CarryThatWeight

CarryThatWeight BSN

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  1. Filipina (US citizen) .. Going back to Philippines for BSN

    CarryThatWeight replied to Turbota's topic in Nurse Registration

    It sounds like your mind is made up. I would recommend you read through the threads upon threads of people having difficulty becoming licensed because their nursing program in the Phillipines does not...

  2. Why I Am Grateful To Be Working On Thanksgiving Day

    CarryThatWeight replied to Michael M. Heuninckx's topic in General Nursing

    Scrubs are NOT pajamas!! Sorry, but I'm so tired of hearing

  3. new Ebola patient

    CarryThatWeight replied to Mulan's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh boy, here's to starting another nurses-must-be-martyrs thread. Last I checked, C Diff and HIV are not highly contagious, highly fatal, with no proven treatment diseases. Please get off your high...

  4. Are handguns allowed at work?

    CarryThatWeight replied to TexasGal1964's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yes, exactly. If you have crack cocaine in your purse, that's also none of my business. Or pot, Media magazines, whatever. Your purse, your business. Don't see how I could "notice" a gun in your purse...

  5. Are handguns allowed at work?

    CarryThatWeight replied to TexasGal1964's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I think it does. I have a concealed handgun license. I have a purse that has a place for my pistol in it. It's really none of your business what's in my purse. I don't show it, take it out, etc. EVER....

  6. Are handguns allowed at work?

    CarryThatWeight replied to TexasGal1964's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    In Texas, you cannot carry in a hospital, even if you have a concealed handgun license (CHL). Notices are typically posted on the doors of the hospital. That doesn't mean people don't do it... But it...

  7. Second ebola nurse "okay'd" to fly

    CarryThatWeight replied to babyNP.'s topic in Disaster Preparation

    Fox News is now reporting that she called the CDC first. Megyn Kelly is pretty riled up about

  8. Depression is terminal??

    CarryThatWeight replied to Clementia's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Interesting topic. I started the thread OP is referring to, because I do think death with dignity/physician prescribed or assisted suicide or whatever one cares to call it is an ethically charged...

  9. Any ways to prove you're neg for TB?

    CarryThatWeight replied to cococh15's topic in General Students

    I had a TB test nightmare when I moved to Dallas. I'd always had negative TB skin tests, but my new hospital did a quantiferon blood test. That was positive. They sent me to Dallas county public...

  10. Well now, it's true via Medscape Dallas Ebola Patient Dies

    CarryThatWeight replied to JustBeachyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    You may be right, but how would they prove

  11. Post-operative gas pains

    CarryThatWeight replied to Double-Helix's topic in Pediatric

    Last month I had a laparoscopic procedure and I had pain in my shoulders and ribs for five days. I was up and walking quite a bit, shifting positions, heating pad, taking gas x, anything I could think...

  12. Ebola here in Dallas USA

    CarryThatWeight replied to HappyWife77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What I find scary is that this man helped care for two Ebola patients back in Liberia (whom he lived with, according to the New York Times), then knowingly boarded a plane four days later. He knew the...

  13. Your Specialty & Why

    CarryThatWeight replied to AspiringNurseMW's topic in General Nursing

    Oncology. When I had my rotation in oncology in nursing school, all those patients with terminal diagnoses, including a 27 year old with stage 4 colon cancer, totally traumatized me. I said I would...

  14. I Lost All Respect For A Colleague Today

    CarryThatWeight replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My comment was not just in response to your desire to bag a "Heidi;" rather it was a cumulative response to everything you've said in this thread. While I acknowledge that there's no tone on the...

  15. I Lost All Respect For A Colleague Today

    CarryThatWeight replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Hedgehog, you are disgusting. Please rethink nursing. It's clear you're not in it for the right reasons. Besides, bedside nursing is beneath you, right? There are plenty of other careers in which you...

  16. Confused -please help

    CarryThatWeight replied to kistigirl84's topic in General Nursing

    You're right, and I agree. I work with a lot of large bore catheters where we flush heparin 1000 units/ml or even 5000 units/ml, so I guess I automatically thought of that. But I agree, with the small...

  17. Confused -please help

    CarryThatWeight replied to kistigirl84's topic in General Nursing

    You instill just enough heparin to fill the lumen and clamp it. In theory, this prevents clots from forming in the lumen. When you go back and use the line again, best practice is to withdraw the...

  18. is alteplase EVER contraindicated for central line occlusions?

    CarryThatWeight replied to holdensjane1's topic in General Nursing

    Some of our hem-onc docs won't let us TPA the lines if the patients' platelets are too low. Just

  19. PLEASE I HAVE A QUESTION about nursing scheduales...

    CarryThatWeight replied to RN2bBevy's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The fact that you responded to all these posts without biting back even once tells me that you'd probably make an awesome nurse!

  20. Accessing Ports

    CarryThatWeight replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in General Nursing

    I've had trouble as well with deep or tilted ports. I agree with the advice to palpate. It's tempting to rush, especially when you're busy, but recently I took the time to really feel a port and it...

  21. Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    CarryThatWeight replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What continues to bother me is that the two infected Americans are not untrained laypeople, but a doctor and a nurse. In the face of such a deadly virus, I can't see them being anything less than...

  22. Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    CarryThatWeight replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Probably because TB doesn't have an up to 90% fatality rate? Just a

  23. What to expect?

    CarryThatWeight posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Hi psych nurses! I'm currently an oncology nurse, but I have some psych background. I worked in a residential facility for young women with issues like substance abuse, eating disorders, depression,...

  24. What to expect?

    CarryThatWeight replied to CarryThatWeight's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanks! I took your suggestions. We are getting CPI training, according to the orientation schedule. I guess I was also asking what a day to day workflow is like. I've been in a hospital so long, I...

  25. If you could just pick up and leave, where would you go?

    CarryThatWeight replied to JNursee's topic in General Nursing

    I did it, and I moved from the Sacramento area (which sucks, btw) to Dallas. I'm a Texan now. I'll probably never