KRVRN

KRVRN BSN, RN

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  1. Older Child Terrified of Blood/Needles

    KRVRN replied to amblessing's topic in General Nursing

    Did he have a traumatic experience where he got injured and bled a lot? Maybe that's why he fears the sight of

  2. Older Child Terrified of Blood/Needles

    KRVRN replied to amblessing's topic in General Nursing

    Try using EMLA, then if you DO work up to actual needle sticking, maybe it won't hurt and reinforce the fear. Just a

  3. Warm Ear Drops?

    KRVRN replied to KittyPaus, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Never warmed ear drops before, but I found out the hard way what happens when you put alcohol-based ear drops in a post-op ear surgery pt's ears! I was a student at the time and hadn't a clue what...

  4. cracking at corners of mouth

    KRVRN replied to Kim-rn's topic in General Nursing

    Yes zumalong! That's just what I was going to say. I had a lot of cracking at the corners of my mouth when I had braces. I attributed it to the fact that the corners of my mouth always seemed to be...

  5. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    KRVRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Ooh, you're gonna get flamed. Tribe, darkies,

  6. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    KRVRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    this is why I work

  7. Question-how far do you travel for work daily?

    KRVRN replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    20 miles, one way. 30 minutes doing the speed limit of 65, 20 minutes doing 80. Would take me over an hour if I worked day shift d/t

  8. Paperclips for eye exam????

    KRVRN replied to nell's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I've never seen it

  9. What Freaks You Out?

    KRVRN replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    We found ants on the counter, IV tubing, and bed of a critical micropreemie in the NICU. There was a little bit of TPN fluid dripped on the floor. Ther eeww part is that there were a few ants on...

  10. Developmental Positioning, Aids, and stuff like that...

    KRVRN replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    WE have what what we call snugglies. It's kind of an oval of fabric, with one end of the oval with sort of a fabric wall that stands upright. Then 2 straps that wrap around the whole thing to bind...

  11. Med-surg or NICU first?

    KRVRN replied to Neonatal WannaB's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    NICU first, definitely. Med-surg is just yucky, IMHO. It's funny-- We had to change a colostomy bag on a preemie and we all had to don masks cause poop and colostomies are so stinky! (oh yeah...

  12. Practical jokes at work

    KRVRN replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

    We have an older charge nurse that is especially prone to getting VERY uptight and panicky in tense, stressful situations. Well, she was working on Aprils Fool's Day one year. All the staff were in...

  13. What was most embarrassing moment as a nurse?

    KRVRN replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    A little beside the point, but still funny... Regarding the organism/orgasm slip-up that colleen10 mentioned... I had the most upppity, prim, proper, etc etc english teacher in high school and she...

  14. As an OB nurse, do you feel like your med/surg experience will go to waste?

    KRVRN replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

    But on the other hand, if you go into med-surg right after school you might lose the L&D knowledge you gained in school. If you really want to go into L&D, do

  15. Jcaho

    KRVRN replied to KRVRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We reband the baby if the band is too small, too faded, or if 1 is lost. Also if a parent loses one or it gets too faded. One band gets stapled to a paper in the chart and the other (unless it's...

  16. Jcaho

    KRVRN posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Well, they're coming this August. This will be my first JCAHO experience as a nurse. My question is about those cute name signs that we post on the beds with the baby's first name on it. Are those...

  17. Jcaho

    KRVRN replied to KRVRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Something funny happened last night... The hot water spigot on our coffee machine (of course located right next to the breast milk) was broken somehow and it was putting out a constant stream of hot...

  18. A Legal Nightmare: Denver Nurses Indicted in Newborn Death

    KRVRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Does anyone know? If the 10x drug dose HAD been given IM, would it still have been

  19. Poor Organizational Skills in Clinical??!!!

    KRVRN replied to lauraw's topic in General Students

    Trust me, it's different when YOU are the nurse and you don't have to be supervised and you have your OWN acces code to the

  20. Poor Organizational Skills in Clinical??!!!

    KRVRN replied to lauraw's topic in General Students

    You lose a lot of time waiting around for someone to get you your meds from the computer, waiting for someone to check them off, and questioning you about what they are for. THEN sometimes you have...

  21. What Freaks You Out?

    KRVRN replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I keep asking myself why I keep coming back to read

  22. What Freaks You Out?

    KRVRN replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, there aren't many things quite as gross as y'all have described in the NICU world, but I do have to share the thing that does gross me... During a c-section, I find the smell of the cauterizer...

  23. Itching...

    KRVRN replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    I had a problem like that in high school. Apparently, when I sprayed hair spray to the side of my head, residue somehow got into my ears. I became more vigilant about covering my ears when I sprayed...

  24. Night Shift Differential

    KRVRN replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    We get $3.00/hour extra for night shift. No weekend differentials because we are required to work every other weekend. Isn't that nice? Hmmm, and they are frequently overstaffed on the weekends and...

  25. Taping IV Catheters

    KRVRN replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    We secure with a tegaderm, then chevron at the point where the tubing leaves the tegaderm. Still stays in and the actual insertion site is under the tegaderm. Then we further secure it with a hand...