Susie2310

Susie2310

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  1. PACU/Recovery room Visitors

    Susie2310 replied to cymrudenver's topic in PACU

    I think it is important to be sensible about privacy needs. When the surgeon or anesthesiologist have come to talk to me when I was a patient or to my family members when they were patients behind...

  2. New RN needing prioritization advice

    Susie2310 replied to zombie nurse's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    If you leave your most unstable, acutely ill, patient till last, there is a good chance they will be deteriorating during the time they are waiting for your care, while you are seeing patients in the...

  3. PACU/Recovery room Visitors

    Susie2310 replied to cymrudenver's topic in PACU

    I am familiar with there being screens/curtains surrounding each patient. When family members are brought back they cannot see other patients. When I have been both patient and family I have never...

  4. PACU/Recovery room Visitors

    Susie2310 replied to cymrudenver's topic in PACU

    A PACU I am familiar with brings family members back once the patient is out of the procedure and in the PACU. I have never witnessed any problems, and I have been both patient and family member on...

  5. Older Student, Unprofessional Nurse During Clinical

    Susie2310 replied to Nurse Magnolia's topic in General Students

    I doubt somehow that the nurse has just commanded their respect by trashing them. Most likely they won't say anything to the nurse; they have bigger battles to fight trying to get their family member...

  6. Need input! Whats your experience with critical thinking?

    Susie2310 replied to gromit1084's topic in Critical Care

    As I said, I learned critical thinking in the real world, and I naturally used critical thinking in my life before nursing school, so it was not hard to apply it to nursing. I was in a nursing...

  7. Need input! Whats your experience with critical thinking?

    Susie2310 replied to gromit1084's topic in Critical Care

    I want to add, on the subject of critical thinking, that far from being reactive or passive, part of our role is to advocate for our patients. Are the physician orders appropriate for the patient? Is...

  8. Need input! Whats your experience with critical thinking?

    Susie2310 replied to gromit1084's topic in Critical Care

    I strongly disagree. Critical thinking is not the unique purview of the medical model; that is ridiculous. Far more is expected of nurses than just being reactive. When I was a student over 20 years...

  9. Got a position as a Clinical Doc Specialist... but employer won't train?

    Susie2310 replied to RegisteredNuisance's topic in General Specialties

    I'm not understanding why you applied for and accepted (when you were told training wouldn't be provided) a specialized job that you are unfamiliar with and can't perform the job functions

  10. Time Management in ER

    Susie2310 replied to MAL, RN's topic in Emergency

    You are absolutely incorrect that providing a snack /oral carbohydrates to a diabetic patient who is hypoglycemic, or any patient who suffers from hypoglycemia, is not an urgent concern and is a...

  11. ECG interpretation

    Susie2310 replied to rariel's topic in Cardiac

    Can you clarify if you are saying that this is the official answer provided by your course, or if you mean this is the answer you arrived at, or

  12. ECG interpretation

    Susie2310 replied to rariel's topic in Cardiac

    I'm coming up with Type II Second-Degree AV Block. This rhythm could lead to cardiac arrest. The patient's heart rate is 50 bpm. As I'm seeing it, the PRI appears to be constant and not prolonged -...

  13. Just Wrong: Three Simple Fallacies

    Susie2310 replied to RobbiRN's topic in General Nursing

    [quote=Ruby Vee;9785329 I'm willing to concede that the reasonableness and manners of visitors and families may vary with the location of the hospital, though. Now that I think of it I'm pretty sure...

  14. ECG interpretation

    Susie2310 replied to rariel's topic in Cardiac

    Without seeing the EKG rhythm and knowing the patient's clinical condition it is at best a good guess, but just from the information given I would agree with 2nd degree AV Block Type I, and possibly...

  15. "I am a nurse!"

    Susie2310 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's important to keep in mind that not every family member whose first words are "I am a nurse" is making an inappropriate or untrue statement. There are situations where establishing this...

  16. Just Wrong: Three Simple Fallacies

    Susie2310 replied to RobbiRN's topic in General Nursing

    I keep reading on this forum about how unreasonable patients and families are in their requests for food when they go to the ED. I wouldn't deny that some people are unreasonable, but would just like...

  17. Just Wrong: Three Simple Fallacies

    Susie2310 replied to RobbiRN's topic in General Nursing

    Patient satisfaction is appropriately ONE measure of the quality of care a patient has received. The HCAHPS survey asks the patient perfectly reasonable questions about the patient's experience of...

  18. Just Wrong: Three Simple Fallacies

    Susie2310 replied to RobbiRN's topic in General Nursing

    While it's obviously impossible and unrealistic to document everything that happens to or affects the patient during a shift, charting by exception in particular is inherently problematic in that...

  19. "I am a nurse!"

    Susie2310 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    The other side to this is that some family members who are nurses raise legitimate concerns about the patient (as do some non-nurse family members), and the nurse due to prejudice is unable to hear...

  20. Nurse week, scavenger hunt

    Susie2310 replied to Dskipp's topic in General Nursing

    How about the wonderful cheerleader nurse group photos that I often see during Nurses Week? I'm sure we would all love to have the opportunity to be photographed in this way. Professional dignity is...

  21. Documenting Patient Falls

    Susie2310 replied to BSN_Studnt's topic in General Nursing

    I was taught not to refer to incident reports in the medical record. However, on a separate subject, I respectfully disagree with not documenting the art line blood backflow in the patient's medical...

  22. Documenting Patient Falls

    Susie2310 replied to BSN_Studnt's topic in General Nursing

    Could you explain this further

  23. I am not "such a good nurse!", a vent

    Susie2310 replied to Swellz's topic in General Nursing

    I'm pretty sure the OP is not concerned about being complimented. I think he/she is concerned that his/her recognition of the problem was perceived as "good nursing" instead of the situation being...

  24. Another Nurse on Nurse hostility story

    Susie2310 replied to clandestine2's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, I meant to say: "defuse the situation," not "diffuse the

  25. Another Nurse on Nurse hostility story

    Susie2310 replied to clandestine2's topic in General Nursing

    I just re-read your OP and I am not seeing "the lie" that the other nurse told. Please tell me where in your OP it is written. I already answered you that I believe JKL33 addressed the situation in...