Christie RN2006

Christie RN2006

SICU, EMS, Home Health, School Nursing

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  1. Of Kittens and Computers

    Christie RN2006 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I adopted a kitten that was abandoned when it was way too little. They found her on one of the coldest days of the year at the country market where my sister works. She was huddled by the...

  2. Family Initiated Rapid Response Team

    Christie RN2006 replied to MAISY, RN-ER's topic in General Nursing

    We also have something similar, except ours is called "Race team". Our family initiated race team just started about 6 months ago. We have fliers that are to be given on admission and we are required...

  3. Respirations at 30 bpm

    Christie RN2006 replied to NursKristy's topic in General Nursing

    I was thinking that is what it sounded like. People tend to do Cheyne-stokes breathing shortly before they die. If they are a DNR pt, medicate them to keep them comfortable, if they are with it I...

  4. Real 911 calls.....

    Christie RN2006 replied to RosesrReder's topic in Nursing Humor

    One night I was working in step-down and I was caring for a patient with sundowners, well about 4 in the morning I received a phone call at the nurses station from our local 911 center stating there...

  5. Intuition??

    Christie RN2006 replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    One night I was working in the unit and I got called to go to step-down to assist with a patient that wasn't doing well. I got over there and the pt was in resp distress and we ended up intubating him...

  6. Questions on Nursing

    Christie RN2006 replied to MelanieC90's topic in General Nursing

    There are lots of benefits for going to a community college. They are usually a lot cheaper and it is generally a smaller setting, so you can get more one on one time with your professors and clinical...

  7. Newbie Question...

    Christie RN2006 replied to blueiris's topic in General Nursing

    https://allnurses.com/nursing-stethoscope/ Click on that link for an entire forum about stethoscopes! As for me, my favorite stethoscope is a Littman classic II and my favorite watch is a super cheap...

  8. Too much sadness this shift...

    Christie RN2006 replied to praying_mantis's topic in General Nursing

    Your post almost made me cry... and here I was complaining about how crappy my night was!! I am definitely going to be praying for your pt!! I'm sure that was the worst day of her life, I am just...

  9. IV site changes/tubing changes???

    Christie RN2006 replied to babies_r_us's topic in General Nursing

    If we are running cardene, our policy is site change Q12

  10. Nurse and Firefighter

    Christie RN2006 replied to mfisher6's topic in General Nursing

    I am a nurse/emt. There are a bunch of us on here that do both :) I really enjoy doing both because they are completely

  11. Stress levels in ICU/CCU

    Christie RN2006 replied to GomerPyle's topic in General Nursing

    The ICU can definitely be very stressful, but it tends to be a different kind of stress than a med/surg floor. In the ICU, you will generally have only 1-2 patients, but they will be very sick with...

  12. BSN vs. ADN + BS in other field

    Christie RN2006 replied to daffodils711's topic in General Nursing

    There are a lot of schools that offer a BS-BSN degree. I know the college I went to had an accelerated program that accepted people with degrees in other fields. Essentially, they got to skip most of...

  13. Dilaudid shortage - anyone else seeing it?

    Christie RN2006 replied to roosmom's topic in General Nursing

    We also are having a shortage of the dilaudid carpujects here in Ohio. We constantly have the ampules showing up in our accudose. I am thankful that we have the

  14. more than 5 rights to med checks

    Christie RN2006 replied to johnst10's topic in General Nursing

    This kinda goes along with right assessment... make sure that you are giving it for the "right reasons"! For example, do not give someone potassium if their potassium level is already high or insulin...

  15. Parking Lot Code....

    Christie RN2006 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just had to share my experience from this evening with you all! I was talking to my mom this evening and she invited me to come to dinner with them at Cracker Barrel, and since I wasn't doing...

  16. Parking Lot Code....

    Christie RN2006 replied to Christie RN2006's topic in General Nursing

    Here's another quick update for those that are curious... She is supposed to get discharged

  17. The Million Dollar Question ??

    Christie RN2006 replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    As a person that does school nursing and hospital nursing I would have to say most of the time!! I have good days at the hospital that make me extremely glad to be there and I have some bad days at...

  18. Teacher blooper of the day

    Christie RN2006 replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in School

    I had a high schooler come to me yesterday with a "lump" on the side of her neck. She was all upset and I'm guessing that she had made up in her mind that she had cancer or something crazy like that....

  19. Parking Lot Code....

    Christie RN2006 replied to Christie RN2006's topic in General Nursing

    So heres an update for you guys... I guess she is doing great and they are supposed to extubate her today! Last I heard they were checking her AICD to see why it didn't work

  20. Parking Lot Code....

    Christie RN2006 replied to Christie RN2006's topic in General Nursing

    Remind me never to drive in front of you!!:chuckle and I will remind you not to go anywhere that involves food with me... thats where my incidents tend to

  21. Your Family in the Hospital

    Christie RN2006 replied to Cagey's topic in General Nursing

    One time we had someone admitted to my floor that most everyone knew. I was one of the few that didn't know her very well, so they asked me if I would be willing to assist her nurse who was orienting...

  22. Parking Lot Code....

    Christie RN2006 replied to Christie RN2006's topic in General Nursing

    The worst part is she probably really doesn't know how to do it or she has only ever done it in

  23. Dangerous nurse?

    Christie RN2006 replied to RoyalNurse's topic in General Nursing

    The only thing from your post that I can see was clearly going on was that woman was slowly dying. It sounds like you did everything you could to help her. The deteriorating mental status, mottling,...

  24. Parking Lot Code....

    Christie RN2006 replied to Christie RN2006's topic in General Nursing

    They tease me at work about that... About 2 years ago, I had a lady code in the cafeteria and I was the only nurse there. About a year ago one of my friends little boy hit his head and had a grand mal...

  25. How often do you get raises in a hospital?

    Christie RN2006 replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    We usually get cost of living raises every year. We also usually get "step" raises too until you reach your maximum number of steps. This year we get nothing... but hey, this isn't a thread about the...