imnmk_rn

imnmk_rn has 7 years experience.

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1. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

   imnmk_rn replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

   Ruby Vee, you have the most hilarious stories! I'd love to just sit around talking to you about old nursing stories! It seems like all the best stories come from you! Thanks for

2. Computer Charting

   imnmk_rn replied to sstromberg's topic in General Nursing

   Well, I have to say I am used to computer charting - and we are in the process of changing to a different application and changing to an entirely computerized medical record (right now, MDs still...

3. Any Advice??

   imnmk_rn replied to sme_nurse's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

   Any advice on surviving the unit as a newbie?? I think I made the right choice though!! :wink2: I also started in critical care and like you, felt it was the only area I really really wanted to work...

4. Cbi

   imnmk_rn replied to staceylynn's topic in MICU, SICU

   Did you have an order? Did your coworkers think you couldn't independently decide a pt needed a 3-way? I don't know why inserting it would be out of your scope of practice, but CBI without an order...

5. What has been your experience with family presence during codes?

   imnmk_rn replied to LatinaRN's topic in MICU, SICU

   I touched on this on a post on family visitation... (I guess I'm being wordy tonight) I have had three experiences with families present during codes - two bad, one very good. Honestly, though, those...

6. Four Star ICU Visitors

   imnmk_rn replied to Ruby Vee's topic in MICU, SICU

   wow, I can't wait to hear more stories... I think! Off the top of my head, I am just thinking of my worst float ever - to one of the other ICUs in my hospital. Anyway, one of my patients that evening...

7. How about this for an order?

   imnmk_rn replied to sharann's topic in General Nursing

   What patient population do you work with???? As I have known some to call it, "vitamin A" is quite the wonder drug, at least in the ICU population! A little Ativan can go a long way as an adjuvant to...

8. Family visitation in ICU

   imnmk_rn replied to bfjworr's topic in General Nursing

   First, I work in a busy (who isn't...) 30-bed med-surg-neuro ICU in a large metro area in the middle of scary neighborhood. We are open to visitors 20 hours a day - we close for an hour at a time...

9. Family visitation in ICU

   imnmk_rn replied to bfjworr's topic in MICU, SICU

   First, I work in a busy (who isn't...) 30-bed med-surg-neuro ICU in a large metro area in the middle of scary neighborhood. We are open to visitors 20 hours a day - we close for an hour at a time...

10. Intractible Hiccups

    imnmk_rn replied to chartleypj's topic in General Nursing

    I just learned this one from another RN I work with... haven't gotten to try it much, though. There is a pressure point just below the jaw (right below the joint, in your neck, maybe one finger-width...

11. ICU Admissions

    imnmk_rn replied to DidiRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    I don't know that there is a good answer to the inappropriate admissions - I think they happen everywhere. I work in a 30-bed med-surg-neuro ICU, with two other ICUs available (CCU and CVICU) in the...

12. Scared of "Code" situation...how to prepare?

    imnmk_rn replied to RGrif's topic in Medical-Surgical

    No matter where you are - med-surg, tele, ICU/CCU, ER, your first reaction in a code is the same... adrenaline rush and ABC's. Your hospital's code team will probably "take over" as soon as they get...

13. Experience off of orientation

    imnmk_rn replied to DustinRN's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    A couple of thoughts for you.... First, was he agitated as an ongoing sort of thing? Or was that how he "expressed" his vasospasm? Not that that would change how you would treat his agitation by a...

14. Amazed with Nipride

    imnmk_rn replied to RNBEAUTY2003's topic in MICU, SICU

    Good job with your first solo patient - I have to admit, we seldom give a patient with quite that many things going on to someone new off orientation on our unit. :) A quick couple of comments on...

15. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    imnmk_rn replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Okay, I'm not an ED nurse, so I don't have so many of these funny stories, but here's one that our ED was going to admit to our last ICU bed... until someone down there turned on their brain.... :)...