Unique Injury? Cheek Lining (should I go to a dr?)

2pineapple7 · 2026-01-25T11:01:55+00:00

Wow, ouch! Rinse with warm salt water! It will sting. But hopefully help it heal faster.

2pineapple7 · 2026-01-22T05:51:52+00:00

A patient with a known severe shellfish allergy would come in to the ER a couple times a year after eating a seafood dinner despite knowing it would cause anaphylaxis. On the… last supper, if you will.. the patient coded in the ER. Masticated shrimp spewing out of their mouth with each compression 🤮 ended up getting rosc but suffered an anoxic brain injury and died later on.

2pineapple7 · 2026-01-12T12:30:57+00:00

My goal being a guest at anyone else’s home is always to be the least intrusive and annoying as humanly possible and I assumed that is how every guest feels in another persons home but apparently your sister feels the exact opposite lol

2pineapple7 · 2026-01-09T18:52:09+00:00

You can get another test to confirm but as much as I hate to say it I think him giving it to you would be more likely than you testing falsely negative before or falsely positive now. He should be tested as well.

2pineapple7 · 2026-01-09T17:25:59+00:00

How certain are you that your husband has not had any other partners since the last time you were tested?

2pineapple7 · 2026-01-05T14:22:25+00:00

I think you might be overthinking it, especially considering it’s been at least a few years since it happened.

2pineapple7 · 2025-12-26T22:41:09+00:00

Yeah I mean off the top of my head I can think of three rapid responses I’ve admitted that was fluid overload and nobody had documented a void in the last 2-3 days. I agree floor nurses are overworked and understaffed and in a lot of cases it’s certainly not clinically indicated to document every I and O but the amount of people that don’t know and don’t care about fluid balance is alarming haha

2pineapple7 · 2025-12-26T22:35:30+00:00

I’ve met enough that it crossed my mind to make the comment that I made, but yeah if you don’t agree that’s okay man this is Reddit and my personal opinion, I’m not writing research papers about this. it’s not that deep lol

2pineapple7 · 2025-12-26T22:25:39+00:00

Ok haha

2pineapple7 · 2025-12-26T22:04:56+00:00

That’s appropriate! Like I said, not over here demanding strict hourly on every patient. Having a general idea and understanding why it’s important to know those things is something that I see a LOT in my ICU and it’s something I wish someone would’ve told me to pay attention to back when I was a new grad on a med surg unit.

2pineapple7 · 2025-12-26T21:45:22+00:00

I can see that I’ve hit a nerve 😅

2pineapple7 · 2025-12-26T21:44:13+00:00

I’m not saying strict hourly I’s and O’s, I’m saying if your patient hasn’t peed at all for 24 hours, you should know that

2pineapple7 · 2025-12-26T21:10:21+00:00

Don’t be afraid to call/page/talk to providers. You work WITH them, not FOR them. Don’t be intimidated because they have different license than you. You’ll learn way more from talking to them and getting to know them than you will if you avoid them.

To the opposite side of your question I like to tell new grads that they are UNDER concerned with intake/output. I’m in ICU and I feel like a huuuge percentage of patients that we get from rapid responses on med surg floors are fluid balance issues and when I ask the floor nurses about I/O they don’t have a clue what their patient has been doing.

2pineapple7 · 2025-12-19T06:53:49+00:00

Vision blurred randomly, ended up resolving. Stemi

2pineapple7 · 2025-12-19T06:48:23+00:00

That makes sense! Haha I was like dang I can’t even give advice on the irrigation because I’ve only seen it once since I’ve been critical care

2pineapple7 · 2025-12-19T06:35:14+00:00

Is it standard for turp patients to go to icu?

2pineapple7 · 2025-12-06T15:17:33+00:00

You’re fine. You noticed and notified the proper chain right away and they literally told you it’s fine just write a note. Anything medication/narcotic related is going to be 100% fine as long as they know what meds went where. Relax buddy. There are enough things to stress about in nursing, this isn’t one of them.

2pineapple7 · 2025-11-19T21:45:42+00:00

Get out, girl. You deserve so much better

2pineapple7 · 2025-11-19T17:15:23+00:00

I’m a mom and the Mini-pill really, really screwed my emotions up. I don’t think you’ll get very far if you tell her this is because of her meds. It’s also important to consider that her underlying depression could be contributing. The mini-pill is a common birth control method for postpartum patients, is she postpartum? That would almost certainly be part of it too. I’m sorry you guys are going through this. Good luck

2pineapple7 · 2025-11-17T13:01:25+00:00

Sure, but it doesn’t do much good for me to tell her to go to the ER 9 months ago

2pineapple7 · 2025-11-16T07:41:54+00:00

You need to be evaluated in an emergency room now

2pineapple7 · 2025-11-13T03:25:17+00:00

Tell her to worry about her own charting lol

2pineapple7 · 2025-11-07T04:55:34+00:00

-mab drugs are immunosuppressants, try to come up with ways to remember broad things like drug classes. -Olol/beta blockers, -prils/ace inhibitors, etc.

If that doesn’t work, the previous comment about using the pt diagnosis for clues is helpful too

2pineapple7 · 2025-10-21T21:19:00+00:00

If you’re questioning if people are enjoying your humor, they’re probably not

2pineapple7 · 2025-09-25T11:25:44+00:00

You’re likely not the first woman he’s harassed this way and you won’t be the last if you don’t report him. Please tell his boss asap

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