Christie RN2006

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 door trying to get warm. The poor thing was so tiny...

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 to educate the patient and family about it. Thankf...

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 usually try to do ativan and morphine, if they are let...

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 was a person calling 911 from my floor. The 911 ope...

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 and moving him to the unit. After we moved him to...

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 instructors. When you graduate, you have the same...

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 one from Walmart. I have had my watch for years a...

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 glad you were there to help comfort her!

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

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 different!!

Baking soda paste for bee stings works too! Just mix baking soda with a little bit of water to make the paste and then place it on top of the bee sting.

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 multiple drips, drains, vents, monitors, etc. Somet...

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 the gen eds and concentrate on just the nursing cl...

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 ampules!!

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 if their blood sugar is low.

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 anything, I figure why not? I met my family at Cracker ...

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

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 the school that make me wish I wasn't there. Those...

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. I checked her out and sure enough, she had a lump...

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 right.

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 happen!

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 with inserting the foley. I didn't have any proble...

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

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, dropping BP, increasing resp difficulty all goes ri...

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 seizure and we have had 2 people go down at churc...