Jrgt312

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1. rescue breathing on the toilet?

   Jrgt312 replied to Jrgt312's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for your candid response, glad the "first time" is out of the way so I can be on my way to perfection now In LTC I've been through so many vagals, I guess for me it's knowing when it's truly an emergency and if it is, where to start. I've se...

2. rescue breathing on the toilet?

   Jrgt312 replied to Jrgt312's topic in General Nursing

   I think you hit the nail on the head... Initially his head was forward, the OTA tried to straighten him up and lift his head so it was level and I could face him (even though I was kneeling below him), that's when he stopped breathing. As I did a ste...

3. rescue breathing on the toilet?

   Jrgt312 replied to Jrgt312's topic in General Nursing

   No doubt gravity would help. But there definitely would have been major injuries. So it's the age old risk vs. benefit inherent in being a Full Code. I did have a sobering talk with the rsd and his wife after all this to make sure they still want to ...

4. rescue breathing on the toilet?

   Jrgt312 replied to Jrgt312's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for your thoughtful response LuvScience, and for yours beentheredone that, I am asking for opinions! There was absolutely no room for a lift and no safe way to get him to the ground. I've been through a hundred vagal responses and this one pre...

5. rescue breathing on the toilet?

   Jrgt312 posted a topic in General Nursing

   After 6 years of nursing in hospice/LTC/skilled nursing today was my first code blue and I was the first responder. All I had was my young med nurse with 1yr doctor's office experience, and an OTA who originally left the patient alone on the toilet m...

6. accused of falsifying documentation

   Jrgt312 replied to Jrgt312's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the feedback, it puts my mind at ease a little bit. It's just embarrassing to have to go through and defend myself when I didn't mean to do anything wrong. Hopefully the powers that be will see it that way too...

7. accused of falsifying documentation

   Jrgt312 replied to Jrgt312's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, this unit is a mess! This was my second day there, I was put in position as team leader to help work out the wrinkles. This med nurse was on the last day of working out her notice and apparently burning all her bridges along the way. I found out...

8. accused of falsifying documentation

   Jrgt312 replied to Jrgt312's topic in General Nursing

   It was missed at 0730 but I accidentally charted someone else's on his chart and my med nurse discovered it before I did. Instead of asking me about it she went and reported me to DON and HR, like within the hour. My DON questioned me and i filled ou...

9. accused of falsifying documentation

   Jrgt312 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I charted a wrong blood sugar in error. Once I realized it I disclosed it, to the doc and on the chart, but my med nurse was suspicious and reported me to the DON and HR as falsifying documentation. Her evidence is her statement that the glucometer d...