(Forgive the early submission this week. Got a busy day tomorrow and last week's thread has just changed its code status to DNR, with a discharge to hospice. Thankfully, most of the family agrees. Unfortunately, one person thinks I'm trying to get more inheritance than Farawyn, but thankfully that's what probate lawyers are for.)
This week, I have learned:
Creatinine can go from 9 to 1.9 in 12 hours. Then 0.65, 24 hours after that, with 13,000 mL out in two shifts.
If you're prepared to ask if your patient group can be split up tomorrow, be prepared to be made out to be an a-hole in front of the rest of the staff just for asking.
My legs are a-holes.
Furry woodland creatures are terrifying.
Metoprolol is a hell of a drug.
Cardiologists should consult nephrologists for beta blocker dosing once a creatinine hits, like, 2.
Some patients would rather walk across the room to pull the code blue button rather then push the nurse call button on their remote they've had glued to their hands for days.
It appears the end of August is "Celebrate Right Before Shift Change Disasters" season.
There are two miserable ladies who post in every thread. But now I'll never know who they are.
There is a person with an STD in their colostomy stoma.
An iPhone can delete all of your contacts in one area code and rename all of your contacts 'Steve'.
I am incredibly frustrated that hospitalists don't clarify code status at admission. Families are SHOCKED to consider that just because their kids know what they want, doesn't mean we'll know.
The State Highway Administration employs archaeologists.
My baby turns 8 tomorrow. I remember feeling impatience at the end of that pregnancy because I wanted to KNOW her. She was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen, and has grown more so with every passing year. As fulfilled as I am by being a nurse (I was one of those disgusting "called to it" nurses. Wear gloves when you read my posts, friends. That icky stuff might be contagious.), being Mommy is my one true superpower. :)
I may have just learned my magical vitals thread has been whisked away to "the place that shall not be named". That's my first disappeared AN thread. Sorry, mods. I did try.
And now the ax grinding newbie has bumped a 13 year old thread instead. I understand passion for a point to be made, but this is bordering obsession.
Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
So my husband's job just gave him a LOT of bad news (lay offs & switching to cheap insurance, I have to have insurance). So now I need to work, any ideas of where I should apply to get good benefits?
Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
I may have just learned my magical vitals thread has been whisked away to "the place that shall not be named". That's my first disappeared AN thread. Sorry, mods. I did try.
And now the ax grinding newbie has bumped a 13 year old thread instead. I understand passion for a point to be made, but this is bordering obsession.
So my husband's job just gave him a LOT of bad news (lay offs & switching to cheap insurance, I have to have insurance). So now I need to work, any ideas of where I should apply to get good benefits?
I may have just learned my magical vitals thread has been whisked away to "the place that shall not be named". That's my first disappeared AN thread. Sorry, mods. I did try.
And now the ax grinding newbie has bumped a 13 year old thread instead. I understand passion for a point to be made, but this is bordering obsession.
I know! And to resuscitate a thread from 2002? I have a feeling I know who it is, because another member who was actively involved in these topics has suspiciously disappeared.
I know! And to resuscitate a thread from 2002? I have a feeling I know who it is, because another member who was actively involved in these topics has suspiciously disappeared.
We need a player roster-I'm getting all the whackadoodles mixed up lol.
That's my first disappeared AN thread. Sorry, mods. I did try.
ixchel
4,547 Posts
Glad to help! I'm a shorty with a booty, so I get it. The struggle is real! :)