I completed a 4 stage interview with an insurance company. Telephone screening, and 3 in-person "make it to the next stage" interviews with various personnel, making it to the end, with the VP and...
Surely. My ex husband is remarried. and he is still like that with ME! He claims "his memory suks" There are some quite lazy men out there who feel the woman will take care of EVERYTHING! If there...
MomRN0913 replied to workingharder's topic in General Nursing
I agree, if this is a second career, you probably did achieve a form of comfort, success and abilities from your previous career. Starting over, not knowing everything, being new is HARD. I find that...
I see a direct transfer to the ICU. Intubated on the spot. Pressors or bolus right on board. Where was the doc? A Doc doesn't respond to your version of an
MomRN0913 replied to beatrice1's topic in Geriatric, LTC
You did not mention her vital signs? HR, RR, BP, Temp???? Very basic things to do when you suspect something wrong with your patient. Were these done and were they
Personally, it sounds like the perfect job to me. My favorite part of nursing is teaching and wellness and self care. So, where did you get this job? And congrats, I agree adrenaline rushes can be...
MomRN0913 replied to conscientiousnurse's topic in General Nursing
I would have sent her home. She needs to start her anti-anxiety meds. I am normally a 11/60 kind of chick, but when I am in a time of very high anxiety or pain, I go up to 160/90. If it is anxiety,...
MomRN0913 replied to thegreatone28's topic in Men in Nursing
Not from what I have seen either. My ex manager in ICU was a male. He moved on to be director of the stroke program. A coworker in the ICU moved on to be manager of a tele unit. The executive...
Well, I have never been a cath lab so to say, but I do outcomes for a cardiac cath lab, so I am in there a lot, observing. I was an ICU bedside nurse prior to this and let me tell you, the cath lab...
Well, when you sign off on the computer, aren't you verifying that you indeed checked the handwritten order and it is correct? It's a system error, there were a few breakdowns in the system. I...
I think there is some truth to it thickening mucous. My friends son was having asthma and respiratory infection problems. I watched him have some milkshake and this poor boy just started coughing up...
Ok, I have done a few of them, like not unclamping the piggy back and taking a saline bath. But my very favorite stupid memory........ I was helping my colleague do post mortem care The patient had a...
MomRN0913 replied to katrinabreck's topic in General Nursing
Also, it is acceptable to use sanitizer alone if there is no C-diff. If there is C-diff you MUST wash your hands. So hiding the fact that a patient is C-diff positive doesn't seem too Kosher to...
Yes, that is what I meant. The practice of returning what's in those containers back into the body does gross me out. And I know, not so professional. All the same, we all have our thing that...
I have taken 3 ICU patient MANY time. It seems to be the average ratio in the ICU I used to work. Depends how sick too. 1:1 was generally unheard of except for a balloon pumps. The patients you...
I think one of my biggest accomplishments was becoming a nurse. But I see it taking a turn for the worse with the over working, understaffing, more emphasis on politics than actual patient care. Now,...