Pistachio

Pistachio

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  1. Can experienced Med/surg RN move into peds?

    I think you should maybe see abou shadowing a peds nurse. If your current hospital doesn't have a shadowing program ask around. Also maybe do some soul searching about exactly what is burning you out (I see you did that a bit) and try to think/find o...
  2. Has this happened to you

    The lovenox to me isn't the bigger problem it's a different pathway with a different purpose. (typically anyway I get that that wasn't the case here) The bigger problem is the idea of starting with 10mg of coumarin for three days, that just bizarre. ...
  3. I think it's really digesting that you won a lawsuit over refusing to work. So much for helping the sick I guess. I have to wonder if the earlier poster is right and this is a troll thread. You can't really think that not being able to make your own ...
  4. How do you handle an admission?

    That's quite reasonable. If a patient comes after six I settle them attend to immediate needs and then if I can get more done I do if I can't I don't worry about it.
  5. Pre-employment Questions

    What were the other four questions.
  6. End of the (Med) Error: or, How NOT To Bomb Your Survey

    How about the time I looked up a (male) patients medication only to find out it was a breast cancer medication. No history of breasts or cancer of any kind. Written by a resident three days earlier. Question it and a prompt order was written to d/c. ...
  7. How much personal info do you share with pts?

    You just say "I'm planning to write myself in, you should to, I'll give you a great cabinet position." :-)
  8. 5-10$/ hour is 10-20 thousand more per year so yeah it'd be worth it.
  9. When a patient states "something isnt right..."

    I have most frequently found this to be anxiety in my patients, I have yet to have one go bad or code after saying that. However doing vitals signs and a quick reassessment helps to rule out any problems that might be detectable and to reassure the p...
  10. Wearing Black Scrubs in Pediatric Hospital

    I think the kids will see the cartoon not the color. I have to add my own story though. I've always heard red can agitate dementia patients but I never had a bad response to my all red scrub set, they actually often commented on it positively. But I ...
  11. The Power Of Prayer in Healthcare

    The power of prayer to convince people that they don't need treatment, hence their cancer gets worse?
  12. Would you do this for someone else?

    We use an emar, so we can just leave a note that says given by so and so and it's marked in an I didn't give it way of that makes sense. When we had paper mars and this situation occurred we would write "given". Probably not for narc's either though ...
  13. The Power Of Prayer in Healthcare

    Then I guess I should quit if it's God alone I guess the patients don't need my care. No worries about checking the six rights and all that either God will just intervene if he wants them to live and if not it was his will, not my negligence.
  14. What to do about disruptive behavior?

    There's is no excuse for that behavior. It really doesn't matter what you did, it's never appropriate to handle anything by screaming at somebody.
  15. "No nurses of color....."

    I think the point was that is wasn't someone who say had paranoid delusions that a non white person was coming to kill them. There was no clinical reason behind this that they were aware of.