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  1. Night shifters-when do you eat?

    cardiacfreak replied to cassie77775's topic in General Nursing

    I eat a around 1700 with the hubby and again around 0100 at work. I try to grab a breakfast sandwich on my way home. The funny thing is, when I am off of work I am standing in front of the fridge...

  2. Be careful what you divulge

    cardiacfreak replied to Music in My Heart's topic in General Nursing

    Big Brother is EVERYWHERE. It reminds me of what my mother used to say, "Don't ever say anything aloud that you don't want repeated." Nowadays I guess it would be, "Don't ever post anything you...

  3. Opinion of nurses

    cardiacfreak replied to Kristy02_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe my experience is different because I work on a Progressive Care Unit, I agree with you, if you treat a DNR as comfort care only that is messed up. We use a lot of anti-arrhythmia gtts to try to...

  4. Opinion of nurses

    cardiacfreak replied to Kristy02_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I think one of the big factors concerning families not wanting a DNR status is that they are not educated on what it means. In my experience, some people believe DNR means DO NOTHING. How many times...

  5. What is the worst hardship/story you have ever seen/heard in your nursing career?

    cardiacfreak replied to succinate's topic in General Nursing

    I once worked on a pediatric unit and we admitted a failure to thrive at 6 months of age. When the parents left to go get something to eat I bathed the child because she was very dirty, she had dirt...

  6. Family claims hospital's staff shortage responsible for fatal crash

    cardiacfreak replied to DidiRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is very tragic. I hope all my night shift colleagues will truly take this to heart. I only have a 15 minute commute to work, but there are other nurses I work with at night that drive an hour...

  7. We are AllNurses!

    cardiacfreak replied to The_Optimist's topic in General Nursing

    Very well

  8. JCAHO Requirement

    cardiacfreak replied to FineAgain's topic in General Nursing

    I've done that myself a few times, as well as using my fingernail if it is already scored. We have med carts for each nurse and each cart has a pill splitter and crusher on it, we are to clean each...

  9. Any known connection between urination and VT?

    cardiacfreak replied to NurseCollins799's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Looks like most of us have seen VT brought on by oral hygiene

  10. if you could do it over again....

    cardiacfreak replied to abiggie's topic in General Nursing

    If I knew then what I know now, NO WAY! Don't get me wrong, I love being a nurse, I love bedside nursing, but with all the CMS guidelines and upper management trying to save $, I feel like I am...

  11. What field are you in??

    cardiacfreak replied to FieryPsychRN's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a Progressive Care Unit that is also stroke certified. I love the cardiac patients the best. We see a wide variety of disease processes and I am constantly honing my critical thinking...

  12. Med error??

    cardiacfreak replied to determinedlpn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I agree with Esme12 you bypassed your 5 rights of medication administration. We use a MAK system at the facility where I work and if you bypass that safety policy, it is automatic termination. No...

  13. How do I get over this?

    cardiacfreak replied to RNOTODAY's topic in General Nursing

    I agree mental illness is not understood by most people, especially depression. It baffles me that people are starting to understand that drug/alcohol addiction is a disease, but when will it be...

  14. things said wrong that drive you crazy

    cardiacfreak replied to SDALPN's topic in Private Duty

    I used to have a manager that would say TOAD instead of TOLD and CODE instead of COLD, drove all of us

  15. things said wrong that drive you crazy

    cardiacfreak replied to SDALPN's topic in Private Duty

    Ugh, I say ve-hicle and sher-bert What about Metoprolol? The emphasis is on the TOE

  16. How do you cheer yourself after a bad day at work?

    cardiacfreak replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Hot shower, wine or maybe something stronger, and angry

  17. Moving from student to nurse

    cardiacfreak replied to Certifiable's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Ooh, you ARE good. OP, always remember your rights to medication administration. It is okay to be nervous...we all were at one time. You will make a mistake but the key is to learn from it and not...

  18. Never before have I been so disrespected by co-workers in the workplace

    cardiacfreak replied to chinacatRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Paleontologist/Pulmonologist? Gerontologist? I can see

  19. Bad Boys, Bad Boys... How do you handle them?

    cardiacfreak replied to valzRN's topic in Correctional

    Bless you officer

  20. Bad Boys, Bad Boys... How do you handle them?

    cardiacfreak replied to valzRN's topic in Correctional

    Good Gawd, I will definitely stay in acute care

  21. Nursing specialty that requires minimum patient contact and best hours?

    cardiacfreak replied to tsipareht's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Cleaning poo is the easy part. What is not easy is when your patients BP drops, resps increase as well as HR, LOC decreases as well as urine output, etc.... And you still have 4 other patients to...

  22. What's your good news?

    cardiacfreak replied to Brian's topic in General Students

    You just won Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, $5,000 a week for

  23. I can't believe the MD did that

    cardiacfreak posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work on a Progressive Care Unit and recently we had a cardiologist perform a cardioversion on an 80 y/o man who is a DNR. The patient came in with NSTEMI, and due to his age and other diagnosis of...

  24. I can't believe the MD did that

    cardiacfreak replied to cardiacfreak's topic in General Nursing

    Oops, my fingers must have gotten carried away, I know it's HIPAA. It was slight sarcasm about me

  25. I can't believe the MD did that

    cardiacfreak replied to cardiacfreak's topic in General Nursing

    I can file for an investigation, it will be documented what medication was given prior to, during, and post procedure. I can file anonymously. I am not sure how I can investigate the situation and...