Kansas_RN

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1. Help w/Hypoxia - patient sent home....

   Kansas_RN posted a topic in Med-Surg

   Help me out here. I posted this in General Forums without any response. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I have a question for all of you. I had a patient last week. She had TAH with vertical abdominal incision. She did very wel...

2. Discharge Order Help

   Kansas_RN replied to joamy2's topic in General Nursing

   It is a policy where I am from too. But in a small hospital with doctors that have been there 25 years, or Ortho staff with "g*d complexes" good luck. Management says to the floor nurses, "page them until they clarify", but when a doc gets ticked off...

3. Discharge Order Help

   Kansas_RN replied to joamy2's topic in General Nursing

   If the doctor writes continue home meds..that is what I write on the discharge instructions. How many times have you seen that the patient's home list is different than the H&P, and they are both different that the PCP office list. Sorry, I am NO...

4. Post Total Thyroidectomy care. Was I right in doing this?

   Kansas_RN replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

   Okay....my questions is what else was going on with the patient. I mean I had my thyroid out and the next day I was sent home. Up in my room the same day as surgery. Was there an imobilizer on? Precautions written on the chart? Was the patient given ...

5. Did Anyone Go To Nursing School While Raising Kids?

   Kansas_RN replied to selulion's topic in General Nursing

   --I posted this another place, but had about the same answer as I would give you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My kids were 1, 2, and 4 1/2 when I went back to school. They are now 8,9 and 12. They ha...

6. Need some advice

   Kansas_RN replied to shena25's topic in General Nursing

   My kids were 1, 2, and 4 1/2 when I went back to school. They are now 8,9 and 12. They hardly remember anything about me being in school, and now my hubby and I can afford to do some fun things with the kids that we wouldn't have been able to otherwi...

7. Hypoxia - patient sent home....

   Kansas_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have a question for all of you. I had a patient last week. She had TAH with vertical abdominal incision. She did very well, but had one problem. Hypoxia. I personally don't like hypoxia in my patients. It makes me nervous. Anyway she could get up a...

8. Admitting Diagnosis

   Kansas_RN replied to mir4777's topic in Humor

   Our unit clerk is a super anal retentive person. Sometimes we rearrage her rows of pens (black, red and highlighters when she leaves her desk, just to see how long it takes her to see it....or mix her small paperclips in with her large ones. It's all...

9. Potassium piggybacks

   Kansas_RN replied to starcandy's topic in General Nursing

   Usually we hang a 250cc bag of NS with 40mEq of KCL with 100mg of lidocaine. Works like a charm most of the time. Our standard order for _____mEq KCL ryder IVPB over 3-4 hrs.

10. Do male nurses get less abuse than females by nursing supervisors and patients ?

    Kansas_RN replied to Lanceman's topic in General Nursing

    let me start by saying...(doesn't sound like a short post does it???)....that i have been a med/surg nurse for 3 1/2yrs. i am still green around the edges by some standards and experienced by others. i mainly work medical floor in an approx 50 bed ho...

11. Nurses wearing white

    Kansas_RN replied to rnmaven's topic in General Nursing

    When I started the nurses wore white or Caribien Blue, the cna's another, respiratory therapists another and so on. I was a pt at that hospital when I had two of my babies and for 2 minor surgerys. Guess what....When I was hired on I had NO IDEA that...

12. Ethical delima????calling in or giving meds to drug seekers???

    Kansas_RN replied to Kansas_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Your right about addicts in for surgery. I found out from an experience on our med floor. Pt was constantly complaining of pain and finding it hard to get pain meds. She was a chronic abuser to the point you could easily see the track marks and she c...

13. Nurses wearing white

    Kansas_RN replied to rnmaven's topic in General Nursing

    Okay don't hate me...but no I did not grow up wearing those "horrible caps". I put that in quotes because that is what I have heard them called time after time by nurses who wore them before they had a choice. If the question came down to white unif...

14. Ethical delima????calling in or giving meds to drug seekers???

    Kansas_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    i work part time in a family practice office. i work for all providers at one time or another. we have a doc (lets call hime smith) that is famous for giving pain meds. he'll switch them from lortab, to percocet, to methadone, to dilaudid, to whateve...

15. salaries of an office nurse

    Kansas_RN replied to peds rn's topic in General Nursing

    wow!!!! where was that and what kind of office. H*ll, I don't make that on the floor.