BGgirl

BGgirl

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  1. Pre/post-hospital shower?

    BGgirl replied to Dewgrl's topic in General Nursing

    We clean the area they're going to do surgery on with hibiclens before people go to surgery for pacer placement, pegs, open heart etc. We usually do it twice before they go. We sometime have orders...

  2. Medical University Of Ohio Gemini 2008

    BGgirl replied to lyela's topic in Ohio Nursing

    Mary, I sent you a PM about the apts you listed. Good luck in your

  3. Medical University Of Ohio Gemini 2008

    BGgirl replied to lyela's topic in Ohio Nursing

    I graduated from BG and would've loved to have lived there but the commute would've killed me. I'm not a morning person and having to drive to early morning clinicals and class just wouldn't of...

  4. Medical University Of Ohio Gemini 2008

    BGgirl replied to lyela's topic in Ohio Nursing

    I'm not in the GEMINI program but I'd be careful about living too close to MUO. I graduated from BG/MCO and I have friends living near the campus on Bryne at had neighbors etc whose apartments were...

  5. Stupid question

    BGgirl replied to Travellpro's topic in General Nursing

    Of course not all telemetry is portable either. On our unit we mainly use portable telemetry (the box people can carry with them) but sometime we use what we call hardwire. It still enables us to...

  6. Tele floor: what is you pt ratio?

    BGgirl replied to ZootRN's topic in General Nursing

    We are a med-surg stepdown all on telemetry and are 1:3 on dayshift and a 1:4 on nights. If teaming with an aide we take 2:8 on nights. 1:6 or 7 sounds like too many patients especially if they're...

  7. Accutane

    BGgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    My dermatologist keeps talking to me about accutane but I keep worrying about the horrible side effects. My acne isn't very bad, it's just stubborn and will not go away and she thinks accutane will...

  8. Vent care question

    BGgirl replied to mjscan_07's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I think you did the right thing. I would've felt very uncomfortable taking care of a vent patient without proper orientation. Even with orientation I was scared to death to take care of a vented...

  9. Accutane

    BGgirl replied to BGgirl's topic in General Nursing

    The side effects do worry me. You now have to have a negative pregnancy test before you begin taking it and every month before they even give you a refill. I've been to a dermatologist since high...

  10. What Am I Going To Do?????!!!

    BGgirl replied to engrlbr's topic in General Nursing

    "A limited permit is valid for one year from date of issue or until ten days after the applicant is notified of failure on the licensing examination, whichever occurs first. " This is what is written...

  11. What Am I Going To Do?????!!!

    BGgirl replied to engrlbr's topic in General Nursing

    You will probably have to work as an extern or an aide until you can retake boards. On my unit if you fail boards, you automatically become an aide until you can

  12. Continuous Insulin drip

    BGgirl replied to jocolorado's topic in General Nursing

    We also take insulin drips on our step-down unit. We used to get a lot of them actually. Accuchecks are only q 2 hours but we did have a patient that was really unstable and we had to check sugars...

  13. Absurd Things That Managers Do

    BGgirl replied to Sheri257's topic in General Nursing

    All scrubs are not the same. It seems that if you want to show off your body people will find a way to do it scrubs or not. We have this one nurse who always wears a thong and you can see it every...

  14. Floor vs. ICU nursing

    BGgirl replied to perfectbluebuildings's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    How hard is it to transition from adults to peds? I've worked on a monitored step-down unit for 2 years and am looking for a change. Would it be better to transition to Peds or PICU? How long of an...

  15. Visitation and staying the night

    BGgirl replied to optimisticSRNA's topic in MICU, SICU

    I work nights and our visiting hours end at 8p. Usually visitors stay a little longer than this. We have a no visitor policy on nights for the most part but it's usually left up to the individual...

  16. Need some advise...Please!!

    BGgirl replied to 1godlynurse's topic in General Nursing

    I also believe that the balloon would probably deflate after being cut. We just had a patient on my floor that cut her foley and the balloon did deflate. Why was the patient being forced to have a...

  17. violent alzheimer's....

    BGgirl replied to sav's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Wow this is an interesting topic. I don't work in a nursing home but it sometimes feels like I do because many of my patients in the hospital are elderly and suffer from alzheimers. It's hard to...

  18. Going back to NW Ohio

    BGgirl replied to renerian's topic in Ohio Nursing

    I work at St. V's and cannot imagine working in their ER. Everytime I go down to the ER for something I see a ton of cops and security guards around. Yes their clientele is quite different there to...

  19. what shift do you work and why do you like/hate it?

    BGgirl replied to johnson0424's topic in General Nursing

    I work nights 7p-7a and while there have been several opportunities to go to dayshift, I hesitate. I love working nights because I love my coworkers on nights. We tend to have a lot of fun and they...

  20. Doctors who dont listen or dont care

    BGgirl replied to chenoaspirit's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I find that a lot of the times Residents just don't have a clue as to what to do. We've had patients going bad and they'll just stand and the end of the bed thumbing through their books looking for...

  21. HIPAA Scenario???

    BGgirl replied to TweetiePieRN's topic in General Nursing

    We have a place on our kardex where we list the people who can recieve info about the pt. Some nurses even ask the caller to tell them the pts birthdate to really verify if they know the pt or

  22. Pet Peeves

    BGgirl replied to sjb2005's topic in General Nursing

    1) Doctors who tell you to only page them with emergencies. 2) When you call housekeeping for a mop-up we have to have a 20 minute discussion of what they're moping up, where etc before they'll even...

  23. Describe your last day at work in 50 words or less !?

    BGgirl replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    oops, I meant v-fib. That makes a little more

  24. Describe your last day at work in 50 words or less !?

    BGgirl replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Had a surgical patient who was supposed to be dc'd the next day go into a-fib multiple times. Luckily he had an AICD but was in a lot of pain and was very anxious d/t getting shocked multiple times....

  25. question about insulin, heparin injections

    BGgirl replied to leopold's topic in General Nursing

    We have handheld machines like palm pilots for our meds called the admin-RX. We have to scan ourself to enter the program, scan the med and then scan the patient were're giving the med to. We have...