RunninOnCoffee

First off, I don't work in mother baby or L&D so my knowledge of these areas is limited to my own personal delivery experience and a short 6 weeks of clinicals. What I do know is, each new mom that is discharged from my hospital is sent home with a baby bag with a few items and samples of items. I am trying to look towards the upcoming hot summer and I would like to see about getting an item included in each of these bags similar to this: Boy Invents Life-Saving Device to Prevent Child Deaths in... Does anyone know how I would even start the process of this? Again not my area, but a subject very near and dear to my heart. Thanks!!

And this my friend is why I live in FL 😉 No advice I can give you, but sending prayers to ya! Once a beach girl, always a beach girl!

These are awesome!! My cheeks hurt from laughing! Nursingjudgement-I am pretty sure I must have cared for your pt #4's long lost family member. Except for this one it was root beer. Oh and in night shift when the nurse was on a CT run she took it upon herself to bathe her intubated and sedated husband..... And dislodged his ETT!! Not to long ago I had an AxO or that had no difficulty MAE call and ask if we could come separate his butt cheeks further apart while he was on the bedpan so he could poop easier!??!! WTH?? while I know it was an naievness issue, I had the family member of an 83 LOL ask what the odds of her getting a kidney transplant were..... Oh and just last week 50+ y/o M s/p head injury with subdural bleed. and I'm talking to wifey poo... "I know my husband can be a real stubborn guy and will not agree to *insert rehab hospital here*, Can't you just Baker Act him or something? No, no ma'am I can't baker act him because he doesn't want to go to rehab.

As a female nurse with 5 years experience (in my mid 30's) I've seen both. Overall for the most part there isn't really a difference. However we do have a small handful, and honestly mostly foreign born, that do not do well with advice from female nurses. In fact, it seems often they will order something completely different just to spite us. Then, shockingly, the following morning in roundings the exact order we wanted pops up as if it was his idea. Makes me crazy!!

This was my first thought too! Used swab caps at one place and now the curios caps. Personally, I much prefer swab caps

First year of nursing got into my driveway, went to pull out my phone and discovered 2mg of Dilaudid.... Oops! Back to work I went. Then just a few years ago did it with Morphine. Very long day and honestly for a second I thought about taking it back the next day but instead I just ran it back that night. It happens to everyone. Both times I pulled the meds and then the pt said they didn't need them.

Several years ago before I graduated nursing school the unit secretary replacing me called in because she was "already too drunk to come into work." I ended up staying until I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore. Still can't believe that 1. She actually admitted that and 2. She still somehow had a job the following weekend.

We have been slammed full all...summer....long! Slap full and did I mention low staffed hospital wide! I work the next 5 of 6 days and just want to crawl in a hole somewhere and hide.

I had the same problem until I finally ended up spending the afternoon portion of my shift getting X-rays in the ER for a potential fx. Thankfully none, but I got to become very friendly with crutches the next several days. Since then they have sat safely in the top of my closet and I have worn Alegria's. Not quite as comfortable as Dansko's but I have not fallen again since. I have tried wearing tennis shoes but by then end of my shift I just hurt everywhere. My back, knees, feet, all of it. I hope you find what works best for you!!

From my personal experience (and each person is different) Nike's, Brooks, etc are great for walking and running but for hours of standing I come home with my knees, ankles, and feet just aching. I LOVED my Dansko's until I rolled an ankle in them and have since switched to Alegria clogs. I have one of the newer styles not the older clunky clogs. I could work several more hours on my feet in those. I think they are made not just for the walking but the hours of standing we do too. Again, each person has preferances and that is just works for me.

As being part of the responding code team ACLS is a protocol therefore no physician medication order requirement. We frequently start pushing meds before responding code physicians arrive. One of the purposes of being ACLS trained and being a code responder is being capable of running a full code. So long as you are ACLS certified I see no issues.

I agree with the above poster. My other thought was also if the pt was not intubated that meant you were using a bvm. In doing so probably blew a large amount if air into the abdomen. This combined with compressions caused the pt to vomit. Just responded to an ugly code last week where this happened.

Placing NGT's. For some reason that feels like one of the most barbaric things to do to someone. I know good and well they will feel so much better once the abdomen is decompressed, but shoving something through the nose just looks like pure torture!!! Oh and I second the CT runs or any field trip with 5 million lines, pressors, Codmans, vent, and the works!

I learned again that synthetic marijuana is really bad for the noggin and combined with a full moon makes for entertainment for all the family members in the ICU......even after we closed the little cupcakes door so his outbursts wouldn't be quite so audible.

I'm sure you did everything you possibly could! Remember when it's your time, it's your time and there is nothing we can do about that. Mourn his loss tonight, say a prayer for his family, and go in tomorrow and give it your all again. Hugs!!!