SionainnRN

SionainnRN

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  1. Misdirected aggression

    SionainnRN replied to malenurseFl's topic in General Nursing

    Do people tell you why they are so angry about you being a nurse? That seems very strange. Every time I've said that I'm a RN people are usually overly excited about

  2. Venting

    SionainnRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Why is it that every other profession in the world can vent about the people they deal with, but the minute a nurse does, we are looked down upon? Do people think that the jerks they deal with at...

  3. Venting

    SionainnRN replied to SionainnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah I've learned the hard way that I can't vent around non medical people. You make one "pillow therapy" joke and they act horrified, but then they sit there and whine about their coworkers and...

  4. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    SionainnRN replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

    Right? I love that venting about patients in a safe appropriate place makes you a horrible person who shouldn't be a nurse.

  5. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    SionainnRN replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

    Okay are you really this obtuse? You got your panties in a bunch when I mentioned it was a pain when tattoo'd pierced people complained about needles, how do you not understand that? And there are a...

  6. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    SionainnRN replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

    Because it's incongruent for someone to complain about an IV when they have voluntarily had needles plied to their bodies over and over

  7. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    SionainnRN replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

    You really don't get that this is for nurses? Really? Since you're a pre-nursing student why don't you go to the student part of the board where people haven't had to actually deal with patients who...

  8. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    SionainnRN replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

    On a NURSING board, yes. Considering this is a thread on our biggest annoyances in the ED, then you as a patient, have no business being on here. If you want to complain about how you needed an IV for...

  9. Insulin drip/hourly BG checks

    SionainnRN replied to Elvish's topic in Patient Medications

    In my hospital anyone on an insulin drip has to either be on a monitored unit (cause their ratios are lower) or in the ED cause, you know, we have nothing but free

  10. Medication tidbits an ER nurse should always know

    SionainnRN replied to RNstdntSVSU's topic in Emergency

    That's funny about the tetorifice shot, I usually give it in the dominant arm because the more you move it right away the less painful and swelling it seems to have, in my experience. I also let the...

  11. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    SionainnRN replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

    Ha ha how's the view on top of that high horse of yours?? Not that it matters but I have six tattoos and have had everything from the bellybutton up pierced at one point in my life. Nice try for...

  12. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    SionainnRN replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

    Especially when you try to call report and the floor nurse is too busy to take report. Like we have a choice when we get our

  13. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    SionainnRN replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

    Or the husband who is yelling at staff cause his wife is SOB...for three days....and on O2....and he smokes a pack a day. Sigh. And of course the people who are covered in piercings and tats but cry...

  14. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    SionainnRN replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

    This is my favorite: went in to discharge a pt (mid 30's), she's on the phone with her Dad complaining that they're discharging her. She hands me the phone and he starts yelling at me that she needs...

  15. How does this happen???

    SionainnRN replied to snbonbon's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    True, who knows what happened after getting to the

  16. More Things You'd Love to be Able to say to Patients

    SionainnRN replied to Bill E. Rubin's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Hmm pretty sure the meth got into your urine cause you were doing meth! Shocking I know. Oh and yes I'm sure that meth is doing wonderful things to your unborn

  17. Who actually likes nursing??

    SionainnRN replied to mmcnabb3's topic in General Nursing

    I love nursing!! I graduated in 2009 and there are ups and downs but I can't imagine doing anything else. Luckily I was 27 when I started college so I already knew what I didn't want to do in

  18. How does this happen???

    SionainnRN replied to snbonbon's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yes but a narcan drip is pretty rare so for them to place the pt on it, rather than just doing IV pushes I think it's safe to say it was a narcotic issue. Granted it can all be exacerbated by the...

  19. Visitor silencing neighboring alarms

    SionainnRN replied to PediLove2147's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I recently told the mom of a 6 day old in the ER that she could hit the silence button, and showed her where it was, but told her to make sure she hit the call light to let us know. It was important...

  20. No time to talk

    SionainnRN replied to tiroka03's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I honestly can't see taped report being faster. You not only do you have to record the report but then stick around to make sure there aren't any questions rather than doing both at once. OP if I were...

  21. How do you introduce yourself to patients? First name? Mr/Ms/Mrs X?

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

    Mine is "Hi I'm Sionainn I'll be your nurse etc etc I also respond to hey-you." That usually makes them smile. Although I have to say, working in an ER I hardly remember my patients names and it...

  22. Ungratetful patients.

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

    You know, it's an oldie but a goodie, I kill them with kindness. It's hard to do but I try to look at them as someone who fell off the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down. I slap a...

  23. How does this happen???

    SionainnRN replied to snbonbon's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    But if it was just about the blood sugar, the patient wouldn't have been placed on a narcan

  24. Reporting med errors...

    SionainnRN replied to Time4dilaudidyet's topic in Patient Medications

    I had a coworker who gave a bolus of heparin (500 mL) rather than a bolus of hespan...to a patient in the ICU who was on her way to surgery. Luckily the anesthesiologist noticed and didn't perform the...

  25. Bullies

    SionainnRN replied to hockeyluv71's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Be assertive about what?? The "bully" hasn't actually done anything. It's all conjecture. It's not about ignoring the problem but focusing on your job, you know the reason why she's there, and not...