mmc51264 BSN, MSN, RN

orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes

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About mmc51264

mmc51264 has 12 years experience as a BSN, MSN, RN and specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.


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  1. No offense, but why would you want to work for them? There is a lot of information on this site itself about the horrible issues with this company.
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    Vaccine error

    as others have said, we all make mistakes and it was not solely your responsibility. I do have one question, when you gave it, do you not have to document manufacturer, lot # and exp date? We have to fill in that info for all vax we give.
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    IVIG patient to nurse ratio

    Are you talking an adult getting it daily or continuous? We give a lot of IVIG but not as a cont gtt. A pt might get up to 5 days worth of it as a cycle. I work on an ortho/trauma SD unit and our ratios are 3-4 pts per nurse. If we have a pt receivin...
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    Nurse Lunch Break Survey

    I work as a staff nurse in an ortho/trauma SD unit at a teaching hosp. I don't usually take a 30 min uninterrupted lunch break-I tend to take a few 10 min or so breaks as needed. I have had weight loss surgery, so I cannot eat a lot at any one ...
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    Best and Worst Patient Interaction

    The best experience I have had, and it was many years ago. I had a pt that had AIDS. He said he normally went to a different hospital (we have 2 level 1 trauma centers within 10 mi of each other) but ended up with us. He was homeless, dirty, ha...
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    MA or CNA prior to NS general education?

    MA takes a little while longer to get done, but I was a home health CNA while I was in nursing school (I already had a BS in Biology so all my pre-reqs were done). I found it to be a great help while being in school. I noticed that in the first semes...
  7. At my hospital, we have a vascular access team that places most of our IVs and also phlebotomy so we don't have to draw labs (unless they have a central line/port). We are very spoiled and it can be an issue when time is of the essence. Our residents...
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    Midline Usage

    We don't use them hardly at all! Can't give anything extravasating through them, can't draw labs, can't tell if they've infiltrated. BSI or not, they are a bad idea as far as I can tell. Interesting idea though. Are they not considered a central line...
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    Documenting a medication given by a physician

    In EPIC, we have an option to select "given by other" and then can put in a note who gave it.
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    Crusty Old Bats

    Yep and then I explain it 😜
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    Broke My HCA Contract

    I can't believe that after all this time there hasn't been some sort of class action suit against them. They are horrible. Hear stories like this a lot. I guess all we can do it keep preaching to NOT work for them.
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    Not sharing EMR notes w patient/family

    Glad you are fine. So nice of you to dismiss others that have concerns. We had a nurse get shot in the ED. You win, you're tougher than the rest of us. Glad healthcare violence on health care workers is "drama"
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    Not sharing EMR notes w patient/family

    Not a dude. Sorry if you got offended, it's kind of mind-boggling that one would not understand that there are pts that have psych issues, many untreated, and there are hospitals in not so nice areas. I am glad that it's not something on your radar. ...
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    Not sharing EMR notes w patient/family

    We have had 2 people assaulted, one died, in our parking area. People do act on theses things sometimes.
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    Not sharing EMR notes w patient/family

    Not to be stupid but may I ask why? If you read all of my post, our badges do not have our last names on them, the notes do. I didn't want the person to have access to my last name. You wouldn't mind a patient having access to your first an...