Antikigirl

Antikigirl ASN, RN

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  1. You know you have a great job when.....

    Antikigirl replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Mine was just updated yesterday! I use to work in an ALF for 4 years and went back to Med Surge for various reasons to long to tell right now (old members may remember the many reasons and helped me...

  2. Scratching your head in wonder!

    Antikigirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    So just yesterday some family members of a patient came to the nursing desk. I was there charting and just overheard the converstation. Typical orders from family...make sure she gets dinner, make...

  3. Early recognition of the deteriorating patient

    Antikigirl replied to CO2emission's topic in General Nursing

    Excellent and totally utterly agreed! Another odder one I would add is some people get a wierd feeling...called "impending doom". I hear patients say "I am going to die" and have learned to totally...

  4. Is nursing the best job ever?

    Antikigirl replied to heatherwood's topic in General Nursing

    Jessie I hear you LOUD and CLEAR sister! I even joked saying that we should go back to the days of the roller girls at the old drive-in's...can't do it all unless we have a faster way of conveyance!...

  5. What surprised you most in nursing school?

    Antikigirl replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    Oh goodness...I still feel like an idiot on this one. Okay, so I was doing an assessment on a patient and going through the motions...when we got to urination he laughed at me and said my school...

  6. What to wear?

    Antikigirl replied to miko014's topic in General Nursing

    Typically I would go causal nice...no jeans or scrubs...something nice and fits well on you. Typically I will check out the place beforehand, and see what the other employees wear to work. Then I may...

  7. male nurses with beards

    Antikigirl replied to nrsman1's topic in Men in Nursing

    I have no probelms with it, and so far none of our male nurses have either. Holly cow, we have people with piercings in plain site, tattoos too, and some of us have been wearing our hair funky...so...

  8. Is nursing the best job ever?

    Antikigirl replied to heatherwood's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you so very much for the comment on me writing...and my first reaction in my head is one I tell my patients from time to time when we talk about charting and paperwork. "If I knew I had to...

  9. Scratching your head in wonder!

    Antikigirl replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    LOL! Most of my patients would have added vodka to that lemon statement! LOL!!!!!!!! Oh that is just too crazy! I don't know what I would have done when I saw that...but I know I would be...

  10. To all the "Old School" Nurses

    Antikigirl replied to TiggerBelly's topic in General Nursing

    YES!!!!!!! With the advent of the internet...many laymen feel they are savy in medical and question EVERYTHING you do! Not to mention that trends have gone towards hotel or even home like...

  11. Students not charting...If it isn't charted..who did it?

    Antikigirl replied to nurz2be's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry...but I feel the same as the OP. I will chart what I found, did, and everything...and if the facility chooses not to put it as a perm part of the chart fine...but that is a lawsuit in the...

  12. Am I Just a Cynic or Is nursing a poor career?

    Antikigirl replied to MrsCaseyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Actually...it is kinda funny. Take a look at two of my posts from today. One had to do with something that makes me question why I am a nurse...a family that asked why we nurses were giving their...

  13. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Antikigirl replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh MAN...one of my worse lazy person that wouldn't lift a finger for herself story takes a gross cake award! Seems this lady..yes obsese...had chronic yeast in the folds because she wouldn't lift a...

  14. You Know the patient is going bad when...

    Antikigirl replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

    One of my favorites was in RN school. I was going to witness a cardioversion done by this very top notch doc. Okay I was told as nauseum that I was to remain perfectly silent, blend into the walls,...

  15. Am I Just a Cynic or Is nursing a poor career?

    Antikigirl replied to MrsCaseyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I hear you sweety! I said the same thing! But a wise nurse once told me in RN school...you are a baby nurse till 5 years in, so experience the good and bad and learn from it till then and by year five...

  16. Scratching your head in wonder!

    Antikigirl replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    It is odd though...I was taught to not question a nurse outright, that they are professionals and know more about what they are doing than you do. If I had seen something like that...I more than...

  17. ''I Don't get Paid Enough!''- Is this your mantra??

    Antikigirl replied to gt4everpn's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses that do consider money as part of their career path are being smart investors in their personal time, financial responsiblities, and right in line with ethical work standards! I don't get this...

  18. Is nursing the best job ever?

    Antikigirl replied to heatherwood's topic in General Nursing

    Here you there! I was working as a sunday school teacher when I decided to go nursing...and particular of interest to me was midwifery! For some odd reason, they knew that I would be leaving their...

  19. Scratching your head in wonder!

    Antikigirl replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    Its funny about banana bags...I have had patients ask me how the urine gets all the way up there against gravity...I teased one that was a pretty funny fellow and said I had it on a pump...LOL, of...

  20. Is nursing the best job ever?

    Antikigirl replied to heatherwood's topic in General Nursing

    I tend to see things a bit differently on the financial side of the choice of nursing as a career…just as many people have their own twists on it to fit into their lives. All are just as valid to...

  21. Scratching your head in wonder!

    Antikigirl replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    I am busting a gut laughing! Oh guys that is just tooooo good! Banana bag!!!! LOL!!!!!! Yeah...infuse one part clear blood with 30cc's of red food coloring to equal one unit of PRBC...easy!...

  22. Continuity of Care vs. Nurse to nurse Report!

    Antikigirl replied to kksmommy's topic in General Nursing

    my unit...which is a med/surge tele..and I float down the hall to tele does things this way...and it seems to work well! We recently switched from scattered 8 and 12 hour shifts to strictly 12 hour...

  23. Is nursing the best job ever?

    Antikigirl replied to heatherwood's topic in General Nursing

    I really believe the answer to that lies within the individual and factor heavily on your own personal goals and character and location location location!!!! For some people this has been a long...

  24. What did you think Nursing was About?

    Antikigirl replied to Justhere's topic in General Nursing

    This is an excellent question, and one I wished I had asked myself or had someone ask me when I signed onto being a nurse. I got a grant to become a nurse after having my child. The midwives and...

  25. Need to vent (over a very petty issue)

    Antikigirl replied to Trophywife81's topic in General Nursing

    I am with the majority here...she wants to be a nurse??? Well what an eye openiner she is going to get! Some people are just like this...and we work and treat them! Best get your reply messages at...