MomRN0913

MomRN0913

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  1. 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...
  2. Baffled

    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...
  3. I suck...

    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...
  4. What would you do?

    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
  5. Turning patients while cooling

    that was a great answer. Why no central access? That's crazy. God forbid the patient needs pressers or looses access in a very unstable
  6. New Nurse, when to send a patient out.

    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
  7. new RN job away from bedside

    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...
  8. hypertensive emergency?

    xanax is wonder
  9. New DON encourages tattle-tails

    Why are CNA's charting pain levels? Isn't that typically a nursing
  10. hypertensive emergency?

    110/60, that
  11. hypertensive emergency?

    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,...
  12. Is Being a Male nurse hard?

    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...
  13. RN Cath Lab Interview

    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...
  14. First Screw-upp

    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...
  15. This has been bothering me...

    Even male OB/GYN's always give you the option of having a female in the room. It's posted all over my OB/GYN
  16. Truth or Myth: dairy increases mucus?

    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...
  17. Dumb things new nurses do....

    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...
  18. C-Diff, and isolation precautions

    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...
  19. Feeding GI contents to combat alkalosis

    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...
  20. Help advice needed

    That's exactly what i am thinking. Show them your script, there should be no
  21. C-Diff, and isolation precautions

    Really? I was so sure I was getting a private room when I delivered my D because I had a MRSA wound the year prior.
  22. Feeding GI contents to combat alkalosis

    eeewww;) I know, not very
  23. Nurse: Patient Ratios

    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...
  24. C-Diff, and isolation precautions

    If anything should have contact isolation precautions it's active
  25. If you had to do it over again would 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,...