hawaiicarl BSN, RN

hawaiicarl has 28 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Critical care.

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   Bedside Nurses: Undervalued, Poorly Retained and What Experts Say

   hawaiicarl replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

   Our hospital is pretty comical in regards to retention. All of the other acute care hospitals in the area have post-retirement health care, and a pension of some sort. When we bring this up we are told …. but you get free parking. In their strategy...
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   What is your "thing" and how do you deal with it?

   hawaiicarl replied to Robin Verde's topic in General Nursing

   I don't really have a thing, but I do enjoy trolling people who do. I have a co-worker who can't stand skin flakes, and we had one guy who looked like a snake molting his skin come in. Remember that scene in Austin Powers Goldmember? I peeled a go...
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   What is your "thing" and how do you deal with it?

   hawaiicarl replied to Robin Verde's topic in General Nursing

   I don't really have a thing, but I do enjoy trolling people who do. I have a co-worker who can't stand skin flakes, and we had one guy who looked like a snake molting his skin come in. Remember that scene in Austin Powers Goldmember? I peeled a go...
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   What is your "thing" and how do you deal with it?

   hawaiicarl replied to Robin Verde's topic in General Nursing

   I don't really have a thing, but I do enjoy trolling people who do. I have a co-worker who can't stand skin flakes, and we had one guy who looked like a snake molting his skin come in. Remember that scene in Austin Powers Goldmember? I peeled a go...
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   What is your "thing" and how do you deal with it?

   hawaiicarl replied to Robin Verde's topic in General Nursing

   I don't really have a thing, but I do enjoy trolling people who do. I have a co-worker who can't stand skin flakes, and we had one guy who looked like a snake molting his skin come in. Remember that scene in Austin Powers Goldmember? I peeled a go...
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   What is your "thing" and how do you deal with it?

   hawaiicarl replied to Robin Verde's topic in General Nursing

   I don't really have a thing, but I do enjoy trolling people who do. I have a co-worker who can't stand skin flakes, and we had one guy who looked like a snake molting his skin come in. Remember that scene in Austin Powers Goldmember? I peeled a go...
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   What is your "thing" and how do you deal with it?

   hawaiicarl replied to Robin Verde's topic in General Nursing

   I don't really have a thing, but I do enjoy trolling people who do. I have a co-worker who can't stand skin flakes, and we had one guy who looked like a snake molting his skin come in. Remember that scene in Austin Powers Goldmember? I peeled a go...
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   Charge nurse hears me but doesn't listen

   hawaiicarl replied to painmeds's topic in General Nursing

   We joke about this all the time in ICU. Admitting a patient on room air with a heplock to ICU, when I question the NOC, he says I want you to "watch the patient". Pt has uncontrolled SVT in the 180s, call the NOC what does he say? "Watch the pt" …....
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   Questions about morning blood sugars/insulin

   hawaiicarl replied to Logracia's topic in General Nursing

   We used to have night shift check sugar and give insulin, until we had a couple hypoglycemic events due to delayed trays, or a Dr. all of a sudden deciding pt needs to be NPO etc etc. We actually changed our policy similar to the TIE acronym, which ...
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    Ineffective Compressions

    hawaiicarl replied to beekindRN's topic in General Nursing

    Please don't ever sing or hum "Staying Alive" during a code on a real person, if the family walks in or is in the hallway they may be seriously offended. The code leader during the code is responsible for monitoring compressions, they should provide...
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    foley ballon placement wrong?

    hawaiicarl replied to moonshawdow's topic in General Nursing

    Don't you mean you can't stop indwelling? ?
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    hawaiicarl replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    My pet peeve is them wandering in 5 minutes late with a plate of food, and apparently the obnoxious "cow chewing their cud" sounds interfere with their hearing or brain function because right after you tell them something they ask what it is …. hgb w...
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    What is my "unit" called in english and what profession is it in the USA?

    hawaiicarl replied to Grogon's topic in General Nursing

    Guten Tag! Wie Geht's? When I first graduated nursing back in the stone age we were in one of those layoff cycles that nursing sometimes goes through. I got a job in a group home with 6 disabled adults. The job consisted of passing oral meds, meal ...
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    NCLEX shut off at 75 and feel like I failed??

    hawaiicarl replied to Laureani's topic in NCLEX

    Well I would be surprised if you failed after how you managed to detail how many of each type of question was on the exam you took. I vaguely recall the NCLEX, and would have absolutely no idea about how many questions of each type of category there...
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    Transferring to ICU

    hawaiicarl replied to RN0233's topic in General Nursing

    If your goal is to get into the ICU, and that is the shift that is open I would grab it. During the interview you could mention that you are happy to do rotating shift (which will help you learn the different aspects of the shifts), but that you pre...