CardiacDork

CardiacDork MSN, RN

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  1. 7/30 This week, I learned Deanna Troi sucks

    CardiacDork replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I learned my co workers tease me about being booshie for a reason. Here I stand at the check out line with my cart filled with wine, cheese, fruit paste, and Mediterranean marinated beets. This is...

  2. Gave patient the wrong forms

    CardiacDork replied to enfermeratobe's topic in General Nursing

    You've gotta be kidding? You gotta shake it off buttercup. I didn't go home crying after I accidentally flushed my central line and sent remaining levophed into my patient and made their SBP go into...

  3. CRNA/SRNAs : Did/does your school have a strong clinical component?

    CardiacDork replied to chocolateistheanswer's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Edit: I'm also very curious about the clinical component. Namely the psychomotor aspects of the practice of anesthesia. Would programs in rural areas as opposed to large medical centers with medical...

  4. CRNA/SRNAs : Did/does your school have a strong clinical component?

    CardiacDork replied to chocolateistheanswer's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Not to deter the OP's original question but I would like to add that from speaking with a former coworker AND an professor in an anesthesia program in Houston (which happened to be one of my...

  5. When housekeeping...

    CardiacDork replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, the code button doesn't call the code team at our facility. Plus I work in the ICU, we are the code team!

  6. Why or why not CRNA?

    CardiacDork replied to AlrightMike's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I am currently on the fence between medicine or MS nursing anesthesia. The whole CRNA traveling this draws me so much to

  7. Yippiee!!I Cracked the Nursing School Interview!

    CardiacDork replied to janemulligan's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    We all know ICU nurses are the best.

  8. Keys to Success: A Reflection on My Journey from CNA to SRNA

    CardiacDork replied to future_anesthetist's topic in General Nursing

    I enjoyed this read. I am stuck between anesthesia or medicine. But what I got out of this is to slow down and enjoy the moment. Becoming an ICU nurse has been tough. I graduated 2014 and worked the...

  9. Actual handwashing vs. sanitizer

    CardiacDork replied to quazar's topic in General Nursing

    I like washing my hands any chance I get. I love the nice clean feel and I always follow up with hand moisturizer because itchy red hands are NO Bueno

  10. WILTW 7/24: Serving up specials

    CardiacDork replied to LadyFree28's topic in General Nursing

    I learned that the block button is necessary and I learned that not everything you love is good for you. For example, I love pizza it doesn't mean it's good for me. For example I love someone, doesn't...

  11. Medical School where you work as an RN?

    CardiacDork posted a topic in General Nursing

    Any RNs out there ever tried applying and been accepted to the medical school associated with your university hospital? I'm highly considering this! Everyday I want more and more to be a physician....

  12. Ice machine use in hospitals

    CardiacDork replied to olcroner's topic in General Nursing

    We're arguing about filling a bag at the ice machine. Can you imagine if our colleagues saw these discussions? Can we please discuss something else? note: I understand there's a whole underlying...

  13. Admissions!

    CardiacDork posted a topic in General Nursing

    Liked by few, feared by new grads, and despised by all. Yes, I'm talking about admissions! Nursing admissions can be daunting. There are many things to be done, they can be time consuming and...

  14. EBP for not holding beta blockers

    CardiacDork posted a topic in General Nursing

    I find it quite irritating every time a nurse holds the beta blockers because the blood pressure is low. A night nurse held a metoprolol on a patient that was on a fixed rate CVVHD and had labile MAPs...

  15. ICU nightmares

    CardiacDork posted a topic in Critical Care

    New to ICU. I've been having nightmares. Patient coding and no one around to help Setting levophed to .5 instead of .05 and having my patient with increased ICP herniate Running dry on drips, patient...

  16. Feeling dread all over again.

    CardiacDork posted a topic in General Nursing

    When I began my nursing career two years ago in surgery/postop I was a hot mess new grad. I was a nervous wreck, slow, and shy. That quickly changed, I became competent, confident, quick yet safe, and...

  17. Feeling dread all over again.

    CardiacDork replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone. Today was a good day, felt

  18. How to calculate NG tube replacement.

    CardiacDork replied to lola_b123's topic in General Students

    You have a nursing other order that states to infuse half mL of LR for every ONE mL of NG tube output over 4 hours. You walk to your patient's room at noon and notice that they have put out 100...

  19. How to calculate NG tube replacement.

    CardiacDork replied to lola_b123's topic in General Students

    Let's get some basics down. 1) An NG tube is a Nasogastric Tube inserted via the nose and terminates in the stomach. 2) The Nasogastric Tube is often abbreviated NGT. 3) The NGT tube...

  20. How to calculate NG tube replacement.

    CardiacDork replied to lola_b123's topic in General Students

    I wish I could help the OP, but I don't understand what they are not understanding. Isn't it a pretty straightforward 3rd-grade math word problem? OP, please be more

  21. Nursing instructor doesn't allow open textbooks during lecture !??!

    CardiacDork replied to LVNlivin's topic in General Students

    She has some cojones to do that to an instructor and honestly comes off as a arrogant know it all. I would have never in and will never stop a lecturer and "correct" them. That is some pompous sh**....

  22. Anatomy of a Code

    CardiacDork replied to Lynda Lampert, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't cry. I feel a little nutty and left out

  23. Life, death, and dying.

    CardiacDork replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    Parakeet, I don't see euthanasia in a bad light. If euthanasia were legal and within nursing scope of practice and my patients wishes and discussed with physicians and legally documented and ordered...

  24. Nursing instructor doesn't allow open textbooks during lecture !??!

    CardiacDork replied to LVNlivin's topic in General Students

    I also want to add that I would be actually delighted to have a professor that wants to engage me to such extent. A professor that is not all too concerned with my attention could care less if I bring...

  25. Nursing instructor doesn't allow open textbooks during lecture !??!

    CardiacDork replied to LVNlivin's topic in General Students

    You are going into the nursing profession. Get ready to abide what at times turn out to be pointless and ridiculous rules and policies. If this bothers you THAT much, I'm inclined to dissuade you from...