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Hello, Just wanting some info on this situation that occurred in our unit. We had rec'd a 400 lb woman from a nursing home, already trached, in resp. failure but upon arrival and shifting her over to our icu bed she was drenched in urine and the amm...

Right on, girl! I like what you said, I'll keep that in my database :)

Haha, great comeback! Sorry it took so long to get back!

Ah, yes, those little nurses that shroud their hostile, suckfull comments during report! I caught one in the act of throwing my coworker under the bus one morning. As she was giving report to me she immediately started telling how the previous nurse...

Thank You for the reply and rationale.

We have a few student nurses coming in here as part of their curriculum. There is one who dons theatrical makeup-false eyelashes and heavy tan makeup which I find so inappropriate. Should not the lady's nursing instructor tell her it's inappropriat...

Get your estrogen patch on, STAT!

Patients don't want to be turned after surgery so you must first medicate to ease the move. Lifting is an every day occurrance in my unit requiring at least 2 staff members and using modified trendelenburg (you may also use a Hoyer lift). The morbi...

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The report is now called 'SBAR' -Situation,Background,Assessment, Recommendations-that's how your report should flow to anyone involved in your patient care and is now required for Joint Commission. Since we are in a critical care forum, SBAR is expe...

If it's a sudden cardiac or neuro event, the patient's family needs time to digest and accept the events that are unfolding. But regardless of how YOU feel, it's the family's decision-sometimes there is money involved-a government check maybe, or a f...

Languishing through your story was like reading "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" except you gave it a decent ending.

You may be right! There was a case in my own ICU where an 81 yr old man , after exhausive tests, was HIV +

I've seen it over and over: OLD nurses eat OLD nurses

I want to tell you I was a "full grown woman" (>35yo) when I ventured over to Nursing after being a Respiratory Therapist for 4 yrs.- and the first year of nursing was HORRIBLE. It was so demanding and demeaning! You must have a THICK skin to sur...

"If your friends work somewhere else (the floor especially) the degree of intensity is so different that it's not necessary to compare yourself to them. In six months you'll know so much more than them about gtts, vents, codes. YOU'LL be the one they...

I think the post was for us peons..RN's...of course YOU would be happy ..GTO:yeah:

Thank you for some ammunition to post in my unit's "lunch room". Eliza

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I was working a Christmas eve when 2 male family members came in demanding to look at their mother's chart. The pt was an elderly bed bound female with gross gangrenous bilateral lower extremi...

I liked that expression "johnnies" for hospital gowns-never heard it before-but I'm gonna say it to my New Englander friend at work to see if she gets it. She likes to tell all her friends that she is from Conn. and NOT from SouthKakalaki! I think...

Rebz, you are so right. My husband is involved in simulation programs for medical care and he says it's the geeks's lack of "human factor". I have to say it's getting better here but they post in the lunch area each employee's percentile of correct...

You sound like you are very patient, and unspoiled nurse. You've got what it takes, iheart, keep going..... Eliza

Sounds like ya gotta little crush....enjoy! Eliza

"How are the patients? Is it a real busy ICU or are the patients not that sick. What types of trauma do they see? " The sickest of the sick, honey chile'. Come on down we need your expertise! Eliza

In my L & D rotation, a c-section baby was delivered and brought over to have apgars checked, and was found cyanotic and listless-then the Rn's discovered that the flowmeter was off the whole time. Eliza