Dogen

Dogen

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  1. Mobile IV infusions... for hangovers

    Dogen replied to Dogen's topic in General Nursing

    This was how I found out how great LR is for a hangover, too. I squeezed a liter into a friend of mine the morning after a wedding and she was ready for breakfast in twenty minutes. Don't tell my...

  2. Mobile IV infusions... for hangovers

    Dogen replied to Dogen's topic in General Nursing

    Judging by the pictures from the NY outfit, the hangover bus is used pretty exclusively by 20-somethings (or they're more likely to agree to a picture). Which makes sense, as they're the set more...

  3. Mobile IV infusions... for hangovers

    Dogen replied to Dogen's topic in General Nursing

    When you say you need an IV, you mean you need to be poked six or eight times? I'm the worst IV starter ever. But if you need IM antipsychotics I'm your

  4. Get whites white again?

    Dogen replied to anh06005's topic in General Nursing

    If the thread is color fast you can use regular bleach. Even Clorox says so (this link has directions). I dated a girl who bleached everything every third or fourth time she ran a load, and all my...

  5. Mobile IV infusions... for hangovers

    Dogen replied to Dogen's topic in General Nursing

    What do you mean by medical monitoring? In the two cases I linked to, included in your fee is an hour of the RN's time to start the IV and stay until it finishes. Which makes sense for a lot of...

  6. Mobile IV infusions... for hangovers

    Dogen replied to Dogen's topic in General Nursing

    Do home health nurses have trouble getting insurance? I'm not aware of this being a problem. Yeah, that's why you screen people. Just like you would in a home health setting. Flash pulmonary edema...

  7. Mobile IV infusions... for hangovers

    Dogen replied to Dogen's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, the hangover thing aside, the idea of getting a liter of fluid brought to me if I were sick enough to be nauseous and unwilling to leave the house is pretty

  8. Mobile IV infusions... for hangovers

    Dogen replied to Dogen's topic in General Nursing

    I'm assuming the people who run these businesses have malpractice insurance, though obviously I don't know that for sure. HH nurses can hang fluids. There's a whole industry around home infusions for...

  9. Why are nurses so backbiting?

    Dogen replied to RNBSN1591's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Aw, you got to the point I was trying to make while I was rambling on. Good on ya.

  10. Why are nurses so backbiting?

    Dogen replied to RNBSN1591's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've seen lateral aggression in both nursing and in my prior field, and while I'm a big fan of standing up for myself the research tells us that this behavior flourishes in environments where...

  11. Different hospital units

    Dogen replied to emtpbill's topic in General Nursing

    Pediatric ICU Surgical ICU Post-anesthesia care unit... though in some facilities it's pre- and post-anesthesia. You can actually google these acronyms.

  12. Have you met your husband at nursing? Is nursing a good career to meet men?

    Dogen replied to Upward_Bound's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a man. You could meet me in nursing, but I wouldn't recommend it. I'm very

  13. Demystifying Mentation

    Dogen replied to KaleidoscopeLv's topic in General Nursing

    Ideally everything in your report should be current, rather than a week old. Not only their current mental status, but whether it has changed. If no one has mentioned it to their provider that should...

  14. Do you stalk anyone here?

    Dogen replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Trust me. It

  15. I just got my BSN, now what?

    Dogen replied to RNthenDoc's topic in General Nursing

    Transitions can be difficult. You had a lot of changes recently, between graduating, taking the NCLEX, getting a job, no more studying or homework (at least until you get into the PICU). That's a lot...

  16. Do you stalk anyone here?

    Dogen replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    ... and sometimes it shows you a random picture that's totally unrelated to what they're doing, but then you can make up a little story about it. I follow some people, but I don't consider it...

  17. Don't Be SAD! - Seasonal Affective Disorder

    Dogen replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry. Sometimes I ramble... Yes and no. I'm pretty sure AN is more interested in not getting in trouble than pushing the Big Pharma agenda, so I think the OP is tying to be helpful within the...

  18. How do you know when to get an order?

    Dogen replied to oldsockventriloquist's topic in General Nursing

    My unit has certain standing orders that we can initiate on our own under specific circumstances, like Benadryl for itching, etc. If I assess my patient to have a need that can only be met via a...

  19. Don't Be SAD! - Seasonal Affective Disorder

    Dogen replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    There are multiple things going on in my head. The first is that depression is a symptom, and you treat the symptom of depression generally the same regardless of the cause. Someone with SAD can use...

  20. Don't Be SAD! - Seasonal Affective Disorder

    Dogen replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    There's some good correlational data on vitamin D levels being predictors of depressive symptoms, however the link is not as strong as people tend to believe. The lead author of the linked study...

  21. December 2015 Top 8 Captions - You pick the $100 winner!

    Dogen replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    A 44 gauge needle would be incredibly tiny, since gauge and diameter are inversely related. A 34 gauge needle has an outer diameter of 0.1842mm. Compare that to a 7 gauge which is

  22. Paid by the amount of patients

    Dogen replied to bhudgins's topic in Advanced Practice

    I never get tired of reading these threads. I wish they taught us this stuff in NP school. I've spent the last year grilling every NP I meet to find out their "if I knew then what I know now" moments...

  23. Rules for Per Diems

    Dogen replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, but that's not really her problem, right? She has a unit to staff, and the one pool of employees with which to do it. She can't concern herself with what works for your other job. I'm PRN and...

  24. Pay Difference Between Full Time and PRN?

    Dogen replied to Zyprexa_Ho's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but usually PRN staff are paid more. Oh, wait, every single person has said the same thing over and over again? Shucks, maybe we ought to try reading...

  25. I don't like pediatric patients, am I normal?

    Dogen replied to Wonder RN's topic in General Nursing

    I avoided peds like the plague, both in school and in practice, and now as a psych NP student I'm just keeping my head down and pushing through my peds clinical, waiting for Wednesday when I go back...