Brandidrn

I have never had C-diff and been in ICU three times where they tested me upon admission and on my way to the floor and was always negative. I took care of a TB patient for days before they told us he had it and working in the emergency room I am sure...

Well I guess floor nurses think down in the ER we have ideal ratios and we have the time to read it for you. So the fact we have to do the H, &P and the IV line run labs and charted it all. Oh yeah we also have 4 to 6 other patients we are taking...

In the ER being thanked or told you are a good nurse is rare I guess due to the nature of the unit. Treat them and Street them is our motto. I however have had patients and their families come to me out in the public and tell me thank you and what a...

Well stethoscopes are all different and maybe they have one that is stronger and easier to hear. So I got a recording of the sounds and just listened over and over til I got it. Good luck?

Sry it wasn't on purpose I didn't realize I will be more careful thx for letting me know

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I agree there r a lot of uncaring judgemental people who eat their young on here and just rip people up. So when they say if u don't want opinions don't ask I say they want help now the gun to end it! They r the ones that ***** about staffing numbers...

I know I had to have it done I am much more sympathetic to patients now

We never use pumps in the ER where I work and over the years I have gotten good at eye balling it and nothing has ever happened now if we had to wait to run things on pumps that u can never find it would be disastrous. Plz don't freak out and try to ...

Curious what did u find that worked for u?

It was at the time harder than anything I had ever done in my life! Now I was a single mom with 4 year old twin daughters working full time in a head injury ventilator unit. There were at least a million times I wanted to quit and had to tell myself ...

I was in a Level 1 trauma, in a Level 2 facility, when this completely arrogant SOB pulmonologist and I got into a screaming match over something I don't remember what but I do know I questioned something he told me to do anyway he flipped and threw ...

Holy crap how u didn't pick that chart up and smash it over his head that is crazy!

Lord some harsh comments people some of us r not from this computer/app generation and don't understand it but these days there is an app for everything and the younger generation uses them all! I don't know of any but good luck finding ur answers! S...

My daughters, now 20, said the pledge until the 5th grade then it was banned and illegal or unconstitutional until this school year when schools just started saying it again so my son now 11, had to learn it. So when the big campaign to return it and...

I don't understand why nurses who complain continually about ratios and shortages want to be nasty butt heads to anyone much less a new grad! They were once new first off and that person is one less shift that needs covered. I make it a point to be n...

I have broken many doctors over the years of their rudeness by calling them for every fart sideways being the good nurse until they get the hint. The lesson a nurse can be ur best friend or worst enemy so play nice doc!

Oh I wear whatever I always have no one has ever said a word to me, maybe that's why I didn't know what a paraben was!? Lol!

We r human stop beating yourself up u were trying to just get what u had to to ensure she was stable in an ICU setting and had to prioritize. U also weren't the first person to have taken care of her. Let me tell u my daughters were being abused by m...

You nailed it! May I say I also think we need to remember to look at the patient not the numbers at times cause no two people are the same and some people don't fit the "mold" but are a part of the topic.

I have done that since I started sticking people!

When u fall asleep and hear a disconnected ventilator alarm, in your sleep lol, and jump up to find it!

I sympathize with you and found myself in a situation where no one said a word to me and I couldn't see what I was doing I just knew something was wrong and had been for a while and I kept spiraling until I was so sick I almost died. I wish someone h...

I have Lupus and you are awesome

I have to say this I recently tried to go to home health and it has been a nightmare for me! I wish I could be more encouraging to you but after 2 years with 2 different companies that just made me wanna quit nursing, they told me Friday I take to mu...