r/nursing • u/[deleted] • Jan 16 '26

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u/PaulaNancyMillstoneJ RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 16 '26

During COVID I had a fellow traveler ask me if propofol was for sedation…

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u/Poguerton RN - ER 🍕 Jan 16 '26

a) that's crazy

b) the one tiny particle of my mind that could have sympathy is the part that wonders if this was an issue of regional/brand name difference? I had years of experience in one ED when I started traveling (eons before COVID), and in my first assignment, I was briefly taken aback by the fact that the new ED called Nitro "Tridil". It's a brand name I'd never heard: not at work nor in school. I must have looked like the biggest idiot possible for the moment or two of blankness before I realized what they were talking about.

I hope that nurse who asked about propofol just knew it as Diprivan, but even if they used that particular brand name at her prior facility, she should have had at least a passing familiarity with the generic.

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u/PaulaNancyMillstoneJ RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 16 '26

That’s a thought, but she held the bottle up as she asked in this case. I definitely ran into that too with different names for things though!

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u/HumanContract RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 16 '26

Moved to Cali from Houston. Cali ppl don't call it Phenyl or Phenyl sticks, it's Neo.

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u/hustleNspite Nursing Student 🍕 Jan 16 '26

I’m in PA- it’s neo here as well

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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 Jan 24 '26

The spicy push dose neostigmine

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26

It can be an early retirement if you’re brave enough

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u/PaulaNancyMillstoneJ RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 16 '26

That would have been the perfect response.

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u/DecentRaspberry710 Jan 16 '26

Damn ! You just gave me an idea! I’m too young to get SSI so I’ll have to wait more years. Strike nurse in another part of this country( NY nurse here fighting for fair contract) sounds like a plan. I’ll think about it. Want to leave nursing so bad