KRVRN

KRVRN BSN, RN

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  1. Abbreviations/Acronyms

    KRVRN replied to shyviolet78's topic in General Students

    It does mean status post. Like, if the person had a previous surgery or something, you might write "s/p ______" in the history. Or if the person is in the hospital healing after injuries from a MVA,...

  2. Needle Stick

    KRVRN replied to Frautara's topic in General Nursing

    Frautara, Was it the clinic where this happened that didn't seem to be able to tell you much about post-exposure HIV drugs? Or was it your instructors and other people? I'm just asking because I can...

  3. Needle Stick

    KRVRN replied to Frautara's topic in General Nursing

    I had a needle incident while giving flu shots during nursing school 2 years ago. I don't know that I myself would call it a needle stick, but that's what everyone else called it. We had tables set...

  4. Is This Nitpicking?????

    KRVRN replied to micro's topic in General Nursing

    I especially can't stand the day nurse that I just gave report to calling me at about 1PM to tell me about something I did. If it's a question about something I did and you need to know to clarify,...

  5. Med Errors!!!

    KRVRN replied to VickyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Awhile back, we had a nurse with PICU experience start in our NICU. Management figured she could just be buddied up with another nurse for training and then eventually have her own assignment. I...

  6. Share your favorite halloween jokes

    KRVRN replied to radnurse2001's topic in Nursing Humor

    This is the only time of year when it's not inappropriate to say "She's a goblin tonight."

  7. HELP my dry hands!!!!

    KRVRN replied to OneChattyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I just thought of something else... When I first started nursing I would rub my hands dry after washing them. The paper towels were rough and it contributed to my hands cracking. Now I always blot...

  8. Help! Ventilators

    KRVRN replied to VickyRN's topic in General Nursing

    It's true about the LOOK at the pt thing! It's a little disconcerting when you are new in a NICU and your vent starts alarming every 5 seconds or so, then goes off by itself, then starts alarming,...

  9. HELP my dry hands!!!!

    KRVRN replied to OneChattyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Have you talked to employee health? Some of the nurses in my unit have special permission to wash with alternate soaps that employee health suggests. One uses J&J baby wash on her hands. She...

  10. Resident with hip fracture

    KRVRN replied to Vicki30CNA's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Isn't it amazing what we do to the pts that can't articulate their pain? In the NICU, with babies, we give them tylenol post-op. They cry, of course, but all babies cry so tylenol is all they get....

  11. a few more abbreviations?

    KRVRN replied to frappachino's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I learned the "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all"... If I were a non-assertive person, would I have defended frappachino against getting blasted? I have yet to take an...

  12. a few more abbreviations?

    KRVRN replied to frappachino's topic in General Nursing

    When I was little my mom would tell me that if I can't say anything nice, I shouldn't say anything at all... So what if she SHOULD know those. So what if she should just go look them up. Maybe she...

  13. Letter of intent

    KRVRN replied to NurseDixie's topic in General Students

    Talk about how dedicated you are to nursing, how much you regret failing and how you will try harder (give examples). State that you very much want to learn and how you have always wanted to be a...

  14. culture of surgical ICU

    KRVRN replied to klimasr's topic in MICU, SICU

    Good lord now the ICU nurses are differentiating themselves! Please please please don't start mentioning whose an ADN and whose a

  15. Do you mix your own IV's?

    KRVRN replied to deespoohbear's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    One time the pharmacy sent up the ordered TPN for all the pts on my unit. The nurses double checked what the doctors ordered against the labels on the TPN bags for accuracy. The labels matched what...

  16. bomb threat

    KRVRN replied to georgia nurse's topic in Orthopedic

    When I first started nursing school, my first clinical was in a SNF. Our first day there, the charge nurse gave us a tour, orientation, etc., including explanations for what to do in case of fire,...

  17. NUK Nipples

    KRVRN replied to smbluthing's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We rarely use NUK nipples in my unit. If the baby doesn't PO feed very well, we will sometimes try the NUK nipple on the notion that, heck, maybe he or she will take to this one better. All of our...

  18. Use of diapers vs. underpads for incontinent patients

    KRVRN replied to bmaury's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    We use diapers in my unit. I work in a NICU though... Haha, dumb joke I know, I couldn't

  19. Gavage feedings

    KRVRN replied to Karen Whiteted's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    In my NICU, we check residual before every gavage feeding, and if the result is 20% or less than the last feeding, we refeed it and continue with the feeding. If the residual is over 20% of the last...