Antikigirl ASN, RN

It is that time of year again guys...so on to this years installment of Triages Christmas songs by yours truly! LOL!!!!!! This one is to the theme of Frosty the Snowman! Triage the Nursie Has to work on Christmas eve. With her stethascope and a lot o...

So it seems David Lee Roth, formally the lead singer from Van Halen (when they were great by the way...little personal bias there..LOL!) is going to school to become a paramedic! And I couldn't help but come up with some funny things to say about tha...

Oh my...last night was a toughie at my job. See I just became an agency nurse and trying to find my bearings on returning to hospital...lets say it is a re-learning experience big time, but all and I am really enjoying it! (it was just one of those n...

i thought this may be a fun question...if you could (rn's), would you do a ride along with paramedics at least once in your career? why or why not? and paramedics...would you want a rn to do a ride along? why or why not? i have seen so much separat...

I work in an assisted living facility where caregivers do all direct care and meds...there is only one nurse per shift on the floor of 160 residents. So normally when I find a skin issue beyond what the caregivers or that one nurse can do, we call in...

So it was kinda a wacky fun day at the med surge area yesterday...and there was this article in our newspaper about a man who put in like 12 long nails by nail gun in his head...then later on (like weeks) came into an ER with complaints of constant h...

So, I am crazy..LOL! My hubby, who is a paramedic, and I (I am a floor nurse at an assisted living...one nurse per shift for all 160 patients!) take ACLS together every two years...kind of like a 'date' so we can work together and see the differences...

I don't know if this will help, but in my hospital we have a nurses union and they have forms to fill out when we have unsafe patient ratios. They don't take long to fill out, and go directly to the Union that goes over them and sends them back to t...

A patient has the rights to many things...smoking included! HOWEVER, that does not give the patient full run of employees to take them out or help with this endevor! I mean, would you take that diabetic patient with high blood pressure and choleste...

So here I was running my tailfeathers off the other night! One, I was part of the code team, and had to run to the ER to assist with a code...code save :). Then a nurse who has never done an NG tube needed someone to do it...I was the only one that...

I so understood Earls statment...only because I see what Earl is saying....no not verbatum as servant...but, sorry guys and gals...we are to a higher level then what we interpret as 'servants'. No heck no we don't get physically beat now a days (or ...

LOL...I will repeat....gut with the best fat tissue! LOL! And man I am a heparin givers best friend! LOL!!!!!!!!! (gut meaning abdomen for you newbies that don't get old school speak! LOL). WIth hep...fast hard done....and for those using most of t...

Oh yeah, I also call MD's by their professional title not just out of habit, but out of professional respect. It seems natural to me, and the times I have called them their first name, by accident, it was typically a friendly 'because I know you" de...

OMG! I just did an experiment for three weeks so far on having patients and other staff call me 'nurse' and by my last name! I have been treated more professionally by patients, and since I am not on a first name basis with patients...they don't loa...

This question couldn't have come at a better time for me, and thank you so much Pax Ramona for that link! The situation is, I work in a medium sized rural hospital that has a huge patient base due to sudden expantion and people moving in. Our hospit...

Okay, well I have been a nurse for almost 9 years now, and for those that know me here...I have a very down to earth style and use common sense mixed with old nursing style to get the job done. After years of getting compliments and positive responc...

awesome babe! Yes, play it by ear...but do make sure you documented your findings...that is all you need because...in the law, anything reported by a average nurse as part of clincial findings is just..and hi ya, we all said we would so you are good....

LOL darlin...the first thing I thought from your last post..."at least someone was!"...LOL! Hey sweety...can you do me a favor and read my post on WORRIED, preceptee. You could really help me out! THANKS!!!!!!!

It was very awesome yesterday! I had a preceptee for my first time (just for the day because her preceptor was low censused) and a DOC actually brought up honestly to this wonderful SN that...(Oh please check out post on preceptee...I need help!) "Th...

Thank you so much...got a tear there honestly! I teach that you may organize different because your brain is unique! I teach my skills because I write everything down, and finally learned to do it after about 5 years in something that someone could a...

If someone dared to leave me weight loss advice, oh man...I will not going into my personal and professional implemenations on letting them know that was less than compassionate or HUMAN! And believe me, they would be feeling WORSE then they left me ...

Okay I am going to be brutially honest here...I do not necessarily appreciate the Administrative nurse that hasn't gone "into the trenches" as they say (in other words...worked in the arena they are overlooking and making choices for). I feel that i...

I would love to be a SN teacher! But not going to get my masters so kinda blocked there...LOL! I didn't have very many if at all...good teachers, so I learned on my own. So I teach how I learned. I took a situation that was not proactive and told ...

Multitasking Chaos Effectively! or if you read one of my grimmer posts from a bad day... Sympathetic Prostitution of Compassion (seasoned nurses will think and get that one) LOL!

AWESOME!!!!!!! You have insight into yourself and the honor it really is to be there and holding a hand at the end! Good for you!!!!!! I tell students to understand their own feelings of death and dying so that they may help others in a way that wi...