SheriLynnRN

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  1. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    SheriLynnRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Doesn't it just drive you insane when someone tells you that Mr. Smith's O2 STAT is 96%? It's O2 SAT people! Sat, short for saturation. I even hear respiratory therapists saying this. I am sooooo...

  2. I knew it wasn't right while I was doing it...

    SheriLynnRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Last night, towards the end of the shift, most of the staff was either in the report room taping or busy in their pts rooms. We didn't have a secretary, and the charge nurse was away from the desk....

  3. need help ltc ileostomy

    SheriLynnRN replied to Big Smurf2007's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    In my facility, we do not use skin prep under ostomy appliances because it contributes to leaking. Just a very thin layer of stoma powder if needed. Also, you want to cut the hole to fit the size of...

  4. Mixing working and breastfeeding

    SheriLynnRN replied to GooeyRN's topic in General Nursing

    it's only the "reality of things" because we allow it to be that way. it is unacceptable to ask someone to work for 12 hours without taking a break. if we don't demand that we be allowed our breaks,...

  5. Please don't change my schedule and not tell me..

    SheriLynnRN replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    I think your letter does a good job of explaining why you weren't at work, but it doesn't address the issue of the manager changing the schedule without letting you know. If I were you, I'd be more...

  6. Tattoo/employability question

    SheriLynnRN replied to smirkingvag's topic in General Students

    Someday society may be more accepting of tattoos in a professional environment. Until then, I would do as the others have said and find an effective way to cover the tattoos. That way you can still...

  7. Venting about Leadership class

    SheriLynnRN replied to mercedesbattista's topic in General Students

    no, i've never been a manager. i may have mistook the intended meaning of what you posted. i was simply pointing out that your statement seemed to devalue to role of a staff nurse as compared to a...

  8. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    SheriLynnRN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I work with a nurse who mispronounces the antibiotic Zosyn. She says zoy-sin.... drives me nuts! I want to scream "It's zoooo-sin!!!!" And another nurse who says po-taz-ee-um. It's po-tas-ee-um

  9. Venting about Leadership class

    SheriLynnRN replied to mercedesbattista's topic in General Students

    wow. i'm sure you didn't mean that they way it comes across. i've really valued and respected things you've posted before. this seems to imply that staff nurses aren't using our brains in our daily...

  10. What the heck do these people think?

    SheriLynnRN replied to imn2nursin's topic in General Students

    I agree that some of the hoops we have to jump through make it a bit more time consuming and frustrating at times. I'm just saying that I don't think you have to be any "smarter" or have a higher IQ...

  11. What the heck do these people think?

    SheriLynnRN replied to imn2nursin's topic in General Students

    This is exactly how I feel. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think nursing school is going to be sooo hard because others said it will, then you will have test anxiety and freak out. Honestly,...

  12. Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????

    SheriLynnRN replied to jessi1106's topic in Nursing Humor

    Not trying to pick on anyone, but isn't the nurse signing off on a chart ALWAYS supposed to verify that they were actually entered in the computer, etc? That's the way I've always been trained and...

  13. Bedside Report...

    SheriLynnRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am on a commitee to help implement bedside change of shift report on my unit. It is a 28 bed general surgical unit. Another unit in my hospital has done this successfully. We are just in the...

  14. Anyone else call 'em johnnies?

    SheriLynnRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I went to nursing school and was a CNA in Maine, and we always called hospital gowns "johnnies". When I got my first job out of school at a hospital in NC, I sure got some curious looks when I asked...

  15. Anyone else call 'em johnnies?

    SheriLynnRN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, so it's a New England thing! Good to know.... Here in Montana, where my hubby is stationed now, we call 'em gowns. I wonder where the term "johnny" comes

  16. Do you count resps every time you do vitals?

    SheriLynnRN replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    When I work in the cicu, I set my monitor to show the resp parameter. When I am working in the surgical unit, the CNA's routinely take vitals. If I do a set I do usually count resps. I wouldn't ever...

  17. easy way to remember drips...

    SheriLynnRN posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I was just wondering of any of you long timers had any memory tricks or ways to help remember which drips do what and/or what doses to start at...whether they are in mcg/kg/min or mcg/min etc. Or does...

  18. Pain scale is missing a key element

    SheriLynnRN replied to ThatPoshGirl's topic in General Nursing

    I saw a pain scale that made sense to me posted on the wall at the Air Force base clinic where I get my GYN care. It's based on level of functioning...ie pain is present but able to perform activities...

  19. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    SheriLynnRN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I would want someone to let me know if I were saying something the wrong way. The reality is that a person who misuses words, or pronounces them incorrectly comes across as less...

  20. Age you will/were graduated?

    SheriLynnRN replied to sweetiez's topic in General Students

    I was 20 when I graduated with my ADN. I turned 21 a couple of months

  21. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    SheriLynnRN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not really bothered when pt's or family members say things incorrectly. There are some things that the general public just doesn't know....but I get really annoyed when healthcare...

  22. Taking admission orders over the phone.

    SheriLynnRN replied to YippiNurse's topic in Emergency

    Yeah, if you're the ER nurse. Not so awesome for the floor nurse. It's nice to know you're getting a pt, and a little info about them...like their NAME, for example....before the doc is on the phone...

  23. easy way to remember drips...

    SheriLynnRN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    That's exactly the type of memory aid I was thinking of!

  24. Missed orders!

    SheriLynnRN replied to KyPinkRN's topic in General Nursing

    At my last job I had to constantly reach over the charge nurse's shoulder to look at my charts, and annoy the heck out of her...or rely on the less than dependable unit secretary to let me know when I...

  25. Taking admission orders over the phone.

    SheriLynnRN replied to YippiNurse's topic in Emergency

    This sounds pretty passive-aggressive to me. IMHO, it's always better to be direct than to resort to cattiness. These are the kinds of behaviors that lead to a breakdown in communication and...