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  1. Stethescopes

    kewlnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    What kind of stethescope does everyone and and where do you keep it. I have a Littman Classic II SE and think it's great, I wear it around my neck almost all the time and feel naked without it, which...

  2. Blood transfusions, pump or gravity

    kewlnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does yor institution allow the use of pumps for transfusion, or do you have to hang it to

  3. What are your thoughts on unions?

    kewlnurse replied to jkaee's topic in General Nursing

    I work for a Union hospital, i would vote them out in a second. We have poor nisurance, average pay, poor staffing, grievences that do absolutley notehr (last manager i had, had over 125 grievencs in...

  4. Young and Single! Should I move here?

    kewlnurse replied to Krenee2007's topic in New York Nursing

    Don't move to NY, any part. It is the worst state in the US to live

  5. Demerol, YUCK!

    kewlnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    What is the love affair that PMD's and even some general surgeons have with demerol . On our ortho floor is we are not even giving our doctors the option to use it in the new pain management...

  6. Nurse to patient ratios

    kewlnurse replied to stellaCat4's topic in Cardiac

    LLD sounds like yor floor was staffed like our ICU, man I gotta get out of here. Poor staffing is the norm not the

  7. Nurse to patient ratios

    kewlnurse replied to stellaCat4's topic in Cardiac

    LLD sounds like yor floor was staffed like our ICU, man I gotta get out of here. Poor staffing is the norm not the

  8. Nurse to patient ratios

    kewlnurse replied to stellaCat4's topic in Cardiac

    I don't work on tele but have a very close friend who does. Nights has 10-12 patients each, usually 1 moniter tech and 1 aide. No pressor drips are allowed outside the icu in our hospital. Keep in...

  9. Nurse to patient ratios

    kewlnurse replied to stellaCat4's topic in Cardiac

    I don't work on tele but have a very close friend who does. Nights has 10-12 patients each, usually 1 moniter tech and 1 aide. No pressor drips are allowed outside the icu in our hospital. Keep in...

  10. IV Push Lopressor on a Med-Surg Unit??

    kewlnurse replied to LuvMedSurgNsg's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Absolutly has to e on a moniter, I wouldn't even give it, seen a pt. go asystole 5 minutes after getting

  11. skunks on night shift?

    kewlnurse replied to mednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Call me weird, everyone else does, but i like that skunk

  12. Do you have to be "super smart" to be a nurse?

    kewlnurse replied to Rootbear76's topic in General Nursing

    judging by some of the morons i work with you can be dumb as a brick and still be a nurse, completly brain dead if you want to be in

  13. physician abuse

    kewlnurse replied to jaquar's topic in General Nursing

    I thought you meant abusing the MD's. We beat them up pretty good, especially the interns. I abused one for about an hour the other day about a BS admission, still got the hit but i felt better about...

  14. Throw away your sterile gloves

    kewlnurse replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    Sterile gloves with the exceptiohn of stage I and II pressure ulcers. Don't need to culture? Big difference in treatment for a unifected wound vs. a vre or mrsa wound don't you

  15. Torsedas ?

    kewlnurse replied to RNConnieF's topic in General Nursing

    Correct me if I'm wrong but if your in Torsades you have very poor cardiac out put, and if you were in it for 4 dyas, would you not be dead. Probbaly more like

  16. Crazy, abusive patient? What do u do?

    kewlnurse replied to Anagray's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    5 security guards, 10 of haldol, 2 of ativan and a 20 ga syringe. He wouldn't refuse

  17. Constipation

    kewlnurse replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

    M O M in the pm for a bm in the am. plus colace, ducolax if needed, than regular enema than if needed soap

  18. 200 lb MONSTER!

    kewlnurse replied to Furball's topic in General Nursing

    I seriousluy have to question the 50 units of blood. 16 pints and your on a complete change over, that would be about 24 units. None of your own blood would be a massuive reaction in the body, sounds...

  19. Older than dirt quiz

    kewlnurse replied to KaraLea's topic in Nursing Humor

    I got 16 but I'm not that old, just well

  20. Belly Piercing/Tattoo

    kewlnurse replied to shavsha's topic in General Nursing

    A good shop pours the ink from the main container into a disposable one. They NEVER stick the needle into the main can of ink. They place I got mine even showed me his autoclave, and he was/is a nurse...

  21. Belly Piercing/Tattoo

    kewlnurse replied to shavsha's topic in General Nursing

    when my kids are teenagers they can pierced where ever they want, except the genitalia. When the daughter is old enough to care for them, she can get her ears pierced, the boy too for that matter. I...

  22. Getting a bad reputation at work

    kewlnurse replied to RNinICU's topic in General Nursing

    The right thing to do isn't alwasy the easy thing to do. I owld have written up the kcl incident, but the verbally abusive one would of gotten a verbal

  23. The South African Floor Polisher Massacre -

    kewlnurse replied to betts's topic in General Nursing

    I have to admit when I saw the title i thought it was a joke, but man, could you imagine. I can see how that would happen, floor polishers can be noisey and mute roiom alarms, they may also have old...

  24. What do you do to get past the 2am slump

    kewlnurse replied to peaceful2100's topic in General Nursing

    he's a little head banger dude, and those arn't drum stix, there his fingers in the satan/peace/surfer thing (depending on which concert you were at). so quoth dio "look

  25. What do you do to get past the 2am slump

    kewlnurse replied to peaceful2100's topic in General Nursing

    i go outside and smoke a