nitenurse78

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1. How Marketable Are You as a Rural Nurse?

   nitenurse78 replied to Camelhappy1's topic in Rural

   I worked in a rural hospital20 minutes away, 32 bed facility, Joint commission accredited and it just happened to be a company related to a larger entity so we were provided with some pretty nice equipment ex: pixis machines that work with just our f...

2. NEW DR.'S ORDERS.....How do the medication orders get to the pharmacy ?

   nitenurse78 replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

   WOW!!! We'd have to find our unit secretary a new job. But that is awsome!!! I've always wondered Why Doctors don't just type all orders instead of writing them.

3. NEW DR.'S ORDERS.....How do the medication orders get to the pharmacy ?

   nitenurse78 replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

   WOW! I always said our hospital needs a tube for lab specimens. We have to take the elevator down and it would be so easy to make a little tube, the lab is directly below us!!!!

4. NEW DR.'S ORDERS.....How do the medication orders get to the pharmacy ?

   nitenurse78 replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

   Oh yeah we fax too. but now with hippa we don't do it as often because of the risks of wrong fax numbers being dialed and Personal health information being sent to the wrong place. ect... Yes, it is a hassle.

5. NEW DR.'S ORDERS.....How do the medication orders get to the pharmacy ?

   nitenurse78 replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

   Oh yeah and at night pharmacy is closed. If it's not in the pixis then we'll have to page the house supervisor.

6. NEW DR.'S ORDERS.....How do the medication orders get to the pharmacy ?

   nitenurse78 replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

   There are carbon copies on the order sheets the yellow copy goes into the pharmacy box. The pharmacy staff usually walk around quite often and pick up the meds. If it is something stat then we'll have to get the med out of the Pixis. If it's not in t...

7. Discharge orders you'd LIKE to write!!!

   nitenurse78 replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in Emergency

   If pt found smoking in the hospital room then discharge home. If pt calls nurse "awful and ugly" because nurse says it's against the rules to smoke in the hospital then discharge home. If patient leaves hospital to smoke AMA then she is well enough t...