ScrappytheCoco

ScrappytheCoco

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  1. So...What Kind of Nursing Task Do You LIKE?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    STEMIs are the jam. What a rush. I'm also equally obsessed with swaddling a newborn and handing them to Mom for the first time and seeing the look on Mom's face, it's such a happy part of my job...

  2. What to do when u find an unresponsive patient

    ScrappytheCoco replied to LucasNewGrad's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I don't mean to be harsh...you might be a new grad but this is why you attend BLS and such before you're allowed on the floor. Isn't there a code button or a phone in the room that you can use to...

  3. Are You Cut Out to be an Emergency Department (ED) Nurse?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Emergency

    Thank you to all of the COB ER nurses who grabbed me by the hair, tossed me into the fire, turning me from a shy wallflower who didn't even want to touch a patient to the crazy trauma junkie pushing...

  4. Com'on, you got one...What is your heart wrenching moment?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    I was only about 3 days into my first job as a new grad when we got an older peds trauma pt. Jane Doe, I picked her cut up tshirt off the floor and pieced it together for the cops to take pictures....

  5. Question for cardiac or ICU nurses

    ScrappytheCoco replied to klone's topic in Cardiac

    The cardiac monitor definitely registers activity from compressions. Sometimes when you're doing them, especially on a pt in asystole, you'll get the v-tach

  6. Venipuncture questions!

    ScrappytheCoco replied to xiongmao's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly whether it's phlebotomy or IV start, it's something you have to do on a real person to learn. Good

  7. Be honest, what pt behaviors do you find annoying?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    Patient (being discharged to police custody after refusing admission for detox): "Can I have my wallet back?" **Security guard brings wallet with inventory sheet** Patient (getting hostile) to me:...

  8. Worst/silliest/are you serious pt complaint you've received?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to odaat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Katie, Unfortunately in my case, the event involving my patient did happen, it just did not involve me. The patient told her family member what happened who complained to the hospital administrator...

  9. Patients wants a back rub

    ScrappytheCoco replied to Oceanpacific's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thankfully we have a massage therapist assigned to our service line. She does shoulders, neck, arms, lower legs and feet. She even dims the lights and uses aromatherapy while she's doing it. I...

  10. Be honest, what pt behaviors do you find annoying?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    I did...thus my unsuccessful

  11. Worst/silliest/are you serious pt complaint you've received?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to odaat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Once I got called into the office and told I was being written up due to a patient complaining I had "ripped her off of a bedpan and told her I wasn't waiting any longer for her to finish" and...

  12. Be honest, what pt behaviors do you find annoying?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    Oh God, where do I start? Patient: "You MUST use THIS vein when starting an iv. It won't work anywhere else." Me: "Uh, I can barely see this vein and I definitely can't feel it. I see lots of...

  13. What nursing task do you loathe???

    ScrappytheCoco replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    Oh God. Especially when they gag/vomit while you're doing it and the other end comes out of their mouth. I literally can't

  14. What nursing task do you loathe???

    ScrappytheCoco replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    in ER-dental/mouth injuries. I can look at amputations, dehisced wounds and never think twice, but last time I assisted a physician with a simple dental block I almost passed out. Don't even talk to...

  15. Funny Things Patients Say

    ScrappytheCoco replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Last night I'm sitting in the corner of my pt's room...quietly charting when I overhear this: Patient's friend: "So did you ever decide on a name for the baby?" Patient: "Well, I'm thinking...

  16. Craziest vitals on a person who lived?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to guest64485's topic in General Nursing

    Core temp of 82F. Homeboy was quite disoriented but alive enough to heavily protest the temp sensing foley I put

  17. The Truth About Nursing

    ScrappytheCoco replied to LorieStesk's topic in General Nursing

    ICUMan, I heart gays. Sorry to hijack, just throwing that out there. Carry

  18. Noncompliant diabetic patients

    ScrappytheCoco replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    This is what I do also. In my opinion they're adults and can do as they please providing they've been properly educated, but I try not to facilitate the behavior. I had a 31week pregnant patient...

  19. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

    ScrappytheCoco replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nursing Humor

    When they're on "life support" which I guess on tv just means unconscious with a nasal cannula. When they're intubated like 3cm at the lip. Poor

  20. How do you handle narcissist patients?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to mikala3's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This. All day long. Eventually they will fire you as a nurse and then you don't have to worry about refusing to care for them either. :) Works almost every

  21. New Grad...Is this typical?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to MeganStar's topic in General Nursing

    I had the same issue as a new grad except I had never given an IM injection when I started as a nurse. I barely knew how to set up an IV drip either. Ridiculous. Do not EVER be afraid to approach...

  22. Everywhere I read it's telling me that PTC is a waste of time Please HELP�������

    ScrappytheCoco replied to Misskeena1's topic in General Nursing

    I got a hospital PCT job with nothing but a little 6 week CNA class under my belt. I never even took the registry exam. What is included jn this program that takes 7 months to

  23. this is for a school assignment

    ScrappytheCoco replied to courtney2224's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Really though, when are they gonna stream ER on Netflix? I've been waiting for

  24. What nursing specialty interests you the most for the future?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to kingvonnBSN2017's topic in General Students

    Truth. You'll have a 3am EMS call for a chronic toothache in one room, a broken toenail in the next, a med refill in the next, and an intubated baby with a hysterical parent in the next. The...

  25. So Embarrassing

    ScrappytheCoco replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    Ah,