ilovelilac

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1. I freeze up when the big traumas/CPRs come in

   ilovelilac replied to vampireslayer's topic in Emergency

   VS, i commend you for choosing to work in an ER environment -- i used to work pediatrics, a mix of med/surg and oncology kids over age 7 usually. i HATED being floated to pedi ER -- it scared the...

2. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

   ilovelilac replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

   a little off the general subject, but perhaps relevant to the above post -- i was working on a Genitourinary floor, and we had a man who apparently had another psychiatric diagnosis which was not...

3. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

   ilovelilac replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

   i hope this nurse works on me!!! one of my biggest fears about being old or incapacitated is that i'll have a fu manchu, and nobody will shave me!!!

4. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

   ilovelilac replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

   :uhoh21: about 8 years or so ago the teaching hospital i worked for decided to test an isolation, room which had been cleaned by housekeeping, after a patient with VRE was discharged. they found...

5. use of Cadd pumps in pain management

   ilovelilac replied to jwelhwel's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   i have worked at 3 hospices -- the first was a 600+ pt nonprofit where i was one of 2 infusion nurses -- we typically had between 10 and 20 pts on iv of one sort or another (which sounds like a lot,...