galenight

galenight BSN, RN

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  1. Hospital Grub

    galenight replied to Witheney's topic in General Nursing

    Our cafeteria has one entree, one or two side dishes (like bread stick and broccoli) and a pitiful salad bar. They serve only lunch from 11:30 until 1:00 and only on weekdays. Fortunately they...

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

    galenight replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Speaking of gangrene, day before yesterday we had a guy come in from dialysis s/p bilat aka, with chest pain (upon further questioning it was really rectal pain.. how one confuses the two I'll never...

  3. Episiotomy vs. Spontaneous laceration?

    galenight replied to becca.utns's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am not an OB nurse, but do have a personal incident. When I gave birth to my son 15 (ohmygod) years ago I had a precipitous delivery. There was no time for the doc to arrive let alone perform an...

  4. Bringing the entire family to ER

    galenight posted a topic in Emergency

    Why oh why must patients bring the entire family to the hospital's ER? For support? Yeah right, most of the time they are either arguing or chit chatting about who aunt sally just remarried......

  5. Bringing the entire family to ER

    galenight replied to galenight's topic in Emergency

    nuh uh... you are pulling our legs!! tvs AND dvd players? ohmygod.. what was administration thinking? and where on earth is your ER getting all this money? It's all we can do to get a new mattress...

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

    galenight replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Not so long ago we had a patient come into our ER with a huge abscess on his back. It was first thing in the morning and we woke our doc up to come take a look. She examined him and suggested the...

  7. 10/10 pain..venting!

    galenight replied to NYCRN16's topic in Emergency

    LOVE Toradol... use it personally 60mg IM for migraine.. only thing that even remotely helps. Also love it for my patients. If they are open to relief by any means, it works.. If they are dead set...

  8. Treatment of DVT's

    galenight replied to askater11's topic in General Nursing

    The last poster is correct. There is no delicate balance of lab values to worry about with Lovenox. Many DVT's are now being treated on an outpatient basis. This is probably due to 2 factors: The...

  9. What does you hospital give you for Thanksgiving ?

    galenight replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

    For the Holidays we get a $20 gift certificate to the hospital gift shop. It's better than nothing and the gift shop does a nice job getting nice things for us to buy. And since the gift shop is run...

  10. Crutches for ED Patients

    galenight replied to casluis's topic in Emergency

    We ran across the same thing Casluis. Our docs write a script for the crutches and the patient (and/or family) is responsible for getting it filled. We direct them to the DME places, some of which...

  11. that song that bashes nurses

    galenight posted a topic in General Nursing

    Did you all notice there is a pop song (god forbid I actually remember the name of it or who sings it) that came out a month or two ago. And part of the chorus goes like this Can't stay on your life...

  12. that song that bashes nurses

    galenight replied to galenight's topic in General Nursing

    Holy moly... I didn't mean to give the impression that I was personally offended, since I'm not. I, too, like the song as I said. I was just pointing out that before this we were absent in the music...

  13. that song that bashes nurses

    galenight replied to galenight's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed, they are just lyrics and I sing along everytime it plays. Is the name "just like a pill"? or something like

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

    galenight replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I've got two only moderately gross stories in comparison with these others: One day while doing my LPN clinicals (I'm now an RN) we were in the nursing home. I had to care for a lady who had a glass...

  15. What was most embarrassing moment as a nurse?

    galenight replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately my most embarassing moment was just last week-- can't even blame being a newbie! Although I had done this several times, I was to give a woman a SQ injection, but was distracted for...

  16. Trivia: When was smoking banned in all US hospitals

    galenight replied to mario_ragucci's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I have no idea when it was banned, but would someone please tell one of our docs?!?! I'm in a small rural hospital, with one doc in ER at a time. THe docs have a small room in back to sleep,...

  17. Cell phone use in hospitals

    galenight replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    Cell Phones aren't allowed in my facility either. We were told that it could interfere with the telemetry because they both use radio frequencies. I am constantly telling visitors and patients that...

  18. itching?

    galenight replied to shay's topic in Emergency

    Do you use latex gloves? I realize you said no redness.. but I have a problem with the gloves. Not a true allergy, a sensitivity.. I've always had sensitive skin. I will often notice that I have...

  19. Nurses with ADHD/ADD

    galenight replied to thewhip's topic in General Nursing

    I am not ADD/ADHD, and i don't know of any nurses who are, however, I work with 2 docs in the ER that have it. One also is bipolar. They are both extremely intelligent, but we find that they tend to...

  20. Is emergency certification, i.e. acls, etc for rn's only?

    galenight replied to dlgg's topic in Emergency

    Like JJFrog said you can audit TNCC (trauma nursing core course) and ENPC (Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course). You pay a smaller fee, but are not allowed to take the test. You still learn a lot. As...

  21. Lunch breaks

    galenight replied to moonshadeau's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Well, we have an unpaid lunch period and supposedly can leave the building if we so desire.. However, I work afternoons and there is usually only 2 RN's in the building, therefore, I won't leave...

  22. Do you mix your own IV's?

    galenight replied to deespoohbear's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I, too, work in a small hospital. Pharmacy does try to have all needed IV mixtures available for the med/surg unit. However, in ER (and on the floor after hours), we often mix our own drugs. I...

  23. Funny Names for Nurses

    galenight replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    In a neighboring town we have a urologist who advertised pain free vasectomies on Cleaver street. But my favorite is the urologist named Dr.

  24. Any takers? Supressed sexual frustrations of husbands of Nurses...

    galenight replied to Chellyse's topic in General Nursing

    The author's name would more appropriately be DEMON, not Damon.. What an idiot.. And I only read the posts, not the "book". I hesitate to foul the name book by calling that piece of BS a

  25. Penile Implant emergency

    galenight replied to tangrene's topic in Nursing Humor

    Several years ago I was getting report with some coworkers (we have taped report). The offgoing nurse was telling us about a patient who had a penile implant. She said, "Mr X has a penile implant,...