connieg

connieg

Med/Surg, ICU, mostly ER

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About connieg

connieg has 37 years experience and specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, mostly ER.


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  1. Doctor's sharps!

    Wondering what the general concensus is about ED docs leaving their sharps on the used laceration trays. A hospital I worked in had a policy that the physician could be charged with attempted assault if he/she left open sharps laying around, and tha...
  2. pyxis narcotics count

    I should have clarified... Sup is helping staff to count ALL the Pyxis carts in the house and there are between 40 to 50 narcs in each one. The doors flip open, then there's a 5 to 7 second pause before anything comes up on the screen, so it takes F...
  3. Pre-mixed GI cocktail

    In a hospital I worked for in Colorado, we had a container (an emptied out NS irrigation bottle) that was kept in the refrig, containing a 3-2-1 mixture of Maalox, viscous lidocaine and Donnatal elixir. We just took it out, shook it and poured 60 ml...
  4. pyxis narcotics count

    My apologies if this has been discussed before...I couldn't find it anywhere. Does everyone count ALL the narcotics in the Pyxis every day? Our night supervisor is tied up from 3 to 4 hours every night counting the narcs in the Pyxis carts on the f...
  5. decontamination showers

    We have finally convinced the Bosses that a decontamination shower is imperitive, especially now. Does anyone know what the current requirement is for disposal of water used to decontaminate? Or where to get the info? Do we need the holding tank th...
  6. giving narcan, thiamine and D50

    "Sugar" given before thiamine can precipitate Korsakoff's/Wernicke's encephalopathy (potentially fatal) in alcoholics. (Sources: Merck Manual and being old)