NurseCherlove

NurseCherlove

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  1. Where should the BUBBLE Be

    NurseCherlove replied to pat8585's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly - Thank you! Ok guys, I haven't seen anyone mention this important point yet....Lovenox burns like fire from what I've seen/been told. This effect is minimized greatly by injecting the air...

  2. Who makes your assignments?

    NurseCherlove posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just had a quick question... Who makes your assignments, the off-going charge nurse or the charge nurse for your shift? Thanks in

  3. Why do people think the hospital is like the Holiday Inn Express?!!! LONG...

    NurseCherlove replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    So I guess the show "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" is pretty right on,

  4. Why do people think the hospital is like the Holiday Inn Express?!!! LONG...

    NurseCherlove replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    Funny, I was thinking about the billboard and TV commercial thing earlier as I was reading this post. And you're right, it is always conveyed in some sort of pseudo-pampering fashion. How about: X...

  5. Why do people think the hospital is like the Holiday Inn Express?!!! LONG...

    NurseCherlove replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    Aww, you poor thing! Like you would deliberately choose to avoid her until then or something. Patients really are clueless when it comes to the inner-workings of hospitals. Well, actually, I'm...

  6. Sent home from clinicals :(

    NurseCherlove replied to Phillippians4:13's topic in General Nursing

    So far, I like best the post about how an admitting dx can be SOB when something like pneumonia has not yet been confirmed. Perhaps this is the case here. Or maybe the patient was dx w/ pneumonia...

  7. Why do people think the hospital is like the Holiday Inn Express?!!! LONG...

    NurseCherlove replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    Just to echo the "Holiday Inn Express" line of thought, I actually overheard a patient on the phone the other night reply something about being "waited on". I can't remember exactly, but from what I...

  8. Nursing Career Question

    NurseCherlove replied to babiiprycess's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm. Do you think clinical experience is really necessary? I ask because with all the crap admin doles out onto the front line, one would think they have no idea at all about patient

  9. Who makes your assignments?

    NurseCherlove replied to NurseCherlove's topic in General Nursing

    Grrrr - I hate

  10. Palpating blood pressures?

    NurseCherlove replied to Duflinkka's topic in General Nursing

    My former charge nurse is HOH, even a bit with her aides in, and she can did this (with the cuff of course). She said she used to could get usually within like a few mmHg of the actual reading. I...

  11. Who makes your assignments?

    NurseCherlove replied to NurseCherlove's topic in General Nursing

    Wow - I've never heard of that. Seems kinda neat. But, are there ever any problems with nurses fussing over wanting the same patient(s) or even with nurses refusing patients? The whole reason I...

  12. Egads! NP student- Feel like the village idiot!

    NurseCherlove replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Angelfire...curious...why did you choose ACNP instead of ANP? I have lately been going back and forth on this one. I thought I wanted to do clinic and hospital rounding with a cardiologist group...

  13. med error

    NurseCherlove replied to catjeremy3's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly!

  14. Emergency Differential

    NurseCherlove replied to ecat81's topic in Emergency

    Ecat...Now c'mon. You knew that posting such a statement was going to get the flames going your way - and you did it anyway! No, I have never worked ER. But from what I know, yes, you all do indeed...

  15. Are 12 hour shifts safe?

    NurseCherlove replied to psychnurse1998's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    AMEN, AMEN, and AMEN!! Hospitals are some of the most greedy entities one will ever encounter!!! I am so sick of the CLUELESS big-wigs having ANY say in what we do or how we do it! Ya know, I...

  16. Tidying up the patient's room is important!

    NurseCherlove replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Girl, you sound just like me!! It takes me a few days to recover in between shifts and I tell ya, those days in between....I'm just glad I live alone. But then, I'll just get disgusted and spend...

  17. Best-smelling liquid meds!

    NurseCherlove replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in General Nursing

    I was waiting for someone to say that one...Mucomyst - disgusting - like rotting eggs! Also, if I remember correctly, Carafate smells like bubblegum. Nystatin doesn't smell too bad

  18. Diagnoses you never thought you'd see?

    NurseCherlove replied to KarafromPhilly's topic in General Nursing

    Well, here's one for ya... My Dad just recently in the last few months was dx w/ Meige's Syndrome. I'd never heard of it before. It looks a lot like Tardive Dyskinesia - w/ fairly persistent tongue...

  19. Are 12 hour shifts safe?

    NurseCherlove replied to psychnurse1998's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I think studies have been done on night shift workers, and they found a lot of health issues that come up. I dont have a link to that..but I am sure some out there does. Yeah, I think there was one...

  20. Are 12 hour shifts safe?

    NurseCherlove replied to psychnurse1998's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    OUCH!!

  21. Are 12 hour shifts safe?

    NurseCherlove replied to psychnurse1998's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Like you, I would ideally love to work 3-11. These were the hours I worked at my first job out of nursing school. However, like the others have posted, I do find that there is too much to do to...

  22. The drug-seeker file in ER

    NurseCherlove replied to Anagray's topic in Emergency

    WOW! COOL! And I don't even work in the ER. Now if we can just stop these folks from getting admitted - well, that'd just be the icing! Sorry, I still have to say it's a great idea, despite the sad...

  23. Am I stupid? Med question...

    NurseCherlove replied to allthingsbright's topic in General Nursing

    BTW, stop saying bad things about yourself (pea-sized brain)!! It is hard to bridge the "what you learned in school" to the "nursing in reality". Good

  24. Am I stupid? Med question...

    NurseCherlove replied to allthingsbright's topic in General Nursing

    I would have done the same thing as well. Now that being said, I have to say that I can't stand to come into a room and see a urinal full o' pee sitting right there smack in the middle of the...

  25. atrial fibrillation versus atrial flutter in comparison

    NurseCherlove replied to RVMI73's topic in Cardiac

    "With typical atrial flutter, atrioventricular (AV) conduction usually is 2:1, making the ventricular rate approximately 150 beats per minute (bpm)." (From E-medicine). I suppose I was thinking of...