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    Decent utility scrubs

    Twinmom06 replied to William2's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Aviator
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    What did you get for nurses week?

    Twinmom06 replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    if you don't count the surprise flowers from my hubby, we (on nights) got food on Tuesday morning - hoagies at 2 am. Other than that we got
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    is it nurse's week?

    Twinmom06 replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    well - dayshift has their cutsie activities like wear bows in your hair and crazy sock day - the hospital got out of gifts and food by making a "donation" to the general nurses education fund that is...
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    How do we educate the public on ways to afford medications?

    Twinmom06 replied to Mrs Helleck's topic in Patient Medications

    had an issue last year with guy who didn't have insurance and the local pharmacies wanted him to pay $$$$$ for Levaquin (even the generic). He only needed it for 5 days. The hospital's outpatient...
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    Silly random nursing thoughts, one sentence, NO JUDGMENTAL FOLKS ALLOWED

    Twinmom06 replied to wooh's topic in Nursing Humor

    I'm glad that we're not the only ones (meaning my co-workers) that found this incredibly funny...poop is just funny. I do maintain that if one is going to do bowel prep inpatient then I think they...
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    Silly random nursing thoughts, one sentence, NO JUDGMENTAL FOLKS ALLOWED

    Twinmom06 replied to wooh's topic in Nursing Humor

    OMG - enormous code brown the other night...patient on bowel prep and INSISTED on walking to the bathroom instead of using the BSC - goes to sit down and just unleashes...not 15 seconds before that I...
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    Things you tell newbies

    Twinmom06 replied to JBudd's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm still a noob (coming up on the golden "year" in June) - never be afraid to tell a patient you have to "check" on something when you don't know the exact
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    an oldie but goodie

    Twinmom06 replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    we still use Dakins solution for huge
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    What has your workplace done to retain nurses?

    Twinmom06 replied to MikeydzRN's topic in General Nursing

    safe and adequate
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    Would you be insulted by this?

    Twinmom06 replied to jannjul76's topic in General Nursing

    it would be if it was going to the education fund specifically for our hospital since the mothership (the main hospital) runs their own nurses week celebration complete with gifts - but no this...
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    Would you be insulted by this?

    Twinmom06 replied to jannjul76's topic in General Nursing

    our Nurses week "gift" has been replaced with a donation by the hospital to the RN Education Fund...what a joke...thinly veiled disguise of "you're getting nuttin' this
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    Describe your 10/10 pain. Piggybacking off of recent pain discussions.

    Twinmom06 replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

    my 10/10 was intractable biliary colic with a gallstone stuck in the neck of my gallbladder. 0.5 of Dilaudid and Zofran and I was feeling nuttin for a good 6 hours. BUT with that said, I have a...
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    What is your degree in other than nursing?

    Twinmom06 replied to nija315's topic in General Students

    BA in
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    How Does Your Hospital Decide Who is Called Off for Low Census?

    Twinmom06 replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure because overnights never gets cancelled since we have at most 4 nurses (and 27
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    Is it necessary to come in off the clock?

    Twinmom06 replied to Rnurse 2008's topic in General Nursing

    my manager is the only one in the hospital that comes in after 7 am (I was a float nurse for a while and was on all the different units at one point or another). She wanted to have a meeting with me...
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    declining vaccines

    Twinmom06 replied to rockappella's topic in General Nursing

    while not in TX I will tell you that more often than not its the hospitals that require the vaccinations in order for you to do clinical. No shots, no clinical, no passing the course. I know some...
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    Med Surg Then and Now

    Twinmom06 replied to Lev's topic in Medical-Surgical

    from the more experienced nurses on our floor the acuity of the patients has changed. Such as patients with insulin or heparin drips used to be ICU patients - no exceptions, now we get those on a non...
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    I have the time (to pee)

    Twinmom06 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    its really rare (although I don't work ER or ICU) that I don't get at least 20 minutes to eat and pee when I need to - even with 7 patients and no
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    Sitter breaks

    Twinmom06 replied to permanentnights's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    the aides cover, unless the only aide is the one that is sitting and then the patient's assigned nurse covers it and we cover his/her patients (pain meds, potty
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    Nodding off...

    Twinmom06 replied to jodyangel's topic in General Nursing

    have you thought about sleep apnea? I work nights, and usually get around 6-7 hours of sleep (broken up) during the day - before I was diagnosed I could literally "sleep" 20 hours a day and still...
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    Which drugs are you required to count?

    Twinmom06 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient Medications

    we only count weekly (the majority of our pt's meds including Tramadol and Toradol are not in the Pyxis). We count Narcs, Benzos, Fentanyl patches, and sleepers (Ambien being the one I remember the...
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    First Code

    Twinmom06 posted a topic in General Nursing

    so I had to code my first patient last night. Sort of unexpected as he was an RRT earlier in the day for chest pain but the EKG was clear as was the lab work. He was cleared to stay on our floor as...
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    Nurse giving discontinue medications to other patients

    Twinmom06 replied to Nurse Amy Jolie's topic in Patient Medications

    we do that inpatient...patient A needs Zofran PO but pharmacy's backed up - will borrow one from Patient B (same dose) and when Patient A's comes up we put it back in Patient B's folder. The way our...
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    RNs, I got a question about pain meds

    Twinmom06 replied to tarotale's topic in New York Nursing

    ^^^This^^^ I'm amazed at the number of young people (21+) that have their parents stay at the bedside with them 24-7 and seem to dictate their
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    "You've got the wrong Mary" ... A Vent About Rude Doctors

    Twinmom06 replied to annie.rn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm sorry you have that experience. Our hospitalists are generally mid level providers that work shifts 7-7:30 (both a and p) - there are several - one covers the ED, one covers the ICU and comes to...