Teachchildren123

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  1. Verbal abuse by physicians in ICU

    Teachchildren123 replied to erinnRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    I like your tricks: I used the #1 before, it works with combative/aggressive pts too (1. I am normally a soft-spoken person to begin with, but when one of these idiots is yelling, I reply with an even...

  2. Unstable patients to MRI or CT?

    Teachchildren123 replied to frankwalker's topic in MICU, SICU

    Same for us. We now have a MRI mobile, coming M-W-F. I never had to go there yet, but they say that it is very cold in the winter (being in a truck) and if your pt codes, you have to pull him out of...

  3. eICU

    Teachchildren123 replied to CVRNof4's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    We are finally getting MD coverage for the night shift!!!! Yeeeeh! After few months of us criticizing, because it really does not make sense to me, that eICU is on for days and not for nights! You...

  4. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

    Teachchildren123 replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    I was going to tell you not to take it personal but I can't. I sincerely can see how you could be mistreated and abuseD. GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU , OH! ER NURSES! :thankya: Nobody can even imagine the...

  5. Suggestions on renal failure, IGAN and/or low protein diet

    Teachchildren123 posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Hi! I am a ICU nurse who is very interested in learning more about IGA nephropathy/Berger's disease, renal failure, kidney transplant and criterias, low protein diet. Please, send me any info, links...

  6. Nurse Practitioner ECG practice

    Teachchildren123 replied to sirI's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Sorry about your daughter, I'll add her on my prayer list. Please, I am begging you to continue with this sort of case study, I'll love it!!! :balloons: I say this pt had inferio-lateral infarct...

  7. Hypotention in CSICU

    Teachchildren123 replied to nurse_kambiz's topic in Cardiac

    I am not a CSICU RN but I am learning a lot from your critical thinking! Keep up threads like that. That's what I am talking about! :kiss Let's network, learn from each another, sharing pearls...

  8. Can I beat your horse?

    Teachchildren123 replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks! I'll make sure I'll read you on a bad day when I would doubt of my purpose! Good

  9. Please think of me

    Teachchildren123 replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    God Bless you! I am praying for you! Good luck! Think positive

  10. Funny Names for Nurses

    Teachchildren123 replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    We got Dr. Butler, colo-rectal surgeon! He is a lovely guy, soft spoken and notting of a

  11. Tom Cruises' take on Psychiatry

    Teachchildren123 replied to Katydidit34's topic in Psychiatric

    Obviously, he never had someone close to him with mental disease. (which it would be hard to believe). May be he is so narcisistic, that he is the only person that counts. He may be anti-social after...

  12. Advice on the low-protein diet and IGAN

    Teachchildren123 posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Hi all of you guys! My brother who is in another country has been diagnosed with IGA nephropathy ( La maladie du Berger) and needs now to follow a low-protein diet. In waiting that he can see a...

  13. Tom Cruises' take on Psychiatry

    Teachchildren123 replied to Katydidit34's topic in Psychiatric

    Wow, what a blow for the psych

  14. Tom Cruises' take on Psychiatry

    Teachchildren123 replied to Katydidit34's topic in Psychiatric

    Dear LoriRn2B you are soooo right! I have noticed also that Tom seem to be in a manic phase with some delusions of grandeur going on! He is way out of line. If some people who need Lithium or their...

  15. Share your mnemonics and tricks

    Teachchildren123 replied to Teachchildren123's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hey! Thanks a lot! :balloons: I have most of the Nursing Made Incredibly Easy books, did you know about their magazine now. Loving it, easy, easy and to the point. I'll look on Amazon for Memory...

  16. Father still having fainting spells 2 wks after cath...

    Teachchildren123 replied to LButlerRN2007's topic in Cardiac

    I agree entirely with you. I learned a lot from all the answers and could use all the critical thinking possible. Keep them coming. No one was trying to play God here. Just to show how brillant and...

  17. What's the difference...

    Teachchildren123 replied to 1Tulip's topic in Emergency

    Thanks! I always wondered too. Good Day!

  18. Tylenol toxicity? How serious?? Please read!

    Teachchildren123 replied to breastfeedingRN's topic in Emergency

    I really feel for you, your family and your sister. Try, try to go see your sis! She needs you and family support now...then she will need psych-tx once stabilized. She needs to get rid of her pain by...

  19. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Teachchildren123 replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I learned a lot when I was a nurse's aide. I was like a child, learning very fast a lot of stuff. I learned English, a new place, new kind of work and a totally new word! I am going as far as, the...

  20. Doctor bloopers

    Teachchildren123 replied to ptnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    :) :wink2: :rotfl: :roll :lol_hitti

  21. Pearls anyone? Nursing pearls that is.

    Teachchildren123 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Anyone has any pearls, tricks to improve one's practice? I'll start with this one: If your patient is NPO, he will appreciate his oral swabs in ice, cold is + quenching than warm. :angryfire :cheers:...

  22. Is it even worth working in the U.S?

    Teachchildren123 replied to X-treme's topic in International Nursing

    Furgus 51 took the words off my mouth! Totally. I strongly suggest that you take a least one year of experience on med-surg to get trought the basics, and get this stress of the reality...

  23. How do you clean your shoes/uniforms, pts?

    Teachchildren123 posted a topic in General Nursing

    How on earth do you guys keep you white shoes white? I try to clean them as soon as they get soiled, and whipe them after each shift. I found that using peroxide helps. How about taking this odor...

  24. hav i passed

    Teachchildren123 replied to topscot's topic in General Nursing

    Very sofisticated way to say: congratulations! You did it!!!!New world ahead, new language and certainely a new sense of humor (in addition to your Londonian one, you'll be GRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!)...

  25. My english is horrible !!!

    Teachchildren123 replied to earthlovers123's topic in General Nursing

    HI! I have been there! I am from Quebec, where French is the primary language, my primary one. My mom sent me for an immersion year in english H.S. that last 2 months, because the kids were beating me...