The start of this blog the tone is one of an insecure new nursling taking bits of learned information, inherited through repetition of the same diagnosis and the treatments that follow them around like a broken record. What have I become? A...
Here is one awful situation that will surely make your hair stand up.
Patient comes in I think from the nursing home, foley is inserted in the ED, out comes chunky soup into the foley bag. Blood pressures in the 80s, change of mental status....
I am being a lazy nurse blogger again. What can I say for myself? I have no legitimate excuses, I miss my blog so here I am with not much to say. I was going to write about my latest experience in a code blue situation, I was going to give everyone...
I am lazy and neglectful around my brain. It was several months ago that my beloved hospitals education department tempted all the nurses on the telemetry floors to study for PCCN certification and I was super motivated. I showed up for the classes,...
After two something years out of nursing school and rolling on telemetry with all its PQRST intervals and drugs and QTc intervals and heart sounds and lung sounds and optimal electrolyte goals for cardiac patients. AND yes to the Pharm D, I am...