Munch

Munch

Med-Surg/Neuro/Oncology floor nursing.

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  1. Stadol question

    Munch replied to Munch's topic in Patient Medications

    Thank you for the response. I just don't have a lot of experience with IV stadol for acute pain. Most docs order dilaudid and morphine or order fentanyl PCAs. I just wasn't sure if stadol maybe just...

  2. Trouble for taking Doctors candy

    Munch replied to zynnnie's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah I'm with you. Sometimes on the floor us nurses will order lunch for delivery. One of the residents just happened to be in the area and wanted in. No problem. So the delivery guy came and brought...

  3. What is your worst visitor story?

    Munch replied to nordie's topic in General Nursing

    Ive had a patients visitor try to pick the lock on the PCA box to try and get to the big bag of dilaudid hanging. I think he was trying to pick it with a bobby pin I can't be sure. The patient he was...

  4. What are the best kind of nursing jobs for an RN BSN?

    Munch replied to bluestar776's topic in General Students

    Hit the nail right on the head. Even in a city like NY where I work a lot of new grads are having trouble. Especially because now where hospitals used to only require an associates for a RN job are...

  5. Top Nursing Errors

    Munch replied to AlexLL's topic in General Nursing

    Great video! Its scary how easy it can be to make a mistake. I remember my first day flying solo I was so terrified I was going to make a mistake. Every time I went to draw up an IV medication I was...

  6. Continuously Reapplying to Departments You've Been Rejected From

    Munch replied to purplegal's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    My goodness ruminating much? Over and over its the same thing beating the same dead horse. As I posted in your other 31 rejections thread I worked a job I absolutely hated. The hospital had a bad...

  7. Uhhhh, That's Kinda Personal

    Munch replied to evastone's topic in General Nursing

    I get asked if I have children all the time. I don't mind that question its the followup questions to my answer of no that I don't like getting into. Of course after I say no I always get asked why...

  8. LPN's aren't real nurses

    Munch replied to laurennnxo26's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    At my first hospital job there was a LPN that taught me so much and took me under her wing. I don't know why people think that LPNS are "any less" of a nurse than a RN..this LPN sure wasn't. My best...

  9. Amniotic Fluid Embolism Patient - I wouldn't wish it on any nurse.

    Munch replied to JanineKelbach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm so glad your patient(s) are okay! Nice work. So much for sticking to looking for horses huh? You definitely had a zebra on that

  10. Feelings after first loss

    Munch replied to dharmalove's topic in General Nursing

    Oh man I remember when my first patient passed. It still haunts me years later and I tore myself up and went on with the what ifs in my head. If its someone's time its their time. Just like Flatline...

  11. Discharging by Wheelchair

    Munch replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    As others have said..patient rooms can be very far from where they are exiting. My hospital campus is HUGE as a matter of fact when I first started I was given a

  12. What do you like most about your specialty?

    Munch replied to alexaway's topic in General Specialties

    I work neurology/neurosurgery med surg and the thing I love about it is that I can relate to many of my patients. I had a craniotomy myself and before that I suffered a traumatic brain injury due to...

  13. What Else Can I Do For A Living?

    Munch replied to RNCM123's topic in Nursing Career

    I didn't get to read every response so forgive me if I am being redundant. If you want to make a lot of money..be a plumber..seriously. I remember one of my favorite ER docs was telling me that...

  14. Why do some nurses hate it in others pump at work?

    Munch replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

    I understand that but your choice to have children and your choice to breastfeed is not my problem. That being said ill cover for anyone for whatever reason. Its just obnoxious when someone ducks out...

  15. First combative pt

    Munch replied to LJR89's topic in General Nursing

    So many different scenarios and causes of combative behavior the answer to this can vary. If the behavior is because of altered status(like RJ's sister) or because of a mental health...

  16. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    Munch replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    I dislike teaching so much and I will go out of my way to avoid having a student/trainee if I can. Now if someone has a question or needs help with something of course I will help them. But just...

  17. This person outranks me?!

    Munch replied to Aunt Slappy's topic in General Nursing

    I have definitely had some duh moments. But to the OP one thing someone taught me back in my teens..its unbecoming to think you are the smartest person in the room. I don't remember every little thing...

  18. body odor

    Munch replied to plainfieldguy's topic in School

    I am not a school nurse but I have been put in this position in the past. In high school and while I was in college I had a part-time job at a retail store. I worked in the employee office part in...

  19. Was I out of place?

    Munch replied to rhkenji's topic in Emergency

    Definitely NOT out of line OP. Now I am not an ED nurse but I am asked for assistance all the time and I can never imagine myself saying no unless of course I was with a patient that was crashing or...

  20. What HARD truth have you learned once you became a nurse and/or CNA?

    Munch replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    For me so matter how hard you might try to keep work and home separate a lot of times your worlds definitely collide. I can't tell you how many times I've gone into nurse mode at home be it with...

  21. Multiple prn pain meds requested all at the same time

    Munch replied to lots2care4's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Definitely depends on her tolerance..how often she has been on those meds. I have had patients on long and short acting narcotics, fioricet, lyrica, ativan and Ambien and given them all at the same...

  22. No Respect.

    Munch replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah but from the info we got from the OP it doesn't say boo about the patient asking for ice chips. So the patient might not even want the ice chips! Its the family member that decided the patient...

  23. Do you consider it helpful or not to be given a Pt’s attitude during a report?

    Munch replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    A lot of the ED docs if they come across a patient that is especially ornery they will describe the patient as "unfortunate" (though I must say any patient that had to come to the ED is unfortunate)...

  24. Depressed patient refuses positioning even though she is lying on her own bowel movement

    Munch replied to MissHannaway's topic in General Nursing

    THIS..I think you would have more of a problem from the family/POA if you let the patient sit in her own waste. The patient is greiving..my father died when I was 17 and my uncle(my father's brother)...

  25. My husband wakes me up!

    Munch replied to BabyRN_nights's topic in General Nursing

    THIS..my friend works 7p-7am and he really had issues during the summer when his children were home from school. He had a short fuse and would snap not only at his wife and children but as his...