Oh'Ello BSN, RN

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 died and my student loan distribution didn't happen ...

I didn't know this was a thing? Our patients and family members buy us gifts all the time.

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 Casuals and PRNs for supplemental income) because our a...

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 esophageal balloon can be inflated likewise. The drains ...

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 them.... Physicians? LOL

I'll tell ya this right freakin now. Yellow wristbands DO NOT HELP.

Not required to double check insulin here. Level 1 Trauma, Teaching, Magnet, Pennsylvania.

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 thought about stripping a chest tube... I just don't ...

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 questions that the computer prompts her to.

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 sense

Minnesota tube, 27 units in and 30 LITERS out. I think that pretty much sums it all up.

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 which one is which????? Labels that's freaking how (...

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 think it's uncommon for "the others" not to know ...

There sure as **** is never any toilet paper

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 position, I realized why.

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 personally profiting from the dispense of drugs. She has ...

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 protocols. With that said, I've probably seen close...

Complain. Because "half press" is a stupid, unscientific, and subjective way to pressurize something going into your brain.

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 anyone that could intubate them.

Because she had massive spontaneous pneumos and resisted mechanical ventilation (understandably) without the propofol.

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

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 kinda surprised in an ER they don't have drips ava...

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 way though my shift the plan of care was upended. A...

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 find you don't even really need to use it.

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 as an LPN, find a job, buy uniforms etc. Then h...