kasi

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1. Question re: admin of PRN Narcotics

   kasi posted a topic in Medications

   a nurse i work with asked me about the following order: vicodin 5/500mg 1 to 2 tabs every 4hrs prn her question was, if she gave the patient one vicodin tab at 9:00am and the patient was complaining of pain at 11:00, then could she give the other vi...

2. On the other side of the bed pan.....

   kasi replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric

   Wow, sorry you had such a bad experience at the hospital. Last year I had surgery for the first time in my life and had the best hospital care ever imaginable. The nurses were excellent, they helped me survive such a scary time in my life, kept me ...

3. Allegations against RN-what would you do?

   kasi replied to kasi's topic in Geriatric

   Thank you for your support. It is so difficult to face these co-workers night after night knowing they did this to me. Especially since they all keep neglecting certain areas of patient care and act like their doing nothing wrong. There is one par...

4. Allegations against RN-what would you do?

   kasi posted a topic in Geriatric

   2 CNAs and 1 LPN wrote false allegations against me and turned it into the DON. Just a week prior, I had finished and gave evaluations to 8 co-workers, CNAs and LPNs. All of them got overall great evals, with exceptional and outstanding marks. I...

5. Nurses not following Protocols

   kasi replied to kasi's topic in Geriatric

   Hello, thanks everyone for your replies. Our DNS has been there 4 years. He has been there long enough to have solved some of these problems. I don't think the DNS has it made. He has a tough job, but needs to work on priorities such as so many o...

6. Nurses not following Protocols

   kasi posted a topic in Geriatric

   I am a RN in LTC. It has been well over a year now that nurses are not following important protocols. The new nurses in the last year are not taught to follow protocol or to document correctly, then they orientate new nurses without teaching them pr...

7. Tube Feeding Question

   kasi posted a topic in Geriatric

   I am an RN in LTC. Residents with tube feeding have the HOB up 45 degrees. The NAC needs to take care of this person every 2 hours to do peri care and change their brief. In order for them to this, the tube feeding needs to be turned off to allow ...

8. LN co-worker needs to be terminated

   kasi replied to kasi's topic in Geriatric

   Hi....no, he does not verbally abuse resident to their face. At the nurses station, he will sometimes will make comments that they are jerks and stupid. When he loses his temper in front of residents... it is what he says to us and the way he acts...

9. LN co-worker needs to be terminated

   kasi posted a topic in Geriatric

   A few nurses and I work with another nurse who should be fired for many reasons. He is threatening the way he approaches us, gets very angry and gets in our face if we try to tell him how to do things the right way. He will give us a very cold star...