Munch

Munch

Med-Surg/Neuro/Oncology floor nursing.

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  1. Would you pray with a student?

    Munch replied to smudges.blips's topic in School

    As a stark atheist I would not pray for a student or with a student(or with a patient since I don't work in a school). Maybe its the area that I live in being very liberal or maybe in just biased but...

  2. What is your worst visitor story?

    Munch replied to nordie's topic in General Nursing

    My guess is to get the incision infected so she could have a legit though manufactured reason to get

  3. Am I cut out for nursing

    Munch replied to larson1013's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You also have to remember when you are in the hospital you are constantly on alert because things going south is a constant possibility. When you are at home you aren't on work mode, you are relaxing...

  4. Need somebody advice!

    Munch replied to pumpkinbaby's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You are definitely not doomed because of your high school GPA. I barely showed up to my high school classes..lets just say in high school I was a chronic underachiever. I went to a community college,...

  5. Very curious if anyone has every dealt with anything like this...lost

    Munch replied to Bxrpup2113's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Not only can't we offer legal advice states and laws vary. Where I live a disordery conduct doesn't even show up on your record. In a different state that could be a completely different

  6. Discontinued Meds

    Munch replied to wendiwhiner's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry I can't give you an answer on what to do with the meds but just keep an eye out that she isn't taking those meds in addition to what she is prescribed. My friend is a correctional nurse and...

  7. Does anyone here like nursing?

    Munch replied to bluestar776's topic in General Nursing

    I love my job and I love being a nurse. Its funny because I am not a people-person at all. That being said I didn't always love my job. As I've said many times on here my first hospital job was...

  8. What do you think about this psychiatrist?

    Munch replied to vaspap's topic in General Nursing

    I was thinking the same thing. Given so many therapies are out there that are quite effective for OCD. A supportive living apartment while may help the patient in said post gain more independence how...

  9. What is your worst visitor story?

    Munch replied to nordie's topic in General Nursing

    Love the people who threaten to sue the hospital. Pretty sure if you are asking the ER for a pregnancy test and the doc for a RX of Tylenol so you don't have to pay for it at the pharmacy that you...

  10. Anybody have rituals they do when a patient passes?

    Munch replied to crnfaIwillbe's topic in General Nursing

    Yes actually we eat dunkin donuts! This started a few years back. Donuts are just so lacking nutrition so when someone dies someone goes to pick up a couple of boxes of donuts as a way to say life is...

  11. Mom Passed

    Munch replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry for your loss. I lost my dad to pancreatic cancer when I was young but we were close. I can't imagine the mixed feelings you must be experiencing(and it seems to be from your post). My thoughts...

  12. Jack of all trades nurse

    Munch replied to al3x117's topic in General Nursing

    Yup as most people said med-surg. I work the Neuro floor with regular med-surg overflow and I love it. Some of my patients were so sick that they were in the NSICU but recovered enough to come to the...

  13. Driving While Elderly

    Munch replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    Keeping up with the speed limit is another issue. I cant tell you how many times Ive been driving on the parkway then had to come to a screeching halt because a senior is doing 30 in a 55MPH zone...

  14. Stadol question

    Munch posted a topic in Patient Medications

    So I work on a Neuro med/surg floor but I also get a lot of regular med/surg patients as well. So I had a patient on the floor that was on IV abx(ceftriaxone) due to pyleo that had not responded to...

  15. How would you describe bedside nursing to non nursing individuals

    Munch replied to Cameron2013's topic in General Nursing

    It can be very difficult and very frustrating..but for me the good days definitely outnumber the bad days. Only way I can really describe it is you are the jack of all trades...superwoman/superman :)...

  16. What is your worst visitor story?

    Munch replied to nordie's topic in General Nursing

    Ewwwwwwww. I've had a couple of those too. Surveillance video in the elevator picked up a visitor shaking his pant leg and out came a ripe one. Another visitor left one on the patients bathroom floor....

  17. Problem with work environment

    Munch replied to Flossy73's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Everyone has given good advice. I just want to add, stop being so concerned with what the other people think of you. Who cares if he told everyone else how unfair you were. You arent there to make...

  18. Bizarre Co-Worker Rant!

    Munch replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    THIS. Sounds like she wants to be regarded as the authority hence the wanting everyone to refer to her formally and the threatening to write anyone up next time it happens. Some people just have...

  19. Driving While Elderly

    Munch replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    My opinion is biased so take it for what its worth. Obviously I think when it comes to seniors driving I don't want to make a blanket statement and say anyone over the age of 85 shouldn't drive. That...

  20. Stadol question

    Munch replied to Munch's topic in Patient Medications

    Yeah the patient was NOT a Neuro patient. She was a med/surg patient admitted with pyleonephritis that didn't respond to oral abx. She needed IV antibiotics and was in quite a bit of pain obviously in...

  21. What's the shortest time you stayed at a job and why did you leave?

    Munch replied to sweet sunshine's topic in General Nursing

    That is atrocious. I just don't understand why people work in healthcare with patients when they obviously don't like patients! I dont like kids oh I know!! Ill become a school teacher!!!

  22. What's the shortest time you stayed at a job and why did you leave?

    Munch replied to sweet sunshine's topic in General Nursing

    A year and a day. I was just serving my time to gain experience so I could move onto a better place. I was a new grad and this place was my only offer. It was a small community hospital with a "I...

  23. What is your worst visitor story?

    Munch replied to nordie's topic in General Nursing

    Someone just wrote on article on here about his experience as a new nurse with a patient who's wife was a nurse. Ive had to bite my tongue quite a bit because of patients with family members that are...

  24. What is your worst visitor story?

    Munch replied to nordie's topic in General Nursing

    It really is quite an experience. Its incredible though the desperation that comes with being an addict...the desperation really is limitless. What a sorry life to sit there and try to pick the lock...

  25. First jobs as nurse?

    Munch replied to Bentleysmama's topic in General Students

    It really does depend on your area and if nurses are needed or not. When I graduated my only options were LTC or a job as a floor nurse at a small community hospital with an abysmal reputation that...