I spent forever trying to find this video lol this used to be my comfort. I watched your videos ALL the time in high school hoping to be a nurse like you! Now I'm getting my BSN'25. Thank you!
My sons 8th grade science teacher makes the kids do concept maps. She wants them to do the same one over and over til they don’t forget to write anything down. Funny thing is she was showing us how to do them and had already forgotten to list a few key notes on her concept map. 😂 Seems to me is the key is To Study Your Notes!!!! This study tool may work for some, but definitely not all.
ICU nurse interviewed by ED nurses not their manager. I was honest what I know about ED nursing. Sorry, but we do get very bare minimum of a report a lot of times not always. Patients get transferred and pushed fast but we get the nature of the ED: stabilize and 🚢 to the floor but sometimes they aren’t stable. If pt is on the drips some nurses don’t know much about them. Also, heparin should not run with anything but heparin and insulin should be y sited to NS at 20 as it helps to push insulin into the cell. I said I’ll do “ better “ and that must have ticked them off. But what I meant is I’ll be an asset lol and I was a PCU nurse before getting one patient after another from ED was the thing I did. I feel like ED nurses don’t like ICU. well we should work each others department to feel each others shoes. Our environment isn’t always stable and things happen when we entubate or randomly and we aren’t sitting around we are getting patients you sending us.
An anesthesiologist taught me to count respiratory rate by timing one full inspirational/expiration and then dividing that time into one minute. He also said “everyone’s respiratory rate is 18…unless it isn’t. And as nurses, you should know right away when it isn’t.” 😂
I am a new grad, i do not know if this is best practice, but i have seen my preceptor get alcohol sanitizer on gloved hands and removing IV dressing effortlessly from a hairy patient.
#1 hack-wow....always seen nurses take white cap off and throw on floor for 15+ years I am damn sure gonna try it out to cap end of tubing. #4 heck they removed vaseline from ER said it was flammable, but great idea for home care wound care #7 yes great hack I used the tourniquet over the clothing too. I forgot another way to get the vein to pop for me is wait a minute and take draw blood after taking vitals or I allow the arm to hang and let gravity do its job. Thanks so much
Right now, I am in an Anatomy class. There is usually 6 sections of material for each exam. For each exam, I make a study guide for each section. I use one of those stick on plastic tabs to divide a note book into a 1st and 2nd half. The first half is the essay section. This is for the more complex concepts. I summarize 1 or 2 of the more complex concepts here, max one page of notes. I may also draw in diagrams / pictures if I need to. An example would be drawing the vessels, ventricles and atriums of the heart. the 2nd half of the notebook is what I call theory. This is for definitions of terms I need to know. This part is for concepts I can summarize in one sentence. I usually have one sketch book for every exam. For example, if I do not want to draw every artery and vein of the heart, I print a picture from the internet (or take a picture of an anatomical mode), print it, tape it to the sketch book and draw arrows with labels. I use a different color pen, for each item I define in the picture.
As a phlebotomist, I often put warm tap water into a glove and tie it off to use as a warmer to gets veins to pop up. They are plentiful and it works every time.
Even nurses don’t ambulate patients or transfer them to other units or go to the labs and withdraw blood lol. Greys Anatomy surgeons were not just surgeons, were surgeons, researchers, nurses and Technicians or nurse assistants. They worked all the positions under one title ( surgeon) I wish this is how real life is that surgeons really do everything and others do nothing just get paid lol. The show writer didn’t read the scope of practices of every position in the hospital lol. They should’ve read scope of practices first lol
Jesus lied and said, "Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." How can he be the son of god if he said he was coming back 2000 years ago? The bible condones owning and beating slaves. Exodus 21:20 Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property. According to genealogies in the bible, the earth is about 6000 years old. This is contradicted by both recorded human history and fossil records.
All great tips! Thank you for sharing. Now in healthcare, they have the curos caps for all tubing, central lines and some facilities cap peripheral lines
Going back to nursing after a 10yr lapse(health issues). I always wanted to work in the ER cuz I feed off of adrenaline BUT I'm irrationally paranoid! Did Dialysis years ago but was always limited in equipment n what we could do in that setting.. This time around wanna do ER but it's been sssooo long since I've practiced nursing! I'd freak the ffuuuccckkk out internally😆 coding patients n I'm the only one around is what's anxiety inducing
Girl you are so right! I wanted to become a doctor and seeing what doctors do at this show i was like, yeah that is my dream job. So i failed and didn't make it to med school. I am now at the last year of nursing school and i realised that nurses actually do what i always dreamed of doing, being close to the patient and taking care of them, in contrast to what we see in this and other medical shows, where nurses are nowhere to be found. And when they do they make them seem like the bad ones, who go on strikes or disagree with doctors. (sorry if i made any mistakes, i am Greek).
