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    This Does Not Make Sense - But happens anyway!

    elthia replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    As a charge nurse, I have a key to the bio hazard boxes...I guard it
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    how quickly someone can go downhill.

    elthia replied to locolorenzo22's topic in General Nursing

    I think you did the best you could. Even after nearly a decade, when I have a pt crump, I am left shaking like a leaf after the dust settles. It gets better, quit second guessing yourself. No one...
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    If I Said on Here What I Wanted to Say.

    elthia replied to DixieRedHead's topic in General Nursing

    Hey...my DH's best friend told me I am Rebecca Sunshine, and I need to grow up or I am going to get walked all over in this bitter cruel world. So I am right there with you....doing my happy
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    This Does Not Make Sense - But happens anyway!

    elthia replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    After a code on my floor, we cannot have a pt on a vent, even temporarily with the ICU staff, and code team, while awaiting on a bed in the ICU. BUT...we can bag the pt by hand for up to and over an...
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    Only 5 units of insulin per injection site??

    elthia replied to utah23LPN's topic in General Nursing

    Now we do have some of the endocrinologists order the larger doses of lantus to be given as split doses, but it is clearly ordered that way. As in...Lantus 110 units subcut, to be given as 55 units in...
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    Who are all these people dying in your arms?

    elthia replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly. To me it is just as important to emphasize the fluid restrictions on a fresh open heart, to monitoring the INR on a atrial fib, to giving the ABX on a pt with vegetation on the heart valve....
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    elthia replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Brown recluse spider bite to the member. The pt avoided coming in for awhile, he tried to care for it at home. When his member turned gangrenous he decided to seek treatment. It was too late, when...
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    Sticky fingers-stealing other people's food/office supplies

    elthia replied to Black Jade's topic in General Nursing

    This story reminds me of the old military habit of seasoned coffee mugs. My father and a couple of my uncles had a few mugs that hadn't been washed in years. My dad threw a fit if you washed his...
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    Why do you do what you do and DON'T do what you don't do?

    elthia replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I do tele/ med surg. I like it. Most of the pt's have similar diagnosis. So I know what is normal for the course of each surgery/diagnosis/exacerbation and then can go from each variation. I know...
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    If I Said on Here What I Wanted to Say.

    elthia replied to DixieRedHead's topic in General Nursing

    I think many are not looking for help or opinions, they are looking for validation. The poster is unsure of their interventions, or perhaps the poster is being criticized for some interventions and...
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    If I Said on Here What I Wanted to Say.

    elthia replied to DixieRedHead's topic in General Nursing

    I do this all the time. I have 4 times the amount of erased posts than posts that actually make it on the
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    Been so sick... working urgent care

    elthia replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    One of my doctors recommends for me to use nasal irrigation during cold and flu season. http://www.neilmed.com/usa/index.php http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10892694...
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    If I see one more post titled....

    elthia replied to PinkRocksLikeMe's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, but the minute you say that a pregnant nurse can take a pt with MRSA or VRE, then certain people start screaming that you are a bitter old barren hag who just hates pregnant women and babies. Now...
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    How honest are you?

    elthia replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    Oh, I understand completely...I just reread my post and wanted to clarify. Sometimes I wish I could be as elegant as some of the other posters when it comes to phrasing things, unfortunately I am not....
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    How honest are you?

    elthia replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    I think the woman who yelled at her husband...she wasn't yelling at him to be mean, I think it was to protect the mother who lost her son. It's the same feeling I have about not wanting to look up...
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    What is your take on multiple family members in room when they have roommate?

    elthia replied to hollyberry678's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    To revive an old thread....I was reading the how to stop visitors from using an empty bed thread found here https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/how-stop-visitors-638241.html and this...
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    How honest are you?

    elthia replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    Having been to the ED multiple times in the past 6 months for myself, and once for DH's car wreck. I don't mind waiting. Our local ED is good about announcing wait times. Once when being I was...
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    Kicked out of nursing school for leaving a bed in the high position...

    elthia replied to rocketsurgeon87's topic in General Students

    Wow... The PA's I work with pull chest tubes, transcutaneous pacemaker wires, and a whole host of other issues that are directly involved in direct patient care. It may not be pericare...but if that...
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    Needy, needy, needy... vent please.

    elthia replied to rksgray13's topic in General Nursing

    I have had a few partial bowel obstructions, and have been impacted a few times, the joys of adhesions. I drink bowel prep for the obstructions but for the impactions and severe constipation...Milk...
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    Nurses eat their Young

    elthia replied to NYLiz's topic in General Nursing

    I started nursing on a very toxic floor. I remember backstabbing, infighting, my schedule being changed without notice, I remember the time I wrote up an ancillary staff member who then made my life...
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    Needy, needy, needy... vent please.

    elthia replied to rksgray13's topic in General Nursing

    I had a pt who 12 hours after he had a upper and lower GI complained that he was constipated. When I explained that he had drank an entire bowel prep, followed by an enema, then had an endoscope...
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    If I see one more post titled....

    elthia replied to PinkRocksLikeMe's topic in General Nursing

    I remember when my nursing school had it's pass rates on the NCLEX drop below 95%, and it really hit the fan...instructors fired, program revamped, quarterly exit exams put in place. After the past...
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    If I see one more post titled....

    elthia replied to PinkRocksLikeMe's topic in General Nursing

    Special is our family code word for "needs help" when someone does a spectacular piece of
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    Discrimination, discrimination.. Tell me what you think.

    elthia replied to MaravillosaRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think there could be a myriad of reasons why you weren't hired, and I think that the nurse manager does not owe you any constructive criticism. Some reasons could be that they may have been hiring...
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    Leaving AMA

    elthia replied to missjustice's topic in General Nursing

    ....never