HappyNurse2005

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  1. My first emergency...

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Adam D. RN2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

    um, i know that c/s must mean blood sugar, but what are you using c/s to stand for? capillary sugar? i've never seen that

  2. My first emergency...

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Adam D. RN2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

    yikes! that explains

  3. I keep getting sick!

    HappyNurse2005 replied to NessaNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Talk to your manager. you could wear a mask/gloves in pt rooms if you are

  4. LPN vs RN

    HappyNurse2005 replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    i also workin virginia, but lpn's cannot hang blood. my unit has one lpn and she just said the other day that she can't hang blood, but she can do everything else to the blood except hook it up and...

  5. Please post your report/cheat sheet aka "brain"

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Nickle's topic in General Nursing

    The sheet i mentioned is one i made myself, after doing what poster after me above said. I looked at how others did it, saw the requirements of my unit (all on telemetry, so have to have a rhythm box,...

  6. Please post your report/cheat sheet aka "brain"

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Nickle's topic in General Nursing

    I can't post mine here, but i can tell you what it includes. across the top i have From: (what nurse i am getting report from) and To: (nurse i'm giving report to) and then NA: THis is done in a box...

  7. LPN vs RN

    HappyNurse2005 replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    Here, also, LPN's cannot hang

  8. Code Blue!

    HappyNurse2005 replied to vegnurse21's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    First thing would be to assess the pt-are they breathing/have a pulse/responsive? then scream for

  9. My first emergency...

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Adam D. RN2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

    what was the pre-dinner blood sugar? did they eat dinner? congrats on handling it all so well

  10. Unit secretaries...do you have them where you work?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to SoulShine75's topic in General Nursing

    we have clinical secretaries who are cross trained as monitor tech's. They are not cutting back, in fact, they had just hired another (who did quit, but thats another

  11. Doctors telephone orders???

    HappyNurse2005 replied to danursern's topic in General Nursing

    we do it like this: 9-12-05 1700 Ultram 50mg PO q6h PRN for pain VO Dr. Dingbat/RB J. Doe, RN the VO being verbal order (duh) which goes for face to face verbal order or over the phone, then RB is...

  12. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

    HappyNurse2005 replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    I thought of this thread when a Coumadin and Ultram I was taking to a pt went flying across the floor, and I went back to get more.

  13. Nurses pulling CTs?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to RN12345656's topic in Cardiac

    I am also a cardiac surgery step down nurse in virginia, same as you heartnurseinva, but not at sentara. im in a big cardiac surgery hospital in southwestern va. Our cardiac surgery stepdown nurses...

  14. My bp is 160/120, go to the ER?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Chad_KY_SRNA's topic in General Nursing

    glad you got that taken care of. what labs did they do? cardiac enzymes? do you have a follow up to keep an eye on your

  15. Question about restless leg syndrome

    HappyNurse2005 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    nah, not really. a tic is involuntary movement. this is voluntary movement. you are deciding on your own to move your legs. of course, you are moving them b/c your legs feel so...

  16. Question about restless leg syndrome

    HappyNurse2005 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    lol, me

  17. Question about restless leg syndrome

    HappyNurse2005 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    i've had it only in late pg, all 3 times. horrid. It would only happen when i laid down to bed. I just had this urge to get up and move my legs. if i tried to ignore it, it got worse and worse until...

  18. How much did you make as a new grad?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to SerenityR.N.'s topic in General Nursing

    17.05 base, 3.00 more nights, 4.00 more for the weekend (not just nights, but all weekend). new rn w/ no health care

  19. off unit telemetry monitoring

    HappyNurse2005 replied to tchs's topic in General Nursing

    It seems to me it'd be a pain in the toosh to have the monitors elsewhere. Our monitors are right at the nurse's station, and on days, there is a dedicated monitor tech, and on nights, one person is...

  20. nurse-patient ratio

    HappyNurse2005 replied to dawn1rhino's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I work on a cardiac surgery PCU, 7a-7p shift. HAVING 4 pt's is the usual thing, occasionally will have only 3 or have 5. Of course, that is at once. When you have discharges, then admits, it adds up....

  21. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

    HappyNurse2005 replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    All of our meds are in the pyxis, thank goodness. If the pt has an odd med not stocked in pyxis normally, pharmacy puts it in "pt's own bin", accessable only by pyxis. 4 hours is insane to

  22. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

    HappyNurse2005 replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    I've dropped them and had pt's offer to still take them. i'm like, no, no, i'll get you another

  23. Coronary Artery Bypass Graft priority nursing care?

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Animaniacs's topic in General Nursing

    Well, being in a cardiac surgery PCU, i see the CABG pt's after they come from ICU. 24 hours after surgery is a long time to still be on the vent. Usually they are off the vent and in PCU the next...

  24. Large vs. Small vs. Teaching Hospitals

    HappyNurse2005 replied to jesshopper12's topic in General Nursing

    This would also depend on what you qualify as "small" "mid sized" and "large". plus, teaching hospital wasn't a choice. I currently work at a teaching hospital, that i would guess is midsized? It is...

  25. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

    HappyNurse2005 replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    LOL, I may be new, so I haven't had too many experiences with ED nurses (ours often come thru admissions unit, since im day shift-unless they have active chest pain, or from ICU, CCU, etc. In fact,...