One thing that makes me proud of myself as a nurse for 30 yrs is my assesment skill on possible emergency situation. You know, call the rapid response thing. And like Liz, I am also a princess when it comes to IV insertion. I can only do veins that are visible. In other words, I can't do difficult IV insertion.
In r/t the “who’s who” situation…..funny story- during my OB rotation in training, it was lunchtime and there was fewer people on the unit. A woman in labor decided to accelerate the process, and there was no doc there yet. For context, it was a small hospital, and it was 1978- obviously things have changed. The nurse in charge felt that an episiotomy was needed, and an audio page was put out for “any doctor to OB stat”. The responding MD happened to be AN OPTHAMOLOGIST! He deftly swooped in, did a beautiful episiotomy, and baby was born safely. The suturing was exquisite! He said that if he could manage microscopic eye surgeries,an episiotomy was a walk in the park, not to mention he had done an OB rotation during his training. I always had great admiration and respect for him!
The NextGen nclex is coming up soon🥺and I just fail the exam on my second attempt🥺🥺🤦♂️💔,I cannot begin to articulate the level of embarrassment and heartache I'm feeling right now 🤕😣,I'm confident that I will be a good nurse too. I just need to get past this too and move on. 🥺
Just say "I haven't passed yet." Don't take it as a failure but see it as a learning opportunity. There is a lot of power in "Yet"; you are telling yourself that you will get there and that your eyes and heart are still fixed on your goal.
Did it once. Person had severe allergic reaction to food. Medical supplies extremely scant. Also on tour bus in Holyland. Buses have basically nothing for a nasty cut. Only enough for a paper cut. Glad I had a lot of nursing experience. Homecare helped a lot.
I was coming here to mention that if you don’t have a stethoscope while using a sphygmomanometer you can palpate the blood pressure. I learned this watching one of my older intensivists palpate a BP during a code. I was fascinated. It clicked though when I was training for home health and learned you have to use a Doppler on patients with LVADs. I was seeing a patient one day and I forgot my stethoscope so I remembered all of that and I palpated their BP and it worked. Oh Nurse Scott just said it lol. Interesting topic today :)
I loved this! So true!!I was a flight attendant for 10 years then went back to school and became an RN. Being a flight attendant has helped me greatly in nursing. And yes, they are similar professions. I often tell my nurse co -workers that nurses and FA have similar jobs at least stress wise. I really enjoyed this episode. Thank you. My flight attendant years are dear to my heart.
I am a FA ✈️ and a Nurse and even though, I am a Nurse…I take charge for the medical situation, but I am functioning under the FAA guidelines, so it gets tricky for us Nurses whom are also, working as FA’s. We have to follow MedStat Doctor’s orders. Great Video!
Could be conscious VT, shockable but pt can be awake (seen this before when I was studying paramedics, freaked me the hell out the first time when I put monitor on and it thought we were tuning an arrest) Also it’s interesting that you have to have prescribing rights. For example as an rural nurse who is ALS credentialed I can give ALS meds without a medical officer specifically because we only have on call doctors at a lot of these hospitals
Don’t always believe the patient’s response to basic questions. Got the “call” on a flight. Looked around plane. No one puts their hand up. I’m like well crap. Stand up, another RN comes forward. Passenger had fainted going towards bathroom. We took a quick history. Patient now awake. C/o stomach cramps and need to use toilet. No meds, breastfeeding, last meal an hour before boarding, denied drug or alcohol use. BP 100/40 PR 60,RR 14. Suggested fluids. She wanted DIET Coke. Refused H20. Crew stood by. Would have been nice if we weren’t doing this in the middle of the seating aisle. Fast forward. Her mom identified herself at baggage claim. Thanks me and says My daughter was at a bar last night and came home drunk this AM. Geee. Guess she was dehydrated.
@mrmidwife06911 You mentioned that there is a sufficient level of pitocin/oxytocine in the umbilical cord to induce uterine contractions after delivery by chewing(?) on a 2cm long piece of the cord - do you have a reference for this? I could not find any scientific article/study providing data/addressing this. I´d instead encourage breast nipple stimulation to start the release of natural oxytocine, but I don´t know if that releases enough oxytocine (again, I couldn´t find any studies) - maybe you got any articles on this, too? Thanks for the nice talk!
