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  1. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    bethin replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    This story is hearsay but comes from a very reliable source. Source is a very responsible, smart nursing supervisor who I have never known to lie. One night she was working ER when paramedics brought...

  2. My Face Feels Big

    bethin replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    I'll come get you some NyQuil if you pay for my plane ticket. I'll even stay and take care of you. It's snowing in Indiana and the idea of 50 degrees sounds sooo nice right now. Hope you feel better...

  3. Opinions on J pouch procedure

    bethin replied to bethin's topic in Gastroenterology

    Yeah, I read about the pouchitis and it scared me. To go through all that surgery and recovery only to get pouchitis and maybe end up with an ostomy anyway. When I feel horrible, I want the surgery....

  4. Opinions on J pouch procedure

    bethin replied to bethin's topic in Gastroenterology

    I have an appt. the end of this month for a second opinion. My pcp doesn't recommend it. I still haven't made a decision either way. My thinking is if I have no large bowel and my Crohn's spreads then...

  5. Discharging PTs to an Unsafe Environment??

    bethin replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    If the peds pt. ended up with an STD it's quite obvious (to me anyways) that the pt. has been sexually abused. You don't give yourself STD's. Three weeks seems like a long time to detemine if the...

  6. Is Your Last Name On Your Badge?

    bethin replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    We have a choice now if we want our last names on it or not. I put a blue child abuse ribbon sideways over my last name--it's easier than getting a new badge. There have been nurses who have...

  7. I had some trouble with a CNA...should I talk to the manager?

    bethin replied to bth44's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. You hadn't worked much with this aide before so you didn't know how to take her and she didn't know how to take you. I am sarcastic, it's just my type of sense of humor, but I never get...

  8. I had some trouble with a CNA...should I talk to the manager?

    bethin replied to bth44's topic in General Nursing

    I do not consider my job lowly. I see more of the patient than the nurse does. I am her eyes and ears. I report VS, blood sugars, changes in status, etc. That's alot of responsibility. I am by no...

  9. Visitors Code of Conduct

    bethin replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    No sex with patients!! This really happened. I walked in on a couple in a comprimising position. If you can do it that way, you can go

  10. Visitors Code of Conduct

    bethin replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Do not expect your loved one to be perky and full of life after 50mg of Demerol. When you get you pain meds it'd be nice for family to leave and not talk amongst themselves. Pt. is trying to rest....

  11. Anyone call way after their shift to tell just one more thing? :)

    bethin replied to christvs's topic in First Year After Licensure

    And it's just not nurses who do it, CNA's do it too. Well, at least I do. I'm anal that way. I actually called the hospital in the middle of my nieces' b-day party Sat. I left some charge stickers...

  12. Why are you REALLY going into nursing? Honest answers please.

    bethin replied to Sheri257's topic in General Students

    As cliche as it sounds I like to help people. I was a pre-law student before nursing. Even then I wasn't thinking money, money. When I graduated from law school I wanted to work for legal aide....

  13. I had the night from you know where!

    bethin replied to christvs's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yep, it sounds like you had one of those nights. It's usually the pts. family or visitors that drive you nuts. You have the degree, not them. I really hate when they answer for a family member who...

  14. Abuse or Sacrificial Love?

    bethin replied to pocu123's topic in Nursing Career

    Could you leave Colorado Springs for another town that had jobs? Have you tried social services to see if you qualify for welfare? I know it's probably a last resort for you. You want a good life...

  15. Worried...caught med error but only CNA

    bethin replied to bethin's topic in General Nursing

    You bring up some good points. I tried to put it in the charge nurse's lap and she wanted nothing to do with it. Another nurse told me to throw it away and I left it at that. A week later it got...

  16. Worried...caught med error but only CNA

    bethin posted a topic in General Nursing

    I would like some nurse's opinions on this. About 2 weeks ago I was cleaning a pump after a pt. was d/c. I tore off the label that was on the saline bag w/antibiotic from pharmacy. I didn't get a...

  17. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    bethin replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Reminds me of a time I had was rear ended on a very busy street in a college town....in front of the football stadium that you could see from space. Anyway, I call 911 on my cell, give dispatcher...

  18. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    bethin replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Your post reminded me of a time that I was a pt. waiting in the ER waiting room. I was beyond dehydrated (hadn't peed in 16hrs.), lost 30 pounds in 2 weeks and passing enough blood that I had to beg...

  19. You'd think I was applying to CIA! Background checks

    bethin posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a CNA and student. I can't apply to nursing school until April 2006 so I'd thought I'd take PCA(pt. care assistants) classes while I wait. Plus, I'd be ahead in clinicals. I received an...

  20. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    bethin replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Your story reminded me of the first season of ER. An elderly pt. came in during a middle of a snowstorm (I think) and only Dr. Greene could remove the hangnail. The pt. asked Dr. Greene when the last...

  21. Incompetent acts witnessed.Legal responsibilities?

    bethin replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in General Nursing

    Could you please explain the "documenting vital signs before the time had occurred?" Do you mean you took vitals at 1555 but they were really 1600 vitals? If that's the case then they were fishing...

  22. 12 hour shifts

    bethin replied to cshelly12's topic in General Nursing

    I work weekend option days, 6:30a-6:30p but I work as a CNA. The nurses come in at 7a. CNA's come in early to do accuchecks and weights. A few nurses work 11a-11p. I like 12 hr. shifts. I'm no more...

  23. Propofol

    bethin replied to czipp's topic in Gastroenterology

    Yes, I love propofol. I've has so many colonoscopies and endoscopies that I've become immune to the standard drugs. I had an endoscopy where I was wide awake, although I had been medicated. The...

  24. the period that will not end

    bethin replied to endlesssummer1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I had the same problem. Started BC pills and the problem went away. Dr. did an U/S, thyroid profile, checked all my hormones and couldn't find anything wrong. She did say my uterus is not centered,...

  25. You'd think I was applying to CIA! Background checks

    bethin replied to bethin's topic in General Nursing

    I understand what you're saying but it still bothers me. If I were (hypothetically) to apply for bankruptcy due to owing a million for my premature child, I don't think it's any of their business....