dirtyhippiegirl

dirtyhippiegirl BSN, RN

PDN; Burn; Phone triage

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  1. Medication error while on probation

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to mammasews's topic in Patient Medications

    Who takes only .25 of a

  2. Is PDN really better than working in a facility?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to smartypantsnurse's topic in Private Duty

    I did PDN as a new grad who couldn't find a hospital/acute care job right out of the gate. Definitely stick it out. Why not use the down time to apply for other jobs? Use your PDN job to emphasize...

  3. Misinterpreted lab values ?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to NanikRN's topic in General Nursing

    Do you work nights, by any

  4. The LEAST critically ill kid you've cared for in PICU :)

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to meanmaryjean's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I work in Burn but we're PICU/Peds overflow since we take all burnt kiddos as well. (So we're PALS certified, etc.) Most of our PICU admits or transfers are very stable -- usually they admit, then get...

  5. Foreign Transplants

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to KittyLovinRN's topic in General Nursing

    You'll die anyway if you can't afford to take your anti-rejection meds, follow up extensively with doctors pretty much for the rest of your life, keep on top of your health, etc. Unfortunately, unless...

  6. Dobhoff Tube Insertion

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to infirmiere77's topic in General Nursing

    We use corpaks and only ICU nurses can place them. Confirmed by KUB. We only. ever do dobhoffs if we can't get the corpak post pyloric for some reason-- the dh is placed in IR by a doc in that...

  7. Burned out and hate nursing

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to RN1023's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I work at a large teaching hospital. We do hire RNs for informatics positions, as do several of the other large hospitals in the area. But you're looking at maybe a handful of openings a year in a two...

  8. Burned out and hate nursing

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to RN1023's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I Want to get into research nursing. Actually have lab experience. But most of the phase I places want experience, and the phase II-III trials are mostly cancer in my area so they want at least two...

  9. Burned out and hate nursing

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to RN1023's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Eh. Go back to school for some sort of IT degree then (although IT degrees are the same dime a dozen as nursing degrees these days). Informatics positions are hard to find and, at least in my area,...

  10. Losing respect for nursing students

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to kjnsweets's topic in General Nursing

    We're orienting a couple of new grads on my unit who act a lot like the nursing students that ya'all are complaining about. /night shift //doesn't see many nursing

  11. "I'm not floating."

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Morainey's topic in General Nursing

    We float ICU to ICU and I don't mind floating to some units but...I work on a mixed acuity burn unit and can go weeks without caring for a ventilated patient, months without seeing a pressor. :/ I...

  12. help a newbie

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to proud nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I got dumped on the first few weeks off orientation by a particular charge nurse. As in, several other nurses wrote her up for continuing to give me totally inappropriate assignments. :er: I still...

  13. Does nursing change you into an angry person?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to DesireeBeyerGreen's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Anger means you care. I can't bring myself to

  14. Difficult orientee

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to jenvankempen's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sounds like she's putting in her time until she can get into NP/CRNA program. One of our (very high acuity) SI nurses was complaining to me about how their new grads don't want to get dirty and don't...

  15. New Grad ADN KC

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to abrn348's topic in General Nursing

    Doesn't St Lukes still hire

  16. Crazy for wounds...

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to pnkgirl25's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    We do a lot of wound care on burn-- burns plus we get all the big crater sized pressure ulcers, mysterious derm cases, and we often get consulted out to do big dressing changes that the other units /...

  17. Would like your input as a RN if your hospital has room service

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to RNsheal's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Insulin timing. Would be less of an issue maybe if room service didn't deliver at shift

  18. Let RN license lapse to get out of "Old" new grad rut?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to BA_anthropology's topic in General Nursing

    Per the OP's post history, moving out of the country for six months and then having a baby right after graduation probably didn't help her employment situation. There are plenty of stale old grads on...

  19. Dr Oz's show on antidepressants...your thoughts?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Marshall1's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Eeeeeh. What Dr. Oz does is less about medicine and more about pandering to a certain viewer base. The New Yorker did a good piece on him

  20. Ventage

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to exit96's topic in General Nursing

    ^Curious as to your solid retirement accounts? how much do you have saved in solid vs liquid accounts? 401K Means nothing if the stock market

  21. Super Obese

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to anotherone's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    But plenty of diseases are the result of choices. Should we divert less money to studying lung cancer or COPD because the majority of sufferers CHOSE to

  22. What's the biggest mistake you've ever made as a nurse? What did you learn from it?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Mini-Murse's topic in General Nursing

    eedit

  23. Most shocking thing you've seen another nurse do?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to SuzieVN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    One of our PRN hires who supposedly had several years of ICU experience actually managed to somehow hook up IV tubing to a tube feed bottle and primed it. and this was with the new bottles that are...

  24. The most gruesome situation you've encountered?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to SuzieVN's topic in General Nursing

    I hate debriding deep hand burns. If I'm lucky, the skin will come off in pieces. If I'm not, the skin pulls off the hand like an inside-out glove which always makes me want to barf. Then you have to...

  25. Nursing School Patient Loads

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    Reading through these responses makes me really, really value my senior year capstone/practicum/preceptorship. Over 500 hours, 1:1 with a RN. It was essentially a new grad preceptorship where we were...