3ringnursing BSN

ICU; Telephone Triage Nurse

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    Reported to the BON

    3ringnursing replied to SoundofMusic's topic in Advanced Practice

    What an excellent well thought out article. I feel for your pain as I had a bad experience as a new grad that nearly killed me too. Although I'm not an advanced practitioner it was my own personal...
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    Doctors Say the Darnedest Things

    3ringnursing replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I've used that comparison too! Good ole meat grinder! Me: "Zero is no pain at all ... and 10 is if you were in a meat grinder". Patient (while giggling and texting): [thinks about it]
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    Doctors Say the Darnedest Things

    3ringnursing replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    That's called a "Sniglet" (like "musquirt": Musquirt (mus' kwirt) - n. The water that comes out of the initial squirts of a squeeze mustard bottle.
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    Diversity/Religion In The Workplace

    3ringnursing replied to RutgersFlower2016's topic in General Nursing

    I misunderstood it to be a religious belief issue: "Culturally, she likes to wear a head wrap and has been doing so for as long as I have known her. Plus her boyfriend is Jewish and plans on marrying...
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    Nursing Intuition, Part 1: The Visitor is . . . Dying!

    3ringnursing replied to RobbiRN's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked ICU it was rare the patients I had could speak - nearly everyone was intubated. Even when we withdrew care we would still leave them intubated and turn O2 down to room air (it seemed...
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    Nursing Intuition, Part 1: The Visitor is . . . Dying!

    3ringnursing replied to RobbiRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've been a nurse 23 years - I've never heard about the dying calling for water before. You truly do learn something new everyday, and never know when it will come in
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    Diversity/Religion In The Workplace

    3ringnursing replied to RutgersFlower2016's topic in General Nursing

    I've heard of people being asked to cover tattoos and piercings with bandaids, but it seems covering you hair, or not covering your hair is a personal choice one's employer has no business being...
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    How would you react? Body odor discussion.

    3ringnursing replied to Nurse-rachet1's topic in General Nursing

    You'd be surprised how many discussions my husband and I had with my very handsome teenage son while he was in middle & high school about the powerful stench he was emanating. It felt like...
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    Injection Gone Wrong: Part 3

    3ringnursing replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    We are all hoping for a full recovery for you, and that you get your life back too Susan! We're all praying for you, and keeping you close to our hearts! {Virtual hug from one colleague to...
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    3ringnursing replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Doh!
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    3ringnursing replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    I work in telephone triage - I've had patients call who were in the car driving on there way to the ER, sitting in the parking lot of the ER, called because they were waiting too long in the ER,...
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    3ringnursing replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    At least it wasn't from the patient's rectum, lady parts, or urethra. None of the above are clown
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    Starting own NP practice

    3ringnursing replied to MsMeliss83's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    My current PCP is a NP who worked with my previous PCP (an MD) for 25 years until his death at 78 years old. She then took the bull by the horns and started her own practice. The MD that assists her...
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    Brave or just stupid?

    3ringnursing replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I love the good Dr. (Seuss that
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    Issues with residents

    3ringnursing replied to Rocknurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    UNCOOL! The princess sounds fabulous - I bet all the RN's that have to work with HRH are all having to reinvent the wheel on a daily basis. One good bite to that index finger should do the trick I...
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    Brave or just stupid?

    3ringnursing replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I look at it this way: Do MD's start out as a PA, or RN routinely first? Probably not. If it was a deal breaker not being an RN first you never would have been accepted into the NP program. It's your...
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    3ringnursing replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Actually I was sort of lost too … it seemed the only thing that made sense. Then again, I could be completely wrong in my guess. I figured maybe I may have missed something. I'm glad I wasn't...
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    3ringnursing replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Possibly it goes along with the theme of: "Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!"? I mean, the gold standard I've always seen for a GI coctai has always been a 1:1 concoction of: Mylanta, viscous...
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    3ringnursing replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Ladies & gentleman - the clear *winner!!! *{A year supply of
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    3ringnursing replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe it passed on as advice at weekly mahjong
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    3ringnursing replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    ... another patient, who was actually admitted to our Med/Surg unit for something else put on her call light one night. She was in her late 80's and told me she had a problem. A problem? I was a...
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    3ringnursing replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Years ago I worked in a sort of long term ICU/SNF combo facility mainly with vented patients who couldn't be weaned but their DRG days in an acute hospital ran out - many were hemodynamically...
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    Injection Gone Wrong: Part 2

    3ringnursing replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    Poor woman. You know getting to the bottom of anything that isn't text book obvious is like trying to find chicken teeth. No provider listens if it doesn't fit snuggly into there own belief system. I...
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    My coworker was high and got away with it

    3ringnursing replied to Volley88's topic in General Nursing

    That's horrible! I am so sorry this happened to you. I sincerely wish you the best in righting this wrong done to
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    Emergent Situation Gone Wrong. Ideas?

    3ringnursing replied to Tencat25's topic in School

    Hugs!