kessadawn BSN, RN

You had two simple requests of me, a drink of water, and to go home. I had started out my shift on high note, caring for my two favorite cardiac patients, working with some of my favorite co-workers. It was going to be a good night, I told myself. Th...

I'm not sure what they offer online, as I've been out of school awhile, but Kent State had a good LPN to RN bridge program. My friend worked fulltime while she completed it. Good luck!

We serve a large Amish population at my hospital, and they have a lot of odd home remedies, but the one that sticks out in my mind was some sort of linement that contained KEROSENE. The child I was caring for reeked of kerosene. I think it was for ...

No such luck in pediatrics...

I am a skeptic as well. I have known people like this in my life, and most of the tales they told were just that, fictional tales. If he has really experienced all that craziness, my heart goes out to him. But I don't believe it, I think he's seek...

We just started using it in my pediatric hospital, but we don't push it, we run it over a pump for like 20 or 30 minutes.

I got fired by a Dad after inadvertantly getting caught in all of the games a divorced couple can play when their beloved child is dying. I could have kissed him I was so grateful to get out of that room! Bothered me some that I was a little blind ...

I hate the connotation that the word "pseudo seizure" brings. Pseudo seizures are NOT faked, the patient has no control of the occurance in any way shape or form. Pseudo seizures are difficult to diagnose, however, if all medical testing is negativ...

Really? Then she doesn't want a job.

Visitors that were courteous and appreciative, and FOLLOWED THE RULES! Strict visitation hours! Posey restraints were handed out like candy. Nurses were subservient to docs, THANK GOD that is over!

I have had patients I have been unable to ventilate d/t the need for sedation. You can't bag against a cough, they are coughing, gagging, freaking out, it isn't pretty. As they turn bluer and bluer...so it ends in one of two ways: I give sedation ...

That doc should be written up, he a danger to his patients! Who wants to render a guess at the damage caused to that man's airway by that maverick?

I don't really have any good advice, but... WAY TO GO for standing up for yourself and your license!!!! :yeah: You make me proud!

Take the PICU job, you really don't want to be stuck owing all that money, do you? You will gain great experience there, they may be slow right now, but in a few months look out! You can also always pick up prn in an adult ICU somewhere once you ge...

The parent who insisted on sleeping nude in her 4 year old's hospital room, stating this is how they do it at home. Sorry sister, you are not at home, put some clothes on. The father asleep on the little couch at the bedside, curled on his side, fac...

What a shame nobody explained the risks to her brother. I hope she was at least unbelievably happy while eating them.

You can get insulin that is very concentrated, but I don't know which insulins are available that way.

Before my friend's hubby had bariatric surgery, his diabetes was so out of control that he was SERIOUSLY taking 600 units a day!!!! Now that he's lost all the weight, he is completely off the insulin. How do you go from needing 600 units to nothing...

I have to disagree with you on this one. If the patient is competent to understand that he or she may aspirate on food, and they still want to eat, who am I to tell them they can't have cookies while they are dying? Now, if they are confused and ca...

In my experience, the shallower the gene pool, the faster they breed.

At my hospital PICCs are inserted by RNs with specialized training, I believe they use ultrasound.

I hear of this a lot, ICU doesn't want the patient, the floor doesn't want the patient, and I don't understand. At my hospital, we just admit, we don't raise a stink, none of us, not the floors, not my PICU, not the other ICUs, not ER. Patient goes...

Oh, duh, I have issues with bandaids and tape as well, I was just assuming it was the nicotine, haha! Worst itching I have ever felt, wanted to dig through my arm with a sharp object!

Not to downplay the frustration you felt at your patient's obvious denial to quit smoking, but I quit smoking a few months ago, and I was determined to succeed this time, so I got some nicotine patches. I don't know if this is considered an allergy,...

I have been a nightshifter for 20 years, I never had a problem sleeping. Ever. I slipped easily back and forth between a dayshifter schedule on my days off and sleeping all days when I worked. Until several weeks ago. I, like you, fall asleep eas...