SubSippi

SubSippi

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  1. Nursing and the supernatural

    SubSippi replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    You can walk right through ghosts. ...I guess I solved that

  2. Noncompliant diabetic patients

    SubSippi replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    To be fair, I wouldn't be as opposed to snacks if there was anything available with any sort of nutritional

  3. Noncompliant diabetic patients

    SubSippi replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, of course there should be something available for medication that can't be taken on an empty stomach or when someone is hypoglycemic. When I have a patient who is NPO all day I still get them to...

  4. Craziest vitals on a person who lived?

    SubSippi replied to guest64485's topic in General Nursing

    I see systolic BPs in the 60s fairly frequently...that doesn't stress me out too much at this point. This might not actually be a vital sign, but the worst I've seen on a patient that lived was a CI...

  5. Noncompliant diabetic patients

    SubSippi replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    It's ridiculous...personally, I don't think we should have any snacks. The patients get plenty of food on their meal trays, and most of them ask for popsicles and graham crackers just because they're...

  6. EKG

    SubSippi replied to rhuelsen's topic in General Nursing

    I think the main reason getting an order is important is so the patient will be charged for the ekg. I have no idea about the scope of practice thing, but I'm willing to bet that any place that needs...

  7. Nursing and the supernatural

    SubSippi replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Yes AND I forgot to mention they'd go back to normal once they went somewhere else. There were a couple times we would switch the patient to another room on the floor just to see what would happen and...

  8. I Want To Support My Pre-Nursing Student Girlfriend. Please Help!

    SubSippi replied to Fredled's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Ummmm fyi, I don't think most people could have done

  9. Moving out of state for first time, what to do?

    SubSippi replied to NightWatch's topic in General Nursing

    Let your credit card company know that you're moving. Otherwise, when they notice you making lots of purchases in another part of the country, they might freeze your account. And the worst part is you...

  10. Nursing and the supernatural

    SubSippi replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    A patient committed suicide in his room on the floor I used to work on. After that, it seemed like most of the patients who stayed in that room more than a couple nights would go completely...

  11. Notes in 3rd person style

    SubSippi replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    Using "this nurse" does sound weird, I've never seen anybody use it until now. If I ever refer to myself in charting I use "primary

  12. You should know better

    SubSippi replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I don't think foul language has a spot on a bad habits

  13. Notes in 3rd person style

    SubSippi replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    I googled why journalists are taught to write in third person. I found two reasons that could apply to nursing documentation... First, as other posters have stated, the third person allows the writer...

  14. You should know better

    SubSippi replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes I smoke a whole pack of cigarettes at once. I also google vague symptoms (fatigue, dry skin, back pain) and have been convinced more than once that I have an autoimmune

  15. Nurses, how do you view your job?

    SubSippi replied to 8*P23J's topic in General Nursing

    In that case, I'd come to work once a month. And start working on a new

  16. Nurses, how do you view your job?

    SubSippi replied to 8*P23J's topic in General Nursing

    Ha, me too. I keep trying to convince my friends to go to nursing school so I have more people to talk about nurse stuff with. And I will say, healthy or not, being a nurse takes up a huge part of my...

  17. Another Case Study For Your Learning Pleasure

    SubSippi replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with whoever said sarcoidosis. She needs a detailed family health history taken, as well as potential exposures (where she works, lives, etc.). She also says several of her classmates have...

  18. Any PTSD from nursing?

    SubSippi replied to Vtachy1's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I don't think it's PTSD exactly, but I have been more and more frequently having nightmares about my patients dying because I forgot something. Never about actively making a mistake, always...

  19. Would you be willing to do this?

    SubSippi replied to CocoaLoverFNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    He doesn't want to have to pay you while you're training, it sounds like. Or, he could have a hole he only needs filled for two months. It sounds

  20. Don't talk bad about your patients

    SubSippi replied to BrendaH84's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "No changes, bye!" Best report

  21. No visiting hours?

    SubSippi replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah that's what happens, but I don't like it. It's the rule in our unit that visitors are only allowed during certain times, and I've gotten in trouble for letting family members hang around until...

  22. No visiting hours?

    SubSippi replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

    I work in critical care, and we have visiting hours. I hate it. I couldn't imagine being as sick as some of my patients are, and not being able to have my husband with me whenever I want. Visitors...

  23. Respect from patients as a Registered Nurse?

    SubSippi replied to tiamaria123's topic in General Nursing

    I have patients tell me quite often that they have a lot of respect for nurses. But it's for the wrong reason. "I have so much respect for nurses and what y'all do, I just can't stand poop." I've...

  24. morbidly obese patients

    SubSippi replied to blackribbon's topic in Medical-Surgical

    It's not so much that we don't "do" them, it's that these patients can be much more difficult to deal with. Definitely not always, some are reasonable people who happen to have a psych diagnosis. A...

  25. New grad starting in the CVICU

    SubSippi replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Start with medications - epinephrine, levophed, neo-synephrine, amiodarone, cardizem, dobutamine, dopamine, nicardipene, propofol...those are the ones we use the most on my unit. You'll want to know...