All4NursingRN

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  1. Senior Nurses Any Insight Into This Patient Case?

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    It was the

  2. Follow Up To "Co-worker Goes Off On Me Thread"

    All4NursingRN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If you remember this thread: https://allnurses.com/nurse-colleague-patient/fellow-nurse-goes-670209-page2.html#post6129439 So I confronted her (professionally) and asked her why she decided to go to...

  3. Senior Nurses Any Insight Into This Patient Case?

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Also the patient was recieving duoneb nebulizers. Was this to lower the K+? I cannot remember the renal labs off the top of my

  4. Improving HCHAP scores

    All4NursingRN replied to pitt34's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital was and is trying to improve our scores through improving pain scores, bedside rounding (with oncoming/offgoing shift) and hourly rounding. Now that all sounds lovely, but I find...

  5. Senior Nurses Any Insight Into This Patient Case?

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the input! No I don't think he was given any fluids. I believe because he wasn't tachy or hypotensive also with Renal insuff they probably didn't think fluids was the best treatment at...

  6. Student nurse prectorship: ICU or ER??

    All4NursingRN replied to doinmything's topic in General Students

    I actually think ICU is a good foundation for ER. I did an internship in my last year as a student also. I wanted to rotate in the ICU so bad but they didn't have any preceptors left so I chose ER...

  7. Necrotizing Fasciitis

    All4NursingRN replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    I remember a senior nurse telling me about a patient with NF. Guy came in c/o something on his skin, hours later he had to be intubated and had a lactate through the roof! This is one of those rare,...

  8. Do your staff desert the floor during a potluck?

    All4NursingRN replied to pattyslattery's topic in General Nursing

    During our potlucks (that's usually organized by our charge nurse anyway) she usually tells us to go in groups of 2 or 3. Love

  9. Why I LOVE night shift

    All4NursingRN replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    I love nights too and when I gripe about job stress many ask me why don't I just go to days in which I look at them like they have 5 heads. NO WAY! Day shift is crabby, selfish, and just too many...

  10. You're a nurse? How much do you make?

    All4NursingRN replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    LOL this is nice, but then I'd get the feeling that they'd just roll their eyes and give me that ''really????" face? c'mon how much do you really??? make? Then I'd proceed to restate that entire...

  11. Collective Unit Burnout! What To Do When Everyone's Feeling It?

    All4NursingRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    So we filled out the unsafe staffing report last shift. The truth is just about everyshift needs to be written up as unsafe staffing. My ER is about 50 beds (adult ER) not including pediatric ER,...

  12. So very tired!

    All4NursingRN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    I starting to notice that not only do I not get enough sleep, but I don't get the right kind of sleep. I fall asleep then i wake up, go back to sleep, wake up, go back to sleep. I can't even sleep at...

  13. How to reconstitute amoxicillin?

    All4NursingRN replied to Tazike's topic in Patient Medications

    In my use of amox for peds I know the bottles we get says to reconstitute with 90 ml's total, but to add 1/3 at a time. So I add about 30 ml's at a time, mix then add, it still ends up half mixed, the...

  14. Fellow Nurse Goes Off On Me!!!!???

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In response to VICEDRN In my original post I mentioned that I had plugged the patient in and placed him on the cardiac monitor, I also applied the pacer pads to the patient and told her that as well...

  15. i cant insert an iv catheter successfully :C help

    All4NursingRN replied to justbecamearn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ah OP I feel your pain. I have 14 months of IV experience. YAYYY man I cant tell you have nervous I was about IV starts. I'd literally start sweating when I started an IV. Literally. I was so...

  16. i cant insert an iv catheter successfully :C help

    All4NursingRN replied to justbecamearn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ah OP I feel your pain. I have 14 months of IV experience. YAYYY man I cant tell you have nervous I was about IV starts. I'd literally start sweating when I started an IV. Literally. I was so...

  17. Fellow Nurse Goes Off On Me!!!!???

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Knowing her I think she may apologize (let's see), I hate when nurses go off on one another, we're all in this together we should support one another, not look to write one another

  18. What is the most interesting case you've seen in the ER?

    All4NursingRN replied to BigDiesel's topic in Emergency

    Earlier this week had a patient with metastic brain Cancer (DNR/DNI) who came in handcuffed to the stretcher with the police and his family because of his extreme agitation (due to the brain ca), we...

  19. What does it take to be considered for an ER position as a New Graduate RN?

    All4NursingRN replied to mikeynizm's topic in Emergency

    I did an internship there through my school as a student nurse, so they took me on as a new

  20. What's Wrong With 21st Century Nursing

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately my nursing school didnt go as

  21. What's Wrong With 21st Century Nursing

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Stargazer thank you for saying everything I didnt. I'm sitting here just shaking my head at some of these responses. How could some of you jump to the conclusion that I don't take it upon myself to...

  22. What's Wrong With 21st Century Nursing

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Nice responses. LOL yes I am working on my continuing education-go to conferences, CEN here I come! I also utilize the nurse educator for not only my department but for the ICU's. I love to learn and...

  23. What's Wrong With 21st Century Nursing

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    because i love the profession I have chosen, so just because I think it could do with some improvements doesn't mean I dislike what I do. Why do I have to be a doctor just to be more

  24. Nurses What's Your Unit's Sick Call Policy?

    All4NursingRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    So as I was having one of the crappiest shifts ever last night, the assistant NM stops me and asks if anyone spoke to me regarding my sick time? I said no, she said oh 'cause there is a discipline...

  25. Nurses What's Your Unit's Sick Call Policy?

    All4NursingRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    I once had a supervisor (at another facility) actually call me back hours after I had called in to beg me to come in. I told her I was sick and had called in the night before (so as to give them extra...