[AB_Normal]

On a serious note....Trial and Error and OJT SHOULD NOT be 'THE' way we learn...

With that said....you shoulda seen the experienced nurses in the ER when I came out and told them I had gone ahead and Dermabonded my pts lac on his forhead! It was priceless. As an RN I can put steri-strips on a lac, I can dress and bandage a lac, I can even put bandaids on a lac....so whatz the big deal with a little dermabond? Heck, as a Paramedic I've intubated pts, ran codes, pushed meds, etc. Even though my state says an RN with training can suture, the hospital says Dermabond is suturing and only and MD can do that. On a side note---the MD said I had done a wonderful job. ARGGH!

My second funny? Throughout orientation I had torn the covering bags to the IV fluids with my hands. Just the other night I had this one covering bag that was stubborn. The only time I ever got the scissors out...and what did I do? *I can see the look on your faces coz you know what I did.* Yep, cut the tip of the bag and had D5 all over the floor.

Very frustrated at times....
AB

[Indy]

I have a little trick for that. If the bag won't tear all the way open, I tear it some, then stick the funny looking end of the scissors (the part that is made to go under a bandage, looks like a tongue) in the hole in the bag, THEN cut the bag wide open. This works well enough to do in the dark. Of course, now that I've said something, I'm probably gonna rip a bag of NS from one end to the other this week!