sassykitkatt

I don't know, but working med/surg is the best place to work. You can't imagine how much knowledge you can gain from working on a med/surg floor. I worked the for over 14 years before going to dialysis. And my knowledge base is outrageous. It's busy but great. Many places won't hire you without med/surg experience.

i still find it hard to wear gloves, especially when I used to give bed baths. And now that I am dialysis I have to think to put on gloves, because we deal in blood all the time and it cen get out of hand sometimes and all the nurses and one nephologist will tell me repeatedly to put on gloves, cuz i'm used to not wearing all the time, but with aids and hep B I have to be more conscious.

You must have started about the same time I did about, 15 yrs. ago, And i remember those same things, but now the doctor think that you are his geoffer and lab finder. too scared to look up his own labs and reports. heaven forbid you challenge one of their orders, you might as well be beaten. Yes I do remember when i loved being a nurse. but it's not all bad, it's seeing a pt. after he's come from the ER to TICU to the stepdown unit to rehab and then see him go home when thought the coroner should have been called. We must hang in there.

Or how about when the child is choking, you pull their arms up over their head to stop them from choking. Upside down and arms over works. Old wives tells or not.

You I forgot about the shaking thermometer. Shake it so hard, could bearly see the mercury and i still can palpate or even eyeball a BP

I still don't believe that. I really think that loosens up the secretions and i would probably still use it. I have seen it still being used in the critical care area in the closed suctions systems.

Wow I never heard of that. When was that used? This one girl told me about the Iron Lung that was for pneumonia patients. She said they used that up until the late 70's. But a rotating tourniquet, that would have been something to see and to use. thanx!!!!!!

hello, I was wondering if you guys were doing anything different now than we did before? Like before when we would suction trach patients we would squirt NS down the trach but now after clinical study they say we don't have to that anymore because it does't work. So have you guys had any changes?