RN58186

RN58186

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  1. Kidney Transplant Recovery Floor

    RN58186 replied to kmek30's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    ITNS has a "Core Curriculum for Transplant Nurses" that is an excellent resource. Right now the first edition is on sale for $30 and available on their

  2. That one random nugget of information from nursing school that you've never forgotten..

    RN58186 replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    arrector pili - the muscle around each hair follicle that produces "goose bumps" catarrhal exudate - my instructor wrote "aka snot" on the board for this one. I still make hospital corners on my...

  3. Thank you

    RN58186 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Psychiatric

    I echo your thoughts Viva! I have been a patient numerous times and the psych nurses I dealt with were the best. I appreciated that they listened every time I had a concern or problem and never...

  4. Well, I didn't expect THAT answer...

    RN58186 replied to jadelpn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    85 year old lady on a geriatric assessment unit. MD had ordered Premarin lady partsl cream at HS. I went in early in the evening, explained to the lady what it was and why it had been ordered....

  5. The Docs Who've Got Your Back

    RN58186 replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Our doctors are great. I have heard attending doctors tell residents that "nurses who have been here a while know more about renal than you ever will unless you become a nephrologist - listen to...

  6. Be a renal nurse and not work a day in your life

    RN58186 replied to abbyrenalRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I have been a renal nurse for my entire career. I would never move to another specialty. I work in transplant now but it is still an area that I love. One of my pts told me that he thinks the best...

  7. Calgary Region Floods: Stay Safe!

    RN58186 replied to joanna73's topic in Canada

    The High River hospital is evacuated, Canmore hospital is sheltering in place, Drumheller health centreis evacuated, a number of LTC facilities have been evacuated, the Sheldon Chumir Health Centre in...

  8. Dual Career - Nursing and Ministry

    RN58186 replied to misskait's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I have been an RN for 23 years, and work full time. I will finish this summer a Masters degree in Theology that I have been doing online. I have no plans to go into professional ministry, I took my...

  9. CNA Certification: Preparation Time While Working?

    RN58186 replied to joanna73's topic in Canada

    I did the Nephrology exam, I worked full time the entire time while doing so. I studied mostly for 3 or 4 hours per weekend and the occasional weekend. Good

  10. Has anyone made a medication error and *not* get fired for it?

    RN58186 replied to pinkiepieRN's topic in Patient Medications

    Many years ago we had two pts on our floor with identical names (including middle name if you can believe it). They were in the same four bed room, and they were both blind diabetics on peritoneal...

  11. Nurses Talk To Nurses. Doctors Talk To Doctors

    RN58186 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    I must say, my manager would NEVER tolerate any of her nurses being spoken to that way. She is like a mama bear looking out for her cubs. One does not abuse her nurses. She would have stepped in...

  12. annoying little thing some of our docs are doing

    RN58186 replied to psu_213's topic in Emergency

    I work in an outpatient clinic, one of our docs will write the letter to the family doc (I saw Mr X, I recommended this and that, he had no other complaints, return to clinic 6 months) before he even...

  13. What are you good at?

    RN58186 replied to proudnurseRN's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't worked inpatients for a while so I am sure all my inpatient skills are rather rusty (although when I did I was good at most of them) but where I think I am really good is in palliative care....

  14. We need to advocate for better mental health

    RN58186 replied to NutmeggeRN's topic in School

    Yes, absolutely we need to advocate for better mental health care. In all countries. But what really bugs me is whenever something like this happens the media announces "had mental health issues"...

  15. Forced wearing of nursing cap.

    RN58186 replied to onetiredstudent's topic in General Students

    Okay, I have to chime in..... We women all wore caps for grad, the guys in my class (6 of them) did not. All the ladies paid an extra $5 in fees that year for the cap. The guys decided THEY were...

  16. Dear new grad...

    RN58186 replied to smurfynursey's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Last week my Mom's goals of care at her LTC facility were changed to comfort measures only. I am so grateful for the nurse who has taken my calls every day, or called me herself to give me a daily...

  17. Head, meet desk

    RN58186 replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Once on a night shift I rec'd a call from admitting to which I replied "We are full. Sorry, but you'll have to look on another unit." This was met with "HOw can you be full?" Me: "We have no...

  18. Thanks for taking the time...

    RN58186 posted a topic in Nurses Rock

    Last night my Mom was taken from her long term care facility into emergency because she had a UTI that was not responding to treatment and they couldn't get her fever down. At one point my sister and...

  19. Thanks for taking the time...

    RN58186 replied to RN58186's topic in Nurses Rock

    I will be contacting the Patient Care Manager in emergency to say thanks and will be contacting the Patient Care Manager on the inpt unit about the "go in your diaper" thing. I don't work on an inpt...

  20. Thanks for taking the time...

    RN58186 replied to RN58186's topic in Nurses Rock

    I will contact the Patient Care Manager in the emergency deptartment and pass along my thanks. KitkatPRN, I know they are busy in LTC and they do have a podiatrist who comes around. Problem is, he...

  21. Clinical Preps Rant

    RN58186 replied to rei-chan's topic in General Students

    I remember thinking that my first clinical instructor hated me. I thought she as a really unpleasant well, witch, to deal with. She made may of the same demands on her students and yes, if we had a...

  22. Transplant nursing

    RN58186 replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Aweome! So glad to hear it! You are eager to learn so I think that will make a huge difference. And yeah, always nice when the doctors want you there! When do you start? Did you find out about...

  23. Transplant nursing

    RN58186 replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I'd say that sounds pretty promising.... Good

  24. Transplant nursing

    RN58186 replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Where I work none of us have anything higher than a Bachelor's degree (except our manager, she has an MBA). We have a couple of NP's that work with the renal program, but they don't work in...

  25. Patients who call the clinic 1 day before meds run out for refills

    RN58186 replied to JZ_RN's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    The pharmacists in our clinic deal with refill requests. When pts run out and don't have a follow up booked, or haven't had bloodwork done recently, we will bridge their supply until we can get them...