gobblers

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1. What Gets to You??

   gobblers replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

   Doctors who graduate at the bottom of their class and they that they know everything. They are unwilling to list to the nursing staff. We have had patient's admitted from the ER with the diagnosis of renal colic and not have anything ordered for pai...

2. Wrote a doctor up!!!

   gobblers replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

   In my 41 years as a nurse, I have written several doctors up and probably should have written more up. The one that stands out in my mine involved a patient on a ventilator. The patient's blood gases were good considering the settings that the patien...

3. Caring for Jehovah's witnesses

   gobblers replied to cu-n-hvn's topic in Safety

   It has been my experience with Jehovah Witnesses that they are firm in their belief not to take blood. Many cannot quote the biblical scripture for you but nevertheless they will not take blood. I have only seen one patient in 41 years of nursing th...

4. Blood administration policy

   gobblers replied to nickola's topic in Safety

   I have always worked in ICU so we wanted large bore lines to get blood through in rapidly; however, I have questioned the policy of all blood having to be placed in a 20ga or larger iv catheter. The rbc goes through the capillary bed single file and...

5. Has anyone ever taken Latin?

   gobblers replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

   I took 2 years of Latin in high shool in the early sixties. It does help you in cluing in on the root of medical terminology. It will certainly stimulate your mind.

6. Is the old time nursing field better than now? less paper work?

   gobblers replied to waterfall's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, I believe it was better in the old days. Care was centered on the patient, whereas today, it is about the dollar. When I was registered in 1967, I can truly say that I practiced holistic nursing. Today with time constraints and constant budget...

7. Rita's coming-my hospital won't close!!

   gobblers replied to RN34TX's topic in General Nursing

   I would consider it my last day. Why would you want to work for an irreponsible organization that puts you and you colleagues in harms way? As I see it, if the ones that did not follow the mandatory evacuation rules, then they are on their own.

8. need help for severe depression

   gobblers replied to needs help's topic in General Nursing

   The first thing that you need is a good psychiatrist who is willing to work with you. I suffer from depression and have gone through a long list of psychiatrists and after years of suffering, I have found a jewel. He is attentive to his patients, an...

9. Worst nursing experience

   gobblers replied to Alpha13's topic in General Nursing

   As a nurse of 41 years, I have had many worst days in nursing. The first occurred when I was a student working extra in the OR It was before the days of EMS. The fire department brought a young man in a stretcher. You could hear him before you coul...

10. What's your story? Why did you take up nursing?

    gobblers replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    In the 60's there were two things that a girl could do--be a teacher or be a nurse