SubSippi

SubSippi

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  1. one side love problem between student nurse and doctor

    SubSippi replied to chinglee's topic in General Students

    Lol I knew this thread was gonna blow

  2. Was my professor out of line?

    SubSippi replied to kimmyanne02's topic in General Students

    Of course if your child really needs you, you'll be there. I doubt your teacher was implying that you should disregard your children's needs in order to be a nurse. What I think she probably meant is...

  3. Not a Nursing Question, but Has to Do with Work, So...

    SubSippi replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    Eh, I'd just give them a ride, unless I truly didn't like them. To me, it wouldn't be worth the potential conflict and/or bad attitudes I may have to deal

  4. Being Bullied

    SubSippi replied to sarahhg's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This is some of the only usable advice I've seen out of all the responses here. If you like your job, it's ridiculous to quit over not getting along with one provider, and quitting might solve this...

  5. IV bolus ordered because pt hypertensive

    SubSippi replied to Are Enn's topic in Patient Medications

    To the best of my knowledge that's how it happens. I'm just sitting here thinking, how do people get anything accomplished without a PA

  6. Extra Shifts.. are they worth it?

    SubSippi replied to NGYSUN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    That's pretty typical of nursing in a hospital. If you don't want to work, just keep telling them you can't. You can't feel bad, you signed up to work full time and you're doing that. In fact, I think...

  7. IV bolus ordered because pt hypertensive

    SubSippi replied to Are Enn's topic in Patient Medications

    Since he mumbled something about bacteremia, he might have suspected the patient was going septic, and one of the ways sepsis is managed is with fluids. As far as the fluid bolus being given despite...

  8. IV bolus ordered because pt hypertensive

    SubSippi replied to Are Enn's topic in Patient Medications

    We can't answer the question until we know what kind of fluids were

  9. Family member hurt my somewhat fragile new grad confidence

    SubSippi replied to BlueChocolateCat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    YES I see this all the time. Just the other night, a patient's son just about had me fooled into thinking he had worked in CT surgery (he was THAT good with the jargon), and I was about to ask him,...

  10. Dear Doctor

    SubSippi replied to lilirishblesing's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

  11. Family member hurt my somewhat fragile new grad confidence

    SubSippi replied to BlueChocolateCat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm also a nurse in a cardiac surgical ICU. I've found this environment can be especially overwhelming for family members, because a lot of these patients are less likely to have spent extensive time...

  12. Nurse who survived Ebola is suing the hospital

    SubSippi replied to anon456's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I disagree. Every hospital should be prepared to protect its staff from diseases that are spreading, even when we are not yet sure of the method of transmission. Because they will certainly expect...

  13. Deliberate sabotage?

    SubSippi replied to greenerpastures's topic in General Nursing

    If this behavior by your manager doesn't stop immediately, someone needs to bring it to the attention of someone higher up. You don't want this to go undocumented. If what she is doing ends up...

  14. People really need to stop coming into nursing

    SubSippi replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in General Nursing

    Female dominated fields. I bet you a million dollars if the first nurses were dudes, by this point nursing would be up there with physical therapists and

  15. Not sure about this nursing thing...

    SubSippi replied to James9777's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Bring in a stethoscope and listen to the patients you have when you're in clinicals. Practice listening to each other so you know what normal sounds like. If your teachers aren't telling you how to do...

  16. Pt threw a bedpan...

    SubSippi replied to NanikRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I understand now what you mean when you say that someone being alert and oriented doesn't mean that they are free of any sort of psychosis. However, I'd like to argue that even if someone knows their...

  17. Pt threw a bedpan...

    SubSippi replied to NanikRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thanks...so is it likely that these people are likely to be

  18. Pt threw a bedpan...

    SubSippi replied to NanikRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    But is psychosis not a departure from reality? I don't understand how someone can be both psychotic and oriented to person, place, time, and their

  19. Pt threw a bedpan...

    SubSippi replied to NanikRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Honestly, once a patient starts doing things like hurling poop, my top concern would be how to stop them from doing it again (or from doing something similar or worse), and their feelings about how...

  20. The Story of Jahi Continues

    SubSippi replied to EaglesWings21's topic in Nursing News

    Yes at this point I think I would pay money for an hour alone with

  21. Obesity: A disease or a lifestyle

    SubSippi replied to TexMex22's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I've started to notice that most waiting rooms have larger sized chairs...before you know it they're going to have bigger desks for kids at

  22. Nurse who survived Ebola is suing the hospital

    SubSippi replied to anon456's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Sometimes the only way to fix a problem is to hit someone where it hurts. People start to pay attention if something might affect their paycheck or their reputation. Not to mention this wasn't a...

  23. endovascular repair question

    SubSippi replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Emergency

    Use your critical thinking skills... The patient has a history of AAA repair. This means that a graft is placed in the patient's aorta to shunt blood flow past the aneurysm, and that there will always...

  24. Obesity: A disease or a lifestyle

    SubSippi replied to TexMex22's topic in Health, Stress Management

    A mysterious prednisone prescription? If people would also quit being rude, the world would be a better

  25. Obesity: A disease or a lifestyle

    SubSippi replied to TexMex22's topic in Health, Stress Management

    These days it is too easy to weigh 250+ pounds for obesity to really be considered a mental illness. It seems like most people (especially women) have to make a real effort just to not be fat, let...