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 wit...

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 upo...

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 nu...

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...

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 actual...

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 s...

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 an...

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 r...

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 respo...

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!...

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...

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!!!

I had a pt with 3 very young kids that had been accepted by OPO for donation and mom wanted kids to be able to see dad one last time. While we did not tell the little ones that part we did just tell them that he had been in an accident. Before taking...

Don't know anything about the unit. The Boca area is nice and one of our best unit nurses is leaving soon to go work there. Good Luck!

Foul language in pt care areas. Most of us are guilty of slipping up with a word here or there, but when you unleash a string of curse words often within hearing distance pt's and family members, I think it reflects poorly on the professionalism of t...

Our facility puts vanco in 250 ml bags. Most I run is 94ml/hr due to the concentration. Vanco can be ototoxic so it's more so the mg/he to be concerned of like other posters have already mentioned.

My advice, and my home is the FL panhandle. Still have the advantages of the FL weather minus some of the chaos and more family friendliness of south FL! Best wishes, and good luck to you and your family!! PS our beaches are hands down some of the mo...

My current hospital seems to think it's a good idea to cut sedation off of our intubated patients 24, 48, even 72 hours prior to extubation. To me that just seems cruel. Propofol usually wears out off so fast I don't see the need to keep them awake a...

Ugh I just went on my soap box about this while giving report tonight after getting an 84 y/o intubated septic pt. One if our problems is primarily we get surgical and trauma pts and rather than consulting pulmonology we have surgeons running the ven...

I had a family member end up with a second degree burn on a large section of his LUE resulting in several blisters that have already ruptured. In talking to him I discovered the only treatment his doc has recommended is daily dressing changes with so...

Sorry, I must have miss phrased that. I'm not looking for medical advise or to give medical advise. I just have never heard of not going with a Silvadene based treatment and was wondering a reasoning behind that. More of a rationale I guess.

I have no advise for you, however I wanted to say I'm really sorry you are having to go through that and from your post and responses you are the type of nurse I would love to work with. Wishing you nothing but the best!