katy_kenemy

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  1. What Gets to You??

    katy_kenemy replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

    i can handle anything except the waste inside the emesis basin from people brushing their teeth, which always looks and smells so

  2. Jay Leno slams nurses!

    katy_kenemy replied to grace90's topic in General Nursing

    I adore House--- it is my favorite television show ever. But I would like to see some nurses,

  3. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    katy_kenemy replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    :rotfl: not at my hospital. the nurses have plenty of time to do all their own vitals if they want (and the real old time nurses do.... without complaining!-- when i am super busy, that is). no,...

  4. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    katy_kenemy replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    I hate when I am the only aide for 24 pts and the RNs decide to help me, but only a teeny bit and they want tons of credit for it. "I did three of your vital signs!" an RN once said to me, like he...

  5. do cardiac floors have cna's?

    katy_kenemy replied to pristy's topic in Cardiac

    I work on a tele unit as a CNA, working on my RN. It is much better than LTC work, IMHO. The people are REALLY sick and there is much more to learn, medically. The RNs are extremely generous with...

  6. Co-sleeping?

    katy_kenemy replied to amber1142's topic in Ob/Gyn

    i always heard it was good and that the SIDS people advised for it (in what i read) but when i tried it with my daughter, she started to cry, and i was so tired (long complicated labor, no painkillers...

  7. Tom Cruise on Postpartum depression

    katy_kenemy replied to LizzyL&DRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Tom's "church", the Church of Scientology, was declared a cult in England. (For this useage of cult, I mean an organization whose primary purpose is declared to be recruiting new members and...

  8. Question about criminal record/ability to find job

    katy_kenemy replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    i once had a warrant put out for my arrest for a bounced check. it depends a lot on how busy the police are in any given town; in a big town with more important matters, this tends to not happen. and...

  9. People Are Big Babies Anymore

    katy_kenemy replied to DidiRN's topic in General Nursing

    i agree that people are big babies. if i behaved the way many (most?) people do at the hospital these days, my mother would come back from the grave and smack me across the face. ---the other day, a...

  10. 1950s nursing

    katy_kenemy replied to colrainrn's topic in General Nursing

    as late as the eighties at our hospital, the doctors and nurses would smoke while they worked!!!! one doctor used to pat nurses' butts and think nothing of

  11. This is sick

    katy_kenemy replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    yep, it has gone on in silence from what i have heard. working in critical care, i find it highly disturbing that people suffer on and on and on when they are just dragging out the inevitable, so i...

  12. stethoscopes--- need advice

    katy_kenemy replied to katy_kenemy's topic in General Nursing

    thank you for your replies. i am thinking about just spending over $330.00 and getting the electronic one... i am HOH and it amplifies eighteen times... if anyone has one please tell me what you...

  13. stethoscopes--- need advice

    katy_kenemy posted a topic in General Nursing

    just need some advice please. I am going to buy a new scope--- this old cheap one ain't cutting it. I work in Critical Care and take a lot of manual BPs. From what I hear I need a Littman, I plan on...

  14. Are side rails considered restraints?

    katy_kenemy replied to Sassy1's topic in General Nursing

  15. Night Nurses-Pts think we sleep?

    katy_kenemy replied to dosamigos76's topic in General Nursing

    I had a pt once who was very confused, fall risk. She kept telling me she was sorry for using her call lt and waking me. I tried telling her I was there to work, happy to answer light, etc.etc. and it...