Stated learned from Amish midwives-why would there be scientific studies? Science does not generally support religious traditional midwifery practice. This would be good knowledge for “Emergency Childbirth” situations. I do not remember this being mentioned in Gregory White MD Manuel with Emergency Childbirth title. This book was required reading for all mothers and their partners for my midwife in the 1980’s. Nipple stim and uterine massage were the standard.
@@marianking3773 yes, I heard him saying that and then tried to find any evidence (like levels of oxytocine in uterine cord, studies in regard to the practice, any further mentioning in literature) - but it seems to be local anecdotal "evidence" only. "modern" medicine is now undertaking an effort to confirm some of the "traditional" remedies, although it´s not widespread, so I hoped he had anything to back up this claim...
Arent there regulations in place to keep women close to due date off planes so that airlines can avoid that situation all together? And it can effect the mother and baby in a way?
One thing that makes me proud of myself as a nurse for 30 yrs is my assesment skill on possible emergency situation. You know, call the rapid response thing. And like Liz, I am also a princess when it comes to IV insertion. I can only do veins that are visible. In other words, I can't do difficult IV insertion.
In r/t the “who’s who” situation…..funny story- during my OB rotation in training, it was lunchtime and there was fewer people on the unit. A woman in labor decided to accelerate the process, and there was no doc there yet. For context, it was a small hospital, and it was 1978- obviously things have changed. The nurse in charge felt that an episiotomy was needed, and an audio page was put out for “any doctor to OB stat”. The responding MD happened to be AN OPTHAMOLOGIST! He deftly swooped in, did a beautiful episiotomy, and baby was born safely. The suturing was exquisite! He said that if he could manage microscopic eye surgeries,an episiotomy was a walk in the park, not to mention he had done an OB rotation during his training. I always had great admiration and respect for him!
Not that I want anything to happen, but I would love to be able to provide medical assistance on an airplane.
Scott understands you haha
The NextGen nclex is coming up soon🥺and I just fail the exam on my second attempt🥺🥺🤦♂️💔,I cannot begin to articulate the level of embarrassment and heartache I'm feeling right now 🤕😣,I'm confident that I will be a good nurse too. I just need to get past this too and move on. 🥺
Just say "I haven't passed yet." Don't
take it as a failure but see it as a learning opportunity. There is a lot of power in "Yet"; you are telling yourself that you will get there and that your eyes and heart are still fixed on your goal.
I failed 3 times, i lost money to reviews that never helped but the major thing is that l've not lost hope.
You will pass Every one has their own season, just keep going, pray and believe you will receive.
Did it once. Person had severe allergic reaction to food. Medical supplies extremely scant. Also on tour bus in Holyland. Buses have basically nothing for a nasty cut. Only enough for a paper cut. Glad I had a lot of nursing experience. Homecare helped a lot.
I was coming here to mention that if you don’t have a stethoscope while using a sphygmomanometer you can palpate the blood pressure. I learned this watching one of my older intensivists palpate a BP during a code. I was fascinated. It clicked though when I was training for home health and learned you have to use a Doppler on patients with LVADs. I was seeing a patient one day and I forgot my stethoscope so I remembered all of that and I palpated their BP and it worked.
Oh Nurse Scott just said it lol. Interesting topic today :)
I loved this! So true!!I was a flight attendant for 10 years then went back to school and became an RN. Being a flight attendant has helped me greatly in nursing. And yes, they are similar professions.
I often tell my nurse co -workers that nurses and FA have similar jobs at least stress wise.
I really enjoyed this episode. Thank you.
My flight attendant years are dear to my heart.
Nic is definitely “our people”!
1000%. Loved getting to talk with her!
Yes she’s honorable nurse tribe member
I am a FA ✈️ and a Nurse and even though, I am a Nurse…I take charge for the medical situation, but I am functioning under the FAA guidelines, so it gets tricky for us Nurses whom are also, working as FA’s. We have to follow MedStat Doctor’s orders. Great Video!
