Dogen

Dogen

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  1. What is your strange bed story?

    Dogen replied to ECMO's topic in General Nursing

    I had a regular hospital bed break in such a way that the head and foot of the bed dropped, and the middle (which was a steel plate with a hinge for the head to raise) popped up. The bed looked like...

  2. Unusual treatments

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    A cat's tail or a cat's tail? I'm incredulous either way, but curious. Anything that happens in less than a day makes me suspicious. Except pizza

  3. Unusual treatments

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Just call me Johnny Depp, your pseudo-Native American sidekick. Watch me look confused by

  4. Apologies

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I used to live near Mt Baker (more snow than any other resort in North America, yo), and they have a med station that was stocked like an ED trauma bay. You could apply to "work" there (for free) if...

  5. Unusual treatments

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

  6. Unusual treatments

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I forget what non-nurses talk about, but I bet it's not the stickiness of dried urine. I love

  7. Unusual treatments

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Hold your horses there, Trigger. Maybe ask at least one question before you assume I'm holding scheduled meds or mistreating my patients. Have you ever worked psych? Easily half of the meds that are...

  8. Unusual treatments

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    In the psych unit I've started doing some of the stuff from this book, which the patients generally hate ("Can't I just have Ativan... and trazodone... and maybe Zyprexa... or Restoril?"), but I'm the...

  9. Unusual treatments

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Weird. It's medically indicated, but not for long term use. The dose for intractable hiccups is high - often higher than for psychosis - but it's only recommended for 3-4 days total because of the...

  10. Unusual treatments

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, diabetes is from an awkward Greek word that means "to pass through," and mellitus is from the Greek word for honey or sweetness. So diabetes mellitus is "passing sweetness." I tried to get my...

  11. Biology Grad debating on NP or PA

    Dogen replied to Young Tangerine's topic in General Students

    This differs by state. In OR and WA NPs don't need collaborating/supervising physicians, and can practice completely under their own license. I would hope any provider would recognize when they're...

  12. Biology Grad debating on NP or PA

    Dogen replied to Young Tangerine's topic in General Students

    I'm an NP student, and one of my closest friends is a PA who recently graduated. I can't speak to all PA programs, but hers definitely focused on cellular level biology more than my NP program does....

  13. Unusual treatments

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    We use leeches on the trauma floor. I had a patient with one on her neck, just behind her ear, that came off in the bed... she was uncomfortable to begin with, but once that thing was in the bed with...

  14. Unusual treatments

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I'm, generally speaking, not a mean person, but once in a while someone's going to get my goat. I read OP as passive aggressive and attention seeking. He started 6 threads and then got indignant when...

  15. I'm a sexless nurse

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    At the point that we're assuming things without evidence (i.e., the patient hasn't said anything, is not visibly uncomfortable, etc), why stop at caths? Maybe female patients just all hate having male...

  16. Unusual treatments

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    You seem... needy. Will many more of your posts have this passive aggressive

  17. I'm ready to start a paper trail.

    Dogen replied to VAC's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Does she do this to anyone else? How well documented is her behavior? Has she ever disparaged you in front of another staff member? Basically, if you run this up the chain, how much evidence do you...

  18. Unusual treatments

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know. Your observations here aren't very interesting... home remedies for gastroenteritis and a splinter? Parents demanding a fractured clavicle be repaired? Not exactly new frontiers in...

  19. I'm a sexless nurse

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    It seems like the fact that some people are okay with it and others aren't has been pretty well covered. The only question to me is whether it necessitates a blanket procedure of asking a woman to...

  20. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Dogen replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    This is the definition of a slippery slope argument. There's no rational reason that once you start protecting groups of people you can't stop, because that's not how we decide whom to protect. We...

  21. I'm a sexless nurse

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    How long before the pot thread is also about Media? You know... I knew a guy who smoked a lot of pot, killed chickens, watched Media, catheterized women, and was also psychotic. That's right, all...

  22. Sex-ed

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Also, while I'm always happy to have a conversation about things like gender stereotypes, how socialization affects boys and girls, and a lot of issues that relate to having relationships that are...

  23. Sex-ed

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    The OP presents this as their conclusion, but it doesn't necessarily follow from the question. There could be other reasons that the students didn't have an answer to that question, and maybe OP asked...

  24. I'm a sexless nurse

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I'm cool with certain things being private - I didn't ask to see any - but it seems that as medical professionals who will inevitably need to cath someone we all ought to know where the urethra is......

  25. I'm a sexless nurse

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing