juliarn

juliarn has 8 years experience and specializes in surgical medical.

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1. The Cultures of Nursing

   juliarn replied to jtweedie's topic in General Nursing

   great article. I'm Australian, and always laugh when american friends talk about taking a patients 'vitals'...lol Here we call them "obs" observations. and E'K'G?????? K for cardiac? no ecg here! lol it's fun

2. palliative pain management

   juliarn replied to juliarn's topic in General Nursing

   thank you for the response. I quite agree about dose and method. But in THIS case, he could not swallow and aspirated the morphine more than once And his family would become distressed with the obvious gagging etc that ensued. Is this not a case to ...

3. palliative pain management

   juliarn replied to juliarn's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for the responses. The man in question did receive adequate morphine, it just the method of delivery that I am querying. The hospice nurses sounded very caring but the insisted the morph had to be given orally...and I am puzzled why no th...

4. Doctor Loses Pants

   juliarn replied to OBNURSE81's topic in General Nursing

   loved this!

5. palliative pain management

   juliarn posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I am an Australian RN with US friends. One of whom recently lost her hubby to a glioblastoma. During his last days I became curious about his pain management. The severity of the tumour meant, he could not swallow and yet, the only pain relief of...

6. heparin drip mistake! what would you do?

   juliarn replied to youngever's topic in General Nursing

   I programmed NS as primary at 30cc/hr , VTI 30cc, and hepain as a secondary 32cc/hr, VTI 500cc. Hi, You'll have to excuse me, I'm an australian rn, and not sure of the abbreviations but...if NS is normal saline. how could you ruin the patients vein? ...