Nic, you sound just like an excellent ER nurse!!!
I know I'm commenting late but it would be important to have the ability to place an intraosseous line for access if needed as well!!
I don’t see that ever happening- so few have any training in that.
Congrats on 150k subscribers Liz!
Thank you!!
I love the "Yup, she's a nurse".
Like, yes. I love my hosptal not crashing out of the sky on the regular. Keep it up lovely people.
Oooo. I was alone! No headset when my flight had er situation.
Can often see the needle start bouncing and then stop bouncing to get a idea of systolic and diastolic on doing manual BP If can’t hear.
It was a very interesting live stream! Thank you for the informative content, as always!
Glad you were able to join us
Absolutely did not have all those goodies in the empty medical med kit
Could be conscious VT, shockable but pt can be awake (seen this before when I was studying paramedics, freaked me the hell out the first time when I put monitor on and it thought we were tuning an arrest)
Also it’s interesting that you have to have prescribing rights. For example as an rural nurse who is ALS credentialed I can give ALS meds without a medical officer specifically because we only have on call doctors at a lot of these hospitals
Protocols
Nurse Liz taking "travel nursing" to a new level...forget Snakes on a Plane... it's all>>> Ca$h on a Plane...🤑💸💸💸💸
Don’t always believe the patient’s response to basic questions. Got the “call” on a flight. Looked around plane. No one puts their hand up. I’m like well crap. Stand up, another RN comes forward. Passenger had fainted going towards bathroom. We took a quick history. Patient now awake. C/o stomach cramps and need to use toilet. No meds, breastfeeding, last meal an hour before boarding, denied drug or alcohol use. BP 100/40 PR 60,RR 14. Suggested fluids. She wanted DIET Coke. Refused H20. Crew stood by. Would have been nice if we weren’t doing this in the middle of the seating aisle.
Fast forward. Her mom identified herself at baggage claim. Thanks me and says My daughter was at a bar last night and came home drunk this AM. Geee. Guess she was dehydrated.
@mrmidwife06911 You mentioned that there is a sufficient level of pitocin/oxytocine in the umbilical cord to induce uterine contractions after delivery by chewing(?) on a 2cm long piece of the cord - do you have a reference for this? I could not find any scientific article/study providing data/addressing this.
I´d instead encourage breast nipple stimulation to start the release of natural oxytocine, but I don´t know if that releases enough oxytocine (again, I couldn´t find any studies) - maybe you got any articles on this, too?
Thanks for the nice talk!
Stated learned from Amish midwives-why would there be scientific studies? Science does not generally support religious traditional midwifery practice. This would be good knowledge for “Emergency Childbirth” situations. I do not remember this being mentioned in Gregory White MD Manuel with Emergency Childbirth title. This book was required reading for all mothers and their partners for my midwife in the 1980’s.
Nipple stim and uterine massage were the standard.
@@marianking3773 yes, I heard him saying that and then tried to find any evidence (like levels of oxytocine in uterine cord, studies in regard to the practice, any further mentioning in literature) - but it seems to be local anecdotal "evidence" only.
"modern" medicine is now undertaking an effort to confirm some of the "traditional" remedies, although it´s not widespread, so I hoped he had anything to back up this claim...
Where is this sweater from? Is this your merch? I need it!
In the thumbnail? It's from this shop! creativeconceptsandco.ca/
You are awesome 😊😊
Thx for joining us
Are you in nursing school yet, Nic? I hope so, you rock
Never accept money or anything else after you have helped, if you end up in a law suit that would totally turn against you.
Arent there regulations in place to keep women close to due date off planes so that airlines can avoid that situation all together? And it can effect the mother and baby in a way?
I saw a drunk guy punch his girlfriend on a plane. It was horrible.
🤣🤣😬👏👏👏🙌❤️
Can you put the breakdowns in the timeline of your lives please?🥹
Like Timestamps? that would probably be a good idea lol. yes. I shall try