LovingLife123

LovingLife123

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  1. Chest Tube LCS

    LovingLife123 replied to FutureNurse0201's topic in General Nursing

    Did you contact the physician prior to going to CT about the portable suction being broken and asking if it was OK to

  2. Chest Tube LCS

    LovingLife123 replied to FutureNurse0201's topic in General Nursing

    It honestly depends. Usually we use a portable suction to transfer patients if they have chest tube that requires suction. I’ve had a couple of times when I was traveling to CT and asked if it was...

  3. Social Skills Should Be a Bigger Focus in Nursing School

    LovingLife123 replied to Kenneth S. Veillon's topic in General Nursing

    The expectation in society today is you must be nice and chipper to everyone, and everybody must be included in every single thing. You must like and love everyone. And if you don’t spread...

  4. Comfort care protocol.

    LovingLife123 replied to taly12's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, you give it in my opinion. If I’m dying, I don’t want to be the least bit aware. It disturbs me when people try to use a CPOT of RASS to give medication in end of life. Just give the...

  5. Is being greedy by taking lots of shifts bad?

    LovingLife123 replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Come work on my unit. Nobody wants the extra shifts. We are all burned out at this point. I feel like death after picking up one shift so I limit it to one every 6

  6. Your Help Needed: Give A Tip To A New Grad Nurse

    LovingLife123 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    This is a what Camry first, the chicken or the egg mentality. You can go back and forth on who should earn that respect first. If you are a new grad orientee, you start by respecting your preceptor...

  7. Your Help Needed: Give A Tip To A New Grad Nurse

    LovingLife123 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    No, she did not. She ended up walking out. I’m never, ever mean to my new grads. I’m a huge advocate for my new grads as I know it takes time. But the constant arguing with me drove me crazy....

  8. Your Help Needed: Give A Tip To A New Grad Nurse

    LovingLife123 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Who said I didn’t listen respectfully? Seeing as how I was the third preceptor this new grad had and then they went on to have two more after me that had the same issues, I’m guessing it wasn’t...

  9. Should I become a nurse if I don't like bedside care?

    LovingLife123 replied to Sweetjen09's topic in General Students

    Do not go into administration. This exact reason is why nurses hate administrators with no bedside experience. You will have zero clue as to how to help your nursing staff. Nurses also...

  10. Re: Weight based critical drips

    LovingLife123 replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in Critical Care

    Tube feeds don’t cause third spacing and edema. An excess amount of IV fluids will which is sometimes indicated depending on the patient. We still base our weight based medication on initial...

  11. Re: Weight based critical drips

    LovingLife123 replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in Critical Care

    We use admission

  12. Your Help Needed: Give A Tip To A New Grad Nurse

    LovingLife123 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    My last new grad orientee was a disaster. I tell my orientees, this is YOUR orientation, so let’s make it a good one. I want you to ask me questions, I absolutely do not expect you to know things....

  13. Happy Nurse's Week! You ROCK (literally a rock given to RN's for Nurse's Week)!

    LovingLife123 replied to CABGpatch_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I’ve heard so many horrible things about Kaiser that even if they were in my area I’d probably never ever work for them. Literally nothing would have been better than a

  14. MMJ Card

    LovingLife123 replied to futurenurse2025's topic in General Nursing

    Me thinks this has nothing to do with migraines. This has everything to do with how can one smoke weed whenever and still be a

  15. Are there any nurses that actually LIKE nursing?

    LovingLife123 replied to CShel's topic in General Students

    You have to realize several things. First, many people come here to vent amongst like minded people. People that are not nurses don’t get the struggles. Other nurses are the only ones to...

  16. U.S. pauses J+J Covid vaccine due to cerebral blood clots + thrombocytopenia

    LovingLife123 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Just an interesting fact, right before all of this came out, I had a patient with this exact condition. The exact thrombosis and a low platelet count. I had found it very odd that my patient had...

  17. How do you guys do it for so long?

    LovingLife123 replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    Are you working in a situation that has rotating shifts? I’d seriously move away from that. Find something else. Do not pick up. Learn how to live frugally so you work the least amount...

  18. Not Many Vented Patients - How Acute if Your ICU?

    LovingLife123 replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Critical Care

    Sounds like most of the acute pts go into the city for the higher level of care. I work in the city at a level one trauma center. Our acuity goes in waves. Sometimes it seems like everyone is...

  19. How do you guys do it for so long?

    LovingLife123 replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    I had a night a couple of months ago where I drank the whole damn bottle. A particularly painful death when I showed up for 3 of 3. Pt had been following commands for me, but had brain death over...

  20. How do you guys do it for so long?

    LovingLife123 replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    Posts like these are why I often discourage people from the nursing field these days despite knowing how much we need people. My coping mechanisms aren’t necessarily the healthiest. I drink....

  21. New RN Age

    LovingLife123 replied to Kooper48's topic in General Nursing

    Why do you feel too old at 37? I’m still working ICU nursing in my forties. There are lots of people older than

  22. Predatory New Grad Contracts

    LovingLife123 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    Like I said, it does change the LEGALITY of things with a contract. You can have your personal feelings, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the legal circumstances of a binding contract....

  23. Anxiety over Patient Care

    LovingLife123 replied to nursingcutie's topic in General Nursing

    The LR didn’t drop her sodium. Patients are often dry post op so that’s why the boluses were ordered. I see nothing wrong with what occurred. Were labs drawn preop to see that baseline sodium...

  24. Predatory New Grad Contracts

    LovingLife123 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    I will just post this link. I think in training a new grad, many hospitals have opted to go to residencies like mine which inflates that number much higher. Our new grads do like 4 weeks of in...

  25. Predatory New Grad Contracts

    LovingLife123 replied to CreamCheeseRangoons's topic in General Nursing

    OP, you did not originally state that there was sexual harassment. You stated what you felt were unsafe staffing ratios during covid. We all worked that way. My ICU was stretched dangerously thin....