StripeyDog

StripeyDog specializes in acute rehab.

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1. Seeking advice from all you Introverted nurses out there...

   StripeyDog replied to jk2185's topic in Relations

   Deeply introverted, and rehab is a high-touch specialty. I love my patients and enjoy most of my coworkers, but I'm drained at the end of the shift. I've gotten really selective about who I see on my days off, and am trying to switch to 3 12s and mov...

2. 3/19 What I learned this week: more about employment laws than anything else

   StripeyDog replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   Things like straight caths and helping with hygiene and aspirating residuals feel routine now, but when a patient says "I love you,"* that's waaay too much intimacy and I spend the next week quietly freaking out. I'm not good at saying goodbye to p...

3. 2/20: what I learned this week: people do not understand TB

   StripeyDog replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   Repeating my stats class three times did not appreciably increase my understanding of, or reduce my loathing for, statistics. Even though I'm not even in school anymore I still put off writing papers till the last possible moment. Someone please rem...

4. Need help

   StripeyDog replied to heronurse's topic in Rehabilitation

   You got this.

5. RADAR delirium screening tool

   StripeyDog posted a topic in Rehabilitation

   I was surfing PubMed on my day off (I can't be the only one who does this) and came across the RADAR delirium screening tool. Basically, you take a few seconds during med pass to assess whether a patient is drowsy, inattentive, or slowed; if the scre...

6. 2/6 What I Learned This Week: If you annoy them, they will order

   StripeyDog replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   I've been chewing cloves rather than face the impending root canal. I save the scotch for the nights I have multiple PITAs, or have to send a patient out. I re-learned that pity has no place on the floor. It clouds my clinical judgement, and is usua...

7. delerium vs psychosis, plus a roomie

   StripeyDog posted a topic in Rehabilitation

   A patient with dementia and CVA was admitted to our acute inpatient stroke rehab unit some weeks ago. She was transferred to a single room because the screaming was disturbing her room mate. When I first met her (01/21, I think) she was doing well:...

8. 1/23: What I learned this week: Long, long week. But the bagel was tasty.

   StripeyDog replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   I learned that if I follow the instructions in that "how to drive a regular-a55 car in the snow" article that was making the rounds on FB last week, I CAN in fact drive a beat-up front-wheel-drive sedan 26 miles during a state of emergency/travel ban...

9. 3 weeks sick leave 8 weeks in

   StripeyDog posted a topic in New Nurse

   I started my Dream Job in October. 2 days before I was due to finish orientation, I experienced major illness. It took 3 weeks to get medical clearance to return to work. I finished my orientation this week, and have had a whopping 2 evenings on my ...

10. A slower paced unit

    StripeyDog replied to avery1020's topic in Rehabilitation

    3 months into my 1at RN job at a top-notch acute rehab facility. I had 8 weeks orientation, and I started hearing cracks about "still" being on orientation around week 3. I get 5 or 6 patients a night because I'm new, but 7 or 8 is typical, and 11 o...