duchess_deni

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1. New hosptial computer systems pull nurses away from patient care

   duchess_deni replied to lee1's topic in Safety

   Oh and there is no plan in the future to upgrade the computers to cross communicate and eliminate paper waste...............And nurses and techs are not getting raises this year because the hospital just can not afford to give us another 30 cents.......

2. New hosptial computer systems pull nurses away from patient care

   duchess_deni replied to lee1's topic in Safety

   Here's a nightmare even the bravest will quake at..............I work in a Critical Care unit, we were charting using paper flow sheets but had to do admissions in Meditech and process interventions documentation which most nurses would just check ev...

3. eICU

   duchess_deni replied to CVRNof4's topic in CCU

   If used as intended, not a bad resource, I would think--I will have the opportunity to find out beginning of the month--however from ideas coming from our manager like having us walk into the room to do an IV check with these people on the other end ...

4. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   duchess_deni replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   Hmmmm work in the ICU, I've heard just to see if it would work, just to tell you I needed to fart, and many others but the all time topper "get that little girl out of my butt she's eating donuts and won't share", I cleared my throat and tried a litt...

5. Dilaudid Question

   duchess_deni replied to Y2KRN's topic in Medications

   On the floor cherry you can't respond as quickly as the ER or Pacu or in my case the ICU, hence the higher doses. But you get up to 4mg of Dilaudid and then the Docs tell us to start Fentanyl IV and consult pharmD for pain mainagement. PharmD climbs...

6. A Frustrated Nurse Writes About Poor Conditions in Evacuee Shelters

   duchess_deni replied to cpkRN's topic in General Nursing

   And there is your comment from another who saw and witnessed first hand, and the truth is as the original letter stated. For shame on those who throw the racist card. There was nothing in the original letter about race...... However it is assumed by...

7. What is NS NOT compatible with?

   duchess_deni replied to 2blessed2Bstressed's topic in General Nursing

   It doesn't always go away, in it's extreme form it is called "purple glove syndrome". I have seen this happen to a patient, I was not the one who gave the dilantin, I "inherited" the problem. Dilantin was given in a peripheral IV in the hand of the p...