Morainey BSN, RN

Orthopedic, LTC, STR, Med-Surg, Tele

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    My orientee gave the wrong narcotic

    Morainey replied to JohnD91's topic in General Nursing

    I realized afterward 'Twas a bit slow on the uptake
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    I ignored my instincts...

    Morainey replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in General Nursing

    OMG what a dumb thing to yell at someone about. Also, kickball, really? Maybe I'm a lone wolf but I'd rather run a 5K for a good cause. Earbuds in, leave 'em in the
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    Surgeon On Call Pager concerns

    Morainey replied to minchrr's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. I'd stop carrying the pager and let what happens, happen. I can't stand surgeons who think they are above answering
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    Misinterpreted lab values ?

    Morainey replied to NanikRN's topic in General Nursing

    K, Mg, Na, H&H, Bun/Cr, D-dimer, troponins, PT/INR, and BNP are all things I wish school had emphasized a little more. I was definitely weak with lab values when I
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    What Is The Shift You Will Never Forget?

    Morainey replied to bsartor's topic in General Nursing

    I work in New England and I got snowed into work during the huge blizzard this winter. I got trapped with a few crazy, belligerent, and angry patients. We had a couple of people who came in to the ER...
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    Struggling to complete online RN-BSN

    Morainey replied to BSNbeauty's topic in School, College Programs

    *files this advice away for when I finally start my online RN to BSN*
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    Do you tell people where you work?

    Morainey replied to psu_213's topic in General Nursing

    I only say that I'm a nurse, but if they ask I'll tell them. I have never gotten a negative
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    Is it okay to tell a patient to not disrespect you

    Morainey replied to lolakbolak's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It probably could have been handled better. It's hard to keep your composure especially when someone calls you a bad nurse to your face. We're only human after all. My ground rules are, don't raise...
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    Is it really necessary to learn to read an ekg? anyone really use it?

    Morainey replied to northmississippi's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's very useful to at least learn your common rhythms. Any patient on my floor who is on telemetry is being watched on a monitor by a tech, and the strips get read by a designated telemetry...
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    bedside nursing, is it really that bad?

    Morainey replied to OCRN3's topic in General Nursing

    OP: You hit every nail on the head for what I love about bedside nursing I hate it when my coworkers tell me they're "just doing this before NP/CRNA school" like it's a prison sentence before all the...
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    Why does it seem that working for a magnet hospital is a bad thing?

    Morainey replied to pre-nurseshan's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't ever worked in a Magnet hospital but I did clinicals in one and the nurses were miserable. Not just one or two bad days, every time we went there they were unhappy - large assignments with...
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    My orientee gave the wrong narcotic

    Morainey replied to JohnD91's topic in General Nursing

    Eeek. Better keep a close eye on your orientee. I am confused as to how the dose could be different but you said it was the same
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    Foreign Transplants

    Morainey replied to KittyLovinRN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. That's amazing. I would never have guessed the wait is that
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    New grad, not liking the unit I'm in

    Morainey replied to flowerchild89's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree with other posters. It sounds like you have a nice job, especially for a new grad - at least you don't want to leave because you get slammed with an unsafe patient load every single shift. If...
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    sunlight and nightshift

    Morainey replied to anotherone's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Yes. I live in New England and it gets awfully gloomy. We've had a very pretty spring so
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    How do you do double check insulin in an isolation room and scanning?

    Morainey replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    That's my style! "Hey, hey, could you check this insulin with me?" Barcode scanning makes things awkward. I usually check the insulin with an RN in the doorway of the patient's room, have them sign...
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    Foreign Transplants

    Morainey replied to KittyLovinRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm imagining that it is probably safer to get these transplants in the US than whenever the patient is coming from. Just a guess, though. I thought that potential transplant recipients were...
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    Back stabbing coworkers

    Morainey replied to tktjRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    All good advice from previous posters, but I'd just add, try to focus on patients and doing your job well. Unfortunately it does seem like there are always staff favorites of management who we're all...
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    Documenting

    Morainey replied to lilpetRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's really obnoxious and unnecessary on the part of the doc. I would put everything in quotes, I'm guessing he doesn't talk to management that
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    To tuck it in or not - that is the question

    Morainey replied to RCBR's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    The only folks I see who tuck in their scrubs are in the ED and OR, and some ICU nurses as well, if they wear the hospital scrubs since they are sooo long and have no bottom
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    Nurses: How often do you...

    Morainey replied to doxielover304's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    1-How often do you actually see people die? And share your experiences with that if you will please. I haven't ever actually seen a patient die. I have found one patient dead (they were on hospice so...
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    Top Issues with Your EMR

    Morainey replied to InformaticsRN.MA's topic in Medical-Surgical

    We have Meditech. Most of the patients think it's cool that we can look everything up on the computer. The worst part about EMR is redundancy! Some things (such as IV, pain level, etc) I chart on two...
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    Charge nurse taking patients

    Morainey replied to bamaguy1989's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    We have a certain census cutoff for being charge w/o assignment during the day and evening shifts, if census dips then the charge takes an assignment. I'm charge at night and I get a full assignment....
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    Floating

    Morainey replied to Rexie's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I just started a thread about this in the General forum a couple of days ago. My floor is ortho med-surg and we are expected to float to tele, med-surg, and very very very infrequently the mother/baby...
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    I got found out!

    Morainey replied to hiddencatRN's topic in General Nursing

    LOL. After an H&P recently the doc asked "what do you do for work?" and when I said I was a nurse at the network hospital the whole tone of the visit changed! He talked to me in a very...