grace90

grace90 LPN, LVN

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  1. Sweet Dreams, Baby! Tell us about your strange dreams r/t nursing

    grace90 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in nursing school, I had a dream that my daughter was sick and needed to be cathed, so I did it. We were in a hospital setting of some sort. In my dream I used a cath that was way too big...

  2. Sweet Dreams, Baby! Tell us about your strange dreams r/t nursing

    grace90 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    My son got discharged from the peds unit this morning. Last night I slept by him in a recliner and I kept dreaming that he was septic and all the possible reasons for it, and in my sleep I was having...

  3. Would you call in because you didn't get any sleep?

    grace90 replied to Elvish's topic in General Nursing

    When human lives depend on our decisions, we must value accuracy and competency, and safety of our patients. How ethical is it to be exhausted and go to your job knowing you are many times more likely...

  4. Why a lot of reports of rude and stressed nurses?

    grace90 replied to romerog's topic in General Nursing

    I think the answer is right in the other threads under the many posts about our working conditions....stress, undervaluation (is that a word?) by employers, fatigue, being spread so thin among so many...

  5. Stressed Nurses: What keeps you going?

    grace90 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, ditto. Honestly, we all do need money and health insurance. I always give myself something to look forward to, even if it's just my next weekend off, or something like the next vacation days or...

  6. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    grace90 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    i may have posted this before, and forgive the all lower cases, but i just got off and i'm getting tired (got off work, i mean), anyway... my then 4 yo daughter ended up in the ER unresponsive a...

  7. 501 ways to know you've been on allnurses.com too long!

    grace90 replied to Roy Fokker's topic in Nursing Humor

    oops, forgot to check what number this was supposed to be, i'll have to come back and edit it later, but now I know I've been on here too long because as soon as something otherworldly happened at...

  8. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    grace90 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    s'posed to be working, I'm on rehab tonight, just two nurses and no aide, around 1 am we smelled a nasty burning smell all of a sudden, and the coffee pot was on and burning cuz there was no coffee in...

  9. Sweet Dreams, Baby! Tell us about your strange dreams r/t nursing

    grace90 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I have dreams just like this, too, only in a nightshift setting. Seems to be a recurring theme in a lot of these

  10. I am a nurse, but I dream of....

    grace90 replied to Elisheva's topic in General Nursing

    An activist working to change negative opinions about the mentally ill and lobbying for better care of them. I dream of being able to teach children, teens, and adults for that matter, the wrongness...

  11. Would you call in because you didn't get any sleep?

    grace90 replied to Elvish's topic in General Nursing

    A few days ago I came to work sick and very tired because my absence points are creeping up. I couldn't think straight. I was scaring the poo out of myself. I'd stare at a H&P paper and not...

  12. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    grace90 replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

    When I check for tongue deviation, I'll tell someone to stick their tongue out at me, then say "I bet you don't get told that very often." Or else I'll tell them to "stare at my nose and try not to...

  13. Thank you all for being here

    grace90 replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    You're welcome! This is a great place to vent it all out and get it off your chest about a lousy doc, pt, fellow nurse, shift, facility, manager, charge nurse, family member, resident, surgeon,

  14. What kind of error puts a license at risk?

    grace90 replied to MelodyRNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I hope this isn't considered stealing.... or diversion I mean... a practice a lot of nurses I work with do is 'borrowing' meds such as Tylenol, Tylenol ES or Zofran from one pt's drawer to give to...

  15. How long did it take for you to get your RN?...

    grace90 replied to Butterfly23's topic in General Nursing

    did 1 year of pre-reqs straight out of high school, then quit to get married, 6 years later decided to go back and a lot of my credits were still good, did 1 year of pre-reqs that I still needed then...

  16. Rough couple of nights and a question about iliostomys

    grace90 replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't have my own advice to add, but wanted to subscribe to this thread and thank all the previous posters for sharing their

  17. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    grace90 replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I recently had a older pt going through alcohol withdrawal and was very confused and impulsive. He mumbled incoherently a lot, and the only understandable word he said was the F-bomb. Everything else...

  18. Tricks to remember things

    grace90 replied to Holly27's topic in General Nursing

    When I have to give meds to a pt with an NG tube and clamp it for an hour, I set the VTBI to match the rate so it will beep in an hour and remind me to reconnect the NG to

  19. help with nursing 141-142

    grace90 replied to ecrawford's topic in General Nursing

    Not only would it not be possible, it would be dangerous.

  20. Not a CNA or EMT....can i still be a good nurse?

    grace90 replied to Gannon1qb's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Nah, not necessarily. We had several waitresses in our class, and our instructor told us that waitresses often make great nurses because they're so used to multi-tasking and keeping track of several...

  21. Gastric bypass - psycho

    grace90 replied to brax881's topic in General Nursing

    I personally haven't found gastric bypass patients to be difficult. I think their post-op care is rather interesting:idea:, since their care the first night or two can be pretty involved, at least in...

  22. What is the best thing about nursing???

    grace90 replied to JeN-SN's topic in General Nursing

    Clocking out! (partly kidding) :monkeydance: When something I do makes a positive difference in a pt's condition- be that physical or

  23. How to call a code?

    grace90 replied to EyesForward's topic in General Nursing

    Call the code first, or tell someone else to that you know will immediately respond and do it. You need to get the help on the way first. At my place we holler out to the hall, call a special number,...

  24. Received this email today and I am steamed!!!

    grace90 replied to MomBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I find it funny now, since I've been at it 3 years. Especially the one about experienced nurses writing on their hand, scraps of paper, etc. I've even written on gloves. One time a doc called me with...

  25. Do you regret being a nurse

    grace90 replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    No, not necesarily. I just hate the politics and the understaffing. I just wish I had stuck with college right after high school and finished nursing school then instead of dropping out and then going...