Wrench Party

Wrench Party

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  1. ixchel's 3/7/16 What Have I Learned This Week, with A Lil' Help From My Friends!

    Wrench Party replied to Farawyn's topic in General Nursing

    1) You end up being the primary source of comfort to a formerly totally healthy patient when they find out they have cancer, and it makes the rest of your night . 2) Day shift needs to stop throwing...

  2. made MD angry, and resources on unit

    Wrench Party replied to keepingalive's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree, your charge nurse is special. You may not have had all the info, but you were correct to escalate the situation. Random thought: even if there is excessive bleeding after a D and C, you're...

  3. Do you go to work with parabens on you?

    Wrench Party replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    This.

  4. Musicians, Artist career changers?

    Wrench Party replied to Elsa15's topic in General Nursing

    I absolutely despise this idea that our identities are our careers. That crap got fed to us again with the rise of the New Tech/Apple cult in the past few decades, and it's infected the whole...

  5. C-Diff Isolation

    Wrench Party replied to RexRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Gown and glove for sure, wash hands after leave the room, bleach wipes/burn/destroy anything that comes out of said room. Use an iso stethoscope, own set of items for VS. Came back after a few days...

  6. Dialysis Subclavian line antibiotics.

    Wrench Party replied to ArvinC EMT's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    At both my facilities, we don't touch dialysis catheters AT ALL except make sure the dressing is intact. If the patient doesn't have a central line, that's when you discuss with the team to get one,...

  7. How in this world do you ever get 1 year experience?

    Wrench Party replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    If you have your BSN and experience, my neck of the woods would kill for you in both our big and smaller rural hospitals (Triad, Triangle

  8. Dress Codes for School

    Wrench Party replied to kidzcare's topic in School

    I don't remember this being a problem for me in high school (late 90s). Everyone was into oversized clothing so we must have missed the opportunity to dress like hookers. Or we had the common sense to...

  9. Do you disclose AN to coworkers

    Wrench Party replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    By happenstance, one other former coworker knows I'm on here. Maybe one of my old bosses is; but once I learned that I was like "Allnurses, what's that?" and never mentioned it again. We can never be...

  10. Wording for Resigning

    Wrench Party replied to missmaddie's topic in General Nursing

    Resigning is like calling out. You don't have to give a reason, you state the action you are taking and you do it. When I resigned from my first nursing job, I wrote something like, "effective...

  11. Complaints only, please!

    Wrench Party replied to ixchel's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Kaly, do we work on the same unit, even down to the respiratory virus?? I feel like our senior staff is leaving for more advanced positions and I'm like Oh S---, we're screwed. The only thing saving...

  12. Should I leave this racist town?

    Wrench Party replied to ChutneyFries's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ignorant people are infuriating to deal with, especially as patients. I had a demented patient that the offgoing nurse could not describe as such in report. I was like "you mean he's clearly a...

  13. Solutions for Drinks at Nursing Station?

    Wrench Party replied to ImNicoEh's topic in General Nursing

    Either place I work, TPTB generally don't care unless it's TJC or State time. I will pour my soft drinks into a closed container with a straw, and we are pretty good about closed containers. I will...

  14. 6th nursing job in 4 years?

    Wrench Party replied to rjstrickland23's topic in General Nursing

    I think you need to address your anxiety and park your butt in one position for a few years and log some time on your resume. You can always re-apply for those other positions in the

  15. 0200 BP's - Dealing with Tired Rude Doctors

    Wrench Party replied to Jennifer in Cali's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work cardiothoracic/cardiac stepdown at 2 different places, and the smart docs have thought out these scenarios in their PRN orders. The not-so-smart ones figure it out pretty quickly. Nothing...

  16. I harmed my first patient today.

    Wrench Party replied to starwarrior's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The patient will be fine. I see some blood at the end of my Foley pulls occasionally, and I do everything by the book (deflate the balloon, let it float out a little bit, pull it out when the patient...

  17. Paradoxical reaction to Benadryl?

    Wrench Party replied to Infofreak411's topic in Patient Medications

    Benadryl and Allegra have their desired effects on me- Claritin made me crazy and hyperactive as a git for the few months I was on it. I could not focus AT ALL, could not remember anything, etcl....

  18. When a pt "gets" to you

    Wrench Party replied to mmc51264's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I usually announce my game plan for the evening/day- "I'll be back to check on you in around ___, I'm going to see my other patients". Lets patients know they don't exist in a nursing vacuum. If we...

  19. Wrong decision to enter critical care

    Wrench Party replied to TKOmurse's topic in Critical Care

    You're going to make it through all this stress, and I hope you look back on this post in a year's time and are able to

  20. Is LinkedIn Necessary?

    Wrench Party replied to bete-noire's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly, I haven't seen it help nursing much in my area. Hospitals and agencies have their pick of nurses, so we go to them, they don't come to you. That being said, LinkedIn seems to be very...

  21. Obesity; The "Second Hand Smoke" of Modern American Society

    Wrench Party replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    Love this article! I think it's all interconnected honestly...we don't make it a priority currently in our health care system, so it's not. When I get tired of the hospital, I'll probably go to...

  22. Graduated in 2011; Passed NCLEX 2015 - Can I still find a nursing job, or is it too late?

    Wrench Party replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Just be honest. Your preceptor is going to have an idea of your experience, and where they need to start in training you. HTTs are like riding a bicycle: they become second nature after

  23. Describe your ideal coworker

    Wrench Party replied to AbigailJo's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Friendly but not overly talkative, chill in stressful situations, humble, team player. Leaves me the %$@! alone when I'm charting and trying to remember all the little

  24. Nursing speciality for someone that hates people

    Wrench Party replied to Gogol's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'd get an IT or computer science degree first, work in the healthcare field, then pursue nursing or medicine later if you still like what you see. It's stressful, it gets kinda crazy, but also...

  25. Working 12s and having a dog/puppy

    Wrench Party replied to NICUnurse91's topic in First Year After Licensure

    10 hours is the limit I let my dogs go without going outside. 14 hours is really too long for a young dog, so I'd hire a dog walker or a petsitter. There has to be reliable college students in your...