Morainey BSN, RN

Orthopedic, LTC, STR, Med-Surg, Tele

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    What drug reference do you use?

    Morainey replied to jinny2009's topic in General Nursing

    I use Up To Date when I'm on the computer, and I think we have a Davis in the med
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    How long does it take you to complete these tasks?

    Morainey replied to tsm007's topic in General Nursing

    I think these things would have taken me an eternity in nursing school. Yeesh. Sim lab is stressful enough with an instructor watching, but timing you on your skills? Seems a little
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    Once a student, always a student? How do you keep up with the healthcare changes?

    Morainey replied to Kimberlyace's topic in General Nursing

    I read articles that I find interesting or pertinent on Medscape. I used to get AJN but it's kind of expensive and I didn't get much out of it,
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    Losing respect for nursing students

    Morainey replied to kjnsweets's topic in General Nursing

    Depends on the individual nursing student, although some programs/instructors seem to run a tighter ship than
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    "I'm not floating."

    Morainey replied to Morainey's topic in General Nursing

    It is mainly a few individuals who absolutely refuse to float, and have a last float date of at least a month (I'm not exaggerating) before all of the other nurses. They come in, see they are floated,...
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    "I'm not floating."

    Morainey replied to Morainey's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you. I think this is the major problem. Yes floating is no fun but it has to be fair and we do our best to make it so. It really sets a bad example for new nurses and even other nurses on the...
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    "I'm not floating."

    Morainey replied to Morainey's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't know you could get paid extra to float! Maybe then people would be more
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    "I'm not floating."

    Morainey replied to Morainey's topic in General Nursing

    That's exactly what we do, it's not randomized. Even when I say, listen, the other nurses all floated in the past week and you haven't been floated for a month, I still get "I don't care, I'm not...
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    Best Hallucinations Thread

    Morainey replied to Vespertinas's topic in General Nursing

    I like it when people mime eating. We all watched in quiet wonder while my confused gentleman patient ate a cheeseburger out of thin air with his eyes closed the entire
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    Home med lists make me crazy.

    Morainey replied to imintrouble's topic in General Nursing

    I like it when no one reconciles the meds on day shift, or evening shift, and then leaves it for us at night! Yeah I'm really going to call the doc at 0200 to order all 30 of the patient's vitamins!...
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    Picc Line Question

    Morainey replied to sophtheorn's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, we do the most complicated PICC line draw in the world at my facility. I bet you could your pharmacy or lab or charge nurse, and they would
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    did the md's pen go into v-fib??

    Morainey replied to SNB1014's topic in General Nursing

    We had a doc who would writer her name in all caps after she signed orders. Luckily the rest of it was easy to read but I always appreciated that, especially when I was a secretary and didn't know who...
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    Is there any truth to this?

    Morainey replied to Nurse SMS's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have DEFINITELY had patients tell me this before. Yes, they are female now that I think about it. I always want to say, I'm not calling the doctor if your temperature is 98.6 when you "usually run...
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    Excercise Question

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

    From what I remember on weight watchers, the Rating of Perceived Exertion was pretty easy to understand w/ regard to intensity. Moderate: break a sweat after about 10 minutes, can hold a conversation...
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    Three weeks into my new job and I get sick...Again

    Morainey replied to LTCNS's topic in General Nursing

    Drink your fluids, get your rest! What does it say about us nurses where we have guilt spasms about being sick
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    How does chemistry apply to your RN position?

    Morainey replied to livelovelive's topic in General Nursing

    Don't forget the sodium-potassium pump. Also, you could write about hyper, hypo, and isotonic solutions. I wish my ADN program had chemistry and biology - I think it's so fundamental, and it gets...
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    Tricks of the trade: Diversion- stories of the stupid and sly?

    Morainey replied to SuzieVN's topic in General Nursing

    I feel left out, no narcotic diversion stories but my preceptor and I once had to go fishing for something I tossed in the sharps container when I was orienting. The bottoms of those things must be...
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    To go or not to go?

    Morainey replied to kht124's topic in General Students

    Go anyway, and explain. I know that you wanted ICU, but if your schedule is a dealbreaker they may be able to point you to another position you might not have previously considered. I'm grateful that...
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    Dreaming About Work

    Morainey replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    I have these awful dreams about having five patients. Well, I need to see the fifth one, but I just can't get in the room. At all. Other patients need me, alarms go off, IVs keep beeping... I never...
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    missing narc

    Morainey replied to fairyluv's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Sounds about right, for LTC.
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    Is floor nursing making you fat?

    Morainey replied to OCRN3's topic in Health, Stress Management

    YES. I like to think of exercise as something I do for myself, not as a by-product of work being
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    missing narc

    Morainey replied to fairyluv's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I agree with above poster, was it missing like someone punched it out of the card, or was it missing as in no med was ever there in the first place? I can't believe they are calling the police and the...
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    End of clinical presents

    Morainey replied to paratroopa's topic in General Students

    We usually brought in goodies at the end of our clinical rotation, like bagels or donuts or fruit. Also, we usually got a card for our instructor and some kind of little gift, usually a gift...
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    getting the life drained out of you

    Morainey replied to proud nurse's topic in General Nursing

    The first night I got floated to med-surg (as a new grad who had never had more than 5 patients before), I had 7 patients, one on hospice, who died at 0600. Oh my gosh, I was so drained by the time I...
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    Hospital closing my entire unit.

    Morainey replied to miranda819's topic in General Nursing

    Our little neighbor community hospital closed its L&D unit also. Good for our L&D unit, because we took about half of their moms, but I was wondering what would happen to the staff - our...