Gray Fox

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1. COVID: I'm ready to leave the hospital until the end of the pandemic guilt

   Gray Fox replied to CardiTeleRN's topic in COVID

   Seriously, if you think there is a collective conspiracy in your hospital to force unnecessary treatment on patients, you should probably take a break from nursing. You may be overwhelmed and losing your perspective.

2. Calculation about dilution

   Gray Fox replied to Khoo Sereen's topic in Medications

   why is any hospital providing Morphine 10 mg/ml vials? If you are practicing in the US, concentrated morphine should not be available on the nursing unit. Your hospital pharmacy should be dispensing products with the most appropriate size and dilut...

3. The Enemy... The Nurse Manager

   Gray Fox replied to I.Am.A.Nurse.'s topic in Management

   On being a nurse manager - the most important lesson I learned is to let go, engage the staff with the goal of creating a self directed work team. Let them take responsibility for things like scheduling and orientation. Encourage each of them to fi...

4. Is there any help for this old nurse lost in new age nursing??

   Gray Fox replied to coolnurseclub's topic in General Nursing

   I started my career back in 1977. Navigated thru grad school into positions of increasing responsibility. Took a sabbatical back to the bedside around the time I turned 50. Made me realize why I love nursing and healthcare. I was renewed by carin...

5. Denying Death As A Society

   Gray Fox replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

   Perhaps we need to take a different approach. As nurses we have a unique opportunity to educate and coach families in end of life care/ decision making long before the critical encounter in the ICU. Imagine the power of AACN and SCCM collaborating ...

6. Why don't you just read the chart?

   Gray Fox replied to Guest219794's topic in Relations

   I found that hand offs with EMR went well when sending nurse and receiving nurse were looking at pstient record simultaneously and used record to guide hand off.

7. Diluting IV meds

   Gray Fox replied to wanderlustnurse88's topic in Medications

   Great feedback to Flutist! Mixing IV push meds is a practice that deserves a serious second look. Let's just talk about narcotics. First of all, they should be provided to you in the most ready to administer form available. Your pharmacy should b...

8. diluting IV push meds

   Gray Fox replied to peaceful nurse's topic in Medications

   I sure hope that some of you have seen the ISMP survey results from 2014 about diluting IVP meds. Very few IVP meds need to be diluted. Diluting meds, especially in saline syringes, adds significant risk points to the process without adding value. ...