Angelicpurl

Angelicpurl

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  1. FT on call positions 7on 7off

    Angelicpurl replied to sakasa's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I work just Monday through Thursday 5 pm to 8am. I don't do triage except as a rare occurrence. I have another nurse full-time nights with me and 2 nurses that are back up with us. They have caseloads...

  2. If you could speak your mind...

    Angelicpurl replied to GSDlvrRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Reminded me of many years ago, I was new grad. I had a post-hysterectomy patient come back from PACU. She had a wash basin for vomiting. This was before Zofran was used.... Family had piled in so...

  3. hiring pregnant RN

    Angelicpurl replied to ap2409's topic in General Nursing

    We hired 2 nurses knowing they were pregnant. One was due so soon that she actually had the baby before her background checks came back! The other decided to wait to start orientation until after she...

  4. Falsely accused of med diversion

    Angelicpurl replied to kindia's topic in General Nursing

    Since that amounted to shift change report, yes. They even paid me to go to get the drug test. I was told at the time it happened that I was the random test of the week. I found out when I came back...

  5. 10 year old died after I performed CPR

    Angelicpurl replied to MjHudd's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with other posts. As a former CPR instructor, I had many people question me when I would give the statistics for CPR survival. They're abysmal in the field, and not that great in the hospital....

  6. Falsely accused of med diversion

    Angelicpurl replied to kindia's topic in General Nursing

    I took a box of Morphine PCA, opened the box in front of the patient, flipped off the yellow cap, had a pump that scanned it as Morphine...and because my patient didn't believe I would give them...

  7. Pet Peeves with Doctors

    Angelicpurl replied to BeenThere2012's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Anyone who needs a stethoscope gets a yellow "isolation" stethoscope. We have a drawer of them for when different items get more use than others. We throw away BP cuffs that get icky for one reason or...

  8. Pet Peeves with Doctors

    Angelicpurl replied to BeenThere2012's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My favorite? Wife is in room, I'm in with roommate. Dr. X comes in, says, tell the nurses to have me called anytime you need me. I'll answer right away. So, wife calls out & she has a legitimate...

  9. If you could speak your mind...

    Angelicpurl replied to GSDlvrRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I love it when they come into a room behind you after you close the door. I always say, is youreally mom/dad in the next bed (meaning same room)? I've only had a few say no, and at that, someone else...

  10. How do you deal with Doctors that insult nurses?

    Angelicpurl replied to relusanmi's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I had one particular Doctor hang up on any of us a lot. He even said before he hung up once, I saw that patient yesterday around 3 and she can't be coding now....I gave him a minute and called him...

  11. If you could speak your mind...

    Angelicpurl replied to GSDlvrRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I got fired from a patient because her ice cream was originally too cold, then it was too soft....I had also put ice in their water pitcher and water in the ice pitcher. So the wife poured a Coke into...

  12. No more rudeness!

    Angelicpurl replied to WheatGerm's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Did we work together? I precepted a girl like that too. She was a nurse who could NOT figure out (& get it to stick) how to push ANY medications IV. I'm talking about someone working a busy...

  13. The rudest thing that's ever been said to you by a patient or family

    Angelicpurl replied to nikkole318's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Runs along the same as I got told one night when I was about 38 weeks pregnant. We were swamped with patients, but no one on my floor wanted me to lift more than 5 pounds, pull or push more than...

  14. Hands off my vent!!

    Angelicpurl replied to adventure_rn's topic in Critical Care

    Yep! I've seen a lot of crazy come from homes. One of my coworkers texted me that they finally got readings from the vent. Family had changed settings. I guess they forgot about that being possible. I...

  15. Hands off my vent!!

    Angelicpurl replied to adventure_rn's topic in Critical Care

    Yes! I'm so glad I found the lock on feeding pumps and IVS. Especially after one mom programmed the feeding pump to NOT go off when it was supposed. She filled bag to the top and set amounting infuse...

  16. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Angelicpurl replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    We had a hospice patient with uncontrollable pain in the nursing home. We had very limited options back then given her allergies, agitation (she pulled out every SQ pump needle). So unfortunately,...

  17. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Angelicpurl replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    One of my bosses said she was caring for an atheist once, very late at night. Said that all the sudden, the woman's legs turned fired red and too hot to touch. The family had been doing a death watch...

  18. Being blamed for fall after shift

    Angelicpurl replied to notyetnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I say get out of there! I quit working for a place many years ago because I gave report on a patient group, and as I was giving report on the last one, one of the others decided to climb over the bed...

  19. (Short) feeling terrible. New nurse. Made such a dumb mistake.

    Angelicpurl replied to Jaellys's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe....maybe not.... I woke up the Chief Medical Officer one night. A surgeon....he wasn't on call and my patient had a different surgeon on his case (fresh from ER) & hadn't been seen yet by on...

  20. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Angelicpurl replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in a small rural hospital many years ago. The aide laid the telemetry monitor on the bed in preparation for an ER admission. We were SO small that it wasn't uncommon for a floor nurse to have...

  21. junior high student thinks she is pregs

    Angelicpurl replied to crazynursebsn's topic in School

    I'm over 40, but my stepsister in law was barely 14 when she had my nephew....a cousin'so wife was pregnant at 13 (in class with me & NO not my cousin's child; he met her at my brother's ball game...

  22. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    Angelicpurl replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Is why I'm thankful we had a potassium & magnesium protocol if their creatinine was under a certain level. Covered just about everyone but dialysis

  23. Student's hygiene?

    Angelicpurl replied to zombieghoast's topic in School

    We felt sorry for him growing up. Everyone outside the family thought he was adopted, or he was my brother....we do all look alike. Hate to admit his parents were the "filthy" rich kind, because...

  24. Student's hygiene?

    Angelicpurl replied to zombieghoast's topic in School

    He was when Dad talked to him....he's not now. But his situation was because his parents weren't buyingredients him basic supplies like SOAP and Deodorant.... He told me his mom gave him grief over...

  25. Student's hygiene?

    Angelicpurl replied to zombieghoast's topic in School

    I have a weird view on this from my own family: I have a cousin who is STILL (40+ years later), second to his sister. He's a year younger than her, but he didn't get any college help, always wore...