r/nursing • u/_neutral_person RN - ICU 🍕 • Jul 24 '22

Nursing Hacks Silent Knight Pill Crusher

It sucks at crushing pills. That is all.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '22

Hahaha. I had a charge who had been a nurse for probably twice my lifetime at one point. She was a “we used to clean the metal bedpans” nurse. She would open the flushes with her mouth because her arthritis was so bad and ask the others to open the k packs.

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u/lilsassyrn BSN, RN 🍕 Jul 24 '22

And they have seen everything. Full of knowledge too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '22

Oh for sure.

We’re losing so much generational knowledge in the corporate healthcare race to the bottom. It’s maddening.

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u/lilsassyrn BSN, RN 🍕 Jul 24 '22

It’s so sad. 10 years ago, we had nurses that had been working over 30 years and you could go to them for anything and everything. Had a coworker in the ICU who came in to help me with a combative patient who pulled his IV out (with a tube and on sedatives of course). He jumps up on the bed, holds the guy down, gets an IV right away and literally spit the cannula on the ground. In like less then 2 minutes. I was blown away. I know not exactly the same type of story but I just know we won’t see those types of super experienced, somewhat jaded but smart nurses again.

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u/badtux99 Jul 24 '22

That was almost literally one of my relatives. She left hospital healthcare after being illegally fired for reporting patient dumping to the state. Turns out that HCA had bribed a majority of the state oversight board and they laughed at her report rather than taking any action, then told HCA so HCA could fire her.

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u/TriceratopsBites RN - CVICU 🍕 Jul 25 '22

Another reason to say Fuck HCA!

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u/North_Ad_4136 Jul 25 '22

I had an old school CNA teach me the trick to transferring a combative patient with long nails- she would let him grab her arms, ignored the nails gouging into her skin, and swing him into bed.... It was probably the safest he ever transferred 🥲🫡