HappyNurse2005

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

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    WHY did she need special one on one monitoring for a pca pump? I don't

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

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I once had the man who molested me as a child as a patient on our unit. I made it very clear that I would not take care of this man. After that, he was not put on my assignment. If he had been, you...

  3. Crushing K-Dur

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    yes, k dur is

  4. Crushing K-Dur

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, it can be put in water and dissolved. I've done that several times and mixed teh crushed bit in applesauce (yeah, not doing it that way for the Jtube pt) Our tube feeders usually get liquid

  5. Overtime-Do you get it for over 8 or over 80?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to nurseob7's topic in General Nursing

    anything over 40 a

  6. Mandatory Holidays????

    HappyNurse2005 replied to gwlillith's topic in General Nursing

    WE get holiday pay for New Years Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. As far as requiring holidays, i think thanksgiving/cmas/new years are the only ones that we are...

  7. Checking HR before Giving Digoxin

    HappyNurse2005 replied to cat2007's topic in General Nursing

    yeah, i hope you're not implying that soemoen looking at the monitor for heart rate doesn't actually ever listen to the pt's heart. It's pretty common sense that we need to listen to the

  8. Checking HR before Giving Digoxin

    HappyNurse2005 replied to cat2007's topic in General Nursing

    We are a tele floor, and for dig (and for beta blockers) I look at the HR on the monitor right after pulling the med and right before going into pt's

  9. Bradley Birth instructor equates nursing with 'maid service'

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Merovingienne's topic in Ob/Gyn

    All that college education, and I'm just a maid? Ha. If thats what she thinks, lets pick up one of the maids from the Holiday Inn to come take care of her in the hospital. You're right, though....

  10. Unapproved abbreviations

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Beary-nice's topic in General Nursing

    All docs order sheets have them written across the bottom Now, the biggie is that if we scan an order to pharmacy, and it has an unapproved abbreviation, they send us a little love note that says they...

  11. a NICE thread about semi private rooms

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    OK, generally I think semi privates suck. But, had a good experience with them today. bed A is non cardiac chest pain, older man. Bed B is man in 40s, needs surgery, no family with him (lives hours...

  12. Need help drawing labs from PICC line

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Thats how I do

  13. how do you introduce yourself to patients?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to panamama's topic in General Nursing

    I am plenty professional, but don't give out my last name unless asked. It is on my badge though. I usually say "my name is xxx, like the flower" (b/c i have a flower name) to kind of give them...

  14. how do you introduce yourself to patients?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to panamama's topic in General Nursing

    ALWAYS say "Hi, I'm HappyNurse, and i'll be your nurse til 7pm tonight." also, i write my name and the CNA's name on the whiteboard, along with today's day/date. (after being in hospital awhile the...

  15. Another "OMG i can't believe you did that!" family member story

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Had a family member come out and talk to me about pt's being in a semiprivate. blah blah blah, generic complaints. roomate is too noisy, too many visitors, talks too loud "maybe they can't hear and...

  16. Medic looking to be a nurse.

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Sparticus391's topic in General Nursing

    Some colleges have paramedic to RN programs, so the RN program is one year instead of two. One in particular that i know of here in virginia does it. heck you could start out in trauma, and transfer...

  17. follow up on the pseudoaneurysm post from yesterday

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Remember I asked about them, b/c I'd never had a pt with one before? Today, said pt was scheduled for the OR at 8am, to get it repaired. upon his assessment this am, the pseudo was slightly larger to...

  18. Incidence of pseudoaneurysm s/p cardiac cath?

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've been a nurse for 1 year now (may '05 grad). Work on a floor that very often has cardiac cath pt's. Had a pt today who had a pseudoaneurysm show up today, 2 days after the cath. I had him...

  19. Incidence of pseudoaneurysm s/p cardiac cath?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    this doc was one of our good ones, a doc for more than 10 years. we are a large hospital, residents everywhere, but not in cardiology (fp, im, ob/gyn, peds, psych, etc but no cards residents) thank...

  20. Another "OMG i can't believe you did that!" family member story

    HappyNurse2005 replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    OK, since I'm the OP, i'll address that. Our unit has 16 privates and 4 semiprivates(8 semi-private beds). The people in semi-privates who want a private are noted on our board as "private #1,...

  21. Patients reading their own charts-yay or nay?

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, had to remove original post. I think someone knew who I was talking about, and thats not kosher, since I was trying to be vague enough not to violate any privacy

  22. Just a vent: why snooker a pt who needs to get up? (and other thoughts)

    HappyNurse2005 posted a topic in General Nursing

    warning-long rambly vent. OK, a few things to vent about today. Had a pt who is post op day 3 from CABG. Per our regular schedule of things, she should be up and walking in the halls, getting a 2view...

  23. need advise

    HappyNurse2005 replied to nancy975b's topic in General Nursing

    Is on call legal? I'm sure it is. Esp if you knew on call was a requirement when you signed up for the job,but you still took the job. im not a legal gal, though, so i dont know the specifics of the...

  24. Just a vent: why snooker a pt who needs to get up? (and other thoughts)

    HappyNurse2005 replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    honestly, it'd be nice if no one got phenergan and they all got zofran prn. i've had phenergan 12.5mg iv once, when in labor. i hated it so bad, i'd rather

  25. Ekg Nightmare, Must B An Easier Way

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Furoffire's topic in General Nursing

    i like this one, especially the last page