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1. Suture scissor injury

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for sharing GrnTea! Very

2. Suture scissor injury

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in General Nursing

   what's an easy way to get help without people thinking your crazy? I am scared to admit it but i went through PPD after my first baby and my gyno was just like if you threaten to kill yourself they'll...

3. Pain Seekers

   ka2rn replied to missswiss44's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   This is a daily thing for me on my job to deal with drug seekers. It bothered me at first but now I too realize that I can't change their behavior and I just give them the meds the dr has ordered. I...

4. Suture scissor injury

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you this is embarrassing. Im supposed to be

5. Suture scissor injury

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in General Nursing

   I was already being texted from the hep c possible stick. I get my follow up testing next month so I will know then. I am just scared and I don't want to admit I probably have ocd. I don't want to die...

6. Suture scissor injury

   ka2rn posted a topic in General Nursing

   Is there a great risk to catch a disease if you were removing a central line and cutting the sutures and you accidentally poked yourself in the corner of your fingernail? I can't remember if I had...

7. Anxiety about diseases

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   I have read everything there is to read on HIV and Hep C. However, when I had weird symptoms that's when I started worrying more. Even though these could be symptoms of something else. Like a 24 hr...

8. Anxiety about diseases

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   I know. I have had 2 needlesticks and felt them. That spot on my hand was just

9. Anxiety about diseases

   ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   I'm sorry. I just have been thinking about it constantly and I know I am depressed. I was just hoping to get some support from other nurses about

10. Anxiety about diseases

    ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    How likely do you think you could stick yourself with an iv needle and not feel

11. Anxiety about diseases

    ka2rn posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Does anyone ever get paranoid about catching terrible diseases at work? I have a terrible fear of hiv and hepatitis c. Over the summer, I started an iv on an HIV+ patient and have been so paranoid...

12. Hourly rounding. Are you kidding me?

    ka2rn replied to dudette10's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The facility I work at makes us ask them four p's when we do hourly rounding. Pain, potty, position, and possessions. I have trouble asking grown adults do they need to use the potty lol. They also...

13. Have any of you ever been stuck by a needle and not felt it?

    ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This patient was a hard stick and had to be stuck multiple times. Don't throw things at me but I attempted 4 times. I believe it was a with a 20, 22, and 2 24's. I was charge nurse and rarely miss...

14. Have any of you ever been stuck by a needle and not felt it?

    ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yeah. I can't say I didn't get interrupted a few times. My vocera phone was called twice while I was with the patient once I had to leave the room because the supervisor wanted to give me a bed. I'm...

15. Have any of you ever been stuck by a needle and not felt it?

    ka2rn replied to ka2rn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I know I am anxious about stuff like this. Hopefully everything will be