icyounurse BSN, RN

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    The most embarrasing thing you've done at work!

    icyounurse replied to ClaireMacl's topic in Nursing Humor

    once during a code we were getting ready to shock and i quickly grabbed the ekg pads and in my urgency to quickly open the package ripped the pads in half. the nurses i work thought this was...
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    funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    icyounurse replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    i am not saying its the most appropriate either, but you know i think if i was having that kind of night, i would probably not help but to laugh[once i was safely away from family]. you really have to...
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    Right Ventricular Infarct--thing I thought I knew...

    icyounurse replied to papawjohn's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    whats the bun and
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    Dangerous lessons learned in your first year of nursing

    icyounurse replied to RaeT,RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I completely agree. the other night i had a pt who had a neuro change, getting lethargic, unable to speak, uneven pupils, drooping l side of face. so i thought, oh god she's stroking out and took her...
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    ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

    icyounurse replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    you know what? it so happens to our unit all the time. it is always at shift change when you are tired and just want to go home, they start filling every empty bed on the unit. i mean, we are not...
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    Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    icyounurse replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I was an art major and had figured out that it was not what i wanted to do and felt lost. i was reading a horror novel one day and one of the main characters turned her life around and became a nurse...
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    Taking the NCLEX in 9.5 hours....(9am on Friday)...any last minute tips?

    icyounurse replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in First Year After Licensure

    everybody told me that if you miss the last question it means you failed. well i know for a fact i missed the last question [i looked it up as soon as i got home] and still passed. also you will be...
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    Role Call! RN to BSN online students........

    icyounurse replied to Tweety's topic in Online Distance Learning

    my name is susannah and i am starting my online rn to bsn in the fall at university of south alabama. i just completed the prereqs. i have never taken an online class so i am unsure of how i will make...
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    Britney demanding background checks for her L&D nurses..

    icyounurse replied to Peachy720's topic in Ob/Gyn

    excuse me? SERVING her? are they
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    Tylenol toxicity? How serious?? Please read!

    icyounurse replied to breastfeedingRN's topic in Emergency

    had a pt who was in her 20's almost die from that a month or so ago. she was taking tylenol every few hours for fever and taking darvocet and lortab [not a presciption, supplied by family] with it for...
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    Nurses Who Shouldn't be Nurses

    icyounurse replied to bobnurse's topic in General Nursing

    this may sound weird but i didn't know how much $ i would make until right before i graduated when i interviewed a few places. i remember being so exited that i was going to be making 22$/hr, which...
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    Disposing of IV bags?

    icyounurse replied to PJMommy's topic in General Nursing

    you know i never thought about it, just dumped them into the trash. it doesn't seem to me that someone is going to dig through hospital trash to find out what iv antibiotic somebody is taking? i...
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    Traumatized by nursing - advice needed

    icyounurse replied to kcsun3's topic in General Nursing

    have you looked into a doctors office? i know some nurses who have went into them straight out of school or with minimum
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    PRN pay in YOUR area?

    icyounurse replied to leisa22's topic in General Nursing

    in alabama we make less, base rate of 19 an hour, plus shift diff of 3, prn float diff of 5 at our hospital. but cost of living is lower here i guess. so prn float employees who work at night make 27...
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    Have I made a mistake?

    icyounurse replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

    get out while you still have a liscence. you should have at least 12 weeks of orientation on the unit you are working on. that is standard, or at least it should
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    Medicins sans frontieres - Doctors without borders

    icyounurse replied to NorthER,RN's topic in General Nursing

    its good to see a thread like this. i am giving serious thought to joining the peace corps. mainly because i want to see some people with real problems, and maybe even make a positive contribution. i...
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    Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    icyounurse replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    i so agree. that she is all over the news in her state has been my biggest source of disgust about this whole thing. and thankyou, i was wondering if anybody else knew anything about eating disorders...
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    Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    icyounurse replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    i have read in some articles she has fluid instead of a cerebral cortex. is that not true? thats a pretty big statement to make if its not based on hard evidence. i would hope that it would not be...
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    What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    icyounurse replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    had an icu pt who was really stable. he was allergic to everything but one narcotic and needed frequent doses. i think he was in for a low h&h awaiting egd the next day. anyways he left ama, he...
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    Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    icyounurse replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    she has no cerebral cortex. there is just fluid where it was. it doesn't grow back. thats a little worse than being brain
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    Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    icyounurse replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    amen. i hope that if something like that happened to me i could die quickly with some dignity. not on cnn for 14 years with politicians using me for political
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    Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    icyounurse replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    i challenge anybody to post that they would like to be kept alive in a persistive vegatative state for 14 years. anybody at all. has anybody put that in a living will
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    Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    icyounurse replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    i agree that yes these issues should definantly have been addressed a very long time ago. i also think there should be more focus on the PATIENT, and not the politicians, the family and the husbands...
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    Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    icyounurse replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    um, not to state the obvious but they had undeniable brain functioning, THE WHOLE BRAIN, not just the brain stem. they could think, speak and well
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    Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    icyounurse replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    she only has use of her brain stem. that is why she can breathe. you see your brain stem contols breathing and blinking and other VERY basic life functions. terri has lost cognitive neurological...