anon456 BSN, RN

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    Growing Up Unvaccinated

    anon456 replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Source: https://www.facebook.com/RtAVM and has a lot of other great ones
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    Growing Up Unvaccinated

    anon456 replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I know some people like this, too. One is someone who is my closest friend. Her child spent several days in PICU a few years ago due to asthma, but yet she did not want to give her child the...
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    Does Preferring to Work Night Shift mean you're lazy?

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

    Also, I work nights so I can be home when my kids get home from school. I might be sleeping but I'm there in case they need me. And I can be there to ask how their day is and start dinner. During...
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    Does Preferring to Work Night Shift mean you're lazy?

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

    Night shifters are not lazy at all! Besides the feat of staying alert when your body naturally is programmed to sleep, it's also the time to catch up on things the day shifters were not able to...
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    How many 12 hour shifts per week

    anon456 replied to Bouncyball's topic in General Nursing

    I read some statistics somewhere that nurses who work more than 3 12's a week are more prone to making medical errors. That also goes for being sleep deprived. Unless you have no life and you go...
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    Growing Up Unvaccinated

    anon456 replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Wow that's so sad about the pregnant women. :-( When I was pregnant with my first child in 2000, the titres showed I was not immune to this! I was fully vaccinated but this one must not have stuck....
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    Top 10 Reasons We Get Fired!- Medication Errors

    anon456 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    Something I tell those that I precept-- it's way better to be late than to make a mistake. I bust my butt trying to get the meds to the kids on time, but being human, we can only do so much when so...
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    Growing Up Unvaccinated

    anon456 replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    When I was young (in the 1970s) my mom made me and my brother go to a chicken pox party, so we would be sure to get it before we started school. I was 4 and I still remember how awful it was. It was...
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    Growing Up Unvaccinated

    anon456 replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Do you just not have time to get it? Or do you have a bad reaction? I have had the flu a couple of times (once while living a foreign country) and it's so awful, I felt like I was hit by a bus and I...
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    Epic (Nursing) FAILS!

    anon456 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Nursing Humor

    This is more of an awkward moment . . . we had a newborn who needed extended treatment for about two months. Baby's mom was breastfeeding and co-sleeping. She signed the bed waiver (we don't do that...
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    Growing Up Unvaccinated

    anon456 replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Having worked PICU and step-down, all I have to say is that I pray for those children whose parents have not vaccinated them. And we always have room for them, and the ECMO machines are always on...
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    How many 12 hour shifts per week

    anon456 replied to Bouncyball's topic in General Nursing

    Enjoy life, save your
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    Top 10 Reasons We Get Fired!- Medication Errors

    anon456 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    I so agree with this!! There were a few times when I would go over the nighttime meds with the parents of my patients and they would have questions, be unaware that a certain med was prescribed, or...
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    Sleepy Nightshift nurse

    anon456 replied to jackpp's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, this too! I got a comprehensive medical and lab workup last year when I was not feeling quite right, and was found to be very low in Vitamin D. I felt better again after I was treated with some...
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    Sleepy Nightshift nurse

    anon456 replied to jackpp's topic in General Nursing

    The way I solved my sleep problem and felt in the best health was to stay up until about 4 AM on my nights off. Then wake up at noon and enjoy the rest of the day. It's a much easier transition and...
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    writing a letter to deceased patient's foster family

    anon456 posted a topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I work on a sad unit where we have many peds patients whose parents have lost custody for various reasons. One patient was with us for many months. During that time they transformed from a scared,...
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    "Dear" doctor that just yelled at me

    anon456 posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am staying late to chart because of my horrific shift. I am not even in charge of your patient anymore, but trying to be helpful to your demands, I ask what I can do for you. You are short with me....
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    Patients that fire everyone/demand everything

    anon456 posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am coming off several shifts with a difficult family of a patient. I work peds so the the family is at bedside 24/7 with the patient. We get people like this every so often and it really saps the...
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    "Dear" doctor that just yelled at me

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

    Most of our docs are pretty nice, too, and they appreciate what we do. But I find that some of the surgeons have no clue what bedside nursing is
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    "Dear" doctor that just yelled at me

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

    I told him like it was. With a smile on my face and fire in my heart.
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    a patients hemoglobin and hematocrit

    anon456 replied to kdelia12's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Did they just get a large fluid bolus? How are their other labs? Are they low also? Did the lab specimen come off an PIV or a PICC and maybe there was not enough waste? Are they in generally poor...
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    Can you explain what exactly I was exposed to?

    anon456 replied to forgop's topic in General Nursing

    That's exactly what I was
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    Starting my first RN job.

    anon456 replied to BBRANRN2013's topic in Pulmonary

    Are they training you well? With some classes and then some orientation. Just make sure you know the emergency stuff-- how to replace a trach, where the spares are in each room, different suctioning...
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    Any good "nurse" shows on tv? Netflix?

    anon456 replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    I have not read through all the posts yet but Call the Midwife was an awesome series. I think I watched all of them back to back over a week or so, with tissues in hand. Amazing
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    How to become a labor and delivery nurse??

    anon456 replied to eb9411's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Amen to all of what you said, but especially what I quoted above. I NEVER wanted to do peds in nursing school. I liked the idea of working with older people. But I got the peds job. I found a very...