veronica butterfly

veronica butterfly ADN, RN

Med/Surg, Urg Care, LTC, Rehab

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  1. Critical Thinking For Med-surg nursing

    veronica butterfly replied to mojofla's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I am a new RN, and a perfectionist, thank you very much. I've got a lot to learn but always try to do my best. I think I do an excellent job, my patients and my coworkers always tell me the same....

  2. drawing blood from picc or port

    veronica butterfly replied to veronica butterfly's topic in Medical-Surgical

    That's really interesting. Our protocol when drawing from picc/port is to finish by flushing with 10 cc saline. 10.... You're completely right that 10 cc is not enough to go the whole distance of a...

  3. Nurse Rounding

    veronica butterfly replied to Margeincharge's topic in Medical-Surgical

    2 hour check is absolute, and so minimal. Can you imagine being a patient and no one looking in on you for two hours? Think what can happen in two hours? I always make a plan with my patients. If...

  4. Ethical Death Issue

    veronica butterfly replied to dinkysam's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I'm just seeing this thread 3 months after it's posted. Sorry to be blunt, what does your fiance do for a living? does he understand ANYTHING about nursing? You are perfect, you are blessed, you are...

  5. "Y" tubing and transfusion reaction

    veronica butterfly replied to NYNewGrad's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Thank you! Your advice is awesome, as a fairly new nurse, I so appreciate it.

  6. drawing blood from picc or port

    veronica butterfly replied to veronica butterfly's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I agree, it is sooooo frustrating to me to get a patient for the first time after they've been in our facility for several days and see they have a picc/port and lab is still coming.... I'm new to...

  7. "Y" tubing and transfusion reaction

    veronica butterfly replied to NYNewGrad's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I knew someone would say that!

  8. "Y" tubing and transfusion reaction

    veronica butterfly replied to NYNewGrad's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Graduated six months, working as a RN in med/surg. Wondered the same thing about that last amount of blood running through tubing. Wondering.... and I realize not probably good infection...

  9. help...

    veronica butterfly replied to Jocie's topic in General Nursing

    Nsg diagnosis..... related to..... as evidenced by.... so....... altered health maintenance related to non-compliance of diet as evidenced by elevated glycosated hemoglobin or altered health...

  10. You know you work nights when.......

    veronica butterfly replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in General Nursing

    When you realize you haven't plucked your eyebrows for a week and they've grown together in a unibrow, but don't care because it's dark at work and no one will notice

  11. You know you work nights when.......

    veronica butterfly replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in General Nursing

    When you realize on the way home from work that you're out of wine and curse the liquor stores for not being open at

  12. Lantus part II, oh how I want to scream!

    veronica butterfly replied to evans_c1's topic in General Nursing

    No prob, I'm a new nurse too, on a medsurg floor, and the worst part of my shifts are when the nurses turn on each other... I think our presurgical protocol says something about giving only 1/2 the...

  13. i'm really worried about my friend..

    veronica butterfly replied to goats'r'us's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe with a cheerful notecard in the mail every now and then mentioning something specific about him that will remind him of his strengths. Like.. "remember the time you did such and such" or "you...

  14. Dealing with a patient who verbally threatens you

    veronica butterfly replied to Trauma_Team_1's topic in General Nursing

    You did completely the RIGHT thing, good for you!! The next time it happens, it won't be as scarey,

  15. Lantus part II, oh how I want to scream!

    veronica butterfly replied to evans_c1's topic in General Nursing

    I would have called the doc to double check whether the complete lantus dose should be given. Yes, I know lantus isn't a bolus, but a diabetic who takes 50 units at bedtime probably has very...

  16. Where to Place Telemetry Leads?

    veronica butterfly replied to Navarre's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I learned this "mantra" when I was a nursing assistant. If you have 5 leads for a tele, go.... White right Snow over grass Brown ground Smoke over fire Start with White--right. Get it?, it rhymes......

  17. I feel like such an idiot

    veronica butterfly replied to fifi2323's topic in General Nursing

    On the job, nurses have to recertify their CPR or ACLS every couple of years, and when that time comes, even seasoned nurses dread it and worry about it. It's something that people don't do on a...

  18. What are some of the nicer hospitals in twin cities?

    veronica butterfly replied to ivn75's topic in General Nursing

    AVoid all Beverly nursing homes...... and The Colony in Eden

  19. I didn't get all this education to wipe behinds!

    veronica butterfly replied to SeekingNur's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I did get all this education to wipe butts. In fact I rather enjoy it. While I'm wiping a butt, I get the opportunity to do a skin assessment, to obtain a health history, to critically...

  20. What was your HARDEST class?

    veronica butterfly replied to LADYFLOWER's topic in General Nursing

    Oh My gosh! You don't like the products of the gi system? That's what nursing is all about!! What field do you want to go into? All the classes are hard on some level. Some are physically hard to...

  21. Are some environments beyond hope?

    veronica butterfly replied to RNOTODAY's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a terrible environment. Is there anything terribly unique that you're hoping to learn there that you can't learn anywhere else? If so, maybe that's a reason to hang in there--be selfish...

  22. newgrad

    veronica butterfly replied to runninggirl's topic in General Nursing

    How about an Urgent Care clinic? You'll still see and learn a lot, but the pace isn't so

  23. Quit after a week!

    veronica butterfly replied to McArdle's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm sorry you had to go through this....! Please, all of us, report this to the county adult protection agency. These are vulnerable

  24. feelin flustered

    veronica butterfly replied to RN2B07's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Wow, what great advice. I'm an LPN just starting a new RN job on med/surg next month. I am printing your paragraph and hanging it on my

  25. RN's who cannot insert IV's being Fired???

    veronica butterfly replied to maidy's topic in General Nursing

    I do think it depends on where you work to some extent. If you're pre-op, duh, you gotta do it. Like a receptionist who refuses to answer phones... Where I work some nurses are really good at it...