Random Nursing Thoughts

[Caffeine_IV]

Just a thread for thoughts/opinions that don't really belong anywhere and you don't want to start a whole thread about it lol!

-Last night I worked on the psych unit with a 1 on 1. It was "boring" but a change of pace from my medical floor. I know psych isn't always that calm.

-Sometimes I wonder what patients do about their minor complaints at home. Patients want to see their nurse because their eye is watering or their ankle is itching..

[kessadawn, BSN, RN]

Just FYI.........

the treatment for irretractable hiccoughs is Thorazine! an old ED CEN question!

I've given thorazine for hiccups before...worked like a charm!

[leslie :-D]

Of course, I never say them out loud. I calmly walk to the room, make sure emesis basin in place, put HOB up, assess, place a cool rag on their head and offer a PRN med.

well, yeah.

i understand that family members are anxious and excitable.

and i do appreciate when someone tells me the pt is vomiting...

because i do want to do something.

if i haven't already, i do want to see the vomit:

prep for safety and comfort; just overall observe and assess.

i guess i don't feel quite as dismissive as others.

leslie

[Caffeine_IV]

Have you all ever when you were going to start an IV on a patient and they insist that nurses or phlebotomist always have success with a certain vein....but you look and there is NOTHING there in that magic spot. Can't even feel anything but they insist!

[General E. Speaking, RN, RN]

Have you all ever when you were going to start an IV on a patient and they insist that nurses or phlebotomist always have success with a certain vein....but you look and there is NOTHING there in that magic spot. Can't even feel anything but they insist!

...or they brag about how good the phlebotomist was. "She got it in only ONE stick". Really? She has a hard metal needle that goes in and out and it doesn't wiggle like the plastic cannula I have to thread into your vein! lol

[Caffeine_IV]

Oh yes! That too. They don't realize its easier to draw blood...especially if you go straight to the AC.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

and sometimes the pacing lead is pacing the diaphragm instead of the heart . . .

seriously, though, i wouldn't want to give thorazine for hiccups of an hour's duration!

neither would i..:lol2: but, an hours duration isn't irretractable!