Brattyone78

Brattyone78 has 15 years experience and specializes in Cardiology, Telemetry, Hemodialysis.

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1. Got No Job? Come be an RN !

   Brattyone78 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   :hdvwl:GM2RN are you serious? " You didn't quote the post you responded to. I have no idea which one it is." Please just take a step or two back. I am getting a bit annoyed with your responses to my posts. Thank You.

2. PIV Vanco administration

   Brattyone78 replied to UWRN07's topic in Safety

   In hemodialysis, Vancomycin 1 gram is ordered pretty often and the mixture of the dry Vanco with the IV fluid is done by the RN's and the rate is always ordered to be infused over one hour. We calculated gtts per minute (no infusion pumps) and monito...

3. Got No Job? Come be an RN !

   Brattyone78 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   The revelence? Read the first line of the post that I responded to. "Got No Job Become a RN!" Your response to my post enlightens me, because I know that you read it. I admit my adherence to the topic in its totality was not addressed. There were mul...

4. Got No Job? Come be an RN !

   Brattyone78 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   Where there is smoke there is fire. In all my years of Nursing there has been a continual trend that I have witnessed first hand. When I applied for my license we were fingerprinted, photographed and we were mandated to go through intensive backgroun...

5. My Story - What's happening to my hospital?

   Brattyone78 replied to Tygerlile's topic in Safety

   What you are describing is a culture of unchecked abberrant behavior and criminal acts. The law is still to be followed and enforced in any workplace. Pushing another person is assault and battery. Silence is consent. The things that are occurring ne...

6. The Struggle: When A Nurse Diverts

   Brattyone78 replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Psychiatric

   The risk of deverting pain medication to ones self is only as great as the selfishness required to medicate themselves AND allow the pt. to suffer in pain. There is no excuse for it.

7. The Struggle: When A Nurse Diverts

   Brattyone78 replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Psychiatric

   Unfortunately this is not a new issue. The first job I had as a new grad was working the NOC shift in a LTC Facility. In 1995 we had very few job opportunities. To make this short , when I came on my shift I did drug counts with the off going staff. ...