momdebo BSN, RN

I just withdrew from Chamberlain/DeVry. I took a wonderful sociology class but the nursing class left a lot to be desired. The instructor was very unprofessional including making some pretty negative remarks about BSN students that the class then f...

The wound vac is an excellent example. The hospital has stated that no wound vac is to be attached to wall suction. The doctor is trying to order the nurse to put the wound vac to wall suction. He can order whatever he wants but the nurse must tel...

That's great to hear! I have received thank you's when I rotated to tele and IMCU, lots when I worked hospice/home health, but never when I was in ER or ICU/cath lab. I'm sure that's a great feeling for your wife. Kudos to her!

In regard to the first story, I know working ICU, our patients were at death's door many times and never would have made it without the care from doctors/nurses given from ER all the way to the unit and then who do you suppose gets the Fannie May and...

Bless all you who work long term care. I did it as a CNA, went back after being an RN. I tell ya, I worked just as hard in the long term as I ever did in cardiac ICU. I remember well, the cascade of unforeseen, unplanned emergencies, the low sats,...

As far as I know if you follow an order that opposes established policy then you are as liable as the ordering doctor, the hospital will not back you up. If a lawsuit arises they can name you both, together or in individual actions. As far as the p...

we do this for our hemodialysis patients who live alone and no call/no show for tx.

I've noticed that most posts indicate that a tele unit has more "eyes" on the patients, which technically is true, however, when I started in this business we had an R.N. dedicated to watching the monitors, then we had a trained tech, who also was de...

BE CAREFUL!!! First thing, what happened that they lost 4 nurses? Like most tele units they probably have huge turnover. I worked ICU/tele for a long time and I will tell you from my experience, half of your patients in tele should probably already...

Amen!!!

Awesome! Go Crusty!

I've never heard of such a thing! Code J, really? That's pretty crazy. We still use the old fashioned word of mouth, which I find pretty entertaining, you get to see all the managers and suits out running around, eyes bulging, sweat pouring.....

I don't know about the rest of the country and what people think about nurses and how much or how little we do but I have a family who knows and they never hesitate to tell everyone and anyone how hard we work, how little we get in return, etc. etc. ...

I have moved into a cardiology office where we perform stress testing so I must keep up my ACLS but since I'm no longer on staff at the hospital I am looking around for ACLS classes and found some stuff on line. Anyone ever try this? Any feedback i...

Happened to me! Although it was quite a while ago and it was an LPN course, we were told all the credits would be honored only to find out that they weren't. I guess your best bet would be to investigate the school of nursing you plan on going to. ...

have to agree with Tazzi here, too bad that she had to learn the hard way but when your WHOLE job is to WATCH someone, think about it, do we watch people who are ok/alert/oreinted etc? Probably not. And why did she have to point out that she was cr...

That does make it hard when your in an environment where teamwork is essential, ICU, ER etc. It's very important that everyone follow protocol, that way the right hand always knows what the left hand is doing. Maybe she was just trying to lighten y...

I agree with the rest of the replies. You asked for instruction and did as you were directed. And yes, patients manage to fall/arrest/stroke out etc. even when we are right next to them. Just pat yourself on the back for being there to assist the ...

amen!!!allnurses should be all nurses!!!!

Amen! this is everywhere. I have the luxury of working in a cardiologists office and thought I would escape this stuff, but alas, no. I get people coming into the waiting room diaphoretic, sob, nauseated with crushing chest pain wanting to know if ...

Has the sat value been checked against ABG's?

Hi everybody! I work in a cardiology office after many years in the trenches. We have a nuc med tech that does our stresses and today she's telling me about this cousin of hers who is a CRNA and is so brilliant and says to me: "she is so smart, she...

Tazzi, you may be right, her remarks kind of make me think maybe she and are aren't from the same team (healthcare) after all. Although the more I think about it I'm not even sure we're from the same planet! Seriously though, I thought about tryin...

I say try it out! You will never know if you don't go for it. I have moved around a lot, in and out of ICU. I tried hospice, home health, I've worked in a nursing home and in hospital float pools. It's been pretty cool to have experienced so many...

Earlier this week this same tech asked if my 20 yr old daughter wanted to get into nursing and I said "no, after watching me at it all these years, she decided it wasn't for her, she wanted to be a pharmacist" to which she responds, "well, that's eve...