anon456 BSN, RN

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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    anon456 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    My co-worker was burping a baby on her shoulder. The baby vomited (not spit up but vomit) and it all ran down the front of her chest into her bra. We have spare loaner scrubs but she had to hand wash...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    anon456 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I don't think I can beat your stories, but I do get creeped out by patients with bedbugs and active lice infections. Especially when you can see the lice crawling around on their
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    How to check g tube placement if no residual

    anon456 replied to ajl009's topic in Patient Medications

    We generally do not check placement of well established g-tubes. Only if they are new. We do check placement of NG tubes regularly by testing
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    Going from Adult to Pediatrics

    anon456 replied to monRN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. I was hired as both a home health peds nurse (very part time) and a full time peds nurse through a special program at my local hospital that was for new
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    Doctors bossing and yelling at Nurses

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

    Our workplace does not tolerate that. In fact, I heard that a very prominent doctor was put on suspension a few years ago for yelling at a nurse in an abusive manner in front of the patients and other...
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    ~Likes & Dislikes~

    anon456 replied to Gaby_rmz77's topic in General Nursing

    Love being able to make a difference, see a patient improving, and feeling like a rock star at the end of an especially busy shift where I did a lot and my time management was great that night. I hate...
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    Had my first code last night

    anon456 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work on a pediatric airway unit, and the charge nurse got sick about two hours into the shift, so I took over as relief charge by seniority. PICU is right across the hall so I felt secure in that....
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    Home Vent Training for Parents

    anon456 replied to meanmaryjean's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I am a peds trach/vent nurse. Trach/vent kids do NOT go to PICU in my facility because we have our own dedicated airway unit for stable trach/vent patients. We are considered critical care step-down,...
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    How did you feel when you got your first nursing paycheck?

    anon456 replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    After being a stay at home mom for ten years, I felt
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    8 month old baby dies because iv line could not be accessed

    anon456 replied to ibnkoomson's topic in General Nursing

    I have not read the other replies yet, but IO would be an obvious choice??? They are in all the code carts on every unit in my
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    The LEAST critically ill kid you've cared for in PICU :)

    anon456 replied to meanmaryjean's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    A suspected rocky mountain fever patient, transferred from a small rural hospital. Found to have a common virus (causing the fever) and bedbugs (causing the
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    Nursing Salary Survey 2014

    anon456 replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    Geographic location: SW United States Pay rate: $27.50/hr In which area / specialty do you work? Peds Critical Care Step-Down What type of license do you have (RN or LPN)? RN What type of degree...
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    Demand for PICU nurses

    anon456 replied to NICU Guy's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    There are some major children's hospitals that still hire new grads and put them through an intensive training period. My hospital is one of them. I was hired into PICU but asked to be transferred to...
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    Had my first code last night

    anon456 replied to anon456's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for listening! I actually was assigned that same patient earlier this week (not as charge) and the mom was so thankful and made fudge to give to everyone that was there that night. (We, ahem,...
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    patients who don't age out

    anon456 posted a topic in Pediatric

    I work in an area where I totally understand why some patients do not age out and are followed pretty much forever by peds doctors. These include congenital heart defects and rare syndromes. The...
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    When the patients shares their health information and nurses pick up on it

    anon456 posted a topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I see this a lot-- patients (or in my case parents of patients) who have been through a long ordeal will have websites put up where they can share progress and updates on the health issues. Oftentimes...
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    You know you are going to have an interesting day when you get report that . . .

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

    Oh goodness-- the mg per tablet have already been calculated and the dose has been determined to be a certain fraction of the tablet. Usually we draw up liquid meds but certain patients, due to diet...
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    You know you are going to have an interesting day when you get report that . . .

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

    Push out as in waste. Keep the rest in the syringe and
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    Low glucose baby, NPO, no access to dextrose

    anon456 replied to anon456's topic in Pediatric

    This is one of those situations that keeps me up at
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    Low glucose baby, NPO, no access to dextrose

    anon456 replied to anon456's topic in Pediatric

    That's kinda what I was thinking too,
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    Unrecognizable without scrubs...

    anon456 replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    This actually happened to me at the mall last week! I was dressed in casual clothes and had my kids along. I recognized a nurse I work with and said Hi a couple times before she saw me and then I saw...
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    Low glucose baby, NPO, no access to dextrose

    anon456 replied to anon456's topic in Pediatric

    It was solved, by the way, by the IV team placing a stat PIV and running D10 until new PICC could be placed. But if that PIV could not be placed and baby was not improving, then
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    Low glucose baby, NPO, no access to dextrose

    anon456 replied to anon456's topic in Pediatric

    Severe aspiration- could not safely swallow without compromising airway. I also believe (and this was not my patient so hard for me to remember) that the patient had a non-working gut, like maybe...
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    Low glucose baby, NPO, no access to dextrose

    anon456 replied to anon456's topic in Pediatric

    Not sure. Never seen glucagon given to babies-- but then we have not had this situation before in my
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    Engagement/Wedding Bands

    anon456 replied to ~Melissa~'s topic in General Nursing

    My workplace allows whatever you want to wear. Personally I would hate to think of my nice wedding ring getting nasty bugs, and I think there's a chance it may break through the glove too. I wear a...