grace90

grace90 LPN, LVN

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  1. Describe your last day at work in 50 words or less !?

    grace90 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    11-7 surgical floor, 19 pts 3 RNs 1 sleepy aide 1- 60+ M crani colon CA brain lung mets :stone 2- 54 F ankle fx untreated HTN hx cardiac cath low sats 3- 52F breast CA mastectomy revision push...

  2. Jay Leno slams nurses!

    grace90 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I *just* watched Jay Leno make a really rude comment about nurses- it went something to the effect of... " you know nurses are the most overworked profession in America... especially in those adult...

  3. spooky spooky spooky

    grace90 replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    I work nights on a surgical floor, and we had something odd happen a couple nights ago. A 91 year old LOL with COPD and CHF among other chronic disorders had come in with a fractured hip and humerus...

  4. Charting Bloopers

    grace90 replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Were they talking about the patient or the

  5. Charting Bloopers

    grace90 replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    We read that once in the neurosurgery progress notes of a patient that was sp lumbar surgery and had one glass eye. :chuckle Makes ya

  6. who can check blood

    grace90 replied to a54flo's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Ditto at our facility! 2 RN's only! And the other RN's here are always willing to check blood or FFP with each other,

  7. Jay Leno slams nurses!

    grace90 replied to grace90's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, in my 16 short mo in practice, I've been known to get in more than 1 doc's face to get something I know a patient needs.

  8. What is your least favorite kind of med-surg patient?

    grace90 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Besides the abdominal pains and the GI bleeds:barf01: , I really dislike caring for intracranial bleed patients. Frequently they are confused and aggressive. I don't care for total cystectomy with...

  9. Turning off your beeper while charting. Wrong or Right? Vote Now.

    grace90 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think it is abandonment and neglect. I work with some prizewinners who do this and it leaves the rest of us to either tend to their patients for them while trying to get our own work done or hunt...

  10. Med-Surg Roll Call

    grace90 replied to RNPATL's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I've been working as an RN since 6/04 on a primarily surgical floor. I was told I needed to start being charge last October and by December the other nurses had me doing it a couple times a week. Now...

  11. Med-Surg Roll Call

    grace90 replied to RNPATL's topic in Medical-Surgical

    ITA with everything you said! Our unit is setup the same way on 11-7 in that we take turns being charge and the rn's call the docs on their own primaries/covers. When we're calling a doc we'll ask...

  12. Describe your last day at work in 50 words or less !?

    grace90 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    11-7 saturday night, 3 RN's/17 pts 1. 54M post gastric bypass readmit severe abdominal pain possible abscess 2. 18F ERCP pancreatitis was better now screaming puking sick 3. 68F tib/fib fx OR in am...

  13. T-Ball pays player to assault boy with autism

    grace90 replied to LydiaNN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    In this day and age of teaching children tolerance and diversity, why is aggression, bullying, teasing, and rejection of developmentally disabled children tolerated and not discouraged??? :angryfire...

  14. RN and Autism Mom

    grace90 replied to lovetp4ever2002's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    I'm an RN and have a 7 year old son with severe autism and severe developmental delay. Every day is filled with rewards and challenges. :redbeathe :icon_hug: I have considered doing developmental...

  15. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    grace90 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I work med-surg and last night I had a patient with an adynamic ileus that had a rectal tube for relief of gas. The tube became plugged with semi-solid stool and liquid stool was leaking all over the...

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

    grace90 replied to MomBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated 18 months ago and I thought it was funny! I work with a 39 year vet nurse on my unit and the differences between us are amazing. The best part of working with her is she is always willing...

  17. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    grace90 replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    My nursing instructors never told us that the human bladder could be capable of holding 4000 cc of urine with distention up to the umbilicus- with no sensation of a problem whatsoever. "I pee just...

  18. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    grace90 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    it's generally not a good idea for a bunch of drunks to go on a hayride, and it's *really* not a good idea for one of the riders to decide to climb up to the tractor to bum a smoke off the driver,...

  19. "Just" a nurse? You can do so much better!

    grace90 replied to Mirai Kangofu's topic in General Nursing

    Your letter sounds terrific! :) Is it ok if I print your original post out and tack it up on the bulletin board in our staff bathroom? We tack up things like this occasionally- things to help boost...

  20. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    grace90 replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    here's a few more... that sometimes the best way to deal with a grouchy co-worker is to chart somewhere else that when we're working short-staffed I can't possibly catch everything or give the care...

  21. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    grace90 replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Sometimes when I have a quiet moment at work I wonder just what the h*** I learned in nursing school anyway... I run into so much stuff that I feel like I know nothing about. I learn something new...

  22. "Pardon Me, May I Kiss Your Feet?" Stories of doctors who want to rule the Earth

    grace90 replied to goats'r'us's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had an elderly pt. crash on me a few days ago in med-surg. She had come in a few days before with a hip fracture and the night of surgery she went unresponsive and her blood pressure was in the...

  23. What do your ER patients families say or do that irks you?

    grace90 replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

    I'm a med-surg nurse, and I made a big dumb parent booboo last week when we brought my 4 year old daughter in to the ER after she ate her brother's Risperdal, all 7.5 mg's in the bottle at once. She...

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

    grace90 replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    Last night after I giving meds through a J-tube I proceeded to then wash my hands- forgetting one minor step- I started washing my hands with the gloves on! :roll :roll :roll :smackingf...

  25. Please help me with this because I think it is a bit hinky

    grace90 replied to nytelytespn's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat: :yeahthat: :yeahthat: :yeahthat: