curleysue

I am looking for advise to keep my magnesium pills down. I have had hypomagnesiumia for 2 years now and have been to see a nephrologist who said my kidneys are excreeding the mag too fast causeing me to be too low. When I am low my muscles burn, twit...

Hey All- I just found out about these awsome shoes called MBT that can almost guarentee to tone your muscles in your feet, ankles, hamstrings, thigh, butt, stomach and back. I went to a home show we had in our town and there was this exhibit about th...

I went to Linfield McMinnville campus for 2 years and then to the Portland Nursing campus for 1 year until I got sick with meningitis but anyways, yes its super expensive, I owe like $30K and I still have 1 year left of my BSN. And that is with grant...

since october 2004 my cbc labs have been dropping significantly. my labs are as follows: type date results reference range hemaglobin 10/04 11.3 12.4-15.7 ...

You must live really close to Mt. Saint Helens. I am from Eastern Oregon so I don't feel it. I heard on the news channel today that the USGS service is thinking with the increase in magnitude and activity of earthquakes, the mountain might have anoth...

Wow, no replies yet. There are a lot of nurses on this forum who would probably know a lot more than me but I felt bad that no one had responded yet. For nursing school I used dansko clogs which were awsome, I was just uncordinated and tripped in the...

Hey all you Home health nurses and aides- Just wondered about a few question regarding my own health. Currently and over the last year and a half I have had severe hypomagnesiumia. I require two 5 hour infusions of mag sulphate just to survive. As of...

Spaniel-- You welcome for the post. Actually I think propofol is an excellent drug to use for scope procedures cause it has a short half life and patients who are on a lot of pain meds for chronic pain are usually tolerant to versed or other drugs gi...

Hi all- I just had a colonoscopy and endoscopy yesterday due to my hemoglobin and hematocrit falling rapidly for reasons that we don't know. So my doc said he wanted to find out if I was bleeding from an ulcer or other spots in my GI tract. Because o...

RJFLYN- Thanks for the reply. Yes its a tough case. Since I was 18 I have been so sick with meningitis twice, DVT's 4 times, PE's bilateral 2 times, oxygen therapy for 2 years, 8 surgeries, polycystic ovaries, multiple pnemonia and pnemothorax's. Its...

Thanks for all the wonderful information. I am definetly not using this site to be diagnosed I just thought I would get some input on other medical professionals. Hundreds of heads together is better than one! To answer some questions: No I do not ta...

I can't report all the stuff I do cause she already told me that they are not paying me for all those extra stuff that is not on my job description list. I know I will lose my job cause my supervisor is going out for a visit to her house to actually ...

Hairstylingnurse- Sometimes I do feel like I am doing way too much housework and not enough nursing care! Both of my clients manipulate me, and I take it cause I cannot afford to loose my job. Today I got into an arguement with my client cause she wa...

I live near Portland, OR and saw the mountain burp at about 5:30pm when it spit out a bunch of ash and smoke. It was an awsome site. I was just excited for lava flow!! Curleysue

Future nurse- I know how frustrating it is waiting for your doc to call and at five till five you call again saying, "Now what am I supposed to do?" I have a doc like this right now who has denied me my twice a week magnesium infusion till he can see...

Its kinda hard to learn the difference between drug seekers and the real pain cause as a nurse its hard in some cases cause sometimes you just cannot figure out which patients are just abusing the system to get their 'high'. I know a lot of nurses ha...

And plus the sad thing is, the assisted living facilty that I worked at who's RN was hardly there, she trusted the MA's to fill out the MAR sheets on their own even with new meds and all that. We had one of the med aides who was actually working as t...

Hey it looks like the majority of y'all hate the thought of med aides. I guess they are legal in OR cause I have worked as one at an assisted living facility. It was scary though a lot of the med aides had no previous medication or nursing educaiton....

I think that is a good idea. When a frequent flyer does come in why doesn't the nurse take a minute to sit down with them and tell them straight up that this behavior has been recognized and it not acceptable and to let them know the exact thing Futu...

I just had to share... I just received news today that the appeal to Blue Cross for terminating my insurance due to medical necessity was overturned today! I get my insurance back! I am so excited. This means I don't have to pay anything out of pocke...

I know exactely what your are talking about. That is SO TRUE! Its hard to work day shift as both a nurse and CNA. As a nurse you have doctors rounding and new orders to deal with, plus getting them their AM and NOON meds, making sure they are off to ...

I remember working at a big uniersity hospital ER as a tech and having a homeless man who was a frequent flyer who would come in everyother day or everyday almost complaining of chest pain just so he could get a warm bed to sleep in and a hot meal. H...

I am still reading through all these posts and like I said before, its definetely teaching me A LOT about how crucial it is to recheck med orders and all the medication steps over and over. Wow. This is an excellent thread. Honestly. Anyways, I wonde...

These posts about med errors are seriously freaking me out. I have only read one page (most recent posts) and I am horrified. I know med errors occur quite frequently in fact as a patient I had a nurse give me 150mg IV demerol when it was written as ...

Wow, that kinda made me laugh reading this... Now how many nurses do you know actually abid by these requirments? :lol_hitti Curleysue :rotfl: I don't think we would have very many nurses? Just kidding...