PetiteOpRN

PetiteOpRN

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  1. Healthcare is a commodity

    PetiteOpRN replied to PetiteOpRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Education is a commodity. You didn't have a "right" to nursing school, did you? Just because the government provides public education, does not make it a right. Just because something is good does...

  2. Healthcare is a commodity

    PetiteOpRN replied to PetiteOpRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Ok, but whenever you say you have a "right" to someone else's time or service you are negating the other person's free will. That is what I take issue

  3. Healthcare is a commodity

    PetiteOpRN replied to PetiteOpRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If a hospital has one attending physician in a given specialty, they are literally on call 24/7. No one signs up with the expectation that everyone else in the department will all retire at the same...

  4. Rant: Physician pagers!

    PetiteOpRN replied to BridgetJones's topic in Operating Room

    This is why I like text pagers. Half of the time they put enough information for me to figure out if it is urgent or not. There is absolutely no reason to just page with a number, but people do, and...

  5. are filter needles necessary?

    PetiteOpRN replied to brownbook's topic in Patient Medications

    I can only speak to my specialty. There are some instances in the OR where an ampule is actually much more convenient than any other form for a few different reasons. 1. Amount. Sometimes all I...

  6. This can't be right...

    PetiteOpRN replied to pinkstudentnurse20's topic in General Nursing

    Pinkstudentnurse: I wasn't there, but your representation of events sound something like a 1st time mother recounting her child's first injury. I've seen plenty of lip lacerations, but very few that...

  7. are filter needles necessary?

    PetiteOpRN replied to brownbook's topic in Patient Medications

    YES. Yes, filter needles are absolutely necessary any time you are drawing a drug from an ampule. The shards of glass are microscopic, so it really doesn't matter whether or not you can see anything...

  8. Honest thoughts on Job Market

    PetiteOpRN replied to pat8585's topic in General Nursing

    In mid-Missouri, there are hospitals hiring new grads by the bushel. They are being hired to specialty areas like L&D, OR, and ICUs. I work in OR, and we've all done a lot of "team-building"...

  9. Bizarre Case- Any guesses?

    PetiteOpRN replied to flygirls2's topic in General Nursing

    When I've had lab values change so quickly and to such extremes, 99% of the time, the lab got the values wrong. It looks like that probably wasn't the case here because of the simultaneous change in...

  10. Trying to boost morale advice wanted!

    PetiteOpRN replied to burnoutward's topic in General Nursing

    We have had a similar problem on my unit. There were lots of bandaids applied, did not help. The following two things have happened that have improved morale: 1. The manager has started putting on...

  11. Priority Nursing Diagnosis for Cystolithotripsy... need help!

    PetiteOpRN replied to lynn22's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a urology nurse, but every cystolithotripsy I've observed has been transurethral (no incision, so no increased risk of infection or bleeding). Also, I have only ever seen them vaporize the...

  12. Physicals

    PetiteOpRN replied to patientlywaitinagain's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a freak of nature who's allergic to phenol (the preservative in the TB test). I was tested for TB repeatedly in my first year of life and developed an allergy. As a student, I had to get a...

  13. Jean Watson Caring Science

    PetiteOpRN replied to MA Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    There have been several threads here about her theories. I really don't know enough about her, but what I have read seems a little "out there." If I were in your shoes (and I am a Christian too), I...

  14. How did you afford to get through CRNA school?

    PetiteOpRN replied to Hartley's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    My parents had 5 children, starting in med school and didn't get a real (non-residency) job until the oldest was 10 years old. We lived in a small duplex, drove used cars, and shopped at garage sales....

  15. i shouldn't be asking this.

    PetiteOpRN replied to smartnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

    that's very interesting, thank you. sometimes i dilute with a little more ns because the extra deep breathing and mist gets things

  16. Get it off your chest! What's the rudest thing a doctor ever said to you?

    PetiteOpRN replied to vhern246's topic in General Nursing

    "The patient's blood pressure is 205/192" "Do you see my eyes glazing

  17. i shouldn't be asking this.

    PetiteOpRN replied to smartnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

    The 4ml dose should be fine. My son uses a nebulizer all the time at home. I have to mix up the albuteral with sterile NS. I usually use about 2ml, but a little more or less isn't going to hurt him,...

  18. No wonder other specialties don't think OR is nursing!

    PetiteOpRN replied to PetiteOpRN's topic in Operating Room

    I'm not trying to sell anyone on anything, I just think it's unfortunate that these students' entire OR observation is one type of case, and not a terribly engaging one at that. The whole point of...

  19. No wonder other specialties don't think OR is nursing!

    PetiteOpRN replied to PetiteOpRN's topic in Operating Room

    Exactly. When I was in school, they always put them with hearts, and by the time they get there the hurry, hurry, hurry was over and the circulating looked like the easiest job in the world! Most of...

  20. pitocin and oxygen

    PetiteOpRN replied to Valerie RN, BSN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I've never worked in OB, but when I was in labor, I was pulled off of pit when O2 was started and told that the pit was a contributing factor. It makes sense that there might be other more...

  21. Clogged feeding tubes

    PetiteOpRN replied to Phillygryl's topic in General Nursing

    Warm diet coke, as a last resort. Diet is more acidic than regular

  22. pitocin and oxygen

    PetiteOpRN replied to Valerie RN, BSN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    If something were to happen to the baby, and you are asked to defend your actions in court, can you justify having both pit and O2 going at the same time? It is my understanding that if you are...

  23. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    PetiteOpRN replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    Toddlers being anesthetized (especially induction/emergence). Everyone is helpless during this part, but when it's a toddler crying for "mommy," I just can't take it. I also have an unrelenting...

  24. Has your alma mater ever mattered?

    PetiteOpRN replied to Darjeeling22's topic in General Nursing

    If anything, it matters locally and to the patients. Locally, there is one ADN program that stands head and shoulders above every other RN program in the region (including the BSN programs) in terms...

  25. A Major reason for Hiring freeze

    PetiteOpRN replied to BackfromRetirement's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    OP, surely you have been around long enough to know that there are "crises" like this every few years. Right now elective surgeries are down at all of the hospitals where I live (midwest) because...