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  1. The Truth..Bone Marrow Donation Painful? Possible?

    I am a RN who recently donated through Be The Match registry, I have been on the registry for 5yrs and never got a call until this past dec. I was a perfect match for a middle-aged lady suffering...
  2. Med-Surg floor sucks, and nursing unions

    What? 48$/hr, that's exactly double my pay per hr, man I need to move to your
  3. Giving Report

    Just try to think of the bigger picture, the patient came to the hospital y? What are we currently doing for him? What's the overall plan for this patient (i.e CHF exacerbation plan to continue IV...
  4. Continuous fluids that should go through a central line are TPN, I can think of others that are intermittent only but need to go in centrally such as +20meq of potassium and certain chemos are best...
  5. Gastric cancer and NGT

    If the NGT is set to suction and used for decompression then I would assume it would be more for the patient's
  6. What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

    I have been on the bone marrow registry for many years now and never got a call until this past dec, I happened to be at work on that day and was excited to share the news that I was a 'potential'...
  7. OMG Say it correctly!

    MAC-Donalds instead of
  8. Question for Lonestar RN graduates...

    I graduated from Lonestar Cy-fair in Dec 2011 and already had a job 1mo before graduation at Methodist willowbrook hospital. I already have a bachelor's degree in something else in addition to my
  9. Noise level at night

    Sorry to offend anyone but my beef w/ this whole issue is that I am seeing more and more pts who pick and choose when they want to be treated like pts and when they want to be 'paying customers who...
  10. Noise level at night

    Maybe that 'Big Mouth' nurse you were referring to at the nurses station was trying her best to keep herself awake bc she not only works nights but has 2 small children she must 'watch' during the day...
  11. Who's ready for a hospital hurricane party!?!

    At my hospital we are not allowed to bring family members if the hospital goes on lockdown for a hurricane. We get to choose whether or not we are on the 'ride out' team (meaning we stay 24/7 at...
  12. Patient Care And Customer Service Are Not The Same!

    My hospital is 'sooo' into this customer service BS, they have given us scripts to follow when doing 'bedside report' we are supposed to have things ready for pts when they come up to our floor from...
  13. Patient assignments - Are nurses assigned to empty beds

    At my hospital nurses are assigned empty rooms all the time...I work med-surg and pt. ratio is typically 1-4, our pt. assignment goes by acuity/location (room #) and skills/talents of each nurse. We...
  14. One of our respiratory techs at my hospital was telling me a story the other day about a trach pt. who was AAOx3 and during a suctioning session, the pt. coughed (which is usally to be expected) but...
  15. I am still pretty new myself but one thing I learned last night was to be very cautious when holding onto a med (especially a narcotic) when it should be wasted at the time you drew it up and figured...
  16. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    I am just kind of curious...do you know how exactly this patient contracted this
  17. Inpatient hospice patient on a Med-Surg floor

    To give you all an update: the patient died at shift change a day after she was transferred to our floor, I was pleased to learn that the night nurse on the Sat. night shift gave the meds as...
  18. So I work on a med-surg floor with specilization in oncology and are the floor for our contract hospice patients. I picked up an extra day shift this past weekend and at 1745 I get report from our...
  19. Taking ADD medication

    I was prescribed Adderral for the same issues when I got my job almost 6mo ago. I had to take a urine drug test as a part of routine screening and was forewarned that I would most likely test...