crazyearrings

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1. A Sign of the Times? We're hiring!

   crazyearrings replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

   The hospital I just QUIT is hiring new grads but won't let experienced nurses (10+ years) transfer in. It's not just me. I know of two other people with experience trying to get a position in the newly built children's hospital connected to our hos...

2. pediatric sedation - moderate vs anesthesia

   crazyearrings posted a topic in Gastroenterology

   We're currently having a debate at work about pediatric patients under the age of 8. The nurses feel that general anesthesia is the kindest, safest way to go with young children. Two of the docs are resistant to this. We recently had a bad experie...

3. Anyone want to share why nursing has been a POSITIVE career choice for you?

   crazyearrings replied to secondfiddle's topic in General Nursing

   I agree with all the posters that said - we love nursing, it's just the politics we hate. I used to tell my husband, "I love my job, I just hate where I work." For example, the powers-that-be have decided everyone in the hospital will start wearing ...

4. Snow emergency excuse?

   crazyearrings replied to BeenThereDoneThat74's topic in General Nursing

   Has anyone else noticed that? The year I lived in Indiana, we had blizzards 3 out of 4 weekends one January. Every Friday, the grocery stores were emptied as people prepared for spending a weekend stranded inside (my pre-nursing days). I live in O...

5. When do you call off work?

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

   I'm one of those who call in once a year or less. But if I feel sick, like I don't think I'll be able to function for the next 12 hours, I call in and don't feel the least bit guilty for it. We are allowed 6 call-ins a year (used to be 8), but I co...

6. A message to new grads: NEVER....

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

   Never dismiss a parent who says their child is not acting right. Always trust the opinion of a parent (unless you can prove it wrong), especially for a chronic patient. Along the same line, never let a physician/charge nurse dismiss your gut feeling ...

7. Thumb sucking adults

   crazyearrings replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

   When my daughter was in 2nd grade, she had a friend who sucked her thumb - okay, so far not so unusual. In third grade, my daughter started having problems in school. In September, her teacher told my husband that my daughter would fail third grade...

8. What does your spouse do?

   crazyearrings replied to vaughanmk's topic in General Nursing

   Meat cutter for Golden Corral (all-you can eat buffet type restaurant), but has only one semester left in rad tech school. He already has an ECB student tech position at the same hospital I work at. We are never here the same shift, so someone is a...

9. why no tylenol before blood cultures drawn?

   crazyearrings replied to nursenatalie's topic in General Nursing

   If you don't mind one more opinion on the topic: I work peds hem/onc, and our practice is this. When a patient comes in with fever, we draw lab immediately and give the Tylenol almost simultaneously (most of our patients have lines, so we aren't wai...

10. Remembering patients who die (how?)Nursing grief issue

    crazyearrings replied to Ladybug45RN's topic in Pediatric

    Just this year, we separated from the rest of peds. So now we have a floor for peds surgery/cardiology/oncology. Peds oncology takes the back half of the floor. I made two quilts to decorate the walls. One of them has the name of every child that...

11. Couldn't tell who was a doctor or nurse!

    crazyearrings replied to smk1's topic in General Nursing

    Football players? You put football players in the same category as other life-saving professions? Oh, you're talking about the uniform. Well, pay me a couple hundred thousand a year and I will wear a uniform. Until then, you'll have to rely on my...

12. "unbelievable" lab results

    crazyearrings replied to crazyearrings's topic in Pediatric

    We're a "chi;dren's hospital within a hospital." We have an active Peds hem/onc service. I believe there are only two peds oncology centers in my state, and I work at one of them. I do agree it is better to re-draw than to treat based on a false l...

13. "unbelievable" lab results

    crazyearrings posted a topic in Pediatric

    I once had an oncology patient admitted for bloody stools. I have known this particular patient for about a year. When I saw him that night, I immediately drew a CBC & type & screen on him - he was the color of vanilla ice cream. He had a ...

14. The patients you will never forget

    crazyearrings replied to alisunshine9's topic in General Nursing

    A lovely 15 yr old girl with AML. When she started to lose her hair from chemo, her friends were supposed to all get their hair cut with her. Her stepdad showed up with the clippers and her friends did not show up. I got my hair cut with her (1/4 ...

15. A reminder to ALWAYS listen to your patients.

    crazyearrings replied to VizslaMom's topic in General Nursing

    The day before my mom died in 1992, she was calling out for her daddy who died in 1965. My mom did that, too. My aunt spent the night with her in the hospital, but had to leave at 6:00 a.m. to take my uncle to work. At 6:15, we got a phone call f...