Chad_KY_SRNA

Chad_KY_SRNA

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  1. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    EEekkk!:stone

  2. nuring homesdeaths in new orleans area

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to rondafan's topic in General Nursing

    I am sickened by this news report http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/katrina.impact/index.html In a grim indicator of what may lie ahead, authorities were removing the remains of more than 30 people...

  3. The most embarrasing thing you've done at work!

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to ClaireMacl's topic in Nursing Humor

    My significant other has been watching nothing but the news for a week. I just want to shake him and say "Honey, turn off the TV!" He just got a new Razr phone and he can watch 28 channels on it....

  4. The most embarrasing thing you've done at work!

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to ClaireMacl's topic in Nursing Humor

    Thanks I guess:uhoh3:

  5. Is anyone near or in the path of Katrina?

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

    As I understand it, FEMA and the Red Cross are moving hundreds of buses into the area to evacuate the Superdome and move them to the Houston Astrodome. The Astrodome is being set up as a shelter, they...

  6. The most embarrasing thing you've done at work!

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to ClaireMacl's topic in Nursing Humor

    OK so this story is from when I first started in nursing going on three years ago so don't judge me too harshly. While performing routine peri-care one of the other CNAs had covered the residents...

  7. Is anyone near or in the path of Katrina?

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

    The news crews are up in helicopters this morning and it is so utterly utterly sad. Fox News is showing two houses that are on fire in down town New Orleans, the water looks shallow enough that they...

  8. Is anyone near or in the path of Katrina?

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

    Breaking News: Tulane University Hospital's Vice President spoke with CNN a few moments ago, at the current time a levee breach has occured and the water is raising at such a rate that they generators...

  9. Is anyone near or in the path of Katrina?

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

    The local hospitals cannot close, there will be hundreds, if not thousands of injured. Some people cannot afford to leave their homes and take shelter in place. The full scale evacuation of every...

  10. ER violence

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to night fox's topic in Emergency

    I think that if the police are 15 minutes from your facility on the other end of the county you might want to keep your options open as to how to stop these folks from killing someone in the mean...

  11. ER violence

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to night fox's topic in Emergency

    I think that if you are doing something stupid enough to get the police involved and then behave badly enough that they feel you are an immediate danger to your, the publics or the police officers...

  12. Night shift

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to Spider Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Have you tried going into a dark cool quiet room and trying to sleep. I try to do stuff that doesn't require me to be up during the middle of the

  13. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I was sitting at the nurses station one night with another CNA and a resident was sitting in a chair across from the nurses station, there was a soda can sitting on the countertop and I looked over...

  14. male nursing student uniforms

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to AlwazAmbitious's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Thank goodness that all we have to wear is white scrubs. I would rather be shot dead than have to keep a tie out of the way. I would smother to death in all of those clothes. There are days when I...

  15. do you think it is okay for a nurse to have bipolar and still be working

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to navywife757's topic in General Nursing

    I used to date a paramedic who was bipolar, he had good and bad days but it didn't affect patient care in the slightest. Do whay makes you

  16. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Well I called to talk to a friend after I got off from work tonight and he was telling me that their door alarms had been going off while all of the residents are still in bed. He saw the reflection...

  17. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    We all have accidents. This is an inexpirienced 16 y.o. girl who I am sure had no intention of hurting anyone when she got in the car that day. Can you imagine how you would feel if a momentary lapse...

  18. How to deal with unexpected deaths of nurses and other health care professionals

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to confused101's topic in General Nursing

    You will be in my prayers

  19. doctor with unprofessional personal life

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to heart2nurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We all make stupid or dangerous decisions in our personal lives. You gotta die sometime anyway. We cannot try to force our personal beliefs on others, it doesn't tend to go

  20. Patients who steal from the ER

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to mdslabod's topic in Emergency

    Our nursing facility has an assortment of linen from the VA, most every hospital in the area, and many from surrounding states. Everytime EMS brings a patient in or out they have to put linen on their...

  21. How to deal with unexpected deaths of nurses and other health care professionals

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to confused101's topic in General Nursing

    (((((BIG HUGS))))) Remember your friends helping others and living their lives to the fullest, there is no way of understanding death, it is just something that happens to all of us. Pray for strength...

  22. Panic attack over Chemistry

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to fuerza757's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I had panic attacks over high school chemistry, I ended up passing barely. If I had it to do over, I would buy Chemistry for Dummies, go to tutoring or if it was at the college the academic resource...

  23. Is this gross negligence?

    Chad_KY_SRNA posted a topic in General Nursing

    Yesterday at 1500 a CNA noted coldness and dark discoloration to the RLE of a resident on the unit, the DON was the only nurse he could find at that time, she assessed the foot at that time. That...

  24. Is this gross negligence?

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to Chad_KY_SRNA's topic in General Nursing

    The local ER diagnosed her with DVT and sent her on to a larger regional hospital for further

  25. Is this gross negligence?

    Chad_KY_SRNA replied to Chad_KY_SRNA's topic in General Nursing

    The second nurse, the one that acted said "it looks like an arterial blood clot to me". There was little if any swelling present, it was as if there was a tourniquet on the leg at the ankle cutting...