misschelei

misschelei

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  1. Your personal delivery experience- what happened

    misschelei replied to DEB52's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Well little did I know when I originally wrote this that a week later PIH would come back to play. I got sent to the hospital from the doc for labs and to make sure baby was ok. He was but I was given...

  2. They finally did it. I got laid off.

    misschelei replied to AnabelRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Good luck to you! Hope you find something else you enjoy

  3. Need some 'actual' Nurse experience...

    misschelei replied to Hoping2beRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I should add you don't have to be an LC only. You can give great bf info to your patient as their nurse as well. You will run into nursing moms not only on L&D units but NICU's and Peds as well....

  4. Need some 'actual' Nurse experience...

    misschelei replied to Hoping2beRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I can tell you I had a bad experience with LC when I had my daughter 4 years ago. She was small and having a hard time latching since I was extremely engorged (I know tmi) but the LC just kinda went...

  5. Cancelled

    misschelei replied to Fancy Face's topic in Agency Nurses

    Hang in there diarygirl....I haven't worked in almost a week either. Though I haven't really tried very hard cuz my back and hips are so sore from bein prego It takes me days to recover from a shift....

  6. Does it matter what your Specialty is as an RN to work agency?

    misschelei replied to VinoLover2030's topic in Agency Nurses

    Be very specific with everyone in the office if you go back to agency. Only work in areas you are comfortable in or you will get in over your head fast. You should know exactly what you are doing when...

  7. Rapid Response Team and Families

    misschelei replied to Grumpy's Girl's topic in MICU, SICU

    One of the hospitals I work for has a specific name called overhead for a family called RRT. I don't know if that's just an FYI to the responders or if it means walk slower (lol) but the whole thing...

  8. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    misschelei replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I posted on here over 2 years ago thought I would renew my story..... I hate to believe that children are ever left behind as ghosts. That said we have a room in the PICU I used to work at that is...

  9. Has anyone EVER seen a patient come off CRRT alive?

    misschelei replied to rph3664's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I just noticed this thread is almost a year old..someone must have been diggin deep in the archives

  10. Has anyone EVER seen a patient come off CRRT alive?

    misschelei replied to rph3664's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    We used it when I worked burn until we could nurse them back to health. One patient we had for a good 6 months on the unit who was on crrt for a while was discharged and I had him as a patient 7 years...

  11. Crocs & Back Problems

    misschelei replied to BlondieRN09's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Apparently Crocs are the devil. There's huge threads about them on here somewhere. They have even been banned from many hospitals. I personally have had a pair for over 5 years. Not the one's with...

  12. Verbal orders...what about them?

    misschelei replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

    I would never accept a verbal or telephone order given to anyone other a nurse. And if another nurse besides myself took the order I would even ask that nurse to write the

  13. How nasty!!

    misschelei replied to rnrae's topic in General Nursing

    I know one hospital that has public service posters in the hallways of the docs we all know smiling and using hand sanitizer or hand washing encouraging everyone to do the same. I have to admit they...

  14. How nasty!!

    misschelei replied to rnrae's topic in General Nursing

    What scares me more than anything is the staff who basically touch everyone in the hopsital like RT's, phlebotomists, and Xray. I can't tell you how many times I've seen them ignore isolation signs,...

  15. Peds Or Adult Stethescope?

    misschelei replied to peds_cna's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    In my experience I can't hear any better with a cute stethescope than I can with a disposable one. But those are really cool! I like the blazing

  16. Peds Or Adult Stethescope?

    misschelei replied to peds_cna's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have a Littmann Cardiology III. It has 2 diaphragms. One side is adult the other pediatric and each side is tunable so you can hear high and low frequency sounds. I've had it since nursing school. I...

  17. Sweet Dreams, Baby! Tell us about your strange dreams r/t nursing

    misschelei replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    That is hilarious!! I have that same dream in different variations. Once I dreamed that I was taking care of the wrong list of patients on the board so they all got double medicated and my actual...

  18. Nurse-Patient Ratios

    misschelei replied to pattin13's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Here's one for ya....dh just called from work to vent for 30 seconds. He's a new grad LPN just a few weeks off orientation. He was floated to the surgical floor. There are 15-16 patients and he's...

  19. Your personal delivery experience- what happened

    misschelei replied to DEB52's topic in Ob/Gyn

    #1-2003...PIH reared it's ugly head around 32 weeks. I was on bedrest by 34 weeks. 37 week checkup doc said the baby wasn't growing anymore and had to come out. Went to the hospital the next morning...

  20. Cancelled

    misschelei replied to Fancy Face's topic in Agency Nurses

    The best chance at getting work during the holidays for agency staff is to be

  21. Working with angry unstable incompetent RN

    misschelei replied to pedsRN121's topic in General Nursing

    Doesn't take much to make a parent nervous when it comes the care of their child. Parents of chronic kids can sniff an incompetent nurse out of the parking lot. And those complaints rarely fall on...

  22. Pregnancy no no's

    misschelei replied to marjoriemac's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Congrats!!!! Sometimes I prefer having isolation patients because I'm gowning. Who knows what standard precaution patients have that we don't know about. I do make sure to avoid patients with...

  23. Nurse-Patient Ratios

    misschelei replied to pattin13's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Dh would like to know where you work. He usually starts with 6 patients and winds up with 7-9. They get a 3rd CNA if there is 40 (not 39) patients. The charge nurse is nowhere to be found because...

  24. What would you do?

    misschelei replied to BeachBayNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Catering to a manipulative patient will get you nowhere except going to your car angry at the end of your shift. That said....it rarely hurts to figure out what the patient needs to hear to calm the...

  25. Healthier Living Support Thread: PART TWO!

    misschelei replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Not bad at all Tweety! Now I know you are too hard on yourself! Stop worrying so much and enjoy your cheats. NursesRmofun: Welcome.....Congrats on knockin off the bulk and continuing to see results....