ladysyrah

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1. Charting Inquiry

   ladysyrah posted a topic in General Nursing

   Working as a private duty nurse, you spend extended times with your patient and their family. How would you consider charting if family issues are directly affecting the patient (ie causing -extra- stress, anxiety, depression due to fights occurring ...

2. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

   ladysyrah replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   I was specifically responding to a question that audrey2976 who asked about potentials of why versed would be prescribed instead of something like lorazepam. I was not directly talking about anything within the report, because as I said I have not fi...

3. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

   ladysyrah replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Well, I was having a brain-dead moment. I was forgetting that midazolam IS considered a benzodiazepine (I work home health and have limited experience with this drug;therefore, it is outside my wheelhouse). Therefore, please ignore my thoughts about ...

4. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

   ladysyrah replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Audrey2976: Maybe they are allergic or it would was determined to be too risky of a combination with the current meds? Although benzodiazepines allergies are rare they do exist. Without a pertinent health history, we cannot reasonably surmise why one...

5. NCLEX-RN pass the 8th time

   ladysyrah replied to Maysh's topic in NCLEX

   Congratulations on your great accomplishment. You have worked hard to make it happen and perservered throughout it all. Bravo.

6. Failed nclex

   ladysyrah replied to Nursing STLY's topic in NCLEX

   I used Kaplan only and was able to pass the NCLEX with that. It helps you determine how to do those types of questions and understand what the question is looking for. It helps you be able to extract what you need and be able to toss away the extra i...

7. I took the TEAS! Study Tips

   ladysyrah replied to gopats1234's topic in TEAS

   They are not free, but are well worth the money if you can swing it. It was by far the best guideline to see where I was prior to my TEAS test.

8. Case Management Nursing (CM)

   ladysyrah replied to traumaRUs's topic in Case Management

   It sounds like you should talk to your employer about clarifying your role and what is expected of you. Do not be afraid to do this, but unless someone has worked for the same agency/state government as a CM no one will be able to truly answer your q...

9. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

   ladysyrah replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   It is good to know more about the facility. It does seem there was issues from protocol and job description down to the nurse's incompetence here that all played a role in this. It seems like a "perfect storm" so to speak

10. Hypothetical situation, thoughts?

    ladysyrah replied to ladysyrah's topic in General Students

    Haha. Thank you for all the responses! I apologize I haven't said so earlier. Obviously, I would not do this either as it is out of scope of practice. We were talking over such situations in class so I used this post as an experiment to see how other...

11. Kaplan Qbank/Question Trainer Scores

    ladysyrah replied to nme1103's topic in NCLEX

    Kaplan NCLEX prep course. It is a paid course. Kaplan.com... I log in at nursing.kaplan.com. I am unaware of how much it costs (I think around 250?) because it was part of my tuition for nursing school (we took "integrative tests" throughout the prog...

12. Hypothetical situation, thoughts?

    ladysyrah posted a topic in General Students

    Hi, so I am going through a lecture about trauma and I began wondering what nurses are allowed to do in emergency situations in "the field" or life outside the hospital? If your assessments of a person says they have a tension pneumothorax, their tra...

13. Antepartum nursing diagnosis

    ladysyrah replied to ladysyrah's topic in General Students

    Thank you both. The OBGYN nursing diagnosis (mama and baby) were difficult for me initially because we were not allowed to use the things that were normal happenstance which made it even more difficult when you have a healthy pair. Haha. And AliNajaC...

14. LPN roles

    ladysyrah replied to ladysyrah's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    Thank you! And I apologize for the delayed response. It is frustrating, the roles are not well defined in my state and is rather confusing. I suppose it is a judgment call in a lot of cases.

15. LPN roles

    ladysyrah posted a topic in LPN/LVN Students

    So, I'm trying to figure out what exactly* is in the scope of practice for an LPN? I am finding conflicting information regarding things such as IV push (for example morphine). I also cannot find any information regarding the ability for LPNs to do s...