Meds you hate to give....

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What are the top medications that you hate to give and why?

Mine is Amphotericin B (called "Ampho-terrible" at my hospital).

Anything that can't mix with Normal Saline makes me nervous. It makes me wonder what's going to happen when it gets into the vein--isn't blood a fairly salty environment?

Prevacid via peg tube. Those little hyprophobic balls never go down. Why they don't use a liquid substittue in my hospital baffles all.

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Tikosyn--side effect of possible sudden death. Not a drug I want to give any time and certainly not as the patients first dose.

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.

PO Mucomyst. Yucky !!!!

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Normal saline is isotonic to blood...0.9%.

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Has anyone ever read the PDR for lactalose? I had a doc read it to me once......caution may cause the bowels(or intestines..I can't remember which) to explode. OMG the things we give our patients. After I found that out I refused to ever be given it. It is actually on my list of allergies. LOL

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Specializes in Emergency.

I have never had to give Mag Sulfate, but had to receive it all during the last trimester of my pregnancy. It makes you puke and, because it is a smooth muscle relaxer, it makes you wet the bed when you puke. :imbar

Penicillin and all the derivatives make your pee smell.

I know nurses who don't use Lido when they give Rocephin IM to the patients who need it for STDs. This is mean and borders on abusive.

I hate giving Adenosine, too. Charcoal is nasty. I had it blow up on me and another nurse when we were putting it down an NG. I never laughed so hard. The other nurse was almost covered in Charcoal. ROFLMAO!

I like to wake up drunks with Ammonia. I also like the way Benzoin smells. Takes all kinds.:p

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Specializes in Tele, Acute.

KayX enema :rotfl:

Wine enema (just a joke on our unit):chuckle :chuckle :chuckle

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Specializes in Telemetry.

Really???!! I'm going to file that one away in "Helpful things to know...."

Thanks for the info!

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I am a nightshifter...so anyone ever have an Ambien weekend at work?

Sweeter than pie old ladies that turn into raving lunatics...I am always just slightly hesitant when giving this to someone for the first time

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I hate to give insulin R on a sliding scale especiallly at

night...everyone is an individual... they fluctuate ..you worry you never know...

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Phenegan, numero uno on my list, just do not wanna be the first person to give.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.
I am a nightshifter...so anyone ever have an Ambien weekend at work?

Sweeter than pie old ladies that turn into raving lunatics...I am always just slightly hesitant when giving this to someone for the first time

Good lord - I could have written this post myself! Only happened to me once and that was enough, now I too am nervous with a first-time dose of this. I take care of a cute little old lady, order for ambien 10 mg q hs. As I discovered later apparently she had taken it once and got "a little confused" so the genius nurses I work with just circled it on the MAR and held the med. I was off a few days when this happened, came back to work and saw this med was ordered but hadn't been given for a few days- no explanation why....of course, being an ordered med I gave it. After a horrible night with her including 2 falls [thankfully no broken bones] I called the doc, got the med d/c'd and passed along in report the reaction my normally sweet pt had to ambien. Imagine next me...going through the roof...as the oncoming nurse said "oh, I guess nobody told you she reacts poorly to that!" Why nobody bothered to get the med discontinued after the first reaction is beyond me.

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