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  1. Voluntary work in India

    A friend of mine is currently trying to decide whether to take a six month sabbatical in India to work at Gwalior Children's Hospital on the Gwallior Project. A leaflet was posted up in our department at work asking for nurses (and doctors and teac...
  2. double checking insulin doses

    I work in a large Intensive Care Unit in the UK and believe me, everything imaginable is double-checked!! We double check all IV drugs and have to see them actually being set up for administration. We also check all controlled drugs and watch them a...
  3. double checking insulin doses

    I work in a large Intensive Care Unit in the UK and believe me, everything imaginable is double-checked!! We double check all IV drugs and have to see them actually being set up for administration. We also check all controlled drugs and watch them a...
  4. Drug errors

    In the ICU I work in, we also give potassium peripherally via litre bags of maintenance fluid, such as 0.9% saline. We may use 20 - 60 mmol (is that the same as your milliequivalents?). The error that I made is that I put up a bag of 50ml 0.9% sali...
  5. Drug errors

    Yesterday I made a drug error. I have been qualified nearly 9 months and have worked on ICU since then. My patient was a neuro patient who had no CVP line in, just an arterial line and on analysing his gases it was noted that his potassium was low....