MedicalZebra

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  1. Family visitation in ICU

    MedicalZebra replied to bfjworr's topic in General Nursing

    When I was 6 years old, one of my uncles got into a serious motorcycle accident. He was in the ICU for about three weeks, never regained conciousness. At the time, NO kids under 13 were allowed to...

  2. unit Rules

    MedicalZebra replied to imperial's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I could care less about the lint on the BP cuff... but I WON'T sit there wearing a cuff that is so full of the previous patient's sweat that it stinks! Yesterday at dialysis I asked for (and got) a...

  3. Snow Stinks!!

    MedicalZebra replied to Boston-RN's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    I'm a dialysis patient in Western MA, and what a pain it is when it snows on a dialysis day... by the time I finish digging out my car I'm about ready to pass out, then I still have to drive to the...

  4. TB testing at dialysis

    MedicalZebra posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Our unit requires patients to be tested for TB yearly... supposedly failure to take the test results in the patient having to dialyze somewhere else, although I have never seen this happen. What is...

  5. Patients Who Are Prisoners

    MedicalZebra replied to Cameelrn's topic in General Nursing

    In 1989 when I got my kidney transplant, there was a prisoner two rooms down the hall from me. He had been there for four days already and I hadn't even known he was in there-- until day 5, when he...

  6. Vent about the oldest gripe around!!

    MedicalZebra replied to BunnyBunnyBSNRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was working at a department store fitting room and a mother with a crying kid in a stroller said to her, "See that lady? If you don't stop crying, she's going to take you away!" The kid was only...