brick195969

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1. Nurses: Why do many of you do this?

   brick195969 replied to terina66's topic in Relations

   As long as it is done with the best intentions, learning, questioning or even relating to, then there should be no problem. If it is presented with the intent to amuse, gross out or demean a patient than it is in bad taste and very unprofessional, b...

2. No More May Die

   brick195969 replied to SoldierNurse22's topic in Oncology

   I don't know , some of this story strikes a chord, I am a hospice nurse, the advise you gave was true, from the vs you described and the changes in status and breathing it was apparent he was actively dying. It is sweet that you are a caring nurse, n...

3. Do you call the doctor at night for low B/P's on night shift?

   brick195969 replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric

   [TABLE=class: table_layout, width: 650] [TR] [TD]Equation: MAP = [(2 x diastolic)+systolic] / 3 Diastole counts twice as much as systole because 2/3 of the cardiac cycle is spent in diastole. An MAP of about 60 is necessary to perfuse coronary arte...

4. My new favorite doctor! Read this :)

   brick195969 replied to AlphaPig's topic in General Nursing

   a beautiful redhead goes to the doctor. "doctor it hurts wherever i touch myself. the doctors says "what? Show Me" She touches her arm with her finger "oooooooo" she says painfully the doctor says "hmm, show me something else" she touches her shoul...

5. My new favorite doctor! Read this :)

   brick195969 replied to AlphaPig's topic in General Nursing

   @rosiegoose, the post was about doctors with manners and respect for nurses, not what nurses do or don't do. You obviously don't work the floor any more, proably an administrator or you work 1 on 1 with a specialty doctor. Nurses deserve any cre...

6. My new favorite doctor! Read this :)

   brick195969 replied to AlphaPig's topic in General Nursing

   young docs , god bless, they come in so sweet, kind and caring, eventually they (almost) all turn into tyrannical dinosaurs

7. Is My Nursing License At Risk?

   brick195969 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Professionalism

   Here is my 2 year old nursing take on all of this. 1) Read the BON reports on disciplinary action, very educational 2) Don't do what these nurses did 3) Be honest with yourself, stay within your scope of practice 4) Document all and any patient int...

8. Accident Scenes: Do You Always Offer Assistance?

   brick195969 replied to JW2011's topic in General Nursing

   . freedom of information act should open many doors for you without a court order

9. Accident Scenes: Do You Always Offer Assistance?

   brick195969 replied to JW2011's topic in General Nursing

   God bless you, lost my 13 year old brother the same way, almost identical, 10 speed vs ford f150, man was drinking at the time, but cops said he was not impaired. Hit my brother from behind, not perpendicularly. At the time, 1979 it was legal to dri...

10. Accident Scenes: Do You Always Offer Assistance?

    brick195969 replied to JW2011's topic in General Nursing

    No excuse , should have done something to stop the blood flow, no one said anything about moving the victim, magic has nothing to do with it

11. Accident Scenes: Do You Always Offer Assistance?

    brick195969 replied to JW2011's topic in General Nursing

    All RNs have knowledge of basic life support, cpr, and first aid. Simple pressure to a wound would have stopped or at least slowed the blood flow, no excuse for this at all. I understand shock might be a factor but if you caused the accident, and you...

12. Accident Scenes: Do You Always Offer Assistance?

    brick195969 replied to JW2011's topic in General Nursing

    @chuckster, perfect answer, exactly what i do, don't do to much but stablilize the scene and wait for 1st responders

13. End of the (Med) Error: or, How NOT To Bomb Your Survey

    brick195969 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Medications

    Don't have time?, shortcuts?, condescending at times? ideal world? for us to be able to do things by the book but it just doesn't work like that.? REALLY, well i guess you don't value your liscense, cause at this rate your going to lose yours, med ...

14. End of the (Med) Error: or, How NOT To Bomb Your Survey

    brick195969 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Medications

    where are you getting your #s, sounds like your still making med errors, "Warfarin 2 mg tab, 1.5 tabs PO Q PM on Mon-Wed-Fri, alternate with 4 mg on all other days." to me that is 1.5 tabs once a day in pm, equal to 3 mg (2mg tabs X 1.5), so it 9 mg ...

15. My Most Humbling Nursing Experience

    brick195969 replied to cienurse's topic in Geriatric

    This is a nursing website, sick patients deserve compassion and kindness no matter how difficult they are. This guy was sick and scared so he lashed out