evastone

evastone BSN, RN

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  1. Feelings after first loss

    evastone replied to dharmalove's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand what you are asking. OP stated what happened in the first post. Also, with your previous post, how come you wrote nurses with quotation marks? If they passed their boards they are...

  2. ER vs. MED SURG TELE?

    evastone replied to Guest716906's topic in General Nursing

    I worked for about two years on med-surge tele before I started to feel the burn. The pressures you described was something I was experiencing as well but in the end, it was the departure of a couple...

  3. Feelings after first loss

    evastone replied to dharmalove's topic in General Nursing

    I was a couple of months off orientation on my tele unit when my first patient died. He came for chest pain and was diagnosed with pneumonia and MI. His troponins were a little elevated and he was on...

  4. Hospital Ad Campaigns

    evastone replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I HATE the Xarelto commercial. I have had a patient not take it "Because on TV it says I can die from a hemorrhage." Well gee, what do you THINK xarelto is for? Couldn't possibly be a blood thinner...

  5. Do I push out the air bubble?

    evastone replied to evastone's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you

  6. Do I push out the air bubble?

    evastone replied to evastone's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I did look at the instructions before coming here. I couldn't find it in the instructions it came with. I figured I missed it somewhere which is why I was asking. Figured someone had seen...

  7. What is your opinion on calling in "sick"

    evastone replied to Goofaroo's topic in General Nursing

    I tend to schedule my days in a way that it feels like I am taking off. I have never called out for a mental health day. Not when I was on tele and not now in the ER. I have no problem with people...

  8. nursing for money

    evastone replied to spark1's topic in General Nursing

    The voices in my head told me to do it. ; ) In all seriousness, I am passionate about my job and love what I do. I can't see myself in any other career. Believe me, I thought long and hard about this....

  9. Fired from first hospital job

    evastone replied to nurseblondie26's topic in General Nursing

    I made a med error (no harm) and self reported it. I was written up for it but after a year, it was taken out of my chart. I was told that additional med errors over the course of the year would...

  10. Forced out to pasture

    evastone replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so sorry to hear that. It always hurts to lose a job even when you know that it has nothing to do with you workmanship and it's their way of cutting costs. You seem to be taking this pretty well....

  11. November 2017 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

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

    Stop! I'm the Attending surgeon, not the patient you

  12. Do all nurses make fatal mistakes?

    evastone replied to justtryintonurse's topic in General Nursing

    Oh dear. Still in nursing school and already your buddy is planning on killing someone. That's a really dangerous attitude. If I thought I would be killing a patient during the course of my career I...

  13. Fired from my first RN job after only 2 weeks.

    evastone replied to Mountainrnbsn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Love this! As far as I am concerned, if you didn't make it through orientation, then you never really had the job. Ergo, it does not belong in a resume. A nurse really close to me made it through 3...

  14. I got a job!

    evastone replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulations! I am very happy for you. Good luck with your new

  15. Am I too small to be a nurse?

    evastone replied to Sbhayes09's topic in General Nursing

    I am five feet tall (if not shorter) and overweight. I wear shoes with lifts so that I can reach the top of my IV poles at work. Otherwise, my size has never held me back. As Ace of Hearts said, if...

  16. Everyday Nurse problems

    evastone replied to babarfirasat's topic in General Nursing

    It would be nice if the portable VS macines that we use on all of our patients would have a scanner attached to it and Bluetooth to transfer the vitals directly to the computer. I cannot tell you how...

  17. A Close Call...

    evastone posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had a really sick baby the other day in the ER and I was preparing to give a medication. The order was given by one of the doctors verbally because this was an emergent situation and we didn't want...

  18. How do YOU deal with criticism outside of work?

    evastone replied to misskayy's topic in General Nursing

    When I get nonconstructive critisism, I tell myself that these poor people obviously lead miserable lives and get their kicks by lashing out. If that doesn't work, I imagine the looks on their faces...

  19. Violence in Nursing

    evastone replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Great article but what are you supposed to do when a patient "only" spits at you? How about when they tell you "You are paid for me to treat you like garbage? " Or make biased comments about your race...

  20. is being a nurse dangerous?

    evastone replied to patty1919's topic in General Nursing

    I have been strangled, kicked at, and exposed to bodily fluids. I come in contact often with communicable diseases and parasites often without any iso equipment because in the ER, I don't know the...

  21. Being called a baby nurse

    evastone replied to NurseA1987's topic in General Nursing

    I've been called a baby nurse on several occasions (still am called baby after close to 2 years working on Tele and 1 year in the ER). When I was pregnant people joked that "The baby is having a...

  22. Dealing with a dirty old man

    evastone replied to BookishBelle's topic in General Nursing

    A male patient was once touching himself in an inappropriate area with this sick look in his eyes whenever I would enter the room. I told him that he was going to wind up with all sorts of nasty...

  23. Unit Clerk Reading Allnurses.com ..

    evastone replied to PacoUSA's topic in General Nursing

    Someone could probably figure me out if he really wanted to. I use a fake name of course but people can still put two and two together... I figured out one of my coworker's AN ID when she posted a...

  24. January 2017 Caption Contest Top 8 - Select $100 Winner

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

    Ahh Mary, I think I had too much espresso. I am seeing my patients' faces in these

  25. Nurses Eating Nursing Students

    evastone replied to Cisabel's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Here's what I have to say about these three easy patients from the medsurge nurse perspective: PT IN DIALYSIS- I have often had to go to the dialysis unit in the middle of a busy shift to collect my...