CodeteamB

CodeteamB

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  1. Bad nurse?

    CodeteamB replied to Neldavi's topic in First Year After Licensure

  2. Nurses Talk To Nurses. Doctors Talk To Doctors

    CodeteamB replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds like your workplace needs a change in culture and policy and that this particular physician needs a major attitude adjustment. The story of the meeting makes me cringe, I just can't picture...

  3. Rude Coworkers

    CodeteamB replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Agree, an anonymous note is not cool, and not going to be taken seriously. If you are taking this to management you need to stand up and own the fact that you feel this co-worker needs to be...

  4. Patient Hides Needles in Bathroom

    CodeteamB replied to Blue Roses's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have a lovely memory involving a body pillow, broken sharps container, every med given to the patient for 2 weeks (with the the exception of the narcotics), feces, and a PICC line. Patient ended up...

  5. Vent: Downgrading patient from ICU status

    CodeteamB replied to ukjenn231's topic in General Nursing

    Yup. I have also had the ICU residents play LOC roulette with patients: "stop the propofol and if she bucks the tube we can probably extubate and sign off to medicine." Um, yeah, fantastic! I'll...

  6. Bad nurse?

    CodeteamB replied to Neldavi's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You've been doing this less than 6 months and you post clearly suggests that you care about your competence. There is no way you could possibly be a "bad nurse." You are a new nurse. You may be making...

  7. Vent: Downgrading patient from ICU status

    CodeteamB replied to ukjenn231's topic in General Nursing

    The scenario you describe is unacceptable. Once a patient has been assigned a service and ordered to go to a specific unit it is the job of administration to find a bed for the patient, not to try and...

  8. Should hospital provide and launder scrubs?

    CodeteamB replied to Kitty Carlisle's topic in Emergency

    We have a mandated uniform, provided by the hospital, and we have laundry service which *nobody* uses. I only use the hospital laundry if I have gross contamination, which is rare as we wear large...

  9. Why did she pick on me?

    CodeteamB replied to Dean7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Along the same lines as what everyone is saying, but don't allow this person to make camp in your headspace. Likely she never thinks of you unless you are right in front of her. Do what you know is...

  10. From patient to nurse: red tape?

    CodeteamB replied to nicoG's topic in Nursing Career

    Congratulations on your recovery and your new career! Both are amazing accomplishments. I think that you probably would have a lot to offer this program having been through the disease. Not to be...

  11. Gas & Air For L&D/Home Births

    CodeteamB replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Oh we do! Used two tanks of it personally during labour in 2010... I apparently am one of the people for whom they named it laughing gas, I was apparently hilarious, couldn't stop giggling. I...

  12. Home med lists make me crazy.

    CodeteamB replied to imintrouble's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work the admitting physician/senior resident of whatever is responsible for entering all patient orders including the medications required during hospital stay prior to the patient leaving the...

  13. Not sure if Nursing is for me, guidance please? :)

    CodeteamB replied to Loststudent's topic in Canada

    Yes, you will be wiping behinds wherever you go. Advanced practice nursing is not theoretical... The NPs I know are up to their elbows with everyone

  14. Not sure if Nursing is for me, guidance please? :)

    CodeteamB replied to Loststudent's topic in Canada

    I'm glad you see that this decision must be made by you. Anyone on this forum cannot tell you what to do because we don't have all the info. That said... I will share a story. In my program I had a...

  15. man sent home with a broken leg

    CodeteamB replied to GingerSue's topic in General Nursing

    Ok I just made the mistake of reading the comments section. Now I'm in a rage at the amount of ignorance and self righteousness I saw there. People have no idea what happens in an emergency room. So...

  16. man sent home with a broken leg

    CodeteamB replied to GingerSue's topic in General Nursing

    There is a lot of information missing here. The thing with these stories is only one side is ever heard (privacy laws prevent the other side from speaking out). Anyhow, there was an oops, it didn't...

  17. So the boss says "When a call light goes off, consider that an error"

    CodeteamB replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Shhhhhh! Don't give them any ideas! But for real, I'm with you, long live publicly funded health

  18. Hyperglycemia or Dehydration what to treat first

    CodeteamB replied to hazzadis's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I think many of us are thinking of DKA, in which it is possible to see a serum hyperkalemia even though the total body potassium levels are low. You want to get the serum K+ to return to...

  19. Favourite Doctor Moments

    CodeteamB replied to NO50FRANNY's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I had an elderly person visiting family from out of country with no travel insurance and a true A1 emergency medical condition. One of our quieter ER docs saw this man and put a lot of work into the...

  20. Nurses who love what they do

    CodeteamB replied to RachPapp's topic in Nurses Rock

    Me! Me! I love my job! I have loved nursing since I was is school. I can moan with the best of them, but even when I'm in the middle of a post-shift rant, deep down I wouldn't change it for the world....

  21. OMG Say it correctly!

    CodeteamB replied to seanynjboy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Same

  22. Disappointed with my nurse last night

    CodeteamB replied to BSNbeauty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I wonder, was the lack of hub-scrubbing a single occurrence or did it happen more than once? If it was a one time thing it sounds like a busy nurse getting distracted and messing up, could happen to...

  23. Dreaming About Work

    CodeteamB replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto, except I still have this one anytime the stress ramps up in my life, and I'm always at the end of the semester with no idea what is going on in any of my classes. My work dreams stopped fairly...

  24. Theme song to your Nursing career?

    CodeteamB replied to sMoLsNurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    1- Wise Up- Aimee Mann For the acute on chronic pancreatitis in bed 6:"it's not going to stop 'til you wise up" 2- Rehab - Amy Winehouse For many, many patients: "and I say 'no, no, no'" 3- I Fought...

  25. 12 hour overnight nurses, please tell me about your sleep schedule.

    CodeteamB replied to dandk1997RN's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I think the key piece of information here is that you are homeschooling a 9 year old! I know the amount of effort that takes and presume that means you have a 9 year old home in your house where you...