child of a famous person on my unit, and because I'm not a sports fan, I totally did not get it that they were famous until months later when someone mentioned
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    Are they still giving out incentives for nurses?

    anon456 replied to Brian's topic in Nursing Humor

    My incentive was that I was offered a job. And the bonus was I also got some free reference cards for my
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    Critical care nurses... You all rock!!

    anon456 replied to NurseQT's topic in Nurses Rock

    It sounds like your brother was in excellent hands! :-) That's
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    Is there any nursing Job that is not stressful

    anon456 replied to nursegillian's topic in Nursing Career

    One of my friends got a job as a new grad that probably was not very stressful. Neither did it pay very well. She worked in a clinic and gave testosterone and HCG shots to people. She is now working...
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    Young nurses

    anon456 replied to pumasoccer_89's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thinking more about your question though, maybe you can wear some pins that show your degrees and certifications, like the pin of the college you graduated from, or an RN pin, or things like that. I...
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    Young nurses

    anon456 replied to pumasoccer_89's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't have any good advice to make people think you are more mature. I just remember when I was a brand new nurse a couple years ago (and I'm not a spring chicken), we had several very young but...
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    Is Med Surg Pre-cursor for Critical Care Success?

    anon456 replied to HoneyBeGood's topic in General Nursing

    You edited a whole bunch out of your OP--like many paragraphs . . . I put a long answer up there to answer all your points that you made. Now they don't make a lot of sense so I'm taking them down....
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    Ugghhh, another new nurse...

    anon456 replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    Yep that was me too. Most of the time my smile was a coping mechanism. But sometimes I really did smile when I realized my long dream to being a RN was done and I was actually hired and working. But...
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    What do Nurses think about CNA's

    anon456 replied to powers2704's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I LOVE my CNA's! Most of them that I work with are very smart, put up with a lot of you-know-what, and are often blamed for things that are out of their control. When I was a newbie it was the CNA's...
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    wow...this is my JOB!

    anon456 replied to Umberlee's topic in General Nursing

    Right! I agree! And wiping someone's butt on Christmas Eve, too. I have had to work either the day before or the day of Christmas or Thanksgiving for the last 3 years. And, we only get paid for the...
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    wow...this is my JOB!

    anon456 replied to Umberlee's topic in General Nursing

    I have done the leeches twice. I actually did them for one nurse who was newly pregnant and got that patient, and she just could not bring herself to handle them without almost vomiting. So every...
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    Growing Up....Why I want to be a nurse

    anon456 replied to allecait's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, good, and also add something scientific sounding, because you need to be able to put together facts based on science, understand how drugs work in the body, etc. It will make you sound both smart...
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    I have a care plan question

    anon456 replied to nette1022's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Is your careplan for the patient or for the husband? :-) While he may be reporting sleep disturbance, etc. the evidence is how it will affect her care and
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    Hepatitis scare Arizona Prison

    anon456 replied to mursejohn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Wow! Why would she have no common
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    Unique jobs?

    anon456 replied to aachavez's topic in Nursing Career

    And when my children are older I want to see if I can volunteer for sports or band camps. It's a way to get free/reduced tuition and also play a role in the health and safety of the
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    Unique jobs?

    anon456 replied to aachavez's topic in Nursing Career

    I know someone who works for the county. She does home visits of preemies and NICU graduates, assesses their health needs and developmental milestones, and makes recommendations for the types of...
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    Does Preferring to Work Night Shift mean you're lazy?

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

    Would love that to be the cause on my unit. Parents (up to 2) are allowed to stay at bedside all night. Sometimes this is great because they will feed the baby. Other times it's not so great as they...
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    wow...this is my JOB!

    anon456 replied to Umberlee's topic in General Nursing

    Ha ha! You are right about
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    Alarm Fatigue, Silencing Many Hospital Alarms Leads To Better Health Care

    anon456 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I can so relate to that! We have our peds t/v patients hooked up to continuous pulse ox and/or cardiac monitoring, as well as their home vents. The kids will often take the pulse ox off and then it...
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    Does Preferring to Work Night Shift mean you're lazy?

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

    Ha ha! I'll see your sundowners and raise you some toddlers whose parents have left for the
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    Bachelor degree

    anon456 replied to dinkinsj's topic in General Nursing

    My manager kindly told me that while I would be grandfathered in and not fired for not getting my BSN, I probably would have a hard time being hired