BKingRn

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1. "I Narcanned Your Honor Student"

   BKingRn replied to EAGirl's topic in General Nursing

   The author has a good point. As nurses, we must uphold integrity. I have dark humor, but I also understand that lay people don't. I'm passive aggressive enough to wear that under a scrub shirt, but in my state, the BON can easily call that a HIPPA vi...

2. Blood comparability

   BKingRn replied to BKingRn's topic in General Nursing

   Agreed. When you've got an upper GIB lightheaded with BP 80s/40s. You do what you can to keep people alive. I wanted to see how the nation of nurses thinks about this. I know what Is done on Ohio, but my community is limited off the net.

3. Blood comparability

   BKingRn replied to BKingRn's topic in General Nursing

   That makes sense. I think it would make a good poster presentation talk for a critical care conference. When I've raised the question with other RNs, they quickly say no. When I am why, well they just say "you just don't." I think as nurses we need ...

4. Blood comparability

   BKingRn replied to BKingRn's topic in General Nursing

   I should clarify "I have done it" as in mass transfusion in major traumas. And pts come from the CVOR with with it like that hanging. It finishes in CVICU but it's the CVICU nurse whose name is on the chart because OR doesn't scan anything. I know an...

5. Blood comparability

   BKingRn replied to BKingRn's topic in General Nursing

   The same is true if I were to use 2 IV sites. You would not know which caused the reaction.

6. Blood comparability

   BKingRn posted a topic in General Nursing

   Quick question. Can you y-site FFP or platelets and PRBC through a peripheral IV. I can't find anything that says no. To me, logic says yes because they are both blood components and should be comparable, but nurses tend to freak out when they see s...