Mommy2Katiebaby

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  1. Ethical Debate - HIV+ Nurses

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to SC RN's topic in General Nursing

    Out of curiosity, what do you think would happen to the tone of your debate if you changed your wording to substitute "Health care professional" for "Nurse?" THAT would include everyone from CNA's to...

  2. Most dreaded Dr.'s orders

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to BBFRN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, you know GOOD and well they'd be highly unlikely to write for such a thing if they had to do it themselves. Probably foist it off on some unsuspecting med

  3. Most dreaded Dr.'s orders

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to BBFRN's topic in General Nursing

    Some orders MUST be given solely for the amusement of the

  4. Help! I am very dizzy

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to HarryPotter's topic in General Nursing

    Everything I read about it says Splenda should be completely harmless. It doesn't cause cancers even in really high doses, doesn't seem to have any known metabolites, and has been used in multiple...

  5. it doesn't matter what kind of nurse you are.

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to jpatrick188's topic in General Nursing

    Let's see... 23 years old, multiply degreed, and grammatically questionable... YOU do the

  6. Help! I am very dizzy

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to HarryPotter's topic in General Nursing

    I'd love a link to where you got that information - I haven't seen or heard anything of the kind and neither has my doc. Not to say that it's not possibly trie, but to metabolize ionized chloride...

  7. Bad Habits Nurses Develop

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in General Nursing

    Yup, that's

  8. Bad Habits Nurses Develop

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in General Nursing

    Trying to chart 18 sets of vital signs, I&O's, etc. on all your patients at the end of the shift - from memory. Come on, you cannot convince me that a person without a photographic memory can...

  9. Help! I am very dizzy

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to HarryPotter's topic in General Nursing

    Oh and Splenda has been tested literally to death with no evidence that it causes any problems at

  10. Help! I am very dizzy

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to HarryPotter's topic in General Nursing

    I have something called idiopathic benign postural vertigo - I'll get dizzy as all get out for a day or two with no logical cause and then it gets better. Those exercises cited above are *great* -...

  11. allnurses mentioned in AJN and it ain't flattering

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to actioncat's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't said anything in any of my posts that I wouldn't say anywhere else - to an AJN interviewer, for that matter. But I do think that for AJN to appropriate a discussion off of an informal...

  12. Dealing with a difficult co-worker

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to Alicia18's topic in General Nursing

    You may only be 18, but you're all grown up as far as your job goes. Next time you can just say "Please speak to me calmly and professionally and I'll listen. " Then ignore any yelling - just don't...

  13. Information sought on bears with hearts

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to cajrio's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Lil Peanut, that's not crazy at all, it's GREAT! When Katie was on the jet ventilator all I could think about was how uncomfortable she must be, ripped out of her warm womb and left to dry out on a...

  14. INSPIRATIONAL-Why are YOU a Nurse?

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to NoDayButToday's topic in General Nursing

    LOL, some days I *still* don't know why I became a nurse, but that reminder helped. Go forth and nurse, Brad, you'll be

  15. This is sick

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked hospice we got a lot of orders that said "Titrate to comfort." I'm sure we titrated any number of people right off the face of the planet, but we never KILLED

  16. Shoes...omg my feet are in heaven!!

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to RainEdayWoman's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Crocs! I had foot pain for YEARS and can do a whole 12 hour shift with no pain at

  17. Babies that are choking-- HELP PLEASE!!

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to LINUS's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Agreed, absolutely. It's not that hard to drop a small suction catheter down into the upper airway / oropharynx and clean out a bunch of goo for a new baby. Usually we do this inside the nursery,...

  18. Bad Delivery

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to gladtobeOB's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Funny you say the more rigid the birth plan, the more likely it is something will go wrong - my DD was born by emergency c-section at 26 weeks - the day before what WOULD have been my first Bradley...

  19. Babies that are choking-- HELP PLEASE!!

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to LINUS's topic in Ob/Gyn

    That was the way I understood it, too. I got a little worried - wondering if people were routinely intubating babies to clear them out and thinking that no, that wasn't how I learned

  20. Babies that are choking-- HELP PLEASE!!

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to LINUS's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm comfortable doing oropharyngeal suctioning, and do have an NRP, but where I work they reserve the term "deep suctioning" for a post-intubation suctioning, like with thick mec. As far as I know,...

  21. Nurses Will Eat Anything

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to bobnurse's topic in General Nursing

    When I did home care I had a Pakistani lady who needed insulin every day. Her daughter would hand me a slightly oily paper bag full of food when I made my visits out there, and I never had a clue...

  22. What kind of patient would you make????!!!

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to zumalong's topic in General Nursing

    I'm an easy patient myself, but a terrible parent - when my DD was in NICU for four months I suspectthey were very happy to see us all go... we questioned everything, read too much, and generally...

  23. How well did your nursing education prepare you for your job?

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to careerdejour's topic in General Nursing

    My BSN program didn't prepare me to do squat, clinically speaking. I couldn't flush a heparin lock when I graduated. But the truth is those are really only procedures - being a nurse is much more...

  24. Information sought on bears with hearts

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to cajrio's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    The bear itself isn't washable, but when my DD was in NICU we bought her one, and it turns out that the "noisemaker" part of it can be removed from the stuffed animal part (which is huge, anyway.) So...

  25. Poll: Should nurses have more distinctive titles?

    Mommy2Katiebaby replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I always thought it'd be fun to insist on every letter you've ever attained being put behind your name. I'd be "RN, BSN, MA, NRP." So far,