diddoms

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1. I have a question about humor etiquette

   diddoms replied to gentlemother's topic in General Nursing

   In my experience Patients cope well with Nurse's foibles. Being open and honest with them is often an ivitation to them to open up to you and tell you things they have never told anyone else. One of my favourite sayings is that" If you don't laugh yo...

2. SAD: Just Wondering........

   diddoms replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

   I live in Australia and our winters are pretty short compared to you guys. I once met a woman from USA travellin g in Australia . She was the first person who I had met with SAD. She used to get quite manic in summer and severly depressed in winter...

3. Negative CVP?

   diddoms replied to RN92's topic in MICU

   CVP measures pressure in the Vena Cava which sits in the Thoracic Cavity. During inspiration we create a negative chest pressure in order for air to fill our lungs, and then a positive pressure to expell air.( Boyle's LAw) CVP should always be taken...

4. Are ABGs, Arterial Blood Gases an invasive procedure?

   diddoms replied to student06's topic in General Nursing

   Definately Invasive. If they have an art line that is an invasive line and can be very painful even when local is used. ABG's via a an arterial stab are also invasive, and as the earlier post suggests, very painful. Oxygen Sat can be accurately read...

5. More Strange Baby Names

   diddoms replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I know a girl called Dung...Dung is a common Vietnamese girls name. It is pronounced like the famous philopsher's surname, Carl Jung.

6. How do You deal with Man-Hating Female Nurses?

   diddoms replied to PrisonrNurs's topic in Men

   I'm male and I've had that experince too .Only once in 18 years, but it was hell at the time. What you are experiencing (isolation) is a covert form of bullying. Conversations suddenly stopping when you walk in the staff room, not being acknowleged e...

7. PE and R. to L. atrial shunt

   diddoms replied to -Emma-'s topic in MICU

   I used to work in a hyperbaric facility where we treated amoungst other things scuba divers with the Bends or decompression illness( DCI). Every once and a while we would get some one who had relatively severe symptoms given the nitrogen load they we...

8. All You Lefty's Out there....

   diddoms replied to Melly1022's topic in General Nursing

   I'm ambidextrous. Does that count? I do some things with the Left hand and some with the right.

9. Open or restricted visitation in ICU/CCU

   diddoms replied to RNmac97's topic in General Nursing

   I've worked in 3 teaching hospitals in Melbourne Australia. It is our custom to have what you would call open visiting. We limit to 2 visitors per patient, but people can visit 24/7. Having said that we stingly encourage relatives to go home and get ...

10. Need advice about failure to thrive

    diddoms replied to ICUnowOHN's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds like a complex case. I think this kid needs a bit of "tough love". This kid has used food as a way to control his parents . Being a poor eater obviously gets him a lot of attention form the parents, albeit in the form of anguish, frustrat...

11. What does your spouse do?

    diddoms replied to vaughanmk's topic in General Nursing

    My wife is also a nurse. We met over a hot resus in ER. :rotfl:

12. stupid question from a student

    diddoms replied to Still Riding's topic in Emergency

    There is no such thing as a stupid question, just dumb answers.

13. suspended for signing an 8pm med on MAR at 5pm in error

    diddoms replied to VirginiaLPN97's topic in Geriatric

    It looks to me that you've been set up, and you've been a victim of BAD management. Any manager worth their salt would have aske d for your side of the story, and then at least councelled you. It looks like it was premeditated adn someone wants you o...

14. Should nurses return to wearing uniforms?

    diddoms replied to hellerd2003's topic in General Nursing

    1. 18 years 2. Acute. ICU 3. Major city hospital - Australia 4. BSN with Post Grad Cert 5. NO! No and NO. I used to have to wear cotton scrubs when I worked in a hyperbaric facility. That was for safety reasons. They were comfotable but any time ...

15. were do you live?

    diddoms replied to bettyboop's topic in International

    Melbourne, Australia. Hospital trained, Qualified 1990, working in ICU since 1992, would have serious difficulty looking after more than one patient now. Spent 4 years working in Hyperbaric Unit. Currently working as Post Grad Educator. Happil...