grace90

grace90 LPN, LVN

ortho/neuro/general surgery

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  1. I didn't get all this education to wipe behinds!

    grace90 replied to SeekingNur's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you. I totally agree. I work on a med-surg floor nights with only one aide for 20-30+ patients. I very frequently do personal care such as wiping rear ends because the aide can only do so much....

  2. One of your best moments in Med Surg is...

    grace90 replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Medical-Surgical

    One thing I really like is when a post-op patient, especially an ortho or a GI patient, has a high temp and I teach them how to use the incentive spirometry and cough and their temp goes back down and...

  3. The most embarrasing thing you've done at work!

    grace90 replied to ClaireMacl's topic in Nursing Humor

    I've done that,

  4. Um, more than I wanted to know...

    grace90 replied to thumperRN's topic in General Nursing

    I just about fell off my wobbly chair laughing at this! I would love to do that! :rotfl: Thanks for the

  5. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    grace90 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    :angryfire Was the little boy/girl

  6. moving to Boyne City

    grace90 posted a topic in Michigan Nursing

    I may be moving to Boyne City this summer. Looking around on the internet, it looks like the 2 closest hospitals are Petoskey's Northern Michigan Hospital and Charlevoix's hospital (can't remember the...

  7. You are probably a med-surg nurse if.....

    grace90 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    That is extremely lousy! :angryfire Our hospital is trying to impliment a policy that ER can't send up admits our shift changes. Hopefully it

  8. Ortho poetry

    grace90 replied to alyca's topic in Nursing Humor

    Even though I also work on an ortho floor, I must confess my ignorance- what is a

  9. Ortho poetry

    grace90 replied to alyca's topic in Nursing Humor

    Cute! Sounds mostly like my ortho floor!

  10. Meds you hate to give....

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

    If I didn't say it before, I HATE giving Ambien to anyone who hasn't taken it before. Have had a few elderly patients on our floor go looloo from it. One man in his 50's had it the night he had a...

  11. Charting Bloopers

    grace90 replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    This isn't a charting blooper, but funny... (I hope:rolleyes: ) We tape record our shift reports and this morning I reported that a trauma patient who had failed a swallow study was on "Aspirin...

  12. Threats from Management

    grace90 replied to kittyrose's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Twice since I started working in a hospital as an RN one of my kids have been hospitalized. The first time it happened to be right at the beginning of my weekend off and my 6 year old had a severe...

  13. spooky spooky spooky

    grace90 replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    Room 14 on our unit gives me the creeps. The TV will come on by itself, call lights will come on by themselves. We've had a total cystectomy patient start bleeding like crazy in the bathroom...

  14. Threats from Management

    grace90 replied to kittyrose's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    We have management that likes to threaten us at my hospital, too. I feel like we are treated like delinquent 13 year olds instead of like professionals. A few days ago a patient who is on our unit was...

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

    grace90 replied to MomBSN's topic in General Nursing

    >A Graduate Nurse throws up when the patient does. >An experienced nurse calls housekeeping when a patient throws up >A Graduate Nurse doesn't find this funny. >An experienced nurse does...

  16. I have never met anyone like her...

    grace90 replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    A nasogastric tube may have been just the thing for that stomach pain.

  17. I have never met anyone like her...

    grace90 replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Good idea! One I will remember for future difficult patients on our unit. :) I've learned a lot about how to handle these difficult patients, from reading everyone's posts, so a Thank You goes out to...

  18. Share your mnemonics and tricks

    grace90 replied to Teachchildren123's topic in Nursing Humor

    CYA- cover your #$@ PIA- pain in the

  19. Younger Nurses: Do you find people dont take you seriously? (semi-rant)

    grace90 replied to TexasPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, yeah.... I'm 30 and and am told I look anywhere from 12 to 21. I get mistaken for an aide every once in a

  20. Meds you hate to give....

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

    IM anything, IV Phenergan, anything rectal/po that causes a code brown, and I hate insulin

  21. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    grace90 replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thursday night, 11-7, I admitted a patient who had come in with abdominal pain and ended up having an emergency colectomy for a perforated diverticulum. While I was getting her NG tube to suction,...

  22. Charting Bloopers

    grace90 replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Or call it Ever-so-easily-poured-down-the-sink-by-the-noncompliant-abdominal-pain-patient-and-replaced-with-water (enemas til clear,

  23. Charting Bloopers

    grace90 replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Well, sounds like you understood the ABC's- airway, breathing, circulation! :chuckle

  24. Charting Bloopers

    grace90 replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    A co-worker of mine recently accidentally charted a male patient as having a period, and quite a long time ago charted that an 84 year old lady was

  25. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    grace90 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Everytime I read this one I get tears in my eyes. (There's a reason I don't work peds:crying2: ). I sure hope protective services stepped in for that 5 year