DisneyNurseGal

DisneyNurseGal BSN, RN

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  1. How Often Do You Check...?

    DisneyNurseGal replied to flashpoint's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    In a perfect world, a patient would even check their blood pressure at home prior to taking any blood pressure medications, so yes... I do feel that it is appropriate in any nursing situation. I...

  2. Nursing ghost stories 😧

    DisneyNurseGal replied to BIGT68's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if this qualifies as what you are looking for, but, many times when I have a patient on comfort care and actively dying, they talk to people who aren't there. I had a patient once say...

  3. Nursing ghost stories 😧

    DisneyNurseGal replied to BIGT68's topic in General Nursing

    My unit is 36 rooms and there are definitely 4 rooms that are creepy. Things like hair standing on end, missing water mugs, call lights that go off when the room is empty, one room people see a lady...

  4. Nurses doing nebs

    DisneyNurseGal replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a step down Medical oncology unit, and respiratory therapy comes and does all nebulizers. We discontinued all inhalers about 6 weeks ago (nurses used to do those). My hospital did a study...

  5. Fun with charting.

    DisneyNurseGal replied to Bortaz's topic in General Nursing

    I almost make this one error on a daily basis. In our computerized charting for care plans, I have to type what happened on my shift. Sometimes SHIFT gets typo-ed to SH*T . Hopefully I have caught...

  6. Holiday Scheduling - how to make it fair

    DisneyNurseGal posted a topic in General Nursing

    So, at work, I am on a committee to decide how we are going to [fairly] schedule for the holiday season. My unit considers six holidays: 1) Thanksgiving 2) Friday after Thanksgiving 3) Christmas Eve...

  7. Night Shift Advice

    DisneyNurseGal replied to mickeyrose912's topic in General Nursing

    I am approaching my 1 year anniversary of my first nursing job! I started on nights, and if you would have told me a year ago that not only would I still be on nights, but I passed up several...

  8. Can't observe a surgery without feeling whoozy

    DisneyNurseGal replied to princesagris's topic in General Students

    When you are standing there, observing, make sure that your knees aren't locked. Stand with your feet apart, with slightly bent knees. Maybe your posture is causing the problem. Just a thought.....

  9. RN to BSN timeline

    DisneyNurseGal replied to Emilyinidaho's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I got a job right away with an ADN, but I still stayed on track to get my BSN. The longer you wait, the harder it is to go back to school. I will be done in May

  10. PICC line flushing question

    DisneyNurseGal replied to newgraduategal's topic in General Nursing

    I would check your employer's protocol. I learned to aspirate (as you describe above) in nursing school, but at work we do not

  11. Patient's rights dilemma

    DisneyNurseGal replied to newgraduategal's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We can not protect a patient from everything that is bad for them (you have burgers and fried french fries on your patient menu... we do)? Ever seen a diabetic drink soda or eat dessert or candy?? My...

  12. NG tube insertion question

    DisneyNurseGal replied to asaka6's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have had my CNA use a piece of gauze before to tickle the patients neck instead of water, and that will usually do the

  13. how many of you actually read all the chapters?

    DisneyNurseGal replied to gearedup's topic in General Students

    I NEVER read the chapter word for word. I would skim, and focus on tables, pictures and graphs. I do not learn by reading alone so it was pointless for me just to read. That being said, active...

  14. 4.0 in nursing school?

    DisneyNurseGal replied to RubySlippers:)'s topic in General Students

    I finished nursing school at a university with a 4.0. I am a wife, mother to three kids, and I worked part time. For me it was about setting a goal and achieving it. That being said, I made...

  15. Holiday Scheduling - how to make it fair

    DisneyNurseGal replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in General Nursing

    The company I work for considers the Friday After Thanksgiving a paid holiday. We include NYEve in the list of holidays because so many people want it

  16. Holiday Scheduling - how to make it fair

    DisneyNurseGal replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in General Nursing

    Any other holidays we use our normal scheduling system and it works out, these 6 are just so close together (our schedules go 8 weeks at a time) and have such an emotional impact that it gets

  17. What's staffing like at your facility?

    DisneyNurseGal replied to RNKX's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work in a 400 bed hospital - on a Medical Oncology Unit Weekdays: Days: 4 patients NOC: 6 patients Weekends: Days: 5 patients NOC: 6 patients As far as aides go, they carry double the RN load (8 pts...

  18. Student planner app suggestions?

    DisneyNurseGal replied to 7237dallas's topic in General Students

    I am not a fan of Google Calendar. I do not like how you can not mark something complete without deleting it. Try myHomework. It sync between my phone and ipad, it has separate colors for each...

  19. What kind of Nurse Should I Be?

    DisneyNurseGal replied to sillyy816's topic in General Students

    I think that you are too early in your nurse development to make a decision like this. When I was in Nursing School I would have killed to be a Labor and Delivery or Postpartum nurse. That is all I...

  20. How to act on the orientation/first day of school?

    DisneyNurseGal replied to iammargarita19's topic in General Students

    It is a fact of life... someone is not going to like you AND there will be annoying people in your class. There will also be kind, funny, stuck up, intelligent, stupid and amazing people in your...

  21. What Supplies Should I Get for School?

    DisneyNurseGal replied to SKay226's topic in General Students

    I would hold off on buying this until you get to school. I too purchased one of these before school started based on recommendations from this website. Opened the package, write my name on it, only...

  22. Getting into a groove

    DisneyNurseGal replied to SunshineDaisy's topic in First Year After Licensure

    We must have started at the time time because I am 5 months in too. I am finally at the point where I don't walk in the door terrified every shift. I suck at IV starts

  23. Have I Been Doing It Wrong?

    DisneyNurseGal replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    In my hospital with do general peri-care first, then once the peri-care done, [sterile] outer package is opened, sterile draping over area, then sterile gloves. The way I remember it, is that our...

  24. Thoughts During My First Weekend on My Own

    DisneyNurseGal replied to CountryMomma's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hahaha. You have hit the nail on the head with most of these. When I first was on my own (just 5 months ago), when I gave report the oncoming nurse would ask me "what's the plan". There was one...

  25. New grad wages in Utah

    DisneyNurseGal replied to ShineyNickelRN's topic in General Nursing

    The numbers above are about the going rate for a new grad. Is there more money to be made out there in the world of nursing... absolutely; however IHC has some of the lowest nurse to patient ratios...