shopgal RN

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1. Hospital Love Stories ! ! !

   shopgal replied to Esmeraldad1203's topic in General Nursing

   I am an LPN on a LTC Vent unit and when I started my job I was married, not happily, I had just found out that my husband was cheating while I was at work. I went through the seperation and then it...

2. Picks Disease

   shopgal replied to HONEYBEAR's topic in General Nursing

   My Uncle passed away from "complications from pick's disease" and it was 5 years after he was diagnosed and he was 54 at time of diagnosis. It was like the confussion of Alzheimer's and then with...

3. Healthier Living Support Thread: PART TWO!

   shopgal replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Health, Stress Management

   I am always in charge of the cooking for every holiday and get together which I love, but I always just try to cut little corners with the things we all love to eat. I use skim milk and low fat...

4. Name that part. Words patients use for their own anatomy.

   shopgal replied to JEHORAPHA's topic in General Nursing

   A friend of mine calls hers her "Lucy" and when I was younger, we were taught that it was your "do-do" whether you were male or female and so for awhile when I was little I thought that we were all...

5. Puuuuuuulese!!

   shopgal replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

   Before I became a nurse, I was a pharmacy tech and we had a drug seeking mother and her son amazingly enough had all of these ailments that she needed to come and pick up meds for him and we always...

6. Pet Peeves

   shopgal replied to sjb2005's topic in General Nursing

   Well done to the noc shifters! Better yet, our meetings are scheduled at 1:30pm.. always. I quit going, I keep saying that when I work from 7p-7a, no meeting is mandatory at 1:30 in the afternoon....

7. Anyone get A's in nursing school?

   shopgal replied to Roseyposey's topic in General Students

   One of my instructors told me to give up the 4.0 idea because nursing programs are so compact that you need to just concentrate on one or two classes and get the As in those to keep your GPA up and...

8. Night shift nurses

   shopgal replied to healinghand's topic in New Jersey Nursing

   I work 7p-7a and I get out of there between 7:30-8:00am if I am pretty well prepared and start my last med pass on time and don't have any major catastrophes. I have worked noc shift for years and...

9. Vanco peak & trough times

   shopgal replied to alarla's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

   Yeah, our protocol is no more than 30 min before infusion and then a 30 min to 1 hour window after infusion. We always draw them 72 hours after the initial

10. What squicks you out?

    shopgal replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yeah, the one that still grosses me out is the dying cancer pt smell, that one gets me still. The other one that causes me to step back is the smell of when you have to burp a g-tube and they have...

11. What squicks you out?

    shopgal replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

    Spit and sputum used to just make me gag and want to ralph, so where do I work, Long term ventilator unit! Now I could care less! We have all of these pts that have signed waivers that they know...

12. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    shopgal replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work in a nsg home that had a new part that was only like 4 yrs old and the old part that we called the "getto" that was about 40 yrs old. Wierd stuff always happened in the getto part....

13. C-Diff Question

    shopgal replied to Aneroo's topic in General Nursing

    I am well versed in C-diff, it seems like all of our pts come back from the hosp with it and then if they have it, no matter how many times we explain handwashing and contact isolation to the CNAs,...

14. Any nurses married to a nurse ?

    shopgal replied to Kitty-MayRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was married to a man who's career was nothing medical and it was so hard to talk to him because he didn't care when I would come home and be so drained from having a pt die or a really stressful...

15. How to deal with death?

    shopgal replied to breezy5's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I worked in LTC as a CNA for several years and now as a nurse, I work on a long term vent unit. My pts in LTC it was hard, but I could say, "Well, they were old and lived their lives" and be happy...