AggieNurse99 replied to BeckyRN's topic in New Nurse
Pre-op or pre-GI lab. If ultimately you want to go to outpatient or home infusion, dehydrated patients needing access outside of the AC are good building blocks to becoming very good with difficult sticks. Also, aseptic technique for accessing medipo...
AggieNurse99 replied to eastsider's topic in General Nursing
I don’t like to give IVP phenergan in a peripheral IV - you must treat it like any other dangerous vesicant - and our policy on IVP vesicants has us using the side port of a free flowing (ie gravity) primary set. ISMP has a lot on the subject http:/...
AggieNurse99 replied to traumaRUs's topic in Headlines
This should bring the worst global sanctions against any country that operates this way, IF and only IF, proven. Not saying the authors research wasn’t done or is incorrect. The global populace needs to start taking up this cause, to stop forcing peo...
AggieNurse99 replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in General Nursing
So I worked as a bus driver while in college. We had true random drug testing. Once a month, a computer program would spit out 50 or so names from 500 employees and we'd have to go pee in a cup. CDL requirements of my state. Bathroom door open, no fl...
AggieNurse99 replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing
My mom's friend is really and truly allergic to brewing coffee. Can drink coffee, cannot be in vicinity when being brewed. I Took those 2 ladies through the Starbucks drive-thru and she started having stridor!!! Epi-pen then straight to the ER next d...