bgxyrnf

bgxyrnf MSN, RN

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  1. Coworker violated HIPPA

    bgxyrnf replied to AsanRN's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    OP, why would you engage in your little fishing expedition? Your nephew's condition was being treated and he had not asked for your advice or input, nor is there anything that you could offer him even...

  2. Nurses Eat Their Young

    bgxyrnf replied to Dairian's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I can only think of one nursing bully... unfortunately, his act is condoned by management. As with all bullies, he only picks on the weak or

  3. Medical Response?

    bgxyrnf replied to firedupnursing70's topic in General Nursing

    In my world, found down generally means c-spine precautions until ruled out by (a) clinical exam of an A&O patient sans distracting injuries, or (b) MRI... most commonly the

  4. Medical Response?

    bgxyrnf replied to firedupnursing70's topic in General Nursing

    Practically speaking, decorticate posturing and Cheyne-Stokes means this person is toast... especially in a setting that lacks ACLS interventions. What this dude needs is (a) transcutaneous pacing,...

  5. I want to be a nurse but im not good at math

    bgxyrnf replied to wizardwendy's topic in General Nursing

    Not to worry about math... The math required for nursing is completed by the end of 6th grade. And nursing is not a STEM

  6. New Grad RN: Struggling With Finding a Job

    bgxyrnf replied to nurse_bri's topic in General Nursing

    But no more Peyton Manning

  7. Education Conspiracy

    bgxyrnf replied to Avid reader's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    This could easily have been a quote from

  8. Removed from Nurse Residency Program-Should I Try Psych?

    bgxyrnf replied to dbabz's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In my experience, it generally to get ON to the floor more

  9. Calling Report to ER from Urgent Care

    bgxyrnf replied to misdetermined's topic in General Nursing

    And while sometimes those docs are actual ED docs who are moonlighting, they're just as often non-EM docs with limited

  10. Calling Report to ER from Urgent Care

    bgxyrnf replied to misdetermined's topic in General Nursing

    I can't tell you how many times we get patients from the clinics and urgent cares who arrive with the belief that they have some serious, life-threatening condition as stated by the doc in the clinic...

  11. Calling Report to ER from Urgent Care

    bgxyrnf replied to misdetermined's topic in General Nursing

    It could be company policy and it could just be one of those institutional momentum things. For example, many nurses with whom I work perform needless 2-nurse med verifications because they've taken...

  12. Calling Report to ER from Urgent Care

    bgxyrnf replied to misdetermined's topic in General Nursing

    The "heads up" calls from the clinics and urgent cares are needless... the patient is going to be triaged on arrival which includes a focused assessment and a review of the diagnostic results which...

  13. Shift Report: Listening, no writing...

    bgxyrnf replied to mtmkjr's topic in General Nursing

    I don't write things down in report because I have a chart to look at which is much more reliable than the 'game of telephone' that is verbal report. I'm just looking for a brief description of how...

  14. Blood specimen from iv sites.

    bgxyrnf replied to omotee's topic in General Nursing

    I can tell you something that really pisses off the parents... Me walking into their room and drawing a specimen from the existing IV after multiple unsuccessful sticks by the floor nurses. I'm...

  15. Blood specimen from iv sites.

    bgxyrnf replied to omotee's topic in General Nursing

    Recently I've prevented three needless PICC lines by placing a GOOD peripheral IV with ultrasound guidance which lines were sufficient for drawing blood as well as infusions. The illogical basis of...

  16. Do you ever get concerned about certain users on here?

    bgxyrnf replied to Bakingismylife's topic in General Nursing

    I don't worry about any of the posters here... I don't know any of them beyond what they choose to share on the internet and their stability really isn't of much concern to me. Statistically speaking,...

  17. Blood specimen from iv sites.

    bgxyrnf replied to omotee's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely untrue... and frankly, an illogical assertion from a mechanistic

  18. Blood specimen from iv sites.

    bgxyrnf replied to omotee's topic in General Nursing

    1) And what defines a "hard stick?" -- one aspect of my job is to start lines and draw labs on patients deemed "hard sticks..." many of whom I can get without any difficulty at all. Am I that good...

  19. Blood specimen from iv sites.

    bgxyrnf replied to omotee's topic in General Nursing

    I started that post... and I routinely draw blood out of lines that are days old... The line to which I was referring in that post was >40 days and was still being used for daily lab draws. The...

  20. Misuse of the ER

    bgxyrnf replied to ShortFuse's topic in General Nursing

    It also frustrates me sometimes. The flip side is that when one of my beds is taken by a walkie-talkie, calm and cooperative patient with a non-emergent complaint, it means that the ambulance rolling...

  21. Mandatory Hurricane Evacuation - Can I be Forced to Work?

    bgxyrnf replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in Nursing Career

    I agree... Kinda like the attitude that caused me to volunteer to be the first nurse contacting a possible Ebola case and then joining the later-created Ebola team. We are part of emergency services...

  22. MSN working bedside nursing

    bgxyrnf replied to HalfBoiled's topic in School, College Programs

    I know several nurses who've gone back to get NP licenses and continue to work as bedside

  23. Mandatory Uniforms

    bgxyrnf replied to StudentRNmt's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I know it seems like it would be helpful but in practice, it really isn't. 1) Most of us know who's who... and even if you don't, the roles are generally pretty obvious... the doc(s) is the one giving...

  24. Mandatory Uniforms

    bgxyrnf replied to StudentRNmt's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I work two jobs... one has a strict uniform requirement while the other does not. I don't really give a rip one way or the other. They're just work clothes and I'd be just as content in hot pink as I...

  25. What do you hate about nursing and why?

    bgxyrnf replied to ccorreces's topic in General Nursing

    In both of my facilities, uniforms are also worn by PT, OT, Rad, RT, and clinical pharmacy. In one of them, we're color coded; in the other, people wear whatever they