SionainnRN

SionainnRN

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  1. Seriously?!?!

    SionainnRN replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    My favorite was the mom who brought her 7 year old in the middle of the night for vomiting....once....36 hours ago!! Really??? Whatever happened to saltines, ginger ale and time? Works wonders. Then...

  2. Pregnant ED RN--Is this discrimination or is it fair? Please weigh in.

    SionainnRN replied to sarabear44's topic in Emergency

    If it's a rare occurance then I don't see the harm, but if you're no longer able to do your job then it's time to go on leave. And to me it's very different to have someone offer to help vs you asking...

  3. Work place bullying

    SionainnRN replied to KRSLPN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This is hilarious because I JUST had this happen to me. Asked our tech to take a pt over to our obs unit while I gave report. In the middle of report she storms over says "if you can walk over the...

  4. Student HIPAA violation question

    SionainnRN replied to studnt's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    It's my understanding that while you are entitled to your medical records its only under the right circumstances like filling out a release for medical records or using a patient access portal. Every...

  5. What's the longest er wait time you have Even seen

    SionainnRN replied to Trekfan's topic in Emergency

    Just last night 35 hours. All the ICU's were full in our hospital plus the other three hospitals in the nearby areas. Luckily they had given the pt a real bed rather than a

  6. Nurse Illness

    SionainnRN replied to germsjackson's topic in Emergency

    I think at first you get sick more often, then your immune system kicks in and you become like teflon! We get all the flu, norovirus, and every other gross thing that comes through the doors. When I...

  7. i HATE my job. Does anyone else feel the same?

    SionainnRN replied to Jenni811's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I never said I was Florence Nightengale, I'm human with my faults. Just from everything YOU'VE said on here you sound very very angry and very unhappy. Unless you find a way, soon, to channel those...

  8. High & Low

    SionainnRN replied to StudentOfHealing's topic in General Nursing

    Highest: Seeing a former trauma pt who had a severe head injury completely healed months later. He had to relearn to talk but was doing fantastic. He didn't remember me from the Trauma ICU but his...

  9. How high have you seen??

    SionainnRN replied to Tarabara's topic in General Nursing

    Holy moly! I've only seen in 700-800 range, didn't even realize you could have 4 digit BS and still be alive!!

  10. i HATE my job. Does anyone else feel the same?

    SionainnRN replied to Jenni811's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    OP I'm just going by what you say about yourself, and if you are really on the verge of physically attacking your patients or their families, please quit now. You are not doing them or yourself any...

  11. i HATE my job. Does anyone else feel the same?

    SionainnRN replied to Jenni811's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I LOVE being a nurse and it really saddens me to see so many people just itching to quit. I've had horrible days where I just wanted to strangle all my patients and their families, but it doesn't keep...

  12. I maybe in trouble, HIPPA Violation

    SionainnRN replied to ms.amy03's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    In today's world everything you do online is a reflection of your school and/or work. If you have them listed on your profile EVERYTHING you do is now linked to them. Have revealing pics? Fired for...

  13. Hyperthermia

    SionainnRN replied to SwansonRN's topic in General Nursing

    In the trauma ICU had a pt with a temp of 104, purely from the head injury. Meds wouldn't work so we packed him in ice. Ran into them a few months later and the wife reminded me that I gave him snow...

  14. Opinion, how would you have handled this?

    SionainnRN replied to beeker's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When I was in the ICU I got floated to the cardiac ICU and they tried to give me a three pt assignment. I refused. The day supervisor came over and asked what the prob was. I said I didn't feel...

  15. Tattoo question

    SionainnRN replied to SmYle4PeDs's topic in General Nursing

    Every hospital I've worked at has had a no visible tattoo or piercing policy. I don't think it's enforced much, but just be

  16. Concerned boyfriend - Question about Cannabis + Florida RN

    SionainnRN replied to nursebf's topic in Florida Nursing

    I'm sorry you think it's false but I've been in homes where one person smoked pot and the entire house reeked of it. You ARE putting her at risk via drug testing and having illegal drugs in the

  17. Concerned boyfriend - Question about Cannabis + Florida RN

    SionainnRN replied to nursebf's topic in Florida Nursing

    Just being in the house can make her fail a drug test. By doing this you're putting her license in

  18. Would you give a drug someone else pulled from a pyxis?

    SionainnRN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Medications

    We do it all the time in my ED cause we get pulled away in the middle of things for

  19. Rounding on patients at night

    SionainnRN replied to proud nurse's topic in General Nursing

    To avoid that I would usually ask my pts at the beginning of the night if they wanted me to wake them up when they were due for pain meds, or if they were sleeping to let them sleep. Did you ask the...

  20. I don't dispense medications!!!

    SionainnRN replied to BSNbeauty's topic in Emergency

    No she's saying that by handing the pt take home meds, rather than the dose in the ED, it's considered dispensing meds which is out of our scope of practice (I think that's what op is saying). We've...

  21. Too smart for my own good... :-/

    SionainnRN replied to AndrewSRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My only words of advice are to look at what you say and how you act when people are telling you things. Try to make sure you're not just noding and saying "I know, I know". I also like to look up...

  22. Co-signature for Insulin administration

    SionainnRN replied to MissRN7's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    All good points. I've just never worked anywhere that techs are allowed to do finger sticks, so for me it would be really

  23. Co-signature for Insulin administration

    SionainnRN replied to MissRN7's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Doing the blood sugar on the wrong pt, as mentioned earlier in this thread, telling the nurse the wrong number, especially if you're doing a lot of checks at once. I've always done the check, grabbed...

  24. Can i still be a nurse if i am too emotional?

    SionainnRN replied to Moko5327benedict16's topic in General Nursing

    I'm pretty much a hard butt, and every once in awhile I'll cry at work, mainly when we have a code, or when I was in the ICU and lost a pt I had been taking care of for weeks. But if you find yourself...

  25. Rounding on patients at night

    SionainnRN replied to proud nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Huge difference between waking someone up to do neuro checks and waking them up to see if they're doing okay! Most of my pts agreed that if they were asleep, let them sleep. The ones we did need to do...