DaniV.

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1. When patients keep calling 911

   DaniV. replied to JJ the crit RN's topic in Relations

   Back in my good old days of being a midnight charge (of the WHOLE building), I had a sweet confused lady who insisted she wanted CPR. Attempted to explain multiple times that if she can ASK for CPR, she does not need it. She ended up finding her cell...

2. At risk for pressure ulcers...

   DaniV. replied to Julie Reyes's topic in Humor

   Care plan throwing pillows at staff PRN....

3. Code blue

   DaniV. replied to rehric00's topic in General Nursing

   I am still haunted by my first code. The patient had been a young guy, in his mid-40s. He had been a paraplegic who had started on the unit with vent, trach, urostomy, iliostomy, and wound vac. He had been one of my patients for months, and during h...

4. Ugghhh, another new nurse...

   DaniV. replied to Joe V's topic in Rock

   I am still a relatively new nurse (13 months on the floor), and still stay perky. Sometimes overly so, especially after the massive amounts of caffeine kicks in... Mostly, not only am I happy to actually be working, but I am happy to feel like "I got...

5. Things you tell newbies

   DaniV. replied to JBudd's topic in Relations

   Take the time to double check your meds....The speed will come... ASK QUESTIONS. I can't read your mind if I am working with you, and trust me, I would rather explain it to you and have you understand than have to constantly clean up your messes afte...

6. Having a hard time saying 'no' to working overtime

   DaniV. replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   Samsung added the wonderful block mechanism to their phones that you can only receive calls from selected phone numbers for the times that you choose...All others go straight to voice mail... At my old job - that was my best friend when I wasn't at w...

7. How did you feel when you got your first nursing paycheck?

   DaniV. replied to Joe V's topic in Rock

   I bought a brand new motorcycle and shoes... $300 nursing clogs that I had been staring at my whole time in nursing school (while wearing hideous pure white nursing shoes). Oh, and the hot pink scrubs that I brought...to replace the pile of white scr...

8. Oh oh, the patient is a nurse

   DaniV. replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   One of my first patients after I got my license was a nurse. She hadn't told people because she figured they would stop taking care of her. She had seen me fumble through my first ever PEG administration on the other patient, and my shaking hands whe...

9. Me... Me... Me: A Sense of Entitlement

   DaniV. replied to Joe V's topic in Rock

   I actually had a patient on the LTC wing of my building call 911 and tell them she needed CPR. When I was charge nurse for the whole building.... That was fun times to explain to both the cops who had to show up and the DON when she arrived the next...