audreysmagic RN

Psych, Peds, Education, Infection Control

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    Allnurses needs nurses

    audreysmagic replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This sums up my exact situation right now...love the work I do, but short staffing and high acuity wear the best of us
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    Emergency Nursing Conference 2017 St Louis, Missouri

    audreysmagic replied to traumaRUs's topic in Emergency

    I totally agree with this! As a student and new grad, I attended the trauma conference our local Level 1 Trauma Center put on every year - I learned SO much there that helped me in my practice, and...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    OMG, that's so funny. :-D I love it... I guess I got lucky the one time I crashed out in an empty room...I'd been held over from evening into nights, and then in the morning, things were still...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I find a healthy dose of Vitamin T(horazine) goes a long way,
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    To be fair, this is why I always recommend NOT using jargon with
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    Issues with residents

    audreysmagic replied to Rocknurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Oh, nothing burns me like the assumption that psych nurses couldn't hack it in medical... Granted, there are a few, but usually, they're not great psych nurses either. Carve on my grave, "Psych...
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    Issues with residents

    audreysmagic replied to Rocknurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I've been blessed that most of my experiences with residents have been great - my main issues are adolescent psych patients trying to scam them by getting orders from them for things that are not...
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    Minor Questions

    audreysmagic replied to moreoreo's topic in School

    I use that picture all the time to explain why it's not okay to reuse lancets/needles! Even in psych, it gets pretty decent use, because I use it to explain to IV drug users why reusing needles even...
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    Allnurses needs nurses

    audreysmagic replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I mean, I'll admit, I'm the first to scream at my computer screen, I DON'T NEED TO KNOW ANY OF THIS STUFF! in some of my MSN courses these days. Some of the assessments that pop up are TRULY book vs....
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    Allnurses needs nurses

    audreysmagic replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Nah, not if you don't wanna work bedside. Does it REALLY matter what side the liver's on? It's not like I'm working hepatic
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    Allnurses needs nurses

    audreysmagic replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I've been playing Flounce Bingo a lot lately on some of these threads... :) I mean, I LOVE the students who come here excited and eager to learn, but the ones who have this whole attitude of "you...
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    Nursing students who want to be NP's

    audreysmagic replied to Teaching the future's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, gero-psych is big these days, and that's another great point that it really does help to have experience on both sides. (I just typed "psyches," can you tell it's been a long day?) Too many...
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    Nursing students who want to be NP's

    audreysmagic replied to Teaching the future's topic in General Nursing

    I'm quite fond of it myself. :) After multiple years on the floors and in psych crisis centers, I'd definitely prefer a psych NP that had psych floor/crisis experience vs just general experience...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I love you guys SO MUCH - thanks for taking this journey with me. :) Not nearly as epic as some of these posts, but I managed to butt-dial myself today. I supervise on the weekends. The supervisor...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    Incredible. I actually gasped out loud at the central line coming
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    Truly the most epic timing
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    Would you call an ambulance?

    audreysmagic replied to halohg's topic in School

    This is going to be my favorite new kid-friendly curse...along with "son of a banana-pants" that I got from a coworker
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    What's the best way to deter inmates from abusing the safety cell?

    audreysmagic replied to 1Jessie86's topic in Correctional

    I agree with the above posters who recommend making it a not-fun place to be. No extra perks. We had a similar problem on my inpatient psych unit with certain patients ALWAYS wanting to use the...
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    Injection Gone Wrong: Part 1

    audreysmagic replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    From the title "Injection Gone Wrong," I inferred the article itself is about the incorrect administration and the consequences of it. It just happened to be a flu shot. But I do find that anyone...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    OMG, don't you just LOVE those patients? I had one once who would lift her hip just enough to make the bed alarm go off because it played a shrieking version of Yankee Doodle and her dementia...
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    The "Best" Nurse Pass Notes

    audreysmagic replied to WineRN's topic in School

    I did save Halloween once with my stain-lifting skillz. The kid had a nosebleed (an actual legit reason to visit the nurse; I'll take it!) but it was Halloween and he'd gotten blood on his costume,...
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    Injection Gone Wrong: Part 1

    audreysmagic replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I see this so much - I always advise students when I have them on my floor and a deltoid IM comes up to use the finger width
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    Injection Gone Wrong: Part 1

    audreysmagic replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    Same, I need to know what happened! And this is always my fear with some flu clinics, who will be giving the vaccine and if they're properly trained with deltoid
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I'm dying, OMG...transocular, I'm going to have to remember
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    RN shortage

    audreysmagic replied to lee1's topic in General Nursing

    I know at my hospital, they ARE actively trying to hire, but it's hard to find people willing to work psych in an urban environment sometimes...and we're a freestanding psych facility. So there's a...