Karen Southad

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1. Age Discrimination in Nursing

   Karen Southad replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   In my case, I was "laid off" due to cut backs 2 years ago, told my position no longer existed, and escorted to my car. Here in North Carolina, you can be let go from your job for no reason due to the no hire law. NC is the only state that has this la...

2. Tying Patient Satisfaction to Medicare Reimbursement is Problematic

   Karen Southad replied to TheCommuter's topic in Safety

   I have often wondered just who came up with these surveys and questions, and would like to know how many times have they followed a nurse on their shift to see for themselves what we all have to do to take and give good care to our patients. How can ...

3. Running PRBC concurrently with NS?!

   Karen Southad replied to nurseap's topic in General Nursing

   I, personally, have never run any IV fluid concurrently while infusing PRBCS, even if normal saline is used to prime the blood tubing with. Rule of thumb: Start a second iv access to infuse the PRBCS thru while decreasing the NS line down to 70cc/hr...

4. Doctor texting order turned into a nightmare

   Karen Southad replied to Scotthudson1966's topic in General Nursing

   The hospital I work at has a text message center on the computers we use to chart, we simply go the the "Quick Click" page, click on the MD we want to send message to and typed in a message to them regarding what info we wanted to relate to them, Rm ...