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hannahmaepunk

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  1. Ridiculous V/S...are you out of your mind?

    hannahmaepunk replied to BrazoriaLVN's topic in General Nursing

    Faulty training on CNA's. Faulty certification. Faulty

  2. Is nursing really for me?

    hannahmaepunk replied to Monica08's topic in General Nursing

    Is nursing for you? Seek validation from yourself, the patients you handled, your preceptors, and your co-workers. See if that

  3. what would happen if you defibrillated a pt w/ a pacemaker?

    hannahmaepunk replied to JemJ's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, fun is the right word to use in defibrillating patients. In filipino movies and tv shows, people who have a flatline ALWAYS receives a shock from the good 'ol nurses. (random

  4. What are your pet peeves when orienting a new ER nurse?

    hannahmaepunk replied to NeoPediRN's topic in Emergency

    Slow nurses. And nurses who lack confidence. Overly dependent nurses. Cramming nurses. Nurses who doesn't think quickly. Nurses who doesn't have an open mind. --these are the unwanted nurses in the...

  5. Nursing education

    hannahmaepunk replied to MyGranniePanties's topic in General Nursing

    Lazy people+enrollment in whatever class=money. Administrators+school=costs Lazy people failing+enrolling again and again=more money High standards= less people enrolling School - high standards=...

  6. Staff Nurse with a MS Nursing degree?

    hannahmaepunk replied to NICU<3RN's topic in General Nursing

    Good thing here in my country, RN's need to get BSN first before getting their license. And nurses who are master's degree graduates or still taking their master's, get better pay and better staff...

  7. Stupidest comlaint of the night award...

    hannahmaepunk replied to JDougRN's topic in Emergency

    People are people. Many people are not nurses. Some do not have proper education on some situations and sometimes they panic and feel like they're going to die. A patient came to us in the ER because...

  8. Simple IV Questions

    hannahmaepunk replied to MAL, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Infusing 1liter/hr? That's like fast drip. 1,000mcgtts/min via microset or 333gtts/min via macroset @20 df? Really? Seriously? Hmmm? Theoretically, the insulin would STILL be infusing accordingly if...

  9. Simple IV Questions

    hannahmaepunk replied to MAL, RN's topic in General Nursing

    As long as the PNSS is at KVO rate, the insulin drip will infuse accordingly. Just make sure that the insulin piggyback is secure as in some situations, the infusion rate varies because of position....

  10. My hospital is breaking the law...

    hannahmaepunk replied to MEDICJOHN's topic in General Nursing

    Double-check the scope of the LVN's first. That way you'll really know what's going on out there. The issue is not in the patient assignment, but with the scope of practice among

  11. I'm pretty sure my preceptor thinks i'm done

    hannahmaepunk replied to Deetermined's topic in General Nursing

    Starting a peripheral line is DIFFICULT and FRUSTRATING at first, and even discouraging if you missed on your first shots! When i was new @ a secondary hospital, i told my preceptor right away, "i...

  12. First med error

    hannahmaepunk replied to LPN9816aj's topic in General Nursing

    I, for one, tend to do medical errors sometimes. I gave an extra dose of amlodipine 5mg after she had been given by last shift's amlodipine. I checked the drug study and max dose is 10mg/day, but...

  13. Smoking is bad, i need some help!

    hannahmaepunk replied to jakerosenthal's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think two sticks of cigarettes are enough to induce moderate to severe chest pain. There might be an underlying cause. See your

  14. Sleeping is an observation, not an assessment!

    hannahmaepunk replied to BUNightingale's topic in General Nursing

    Here's how you can assess a patient on narcotics and asleep: enter the patients room, check o2 sat if there's pulse ox hooked. Check the depth of respirations and rate, cause that's what you can do to...

  15. Please explain what an ELECTROCARDIOLOGY RN does?

    hannahmaepunk replied to Nack's topic in General Nursing

    Non-RN's can do EKG with proper training and they get paid less than RN's, why hire RN's then? Electrocardiogram tracing is a SINGLE diagnostic/nursing procedure, so i guess if you want to spend a...

  16. What should I do about the patient from hell?

    hannahmaepunk replied to mountain_biker_88's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What you say the patient is habitually doing is suggesting, maybe, a borderline personality disorder. I don't know, but the best way is to really have continupus therapeutic communication, even when...

  17. Digital/computerized charting...

    hannahmaepunk replied to manchmal's topic in General Nursing

    If you haven't done it, leave it blank. Don't encode WNL. Simple.nursing conscience. If your clinical instructor begs to disagree, that's not your problem. If he/she forces you to do something or...

  18. Is my assumption correct??

    hannahmaepunk replied to Truly_Blessed's topic in General Nursing

    Good job for upholding your professional conscience! Salute and two thumbs

  19. Honest opinions needed

    hannahmaepunk replied to CareRx's topic in General Nursing

    Answers: How often do you have to clean a patient? Answer: as often as you clean yourself. Patients are, like you, humans. What field of nursing deal the least with that kind of stuff? Answer: OPD,...

  20. 'Just a med/surg nurse'

    hannahmaepunk replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a med-surg nurse too. The thing about MS nurses is that they need to be skilled in patient care and management. And even though we only utilize basic nursing procedures most of the time, we are,...

  21. offended co worker

    hannahmaepunk replied to frost99's topic in General Nursing

    People are people. Sometimes people change and sometimes they don't. It's not your fault anymore if he doesn't get over it. At least you managed to practice the theories on conflicy management. Good...

  22. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    hannahmaepunk replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Fyi, the ingrown has (-) pus or bleeding. Just a slight inflammation

  23. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    hannahmaepunk replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Patient came in the ER with an ingrown at 4am in the morning. He said it was very painful.

  24. Patients refusing assessments

    hannahmaepunk replied to rkitty198's topic in General Nursing

    We can't force them if patients refuse care. We just have to have them sign the consent and state the reason. We nurses automatically explore the client's feelings and reiterate the risks of refusing...

  25. Man, you guys make nursing seem HORRIBLE! If I knew this before school...

    hannahmaepunk replied to Spikey9001's topic in General Nursing

    The thread title is so wrong. You say that we, nurses, make nursing HORRIBLE? This is a site which upholds the nursing profession. And i, for one, will never say that we made nursing seem like...