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    Elevated WBC's after cocaine use

    elthia replied to elthia's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks...
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    When an employee is a patient

    elthia replied to LaurRN's topic in General Nursing

    it's half a dozen of one, and 6 of the other. i think there is more to this story. like why were you wanting the md paged and when. frankly, if a patient wants me to call the doctor for something...
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    Social Network and Hiring...Employers use your posts

    elthia replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    My settings are very private, and I have no coworkers as friends, I don't list my employer, I don't list my occupation, and I make no posts about work. Due to strife with my stepchildren's mother,I...
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    Confess! Whats the craziest force of habit you've done in the "Real World"

    elthia replied to vhern246's topic in Nursing Humor

    I got concerned when I was house sitting for a friend, cleaned the litter box and there wasn't much output. I was worried her poor kitty was sick. Was all set to take it to the vet, tracking it...
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    med-surg..the "trailer trash" area of nursing??

    elthia replied to nightengalegoddess's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I don't understand it either. I work med-surg tele and I love it. I plan on becoming Cardiac vascular certified and to me med-surg is so much more holistic than ICU. How can I take care of an...
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    VA Manager not allowing annual leave

    elthia replied to Chamae01's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work for a VA. Make sure,you have a paper trail, and make sure you have copies of the emails with you along with your union rep when you talk to your nurse manager. No paper trail, no...
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    Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

    elthia replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I know I am not an ICU nurse. I know I am not on the ERT (emergency response team). However I am a daggone good nurse, and I KNOW my patient, and I KNOW the criteria for calling the ERT, AND MY...
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    Drug tested and scared

    elthia replied to Platypus's topic in General Nursing

    Again yerba mate and coca de mate are different entities. A different link. http://www.rain-tree.com/yerbamate.htm If you read this, you will see that yerba mate is a holly tree that contains...
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    Drug tested and scared

    elthia replied to Platypus's topic in General Nursing

    I believe the tea you are drinking is Yerba mate...and the tea from your article is mate de coca. Your tea is from a shrub in South America, the other is a tea made from the leaves of a coca plant....
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    "I'm a Nurse Practitioner!"

    elthia replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    The other day I walked into a pt's room. Me: Hi, I'm elthia, and I'll be your nurse tonight. Wife of pt: Aren't there privacy laws!!!!!!! Me blinking in confusion: I'm sorry, is there a problem? Wife:...
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    You Might Be An "old" School Nurse

    elthia replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    I remember going going back and forth with this nurse one day about how we need to dye this pt's tube feeding. The pt had a trach with breakdown around the stoma, and had a peg. He came from home,...
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    when a male patient pulls foley out..

    elthia replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    If a pt is having bladder spasms r/t to the foley, a PRN order for B&O suppositories helps, (belladonna and opium)...it relaxes the smooth muscles of the bladder, and the pt sometimes will then...
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    Dreaming about work?

    elthia replied to kool-aide, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I've thrown away alarm clocks because they sounded too much like IV pump alarms. On a really bad night, I've come home, and sworn I can still hear the tele alarms. I've woken up thinking I need to...
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    pet peeves when nursing students arrive

    elthia replied to sandanrnstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Wait till you find a different service where the resident isn't. We just had a resident FIRED in his last year, PGY3 due to lots of documentation and complaints, cursing, yelling, throwing charts at...
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    pet peeves when nursing students arrive

    elthia replied to sandanrnstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Seriously...doctors call it "scutwork"....and are notorious for scutting out the med students and interns. Medstudents don't get paid. Residents make 40-45K a year and work 80+ hour weeks....
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    what would you do!!!!

    elthia replied to sweetnurse63's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I've answered a code blue alarm, found a doctor leaning over a pt, " stating we need to bag him". I asked if there was a pulse, got no answer but " we need to bag him", found no pulse...
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    How in the freaking world are you a nurse???

    elthia replied to Daisy_08's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When I was in nursing school..one of my instructors previous job was for the BON of my state. She told us a little story. There is no limit to how many times someone can take the NCLEX in my state....
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    pet peeves when nursing students arrive

    elthia replied to sandanrnstudent's topic in General Nursing

    We do a combination of paper and verbal report at my hospital...if you are a nursing student...it's ok to make a copy of the paper report sheet...but don't remove the original, the next shift needs...
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    Helping pts cope with painful procedures

    elthia replied to linguine's topic in General Nursing

    Panting doesn't help me...deep breathing does... I've had herniated disks in my neck, I've had bowel obstructions, and I'm a migraineur. I live with pain. I've explored nonpharmacological pain...
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    Helping pts cope with painful procedures

    elthia replied to linguine's topic in General Nursing

    http://www.ideafit.com/fitness-library/deep-breathing-and-pain-management http://journals.lww.com/smajournalonline/Fulltext/2009/07000/The_Effects_of_Deep_Breathing_Training_on_Pain.5.aspx Some...
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    Moral Courage in Healthcare: Acting Ethically Even in the Presence of Risk

    elthia replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    My moral/ethical courage almost cost me my job, and had my nurse manager use her friends to audit every chart I was in looking for a way to cost me my license. Luckily I charted too well. I quit...
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    Psych patients on medical floors

    elthia replied to rn undisclosed name's topic in General Nursing

    We have taken care of psych pt's on my floor many times and it's very difficult. If they need a 1:1, then we have to pull an aide off the floor, often we have to decide which aide is the "best fit",...
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    Shhhh! ---It's all a crock!

    elthia replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    I normally tell my pt's and their families that I round every 1-2 hours, after 2300 do you want me to knock or just peek in, if everything looks ok, I am not going to wake you up unless it is for...
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    "Potty Talk"

    elthia replied to RosesrReder's topic in General Nursing

    We had a picture of our Assistant nurse CEO in a newsletter staring at us in the bathroom, as if I wanted to see HIS face while I'm peeing! Our breakroom is covered with posters about specimen...
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    Shhhh! ---It's all a crock!

    elthia replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    I work in telemetry, tele alarms are constantly going off, 1/4 the pt's are on bipap at night, not to mention tube feeds, q 4hour vitals, 0300 labs, and now we have glytec insulin gtt alarms, IV...