MickeyTong

MickeyTong

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  1. Electroconvulsive Therapy

    MickeyTong replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

    The patient is unconscious (general anaesthetic) and has had a muscle relaxant. As Whispera wrote, all you'll see is a slight twitch of the lower leg (and a pointing index finger and a bit of a...

  2. Nurse eating their young?

    MickeyTong replied to Ms. Amy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    New nurse came on duty - personality is a festering bag of septic

  3. So if bile is a detergent...?

    MickeyTong replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

    Well, just to prove I do more than throw up on whimsy - Frederick Law Olmsted (who built Central Park in NYC - you knew that, of course) was killed by the wallpaper in his bedroom: it was heavily...

  4. So if bile is a detergent...?

    MickeyTong replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

    well, nursel56.....just for the record, and to recuperate some credibility for myself (professionally and on a personal level), i freely confess that i made up the whole story, purely for...

  5. So if bile is a detergent...?

    MickeyTong replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

    And Steve before the alcohol and coke bloated him....

  6. So if bile is a detergent...?

    MickeyTong replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

    [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFy_xlzN5Sw[/YOUTUBE]

  7. So if bile is a detergent...?

    MickeyTong replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

    I see doctors every day. They have no comment. Even when I dry-retch over

  8. So if bile is a detergent...?

    MickeyTong replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

    God bless allnurses.com, and all the wise souls who sail on her. Quite often, when MickeyTong dry-retches on the day's plates and pans before they go into the dishwasher, my fastidious other-half will...

  9. How to answer the 10 year goal question??

    MickeyTong replied to Telelizard's topic in General Nursing

    Firstly, canesdukegirl, I live on a Scottish island which has several "huntin' and fishin' estates". We don't have "big game fish", although whale sharks frequently saunter by offshore, sucking up...

  10. How to answer the 10 year goal question??

    MickeyTong replied to Telelizard's topic in General Nursing

    Well, it could be page 7 or 8.....I haven't written it yet. Wait till it's published, along with my poetry and fly-fishing tips. See my website:

  11. Health care costs are RIDICULOUS!!!!

    MickeyTong replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    The rest of us look at the USA with awe and drooling wonder at its many achievements, innovations and "yes we can". Except for health care for Mr and Mrs Ordinary Citizen and their kids - then we...

  12. Health care costs are RIDICULOUS!!!!

    MickeyTong replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    excuse me, i'm foreign. i understood the conjunctions in what you wrote, but the rest was meaningless gibberish.

  13. How to answer the 10 year goal question??

    MickeyTong replied to Telelizard's topic in General Nursing

    Do NOT tell them you want to be a union

  14. Whats Tele?

    MickeyTong replied to butterfly134's topic in General Nursing

    It's also tele-medicine. Used in "remote and rural" areas where access to specialist expertise is difficult. Like

  15. How to answer the 10 year goal question??

    MickeyTong replied to Telelizard's topic in General Nursing

    Your first nursing interview? Your "personal" 10-year goals - fine! Marriage, kids, mortgage-free house, be respected as a fiddle-player, win the local fly-fishing trophy and have my poems published....

  16. Whats Tele?

    MickeyTong replied to butterfly134's topic in General Nursing

    Sheeeesh....some people just want to cause trouble....... A Tele is a dual pick-up electric guitar made by Fender. Favoured by Country musicians, but it does have a wider appeal. Here's a master of...

  17. Health care costs are RIDICULOUS!!!!

    MickeyTong replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    Most of us are "but little" people...... And in some countries being a citizen does actually come with a few entitlements. [YOUTUBE]

  18. Health care costs are RIDICULOUS!!!!

    MickeyTong replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    "Of course the more wealthy can afford to go to USA, or other countries (or I don't know maybe there) and pay out of pocket." The UK also has private health care and private health insurance - and the...

  19. Health care costs are RIDICULOUS!!!!

    MickeyTong replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm appalled by everything I've read here. I live in the UK where we have a wonderful thing called the National Health Service, and in Scotland we don't even pay for prescribed medicines.....so I'm...

  20. Therapeutic Communication

    MickeyTong replied to ajt575s's topic in Psychiatric

    Hi ajt575s It is unavoidable that when you start out you will seem like RoboNurse reading from a textbook. Guidelines and theory are a bit like armour - they help us feel safe when we jump into...

  21. Should I apply for Psych Charge position?

    MickeyTong replied to 2bTraumaRN2008's topic in Psychiatric

    Words of wisdom from Dave. I assume a "M/S nurse" is medical-surgical.......and you want to be in charge of a team of psyche nurses? As a species, mental health nurses have highly-developed BS...

  22. Why is Psych NP not as popular of a choice?

    MickeyTong replied to rd290's topic in Psychiatric

    Send me a Green Card - I'm on my

  23. Hello from Scotland

    MickeyTong replied to MickeyTong's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanks for the welcome, Dave. Acuphase is a godsend. I'll take your word about it being a thioanthenethingy: I'm a prescriber, but the chemistry and psychopharmacology of things is beyond me.........

  24. Why is Psych NP not as popular of a choice?

    MickeyTong replied to rd290's topic in Psychiatric

    Could someone explain to this Brit what a NP is.....Nurse Practitioner? Nurse

  25. B-52

    MickeyTong replied to BSN_DEC_2006's topic in Psychiatric

    Where I am haloperidol and lorazepam are given in separate syringes. We never use benadryl......procyclidine is our drug of first resort for side effects, and we don't give it as a matter of routine...