Oh'Ello BSN, RN

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    Immunizations for uninsured

    Oh'Ello replied to seericap's topic in General Students

    Look up your local Catholic Charities chapter. https://cflcc.org/healthcare/ I was in a bad situation when I started nursing school. I had no insurance, I had absolutely no money, my dad had just...
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    Why are nurses the only profession that cannot accept gifts?

    Oh'Ello replied to RockinNurse2018's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't know this was a thing? Our patients and family members buy us gifts all the
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    How to get acute care experience when you are no longer a "new grad RN"

    Oh'Ello replied to arose26's topic in General Nursing

    How flexible is your living situation. The other side of the state has TONS of acute care opportunities, and I personally know of several practitioners that were hired as RN's (most of them as...
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    What was your worst shift ever?

    Oh'Ello replied to Isakolistic's topic in General Nursing

    A Minnesota tube is a device used for upper GI bleeds. It's a long tube with 2 balloons and 2 drains. The gastric balloon inflates in the stomach to tamponade the bleeding there, and the...
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    ICU Question about central line infection control

    Oh'Ello replied to Benj2610's topic in Critical Care

    RN's change central line dressings where I work. A select group who've received training change PICC's (simply because of the displacement risk). I'm not sure who else is expected to change...
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    Auditing falls .. where to begin?

    Oh'Ello replied to Anise4evr's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'll tell ya this right freakin now. Yellow wristbands DO NOT
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    Double Checking subQ Insulin Requirement

    Oh'Ello replied to KTakami25's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Not required to double check insulin here. Level 1 Trauma, Teaching, Magnet,
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    JP/ Chest Tubes

    Oh'Ello replied to greney80's topic in General Nursing

    i was always under the impression that it was a matter of maintaining the catheter. Some JP catheters are kinda teensie and can clog if you don't strip out the clots. I've never had to or even...
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    when to ask patient if they need an interpreter.

    Oh'Ello replied to futurenaijaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Whether or not someone needs and interpreter is like the 4th question on our admission assessment, lol. I promise you, that nurse probably didn't give any kind of ****. She's just asking the...
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    ALL equations for Mean Arterial Pressure??

    Oh'Ello replied to jhill134's topic in General Nursing

    Which is why sometimes (at least on our monitors) you can have a crappy wave form and -/- for sys/dia but still have a map in parentheses that makes
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    What was your worst shift ever?

    Oh'Ello replied to Isakolistic's topic in General Nursing

    Minnesota tube, 27 units in and 30 LITERS out. I think that pretty much sums it all
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    IV Push dilution methods... Is my method wrong?

    Oh'Ello replied to Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B's topic in Patient Medications

    I also reconstitute In flushes. We don't stock saline vials....Because it's stupid. The ISMP assertion is stupid too. If I drew up 10ml of nimbex, and 10 ml diltiazem, how on earth would I know...
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    Unsupported at home.

    Oh'Ello replied to NewbieNurse91's topic in General Nursing

    I've been a nurse for about 4 years now. My husband was shocked/irate/confused/disturbed/befuddled/concerned when he recently found out that I frequently encounter male genitalia at work. I don't...
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    What's In Your Staff Bathroom?

    Oh'Ello replied to oldpsychnurse's topic in General Nursing

    There sure as **** is never any toilet
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    Why are nurse managers jerks?

    Oh'Ello replied to Cola89's topic in Nurse Management

    Are they all in the same health system? Maybe it's just bad culture. I've worked in places (not in nursing) where all of the management were jerks. And then when I transitioned into a management...
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    I didn't become a nurse to feed people's addictions. Do *nurses* have the right to refuse

    Oh'Ello replied to Thankgodforativan's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think it's ironic that your username is "Thank god for ativan" but you're apprehensive about giving prescribed controlled substances per order. You aren't a drug dealer because you aren't...
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    Lidocaine infusion for pain

    Oh'Ello replied to nurse2033's topic in Emergency

    We use intravenous lidocaine perioperatively pretty often and the results are mixed but typically successful. We have specific programming surrounding its use and we're all quite familiar with the...
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    To file a formal complaint or not?

    Oh'Ello replied to Nurseeee's topic in General Nursing

    Complain. Because "half press" is a stupid, unscientific, and subjective way to pressurize something going into your
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    Refusing to do Surgery Outpatient due to Bleomycin in 2008

    Oh'Ello replied to DowntheRiver's topic in General Nursing

    The ARDS actually isn't always immediately apparent, it can manifest to the point of emergency 4-5 days post operatively. At which point that particular patient would likely be far far away from...
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    Propofol Dosing in ER

    Oh'Ello replied to rhkenji's topic in Emergency

    Because she had massive spontaneous pneumos and resisted mechanical ventilation (understandably) without the
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    How long do you stay at work after your 12 hour shift is over?

    Oh'Ello replied to Eeramsey's topic in General Nursing

    Zero minutes. Unless I get an admit or am coding a patient in the last hour of my
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    Propofol Dosing in ER

    Oh'Ello replied to rhkenji's topic in Emergency

    No ****, last month I had a patient awake and sitting in a bedside chair, communicating by typing on an iPad... INTUBATED on A/C and running 60mcg of propofol. So maxes are relative. Anywho, I'm...
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    Night shift alterative hours poll

    Oh'Ello replied to Wolf at the Door's topic in General Nursing

    1. It's interesting you'd like to have that time with patients before rounds because I WOULD NOT. I would be pretty pissed if I spent 4 hours caring for my patients and then like a third of the...
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    Good Pharmacology Reference

    Oh'Ello replied to aship's topic in General Nursing

    How many drugs are you looking for here? Honestly... if you're a student or new to nursing, the best way to learn them is to just make one for yourself. By the time you're done making it you may...
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    Worth getting my LPN on my way BSN?

    Oh'Ello replied to meganec17's topic in General Students

    So you only have one year or so left of your BSN program...I'd say its not really worth the hassle. You'll have to pay to take the LPN boards, PASS THEM, pay for your background checks and licensure...