RetRN77

RetRN77 has 20 years experience and specializes in Labor/Delivery, Pediatrics, Peds ER.

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1. Advice please: Withdrawal of feeding tube

   RetRN77 replied to Clubsingr28's topic in General Nursing

   Amen to that! I have heard many times in various places about decisions not to treat UTI's in patients deemed terminal, and I have always been aghast. As you said, they are incredibly painful, and...

2. Advice please: Withdrawal of feeding tube

   RetRN77 replied to Clubsingr28's topic in General Nursing

   Wow. Incredible. Kudos to you for what you are planning and for your concern. To me, it's unconscionable to let people suffer with UTI's and to not feed them. Most especially since it's obvious this...

3. Would you be insulted by this?

   RetRN77 replied to jannjul76's topic in General Nursing

   That's pretty funny! Although I am surprised it didn't occur to anyone to stick some old fashioned heavy duty cloth bandage tape on the box and write the name on the tape. We used to label all sorts...

4. Would you be insulted by this?

   RetRN77 replied to jannjul76's topic in General Nursing

   I don't think I'd feel insulted, but it wouldn't make me feel appreciated, either. I like the sweatpant with logo actual gift idea. I would have appreciated that. Nurses week never happened until...

5. Would you deliver your baby at your place of employment?

   RetRN77 replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

   I did, although at the time, I was a student, and had already done my L&D/PP rotation. I didn't know any of the nurses in the L&D unit, because I went to the hospital and delivered during the...

6. Taking dying patient home with children - what are your thoughts?

   RetRN77 replied to tokebi's topic in Pediatric

   This happened in my family as well. My mom and her siblings shared the care of her mother late in life. At that point, she told me she never wanted to "force" this on us and she wanted to go to a...

7. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

   RetRN77 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   Oops - thought I quoted the person who posted the original. This was meant for the nurse who drained her hematoma and needed months of wound care

8. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

   RetRN77 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   Forgive me if I've posted this before. Our very first day of clinicals, another student came to me in distress, telling me she couldn't get the rectal thermometer to stay in place. "It keeps falling...

9. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

   RetRN77 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   Oh, my, I feel so badly for you! Who would have thought it would take that long to

10. New Nurse to Family Practice Needs Advice!

    RetRN77 replied to HelloNurseLisa's topic in Telephone Triage

    Hopefully, your doctors have an efficient practice, know exactly how they want you to deal with phone calls, and will train you to do what they want. The physician I worked for had very specific...

11. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

    RetRN77 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, hilarious!!! Thanks for the laugh - I really needed

12. How to be excused from clinicals

    RetRN77 replied to CheesePotato's topic in General Students

    Good grief! Except for the faking, crying, denial and swearing, I thought you might have been talking about me! I became ill while scrubbed in during clinicals and had to ask the circulating nurse who...

13. Has anyone taken care of a celeb?

    RetRN77 replied to anon456's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Totally off topic, VintagePN, but your avatar looks like one of my old supervisors!

14. Has anyone taken care of a celeb?

    RetRN77 replied to anon456's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In the 70's, at the Army hospital I worked at then, we had a princess of a Middle Eastern country as a patient for a few days. She was very polite to us, and was really no trouble as a patient. There...

15. passive aggressive nurses

    RetRN77 replied to treeye's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm a little puzzled, because I wonder why the dividing line between being reasonable and becoming "hostile" is when the incoming nurse goes beyond checking the IV site and goes on to further...