Trauma-tizedRN

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  1. I'm starting to hate ICU nurses

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Mayflye's topic in MICU, SICU

    I say print your post and responses...then leave them around somwhere on the unit so these bit**y nurses can get an earful....lot of seasoned ICU nurses backing you up here....let them think about...

  2. av pacing in afib?

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to graciev's topic in MICU, SICU

    Ditto your

  3. nursingCare in postOP patient >>CABG<< (CSICU)

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to nurse_kambiz's topic in MICU, SICU

    Do you work in the

  4. AJN Article Opinions.. "I'm No Angel"

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    There are the neurotic OVER carers, the completely selfless...there are the non-carers and completely selfish. I am neither. I strive for a happy medium between those continuums. And I recognize...

  5. AJN Article Opinions.. "I'm No Angel"

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Your ALL or NONE analytical approach here is militant and

  6. AJN Article Opinions.. "I'm No Angel"

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    You are WAY out of line here to say that my definition of a professional nurse is one that is selfish and devoid of caring or kindness. I am completely insulted by your lack of good judgement and...

  7. Filling Pressures

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to CRNAsoon's topic in MICU, SICU

    PCWP (wedge pressure) measures the underlying LVEDP ie: left ventric filling

  8. And Now.....What Do You LIKE to Do At Work?

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    I love recovering CABG's....fast paced and exciting....IV starts, ABG's, cardiac outputs.......why can't management just stay outta my way and let me enjoy the job?....it's a shame what ya have to put...

  9. AJN Article Opinions.. "I'm No Angel"

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    If there is no NurseAngel stereotype.....then why all the nurse merchandise available with angel related rhetoric attached? Pins, coffee mugs, socks, greeting cards....yada yada....Look in any scrub...

  10. SHAVING & WAXING

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to barkley's topic in Ob/Gyn

    OMG this thread is

  11. Futile Care. Dead is dead.

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    The down and dirty truth. Wish we could make a pamphlet of your posting to hand out in ICU. Sometimes, when it gets beyond ridiculous, ya just gotta tell it like it

  12. AJN Article Opinions.. "I'm No Angel"

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hence, the "Angel

  13. AJN Article Opinions.. "I'm No Angel"

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    it's an interesting co-morbidity i believe....another characteristic is they like to portray the self-less, caring, giver giver giver..........just like the old world nurse was valued...

  14. AJN Article Opinions.. "I'm No Angel"

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps you just have a skewed, microcosmic view and are missing the whole picture. I have worked as a traveler for some time now and have been in many settings......funny thing...I can spot em within...

  15. AJN Article Opinions.. "I'm No Angel"

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Does THIS sound familiar? Co-workers with their head up mgmt's butt....run to them and tell all for brownie points....always suggesting new things to do or different ways to do...gotta be the star ya...

  16. AJN Article Opinions.. "I'm No Angel"

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    YOU must work in a really strange place....i've been working ICU/CCU/ER and stepdown for the past 18 years...and there's a handful of these self-serving angelic traumadrama queens in every...

  17. Futile Care. Dead is dead.

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've been in healthcare for over 20 years (CNA..LPN...then RN for the last 17) And patients have ALWAYS had no code rights, as well as family wishes if patient unable to say. I don't know what to...

  18. What do you HATE to do at work?

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to mickeymouse1205's topic in General Nursing

    Gotta love it when they poo, pee, and vigorously wipe with 2 whole squares of toilet paper...then they reach up and grab ya (with the same hand) to get up from the toilet......oh that pi$$es me off!...

  19. Futile Care. Dead is dead.

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    101 knowledge there.... (in response to previous posting by LPN to RN) no one is "annoyed", no one is being insensitive to family struggles, we as nurses DO understand grieving in relation to death...

  20. What do you HATE to do at work?

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to mickeymouse1205's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmmm...now I am not familiar with "metrics"...can't wait to find out LOL...still trying to stomach "client service lines"........I hear we are changing our hospital name too...from General Hospital...

  21. Nurses leaving in droves...

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Probably an admin ploy to sweeten up the nurses image.....to tie us back to old Flo for increased pt. satisfaction reports (as it turns out, like usual, poorer nurse satisfaction reported) It would be...

  22. What do you HATE to do at work?

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to mickeymouse1205's topic in General Nursing

    Amen. Do ya think we don't know by now that the dirty linen isn't getting emptied consistently? What part of too busy don't you grasp?....Maybe if I talk S-L-O-W-E-R...............besides, I...

  23. Futile Care. Dead is dead.

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, way more common in dying and vegetative situations but I have seen this with actual brain death situations on rare occasion. Docs don't have to treat dead people, and yes they can pull the plug...

  24. Futile Care. Dead is dead.

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think all the docs are wimpy either..like I said, various reasons...but, when you have a pt. that has been clinically dead for several days, still on the vent, maxed on pressors, labs, various...

  25. What do you HATE to do at work?

    Trauma-tizedRN replied to mickeymouse1205's topic in General Nursing

    Post mortem care....not usually a big deal for me, but having worked nocs before, i have on occasion helped wheel em to the morgue. Now that I HATE. Especially when the tech throws open the cooler...