RunninOnCoffee

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  1. Burn question: Just want to

    RunninOnCoffee replied to RunninOnCoffee's topic in General Nursing

    Title was supposed to say just wanted to check

  2. Healthcare Facilities running out of medications + supplies

    RunninOnCoffee replied to calivianya's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    IV tubing, Propofol..... At one point before we ran completely out they brought us some of the little 10 cc bottles from surgery..... Ummmm thanks?? We had to try to get everyone swapped to Versed....

  3. Three-year RN BSN, Still Having Great Difficulty Landing Hospital Job

    RunninOnCoffee replied to thinkingpositive's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I think in my job search out here I came across a large VA hospital somewhere around Loma Linda. I know when I was looking for a job right after we got out here (Feb/ Mar) either Loma Linda or Arrow...

  4. Yay!! I get the poop magnet award!! Who else is so fortunate?!

    RunninOnCoffee replied to RunninOnCoffee's topic in General Nursing

    I am the septic shock and full code nursing home patient queen! Any nursing home patient anywhere near me knew when I was working and came in as an absolute train wreck! Probably why I spotted her...

  5. Yay!! I get the poop magnet award!! Who else is so fortunate?!

    RunninOnCoffee posted a topic in General Nursing

    Yay!! So today after I sent my umpteenth patient out to the hospital via EMS I was told I am the surgery center's poop magnet. Apparently I have managed to send out more patients to the hospital in...

  6. Yay!! I get the poop magnet award!! Who else is so fortunate?!

    RunninOnCoffee replied to RunninOnCoffee's topic in General Nursing

    oh my!! I think I would avoid public places until your little string of good luck

  7. Yay!! I get the poop magnet award!! Who else is so fortunate?!

    RunninOnCoffee replied to RunninOnCoffee's topic in General Nursing

    That is awesome!! I may have to steal this and wear it

  8. Yay!! I get the poop magnet award!! Who else is so fortunate?!

    RunninOnCoffee replied to RunninOnCoffee's topic in General Nursing

    Yikes! I found out today little darling won herself a ticket to the ICU. A Flutter is just the beginning of her issues. My suspicions of sepsis were also confirmed a long with several other underlying...

  9. Pedal pulses

    RunninOnCoffee replied to shayandkaty's topic in General Nursing

    I am usually pretty accurate about an inch to 2 inches above the second toe. For the time being I am working in a vascular surgeons office and I can tell you LOL with PVD have no palpable pulses. Even...

  10. Nursing School Oopsies

    RunninOnCoffee replied to Music in My Heart's topic in General Students

    Haha!! Love this!! I remember going to heparinize a PICC and trying to get that bubble out of the heparin flush. Too bad my clinical instructor and now good friend leaned over the exact same time I...

  11. ~9,000ml's/24 hours out of nasogastric tube

    RunninOnCoffee replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    One of my first thought- are you sure someone isn't giving the patient ice chips to suck on? Adding to the

  12. Did you know? "Code Brown" means tornado. . .LMAO!

    RunninOnCoffee replied to delphine22's topic in General Nursing

    The last hospital I worked for considered it to be a violation of privacy and they were also worried about family disagreements with code status when they came in and saw a DNR on momma. I call bull...

  13. Needing a location change......

    RunninOnCoffee posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just under a year ago we thought we were making a great change when my husband took a job that brought us out to the High Desert in California. The change on paper sounded like a fiscally great idea,...

  14. With-holding resuscitation on pt in the absense of a signed DNR order form? What?!

    RunninOnCoffee replied to Cat_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    @neverdone- when a patient is incapacitated either temporarily or permanently the next of kin becomes the healthcare proxy. The proxy becomes the decision maker UNLESS there existing health care...

  15. 2014 RN pay in panama city, FL

    RunninOnCoffee replied to agathi24's topic in Florida Nursing

    Obviously experience and degree level factors in, but generally pay is in the low to mid $20's/ hr. As a brand new grad at BMC I started out at just under $20/hr. I usually got my full 3 days per week...

  16. Fingerprinting for CA License endorsement

    RunninOnCoffee replied to reginacourtney's topic in California Nursing

    From my personal experience don't wait for the card, it won't come. When I applied back in January as a transfer from FL I was reading where so many people were never receiving requested cards, myself...

  17. peg tube dislodge

    RunninOnCoffee replied to supaflyz's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds like you did all that you could. Any reason an NGT couldn't be placed in the meantime to give meds and feed until the PEG can be resolved? That way your patient doesn't have to go without...

  18. how do I gain experience if I have no experience?

    RunninOnCoffee replied to pete M's topic in General Nursing

    Something else to consider also is a unit secretary position. While it may not be the hands on experience you were looking for, you still learn a tremendous amount. I worked as a unit secretary on a...

  19. Endorsing a GA license to California

    RunninOnCoffee replied to edelwisa's topic in California Nursing

    Not a separate board, just the California boards. Back at the end of last fall they changed their computer system and the roll out of that was just about as bad as Obamacare sign ups. Nothing went...

  20. Endorsing a GA license to California

    RunninOnCoffee replied to edelwisa's topic in California Nursing

    Honestly the biggest challenge I ran into was the enormous back log of applications that the state had. I have heard they have made a lot of progress on it, but when I applied in January it took...

  21. Dansko vs Sanita?

    RunninOnCoffee posted a topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I had a pair of Dansko's that I absolutely loved, however 2 horrible tumbles later and a visit to the ER I have had to reluctantly shelve them. Someone recomended the Sanita shoes and said they don't...

  22. Question for the cardiac guru's out there

    RunninOnCoffee posted a topic in General Nursing

    Had a patient come into the office I work in for simple out patient procedure. He was having an Angiogram done on his RLE. This requires a 2 hour recovery period since the doctor does a femoral...

  23. CPR in Prone Position

    RunninOnCoffee replied to Codeblue1982's topic in MICU, SICU

    Wow! This can be my learned something new today!! Never would I have imagined the concept! Have to credit those thinking outside the box. Although I have not worked in facilities that have had the...

  24. Question for the cardiac guru's out there

    RunninOnCoffee replied to RunninOnCoffee's topic in General Nursing

    Makes sense. And I am glad you said that about the pacer too. My gut was thinking it should not have allowed for him to drop that low, that it should have continued to pace, but I wasn't 100% sure. I...

  25. I may be beating a dead horse.....but utterly bewildered!

    RunninOnCoffee replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's what happens when someone with a finance degree and no clinical experience gets to make a staffing grid. And on the rare occasion said person actually has to be admitted they are considered a...