BONES! bones that stick out of the skin, broken bones that crunch together when you touch them, joints out of alignments, I paid someone $5 to take an IO out of one of my patients. I am thinking of getting some therapy!
Have the nurse and anyone that witnessed the incident fill out an incident report. Where I work the risk management department sends the report to the responsible party/department and they have to address it....fill out enough of these reports and ho...
I had this problem...A nurse actually manually stretched my cervix...that was more painful that anything else during labor. I went from being 1 cm for over 12 hours to 3 cms after she "streched" my cervix to delivering 4 hours later.
IN the heart failure patient; Nocturia develops as edema fluid from dependent tissue is reabsorbed while the patient is supine. A healthy person may have nocturia if the lower extremity valves are incompetent, or in my case, if you work on your feet...
In my experience the Filter size does matter! So, it depends what your hospital buys. I have worked in hopitals where we run lipids and TPN throught the same filters and some that you have to run the lipids in after the filter (so you do not clogg th...
I had a confused patient that spend half the night saying " Oh Lord, Lordy, Lord". I had a male co-worker call him on the intercom and say "MR...., this is the Lord, please get some sleep" and he did! I also had a confused patient that pulled his fol...
"Evidently you do NOT understand what it's like to offer a patient a bedpan every morning at 0645, explaining to them that you will be unavailable during report and this is their opportunity to use the bedpan, and to have them demand a bedpan at 0705...
If you do not want to leave the room while I clean your family member, then grab some gloves and a washcloth and help me out! I do not read lips! so stop wasting your time trying to talk to me with that tube down your throat. All I am going to do is ...
Even though the BP looked "fine" the fact that the HR was so elevated means that the heart is working really hard to keep the BP at that level. Once the heart poops out that BP will drop fast. Like the previous post notes...it is hard to make an educ...
I worked as a NUrsing Instructor for 3 years and now I am the Critical Care Educator at a hospital in Tampa. I LOVE IT! I always loved education, so this was the right job for me. I did my MSN in a year...that was taking 10 credits per semester. I d...
I am a graduate of FAU...I did my BSN and MSN (in nursing Education) with them. I love the school and their philosophy (Caring). Since I did my BSN with them and had a good GPA I did not have to take the GRE and they waived the application fee. The p...