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  1. What do you think? (warning: vent ahead)

    The OP never said anything about not feeling safe. In fact, she never gave her rationale for pushing the Benedryl 30m after the Dilaudid. Are there factual reasons for giving the two meds separately [e.g. the patient snows out when the two are pu...
  2. colostomy

    Some folks are able to control evacuation using irrigation -- essentially giving themselves an enema through their stoma. One friend has had such success with irrigation that he covers his stoma with a large bandaid between the times he does his sch...
  3. "That nurse is vile" (long)

    If this had happened recently, this is definitely good advice. But since the OP said she's resisted posting about this for months, re-opening the matter with her manager by requesting a sit-down this long after the fact is a really bad idea. OP -- if...
  4. What is my legal and Ethical Obligation?

    The OP states that the second nurse asked the first nurse for *her* birthday, the drug and the dose, not for a patient's birthday, drug and dose. Seems clear to me that the first nurse needed a refill of a personal prescription, and asked another nu...
  5. syringe to collect specimen from foley?

    Many urologists treating people with spinal cord injury consider collecting the first urine emitted immediately after a new sterile catheter is placed to be the best practice. This ensures that the only bacteria sent for C&S are those actually p...
  6. Long term foley use

    Ack! Forgot my link. The NIH funded study that recommended using the 10 percent bleach solution and found that pseudomonas thrived in bags cleaned with vinegar can be found at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8466427
  7. Long term foley use

    He should be on some anticholinergic medications to both prevent painful bladder spasms and to help prevent bladder shrinkage. Just because the ditropan didn't work doesn't mean others shouldn't be tried -- some people may need a combination of meds...
  8. IV antibiotics compatible with D5W ?

    I'm not a nurse and I found both the correct name of the ABX and the answer to the question! This doesn't fill me with confidence about the competency of some of the new grads entrusted with keeping me alive.
  9. If I discovered a nurse had unilaterally decided to 'stretch out' the time before I received pain medication that was ordered by my physician, I'd file complaints with everyone from her employer to the BON.
  10. Out, Out, Damned Spot!

    You should get in touch with the folks who cultured the 'privacy' curtains and released the study on how disgusting they are. The carpet results will make those curtains seem positively sterile by comparison. For the record, this wheelchair user has...
  11. Patients' "home remedies"? What have you seen

    There are a number of people I know who manage their bladders with catheterization [indwelling and intermittent] using instillations of a wound-care product called Microcyn to prevent urinary tract colonization and infection. Several dozen people wi...
  12. That is IT; have had it with nursing...I'm going insane!

    Riiiiiggght. And right now, your counterpart is posting a similar rant over at AllTeachers.com about how they should become a nurse because it's a high status profession, they're well-paid, and all they really do anyway is pass out pills. :) Sorry th...
  13. Drug error

    The problem with software like this is that the geeks [and I use that term with the utmost respect ] who develop it have almost zero input from the actual end users, so they don't know about features like this that would make a world of difference wh...
  14. Cleaning Catheter Leg Bags?!

    Sorry, I had to come back to this thread and address the fact that a nurse thinks that cleaning urinary collection bags is "ridiculous". Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the most common type of nosocomial infections, accounting for 40% of all infe...
  15. Cleaning Catheter Leg Bags?!

    A study funded by NIH and done at the University of Utah recommends cleaning all urinary leg bags with a solution of 10% bleach. The procedure should be two rinses with tap water, sloshed vigorously for at least 10 seconds, then filled 1/3 full wi...