HappyNurse2005

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  1. Incetive spirometer 10x q1h (funny story)

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    So, post op pt's are instructed to use their IS 10x q1h WHILE AWAKE to prevent pulmonary comps. Had a 78 year old lady, post op CABG who used her IS q1h all night long. She told me "but they said if...

  2. Med Errors

    HappyNurse2005 replied to UM Review RN's topic in Patient Medications

    well, i learned something new. i didn't know what argatroban

  3. Incetive spirometer 10x q1h (funny story)

    HappyNurse2005 replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    she also gave me lessons on how to keep a marriage alive, including how she would be naked underneath a long coat and flash her husband. and slap him on the butt. all while walking in the

  4. Med Errors

    HappyNurse2005 replied to UM Review RN's topic in Patient Medications

    My almost today: had a little man getting a colonoscopy today. Order said 2liters of go lytely. My first go lytely experience. So the huge jug is in the fridge. I get it out. I ASSUME that it was the...

  5. My "ewwww" story from yesterday

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ewwwww...... Lady had a food bolus stuck in her lower esophagus. Had to have an EGD to have it removed. EWWWWWWWW. just thinking about it. oh, and seeing the egd pictures, too.

  6. My "ewwww" story from yesterday

    HappyNurse2005 replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    its endoscopy. Go down your throat to take a look at

  7. Condition H

    HappyNurse2005 replied to LaNorteBellaRN's topic in General Nursing

    WE have a rapid response team, for pt's ready to code but not quite there. (a nurse called one today for a bradycardic/hypoxic woman) Now, this condition H-does the family call it on their own, or do...

  8. All 3rd shifters

    HappyNurse2005 replied to URO-RN's topic in General Nursing

    night shift ONLY does the blood sugars if they are ordered q6h, which would be at 0600, 1200, 1800, and 2400. otherwise, if ordered achs, htey are done at around 0730 by day

  9. Scope of practice for a LPN in VA

    HappyNurse2005 replied to tatgirl's topic in Virginia Nursing

    I am a RN in Virginia- Can't do blood Can't do some IV push meds-depends on facility/unit, though. Can't do INITIAL admissions assessment, like, on direct

  10. Hello, I'm your nurse today: get off the darned phone!

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I really hate going into someone's room with meds/treatment/assessment and they are on the phone. Ok, well, being on the phone is okay. how about when they continue to talk on the phone, and make no...

  11. Date MD's??

    HappyNurse2005 replied to mindyk04's topic in General Nursing

    yeah, but couldn't that be true about all men? no sense in generalizing doctors. many doctors i know are fine upstanding men, not hte cheating

  12. Are you working the position you want?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know. Right out of school, I did not get hired into the unit(s) i wanted. So i chose this one. I like it. I like it a lot more than I expected I would. I don't hate it at all. Frustrated at...

  13. Hello, I'm your nurse today: get off the darned phone!

    HappyNurse2005 replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    To clarify, I am always perfectly pleasant wiht the patient. I never let on that I'm annoyed with them. I will even stand there and wait a minute, the whole time thinking "get off the darned phone!",...

  14. My really cool, doctor going above and beyond story

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Pt to be d/c'd. Needs lovenox at home, just a few doses. Finds out that her home pharmacy doesn't carry lovenox, adn wont have it until next day. she NEEDS it tonight, though. Plus, she has no money...

  15. precepting a student with a bad reputation.....

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I volunteered to be a mentor to a nursing student for several weeks this summer, as part of a hospital program. I like to teach students. Thought it would be fun to share what i love to do with a...

  16. Reminiscing

    HappyNurse2005 replied to knockandhello's topic in General Nursing

    I do see glass IV bottles-Amio and Integrilin are in glass bottles :) though, by golly, i love my iv pumps. i could count the drips manually if need be, but i'm on a floor with a ton of pumps...

  17. The Older Nurse in the Workplace

    HappyNurse2005 replied to rpv_rn's topic in General Nursing

    on my floor we have a few nurses over 50, and even one who is in her 70s. and does 12 hour

  18. comments about patient's w/ IV's?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to johnson0424's topic in Medical-Surgical

    really? i've always been told/always used a 20g for

  19. Freaking out over wound vac

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen a few wound vacs in my day (ok, in my year) and the dressings are complicated. One was an infected sternal incision wound(post open heart surgery), right between her breasts, and that sure...

  20. 4 hour shifts

    HappyNurse2005 replied to MoriahRoseRN's topic in General Nursing

    Like others, on my floor, there are often 4 hour gaps. usually from 3p-7p or 7p to 11p, b/c of the unequal number of 8 hr and 12 h shifts lining up. on teh other hand, one other floor that i know of...

  21. Violent Sex Offender on our unit (long)...

    HappyNurse2005 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    originally posted by lpn,rnnow i think that you need to remember he did his time. he may be at greater risk to be a repeat offender, so take precautions, but placing a security guard there would be an...

  22. So frustrated...co-worker stealing drugs.

    HappyNurse2005 replied to ND76's topic in General Nursing

    ps- this is why i LOVE the pyxis. must use a fingerprint along with correct user

  23. So frustrated...co-worker stealing drugs.

    HappyNurse2005 replied to ND76's topic in General Nursing

    Really? how dumb/desperate. did she not think that someone would KNOW you aren't at work that shift? that its not even your regular shift?

  24. A Purple Face

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in General Nursing

    could it be argyria? here's another pic of it its from overdose of silver nitrates. i had a pt who had this, he was as blue/grey as a dead smurf. everywhere. it was freaky! he got it from eyedrops...

  25. Have You Ever Refused To Accept Report on a Patient?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    i was quite young-now i'm not, he was in jail for several years. i have no idea when he got