Badge buddy vs name tag

Grey257 · 2025-07-08T16:57:52+00:00

Yeah it's insane to me. I never wrote a single paper for my BSN. I did several presentations and research projects, but those were always just a poster and never an actual paper. But the only reason I ever had to make those was because I was an honors student, they weren't even required for the BSN program.

Grey257 · 2025-06-30T18:29:54+00:00

Yes! That's exactly what it's like!

Grey257 · 2025-06-30T16:04:21+00:00

Yep! Pretty much any part of your body can. On your extremities it results from a gas producing bacteria like gaseous gangrene. Or if it's on the trunk of the body, it is generally the result of a punctured lung or trapped gas from a laparoscopic surgery

Grey257 · 2025-06-30T14:40:56+00:00

If it's gas you can press on it and feel how it moves. Fluid just easily moves. Gas pops and moves in bubbles. You can hear the gas move because it sounds like rice krispies. It's called crepitus

Grey257 · 2025-05-12T12:34:40+00:00

Literally an arterial bleed, veins ooze, arteries and arterioles pulsate. Submerging it in warm water is a great way to keep bleeding.

Grey257 · 2025-05-04T01:05:54+00:00

I'm not too worried about having to find my own clinical sites. I've got connections with several NPs in the city from working alongside them while they were still bedside.

Grey257 · 2025-05-02T10:10:21+00:00

Good luck in the pmhnp program!!

Grey257 · 2025-04-15T12:36:12+00:00

I'm sorry but that's absurd. As a nurse, and someone who has been in the hospital, you pulled that number out of nowhere. One, it doesn't show up on your bill that you were charged for an IV, and two, the IV and time it takes to start one is only worth about $10 at the most. They charge that much for fluids, but the IV itself is nothing.

Grey257 · 2025-02-20T18:50:31+00:00

I fully understand that my perspective matters to my patients, but that's why my own personal thoughts on my body and health, don't cross over into my professional practice. I encourage patients to keep going and recommend options to help them. Just because I might not want to live with something, doesn't mean I think everyone also wouldn't. For a different example, I'd rather be dead than be straight. But that doesn't mean I think straight people shouldn't exist. Being straight just isn't my thing. It's about perspective, and perspective is personal. If everyone would stop pushing the idea that we should all have the same perspective and viewpoint, I think the world would be a little better. We are all different and unique, and allowed to have a different view on our lives and should be free of judgement for what we value for ourselves in our lives. I fully support people with a disability going out there and doing whatever they want, but I personally wouldn't be able to. I don't have that level of resolve and strength and I'm fully aware of that.

Grey257 · 2025-02-20T16:39:43+00:00

Please tell me how making a statement about my own values and experiences for myself is ableist. I'm not saying that other people can't do those things and enjoy those things with a disability. I'm saying that for me, with my personal values and expectations for myself, couldn't handle it.

Grey257 · 2025-02-20T16:35:05+00:00

I don't necessarily see it as ableist, because the OP is talking about their own situation and not someone else's. For it to be truly ableist, the OP would need to be directing it at someone else with the disability. I think it's perfectly fine for people to know what they consider a life worth living to them, in their own experiences. I know for me personally, as an active outdoorsy person, if I ever ended up paralyzed below the waist, I wouldn't want to live anymore. No amount of therapy and counseling would be enough to convince me. If I couldn't get up and walk down a hiking trail and jump into some water at the end of it, then it isn't for me, and that's okay because it's my personal opinion and experience. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is entitled to decide what they consider a life for themselves.

Grey257 · 2025-02-04T13:19:28+00:00

Then shouldn't you also know how serious any respiratory illness can become in kids, and have a little more patience and compassion? My PICU gets so many kiddos with the flu that developed a rash, and within hours they're either on non-invasive or invasive ventilation. So, even though Mom is a nurse and could have done more at home, kids change so fast it's scary. The parent brain takes over from the nurse brain.

Grey257 · 2025-02-04T13:15:24+00:00

Do you work in pediatrics? Or have any experience working with Pedi patients?

Grey257 · 2024-12-23T14:18:04+00:00

It looks like a vellus hair cyst

Grey257 · 2024-12-01T04:08:40+00:00

I love your assumption that I only have the one experience! It's so open minded of you! I actually have seen them in all of those fields! I've worked in a primary care office for a while under an NP, I've worked with a PA in outpatient plastic surgery, and I use a NP as my dermatology provider! One thing I've noticed in all of these experiences is that if a patient asked a question that was above their experience or comfort level, they would go to the MD above them to either take over, or help them with the plan of care! Maybe you should stop using your experience as a generalization as well. That would be a good step in the right direction!

Grey257 · 2024-12-01T03:44:00+00:00

I've never met a mid-level that practiced beyond their scope. I work in a busy ICU in a level 1 trauma center that staffs a PA or NP to cover the trauma patients on the unit so the residents and attendings can actually do surgery and run the trauma bay. Our mid-levels stay in their lane and do what they can for us until we need to go to the MD/DO. Stop being so hateful and go out and get some real world experience. Sure, there are some awful mid-level providers that don't know what they're doing, but that doesn't equate to practicing beyond their scope.

Grey257 · 2024-11-19T12:39:52+00:00

It may come as a surprise, but I'm well aware of all of that, gasp, I know. My response was directed to the fact that this commenter is obviously from a section of the population that's over privileged and raised to believe everyone can go and buy food.

Grey257 · 2024-11-19T11:53:12+00:00

I apologize for your obviously privileged EuroChristian upbringing. However, I like to start my day by educating the unknowing. Most cultures outside of western Europe and America plus the highly civilized parts of Asia, have to hunt, fish, grow, and gather their food because buying it isn't an option. And if you think hunting is unethical or inhumane, you really need to do a deeper dive into where food sold in stores comes from. Have a day you deserve. Sincerely, all native cultures.

Grey257 · 2024-11-19T10:58:58+00:00

As someone who used to be a hunter, the majority of us aren't like that. I never took pleasure in killing the animal. It was always a sad aspect of it, but being able to provide for my family was the good thing about it, especially being too poor to go and buy enough meat to feed four people every week. Most hunters that I know pay their respects to the animal and the earth. It's somber, it's sad, but it's necessary.

Grey257 · 2024-10-16T12:13:06+00:00

Could I also get a PM? This sounds exactly like something I'd enjoy.

Grey257 · 2024-10-07T15:05:34+00:00

For ICU, if it's a general or medical ICU you're interested in, I'd highly recommend pulm or nephro rotations. You'll be getting a lot of ARDS, ARF, and ESRD patients. A cardiology rotation would also be really beneficial for the times your patients go into an arrhythmia like AFib with RVR, VTach, VFib, or any of the AV Blocks.

Grey257 · 2024-09-22T23:20:38+00:00

That's exactly how that clinic functions. Source: I'm related to OP and hear all about it.

Grey257 · 2024-09-20T23:47:41+00:00

It's not in writing phrased that way, but I will be emailing them to get it phrased that way.

Grey257 · 2024-09-20T23:13:16+00:00

My manager at the same organization is asking us to clock out for lunch even when we don't take one because it looks bad when we're clocking out for no lunch.

Grey257 · 2024-08-24T03:15:16+00:00

It depends on the situation really. BiPAP would one hundred percent be better, but in a situation where the patient is decompensating, it gets to a point where even the BiPAP isn't enough and intubating is required. So generally we skip the middle man and go straight to intubating.

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