LadyBugLass

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  1. what's your "soft spot" patient?

    LadyBugLass replied to shay's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Oh, anyone who is nauseated or throwing up!!! I HATE to be nauseated, and I cannot get the antiemetics in fast enough when someone is

  2. Etomidate

    LadyBugLass posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    What is this stuff? I see it in the frig at my new job, but I can't find anything about it in my books, and I haven't seen it used yet! I have lots of emergency experience, but no anesthesia or...

  3. Help

    LadyBugLass replied to Mizzyfrufru's topic in General Nursing

    Good

  4. Daycare center for sick children? What would you like to see?

    LadyBugLass replied to careerdejour's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I was a paramedic for 7 years, and I had a wonderful boss. I just really disagree with the idea of dropping your ill child off somewhere. The idea of someone else coming INTO the childs home ( a...

  5. Daycare center for sick children? What would you like to see?

    LadyBugLass replied to careerdejour's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry guys...I am not budging on this one. I WAS a single parent who worked 24-hour shifts, and yes, my child DID get sick on more than one occasion. 1. DO NOT abuse your sick leave!! If your boss...

  6. Daycare center for sick children? What would you like to see?

    LadyBugLass replied to careerdejour's topic in General Nursing

    You are kidding, right? You will go to work to take care of sick strangers, and pay a stranger large amounts of money to take care of your sick child?? If you have a note from a doctor stating that...

  7. Scary doctors!!!

    LadyBugLass posted a topic in General Nursing

    NO NAMES HERE PLEASE.... What is the worst thing you have ever seen a doctor do? I'll start...an ER resident gave a patient with a third degree block lidocaine, despite my partner reminding him that...

  8. Russia & OKC Bombing

    LadyBugLass posted a topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    :crying2: Oh my God, those pictures from the hostage situation in Beslan, Russia are just heartbreaking. Those parents just bring tears to my eyes. SO many memories of April 19, 1995, when another...

  9. Scary doctors!!!

    LadyBugLass replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

    \HOLY crap!!!! Someone watched WAY too many HBO "Autopsy"

  10. Scary doctors!!!

    LadyBugLass replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

    Saw an anesthesiologist mainline straight dopamine to a pt. who "didn't wake up quick enough." Oh, he woke up, when his pressure shot up from about 100 systolic to 230 systolic in 60 seconds. Is that...

  11. OK Hosp. Smoking Ban

    LadyBugLass replied to LadyBugLass's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    I am a TOTAL anti-smoking freak, but I really see some problems with that law. As long as I don't have to be around the second hand smoke, I don't mind if people have to smoke; the little shelters and...

  12. ER experiences with cooking

    LadyBugLass replied to sierranurse's topic in Emergency

    My regular, local psych case called the ambulance once screaming hysterically that she was choking to death (?) When we arrived, she was crying about eating some "white mold" that growing on a block...

  13. Wierdest thing you've found in a bedside table?

    LadyBugLass replied to edouglas's topic in General Nursing

    Okay...took care of a lady as an aide way back when. She was a BIG woman, and on strict I&O. I worked nights, and I kept checking her hat in the toilet, but she never had any output. At around...

  14. Scary doctors!!!

    LadyBugLass replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

    Brought in a pt. (former Pondimin user) in a serious, symptomatic SVT of about 200. Very nice lady. The doctor told her to "cut it out, she was just nervous, she was just making it worse." Gave her a...

  15. Scary doctors!!!

    LadyBugLass replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

    Saw a ob-gyn check a patient's genital warts without gloves and without washing her hands with soap (just rinsed with

  16. any midwife know why.............

    LadyBugLass replied to uk_nurse's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    The little fellow might be lying very low in the pelvic cavity, esp. with your first baby (those muscles are still tight!) As your uterus gets larger, it will rise more up and out of the pelvis, and...

  17. Need gift ideas for soon to be mom...

    LadyBugLass replied to rntx's topic in General Nursing

    Get her the Boppy pillow!! I LOVED that pillow, and would be just right for your mama-to-be! 1. It is great for propping up the baby for nursing and bottle feeding (keeps your arms from getting...

  18. AWOL-seen any patients using this yet?

    LadyBugLass replied to needsmore$'s topic in Emergency

    Holy crap!!! Did ya'll look at the PRICE of that gadget? It's $3000.00!!! That's one expensive "party

  19. What's your craziest story of the ER

    LadyBugLass replied to debo_lpnER's topic in Emergency

    Didn't ACTUALLY witness this, but know it to be factual from very reliable sources... A dark night, an ambulance bay, and a handful of employees smoking by the ER door. A car comes careening into the...

  20. Perfusionists

    LadyBugLass posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just started in Thoracic ICU, and we do recovery on all the open heart patients. I have been reading about the bypass machine, and I am wondering... Is anyone here in perfusionist school, or...

  21. Breast Reduction ???? To or not to ????

    LadyBugLass replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    GO FOR IT!!! I had mine done in 1997. I had an HMO actually pay for it with no problem. I had a classic "anchor" incision. Now, the first few weeks afterwards, they DID look awful. Alot of bruising,...

  22. Perfusionists

    LadyBugLass replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

    Oh wow, this is good to know!! The latest info that I have is still listing it as a "rapid-growth" area and has the 80k salary. Good to know that RN's are being trained to do bypass machine work. That...

  23. cell phone usage at work

    LadyBugLass replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    :angryfire I hate cell phones!!! What irritates me even more are all the people that stand outside of a building with one hand over their unoccupied ear while squishing the life out of the tiniest...

  24. Another Paxil Question

    LadyBugLass replied to finness's topic in Psychiatric

    I do know that when I quit, even though I did it SUPER gradually and with a doctors help, I experienced "the shocks" every 30 secs -2 minutes, and they lasted for MONTHS. I also always had the...

  25. Nurses grossed out by spit/mucus

    LadyBugLass replied to rnmi2004's topic in General Nursing

    Someone mentioned feeding a patient? My deal is feeding them the scrambled eggs...JUST the eggs for some reason. And I like scrambled eggs! But the hospital ones just smell so gross, and look kinda...