NO50FRANNY

NO50FRANNY

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  1. Family Members and their pearls of wisdom...

    NO50FRANNY replied to R!XTER's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yeah, I love this one too especially at triage. Pt. to paramedics: "If she puts me in the waiting room I'm going to leave". Paramedics: "Where would you like us to place the patient?". Me: "Have...

  2. Family Members and their pearls of wisdom...

    NO50FRANNY replied to R!XTER's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "My mother/father/sister/boyfriend/girlfriend has been RUSHED here in an ambulance!" In my head, "no they haven't". To the visitor, "what is their name?". They then look quizzically at me and get...

  3. Fainting... so dramatic

    NO50FRANNY replied to Double-Helix's topic in General Nursing

    I have actually shared this one before, I'm a fainter and it is always dramatic. My favourite was when I walked a ninety year old couple out to the very busy taxi rank in front of our ED. While...

  4. What was the longest code you have been in?

    NO50FRANNY replied to turnforthenurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    PEA arrest on a thirty year old with multiple PE's for an hour and a half. She was in acute as a medical patient (there were no beds in the wards) and had a hypoxic event while on the toilet. I...

  5. Head Injury and Hyperventilation

    NO50FRANNY replied to NO50FRANNY's topic in Critical Care

    Hi there, most of the recent observational / clinical research shows that we shouldn't hyperventilate in cases of TBI for the reasons outlined by Esme12. The theoretical benefits described are the...

  6. "No nurses of color....."

    NO50FRANNY replied to Queen2u's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Does this mean I have, on more than one occasion, violated a female HIPPO??? Oh

  7. "No nurses of color....."

    NO50FRANNY replied to Queen2u's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am trying to figure out the best way to explain the policies in our (public) hospital that govern situations where a patient attempts to dictate care in any form. You are right, those were examples...

  8. "No nurses of color....."

    NO50FRANNY replied to Queen2u's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ok, I'll bite. My hospital does, and it is not illegal, and they do not have the right to say what they want in our department. Certain standards of behaviour are acceptable and others are not. We...

  9. First peds code

    NO50FRANNY replied to brainkandy87's topic in Emergency

    Visceral is a perfect word to describe how I feel when we care for a critically ill child. Similarly we are an adults ED so we see very few children, let alone really sick ones. Last week, parents...

  10. Please Help me decide

    NO50FRANNY replied to amzyRN's topic in Nursing Career

    Definately Emergency, you will be amazed how much there is to learn. Rural positions offer the opportunity to practise without the backup of monstrous tertiary technology, the art of assessment and...

  11. Do you have to be tough to work in ED?

    NO50FRANNY replied to nurse_k29's topic in Emergency

    I don't necessarily think you need to be tough to work in the Emergency department, but you have to have the capacity to develop a healthy backbone, and know when to stick up for yourself or your pt.,...

  12. "No nurses of color....."

    NO50FRANNY replied to Queen2u's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This is why zero tolerance is so fabulous. If the patient makes their prejudices known, they are asked to leave, no ifs, buts or maybes. Racism is a fundamental problem of ignorance and social...

  13. common situations encountered in emergency room

    NO50FRANNY replied to vintageRXL's topic in Emergency

    As other posters have said, you should invest in either a pocket resource or text to get the information that you need as there is far too much information to impart here. But I think that most...

  14. Nurse/Patient ratio in the ED?

    NO50FRANNY replied to jlan79's topic in Emergency

    Walking wounded = up to 20 Acute = 4:1 Resus = All in brawl, 5 nurses for two trauma rooms and 7 resus bays, extras pulled from non-emergent areas if the you know what hits the

  15. Nurses are the real heroes ?

    NO50FRANNY replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    "SAFETY?" Tell that to the triage nurse who was stabbed 12 times by a patient who jumped off an ambulance stretcher, chased her into the waiting room and wrestled her to the floor. It's compelling to...

  16. Nurses make easy scapegoats when it comes to finding someone to blame for mistakes

    NO50FRANNY replied to DichloroacetateAl's topic in General Nursing

    That, was a very sad story. I pride myself on safe administration of medication and have my own little system that I've developed over the years. To my knowledge, up until a couple of months ago, I...

  17. "No nurses of color....."

    NO50FRANNY replied to Queen2u's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Two words. GET OUT. We have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to this kind of behaviour. Any patient that vocalises this sort of rubbish is refused care. Oooh my blood is at boiling point...

  18. Vent: "I should warn you, I'm a tough stick..."

    NO50FRANNY replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    I was with a haematology patient on my last night shift and simply had to write this. Sometimes I get access on people and almost want to jump up and down and scream yay! when I get their line in...

  19. Stupid things that nurses say

    NO50FRANNY replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Didn't say it but wrote it. Pt. with tonsilitis, I have a look down her throat, lots of pus, very sore. Write the story and get some aspirin for her to gargle. A few minutes later the resident...

  20. DNR- Do Not Treat?

    NO50FRANNY replied to GinaCat's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Under the circumstances I don't think I would have done anything differently. You said that the family wanted everything done for her at least until the next day as they were still coming to terms...

  21. Your thoughts on being "written up".

    NO50FRANNY replied to RNSuzq1's topic in General Nursing

    I think I need to give my boss a great big cuddle tomorrow. I am gobsmacked that anybody could work under the kind of conditions described in some of the posts in this thread. Not all workplaces...

  22. Why do mean/crabby people become nurses??

    NO50FRANNY replied to R!XTER's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I suspect trolling for that particular post, managed to spell compassionate correctly and use words like demean but can't construct a sentence?. The mistakes were a little bit "accidentally on...

  23. Nursing in California - Aussie Nurse - Process

    NO50FRANNY replied to Celestial2311's topic in Nurse Registration

    Thankyou so much for this information, much much appreciated. I will start looking into this myself as the process of organising my own clinical placement is a nightmare. I feel a bit silly now but...

  24. If you could post your own...

    NO50FRANNY replied to Daisy_08's topic in General Nursing

    I have to say this in all sincerity. It is pretty simple. If you abuse, spit, attack, hit, maul, harrass or insult any of the people that are trying to care for you, or your loved ones in the absence...

  25. If you could post your own...

    NO50FRANNY replied to Daisy_08's topic in General Nursing

    I tell my patients (due to severe pillow shortage in ED) point blank, our rule is that if you are under 30 you do not need a pillow. I will walk all over the hospital to find one if necessary, but it...