CodeteamB

CodeteamB

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  1. Election day in the hospital

    CodeteamB replied to JeanettePNP's topic in General Nursing

    Where I am (Canada) the electoral officer comes in and patients

  2. Checking A Patient's Blood Glucose In His Earlobe?

    CodeteamB replied to Dazglue's topic in General Nursing

    Anecdotal but my diabetic friend samples from his ear lobes routinely, and doses accordingly, has not had any difficulties, except his ear lobes look

  3. Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

    CodeteamB replied to DidiRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think what Katie describes is actually a problem with a two-tier system, not a single payer system. I work for government healthcare, and have no cleaning responsibilities. Also, from another thread...

  4. Food in the ER

    CodeteamB replied to Sassy5d's topic in Emergency

    No worries. We'll give you a few years and you'll be here in all your eye-twitching, venting glory, and we'll all get

  5. behavioral interventions in patients with dementia

    CodeteamB replied to SuperSamRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if this is what you are looking for but we will occasionally give a big bag of facecloths to a person with dementia and ask them to help out by folding them. It works a treat for a lot of...

  6. Food in the ER

    CodeteamB replied to Sassy5d's topic in Emergency

    It's not about personal cost to me. #1. Believe it or not there are people who visit the ER exclusively for the gourmet fare. I have sympathy for people with nothing else to eat, but we have an...

  7. Staffing/Patient Ratios in your ED

    CodeteamB replied to Collins030505's topic in Emergency

    I work in a large inner city ER. Our ratios vary from 1:3 to 1:6 based on acuity. In our fast track area you can have more patients, but obviously less sick/busy. We have a 2 nurse code team who do...

  8. Stooopid

    CodeteamB replied to Ciale's topic in Emergency

  9. Family Complaint... Why am I so bothered by this?

    CodeteamB replied to Alex87's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ok, deep breaths. You did the right thing, you were a good nurse. The family member's opinion on the matter is beyond irrelevant. The patient's physician ordered an appropriate dose of analgesia, the...

  10. ER nurses not calling report anymore...

    CodeteamB replied to plinytheRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    At my hospital we enter report in the computer charting system. We have a form that self populates most information (allergies, labs, inpatient orders, diagnosis etc) we fill in things like focused...

  11. Food in the ER

    CodeteamB replied to Sassy5d's topic in Emergency

    Yep, it is a classic. Roll in with N/V/D and abdominal pain, the appearance of having homes, jobs and higher mental functions. Without fail, when I get to the "is there anything else you need to tell...

  12. Stooopid

    CodeteamB replied to Ciale's topic in Emergency

    There was nothing said about how the patients were treated, and there is no patient information here. Basically OP is describing a typical day in #1 and about 4 peeps I can think of in the last month...

  13. What da heck is a Nurse Career Battery test?

    CodeteamB replied to myownboss's topic in General Nursing

    (Line of invective deleted) This is basically snake oil, and the organizations which believe it is going to get them better nurses as opposed to better test-takers/liars are dumber than a bunch of old...

  14. IV push and wearing gloves

    CodeteamB replied to Katniss88's topic in Patient Medications

    Why? Have you seen the studies on what they culture off clean gloves? Your patient is far more protected in this case by you maintaining good hand

  15. Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

    CodeteamB replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

    I had one recently say to me after some harmless bit of patient education (imagine snarky voice) "yeah, I know that ok? I went to medical school." -I shall omit the myriad prejudiced reasons that I...

  16. Deep, cleansing breaths

    CodeteamB posted a topic in General Nursing

    Today was one of those days. Things went wrong, big and small. People were disappointing, in predictable and surprising ways. I brought it all home with me. So now as I lay here, listening to the...

  17. How to become a nurse practitioner from a nurse?

    CodeteamB replied to jaimie_adams's topic in Canada

    Again, there can be opportunities to do nursing clinicals abroad, without delaying your program. http://www.nursing.ualberta.ca/en/GlobalNursingOffice/Opportunities.aspx Check with the university you...

  18. Dilemma...Please help

    CodeteamB replied to beaty1234's topic in Canada

    Gah. You know how we all roll our eyes when people glorify nursing? That's how I feel whenever someone says this. Th primary income in my family comes from "oil and gas." My husband makes good money...

  19. How to become a nurse practitioner from a nurse?

    CodeteamB replied to jaimie_adams's topic in Canada

    Not entirely true. While I have never heard of a "year abroad" like to go live in Paris and take courses type deal, there are international clinicals where students can go do a preceptorship in...

  20. Peer evaluations

    CodeteamB replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

    The last time I did formal peer evaluations was in nursing school. We had to do them as a presentation to our entire seminar and it was mandated that you include at least 2 items of constructive...

  21. Deep, cleansing breaths

    CodeteamB replied to CodeteamB's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, turns out it was nothing a noise complaint to the police, couple hours sleep and a gripe to my work BFF couldn't fix

  22. Dating former patient

    CodeteamB replied to usnurse11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Run, don't walk. There are plenty of fish in the sea, and this one smells a little off. But not to be flip. The context of your original meeting does not place you on the correct footing to start a...

  23. Help with cleansing a necrotic/ischemic toe/foot?

    CodeteamB replied to josephjohn87's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    The first time it happened I'm not gonna lie, there was a bit of sphincter clenching going on O.o But really, there isn't a better outcome for a dead toe. Also, may I just add BARF to those Dawson...

  24. Did being unattractive hurt your career?

    CodeteamB replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Nursing Career

    My best friend (not unattractive) has one of those mean faces, it is what drew me to her. I literally remember thinking "wow, she looks like a b-, I must get to know her!" Seriously, don't sweat this,...

  25. Does your SO understand job stress?

    CodeteamB replied to Tobygo2's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, my husband gets it, but he didn't always. When we were first married he was obsessed with me picking up and making more money. He didn't understand why I was so beat when I wasn't even working...