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  1. my back hurts.......does yours?

    kewlnurse replied to micro's topic in General Nursing

    My back stopped hurting the day i stopped working on

  2. Flushing JP Drain

    kewlnurse replied to lori999's topic in Medical-Surgical

    make sure you go slow or you could dislodge the

  3. What is your net take home pay every two weeks?

    kewlnurse replied to JMP's topic in General Nursing

    Stuck here cuz wife, and therefore kids, won't move. Had a major blowout argument about it just last

  4. What is your net take home pay every two weeks?

    kewlnurse replied to JMP's topic in General Nursing

    I work in the best paid hospital in the area and barely make that with an extra $1.40 for nocs and 1.50 for being an rn 2 (ccu, sicu, recovery, dialyisis. er)! Have i mentioned latly how much i hate...

  5. Just Go Pee!

    kewlnurse replied to Huganurse's topic in General Nursing

    I can't understand it when nurses say they don't have time to pee. I have never gone 15 minutes longer than when i have first felt the urge, whether it was on a med surge floor with 12 patients or the...

  6. Lethal injection nurse???

    kewlnurse replied to Zhakrin's topic in General Nursing

    I'd be applying in

  7. Check out those veins!

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

    I do it all the time and I contimplate sticking a 16 ga in my own cephalic vein it's so darn

  8. Jcaho

    kewlnurse replied to KRVRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We just had them come through. What a PITA. Do they really think that what goes on while they are there is what really goes on all the time? With regards to names, (non baby area, In ICU) first we...

  9. How long does it take to get lab results

    kewlnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    When you send a stat lab off how long does it take to get you

  10. IQ Test Crucial to Nursing (Post# 1)

    kewlnurse replied to betts's topic in General Students

    sent my "answers" to ya, i love stuff like

  11. Questions about transfusions...

    kewlnurse replied to plumrn's topic in General Nursing

    We run them both wide open, depending n the saus of the patient, we don' ususally pigge back them, run them to gravity and use the filter that is sent up from the blood bank, same as the prbc

  12. How long does it take to get lab results

    kewlnurse replied to kewlnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I suppose i should of specified. We can't get CMP's stat only

  13. IV tubing change

    kewlnurse replied to Judy T's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Iv tubing get s changed q 72 hours, bags, q 24, hyper al, q 24, dht/peg feeds q 24. Propofol q 12 (just found that out the other day) Dilantin tubing c/every

  14. Propofol

    kewlnurse replied to czipp's topic in Gastroenterology

    We can use it in ccu areas, fentanyl also. Floor nurses aren't allowed to push much of anything, 'cept most

  15. Toradol

    kewlnurse replied to BlueBear's topic in Orthopedic

    you can only use trorodol for 72 hours, it beats the hell out of your kidneys and

  16. Night Shift Differential

    kewlnurse replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    $1.10 for 3-11; $1.40 for nocs. Would do it with out the extra pay for a lot of reasons, ie; no PITA management around, no road trips, most patients sleep more, staff is more laid back and not so...

  17. Bonus for extra shifts: what are your facilities doing for you?

    kewlnurse replied to timonrn's topic in General Nursing

    Closes yor eyes and tell me what you see. Thats what we get, the exact same thing we get for working

  18. ICU nursing vs Floor nursing

    kewlnurse replied to nurs4kids's topic in General Nursing

    I've only been in the CMICU for a few weeks but here is the difference: Unit:2-3 patients, very ill, vent's, drips and moniters, MD's on the unit, or (at night) sleeping n a little room right down...

  19. spooky spooky spooky

    kewlnurse replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    I have 2 stories, both happend in the last 6 months. 1. Had a patient that was pretty much goona die in a few months, lots of things wrong, out of control dm, chirhosis, esrd, anyway, i had to gime...

  20. male ob nurses

    kewlnurse replied to V SPN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Good luck, i hated ob, luckily i only had to go to clinical 2 days (long story). I don't think there are many male ob nurses. As much as i love women, wouldn't want to see them in that way all

  21. blood draw from heparin lock?

    kewlnurse replied to mary y.'s topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    I use ht's all the time 50/50 with vacutainers, it the ht doesn't draw, i put another one in, hospital policy is that they must be 20 ga or larger, don't think anything smaller would work

  22. Antibiotics during dialysis

    kewlnurse replied to TELEpathicRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I don't work in dialysis, but i did work on the renal ranch and we always gave the abx when they returned to the floor afer their

  23. Hip joint pain

    kewlnurse replied to essarge's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds more like a herniated disk. I forgot which nerve goes where but there is a chart that shows what nerve when compressed will affect the hips/legs, doesn't sound lie a hip problem since it is...

  24. Share your favorite halloween jokes

    kewlnurse replied to radnurse2001's topic in Nursing Humor

    Why couldn't the witch get pregnant? Her Husband had a

  25. NANDA: Energy Field Disturbance Diagnosis

    kewlnurse replied to CarolineRn's topic in General Nursing

    Being the smartass that i am i used it on a test, was told if i ever used it again i would fail the program, jokingly of course. All i can say is thats a stupid fu&$in