3ringnursing BSN

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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    3ringnursing replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I had a post CABG patient who was a guy in his 70's and about 6 ft 6 inches. He hadn't pooped since his surgery, and was getting mighty uncomfortable 1 1/2 weeks out. He got more doses of MOM, Mg+...
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    Orders from hell...

    3ringnursing replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Oooooh man! How sad. I feel terrible he was trapped for so long - I bet he was burned and dehydrated, and in fierce nicotine withdrawal. How horrible! Remember when patients could smoke in their...
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    Orders from hell...

    3ringnursing replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    EKUGRAD: I used to get these orders all the time in Home Health. The patient would go to the Wound Clinic weekly and we would get new orders for Home Health wound care. Almost always these were...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    3ringnursing replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in the student nurse float pool I had a little old woman with diarrhea ring her call light … I ambulated her to the toilet to explode in horrible ways, and with the walker ambulated...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    3ringnursing replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    Oh man! I'm retching … squeek … ralph … hurle… pant, pant … ewwwwwwwwwww! You poor
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    Orders from hell...

    3ringnursing replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    So … how was he found? Tell the rest of the
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    Orders from hell...

    3ringnursing replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Ah yes … the dreaded July 1st of any year. Signifying that all the training you put into the interns over the past 365 days was just flushed down the toilet, and you had to start from scratch...
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    Orders from hell...

    3ringnursing replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    I worked with a CT surgeon who always whipped out his own nasty looking scissors to remove chest tubes. I'd always pad down the bed and the floor with chucks, and lay a sterile suture removal kit...
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    Orders from hell...

    3ringnursing replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Aww man! They stole my
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    Orders from hell...

    3ringnursing replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Why stop there? Perhaps aerial spraying through the air vents for the whole
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    Orders from hell...

    3ringnursing replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    You forgot lactulose enemas for those pesky high serum K+
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    Orders from hell...

    3ringnursing replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Apparently no teeth, no brains, and no sense of how close to losing his freedom in trade for an orange jumpsuit and communal showers he
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    Orders from hell...

    3ringnursing replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps you should have called the provider to ask, "So, just to clarify … you don't want me to use spit, or toilet water to clean this wound,
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    Orders from hell...

    3ringnursing replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    A pharmacist told me story about a guy who bought in a Rx that read: "5 lbs of MOFIENE". The pharmacist said, "Get out!". I'm surprised he didn't call the Po-Po … but then again, I heard this...
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    Injection Gone Wrong: Part 1

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

    I need the rest of the
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    April 2017 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

    3ringnursing replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    "I'm starting to think the eject button was a bad
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    What does your nursing career repair bill say about you?

    3ringnursing replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    I would have tried not to be so uptight about every little thing, and learned to relax a little bit more. No one has ever asked what my GPA was in an interview (although HR has asked for a...
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    Weird meeting with manager

    3ringnursing replied to amzyRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't have to tell you to be extra vigilant and watch your step. There is no room for additional errors - another misstep will not be tolerated. That's just the way it is with narcotics - very black...
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    Being called a racial slur by a patient I sat?

    3ringnursing replied to Rayrayma's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I loath that word. That was the only word my son was never allowed to utter as a teen. I once reprimanded a guest of my son's who was sleeping over for using that word to describe himself. Then we...
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    Don't do the physicians work!

    3ringnursing replied to ModernRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It's pretty sweet, but we are dealing with clinic patients (i.e., primary care) not bedside care … Doc X somehow didn't get Rx Y to pharmacy - now mom is fruitlessly waiting for a Rx which never...
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    Don't do the physicians work!

    3ringnursing replied to ModernRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I take orders via Tiger Text - a secure text messaging system for cellphones and computers. I copy & paste those into my note. My job in telephone triage depends on it, but at no time are we ever...
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    Used CPR on my neighbors toddler today... it wasn't enough... warning, graphic..

    3ringnursing replied to NursingInChaos's topic in General Nursing

    God bless you (if you subscribe to that, and whatever entity you worship if you do) for being there, waking up, and running out to help half wake. I can't lie and say I know how that feels … in...
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    Nursing Program from Hell

    3ringnursing replied to cin808's topic in School, College Programs

    I agree. Just keep on doing what you are doing. If you can survive this I think you will be an excellent, resourceful nurse. I graduated in December of 1993 - i.e., an eternity ago. I never stopped to...
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    Washing scrubs?

    3ringnursing replied to dd131's topic in General Nursing

    Amen Sista Sledge! "Clincal strength" deodorant is worth every penny (my kidneys be damned!)! I've tried them all out (you wouldn't believe what a girl will do for clean, dry, rosebud smelling pits)!...
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    lying about clinical hours

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

    He will be busted soon enough. Glad he's not my PCP. Everyone thinks the rules, made for a reason, don't apply to them. I wonder if it is just human nature? It took me at least 40 years to realize I...