Elysianna

Elysianna BSN, RN

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About Elysianna

Elysianna has 9 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in NICU.


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  1. Why Do We Continue to Harm Patients?

    Better staffing ratios! More nurses = more time/attention devoted to each patient. But, i think that would involve increasing the perceived value of nurses. You see, the majority of the work I do...
  2. What is your worst visitor story?

    The husband of a patient with dementia was spending the night at the bedside. The NST and I walked in to turn her just in time to catch him backhanding her across the face, hard enough to knock her...
  3. Wacky Nursing Dreams

    I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one having these dreams! Do you suppose it's a nurse's version of the dream about not going to class all semester and having to take the final (possibly while...
  4. Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    That's one powerful penlight you've got, spotangel!
  5. NursinginChaos, is there an update on the
  6. 9 months of nursing & not confident

    I feel you, asjohnson02. I've been working as a nurse for 6 months, and still feel like my shifts are spent scrambling, trying not to miss anything, struggling to keep up. I see the experienced RNs...
  7. AvaRose, did you find out what happened with the
  8. I learned the joys of caring for a patient with factitious disorder/Munchausens. When my obs patient with a long history of admissions for nonspecific ailments was due to be discharged the next day,...
  9. Muslim??

    One of my good friends wears the hijab, but when we did psych rotations in nursing school, she modified her head covering for safety. Instead of wearing her scarf around her neck, she wore a modest...
  10. Did you take a pay-cut to be a nurse? Do you regret it?

    I switched from an entirely different career of more than 20 years, and I was very successful at it, so being an RN is a pay cut. But the old job was just that - a job, with no passion or enthusiasm...
  11. Moved mom out of her house today!

    Oh, hppy, I'm so sorry. Grab a slice of cheesecake or something decadent, and try to allow yourself to breathe that sigh of relief that's down in there somewhere. She's safe now, you've done the right...
  12. How to narrow it down?

    Thanks, rob4546!
  13. How to narrow it down?

    Hi, Jules - thanks for answering! It's for class, but I'll be using these med cards to study for the NCLEX as well. Mostly, I'm trying to figure out what's most important in med knowledge for the...
  14. How to narrow it down?

    Hi - this is my first time posting a topic, so please be gentle! :) I'm down to my last two semesters of nursing school. (Hooray!) One thing I've never gotten the hang of is narrowing down my study...