PediNurse3

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1. Your thoughts/reasons patient is in pain or addicted or what...?

   PediNurse3 replied to NocturneNrse's topic in General Nursing

   Allergies to toradol, morphine, ultram, reglan, and zofran...and phenergan and dilaudid cause itching so please give them with IV benadryl as well?

2. Your thoughts/reasons patient is in pain or addicted or what...?

   PediNurse3 replied to NocturneNrse's topic in General Nursing

   If I were in LTC, I would be in pain, too. My experience with pain management in adults is limited to what I saw when I worked in the ER, and there was a lot of it. Was it chronic pain? Acute pain? Addiction? Drug seeking? Drug selling? Don't know. I...

3. All Hospitals the same?

   PediNurse3 replied to eyeball's topic in General Nursing

   I have worked at two different facilities and they couldn't be more different. It's definitely more than a difference in hospitals though, the units/floors are very different within the same facility. Good luck with your decision!

4. written up

   PediNurse3 replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

   I didn't really give a good report until I went to work in the PICU. I got to the point where I could give a report that included the following in about 5 minutes - Name -Age -ICU day -Vent day -Post op day -History -Diagnosis -Changes and events ove...

5. Narcotic Descrepency!!!

   PediNurse3 replied to APatriganiRN's topic in General Nursing

   What a stressful thing to have to be carrying around on your shoulders! Why can't it be resolved before Monday? 12 missing pills is a big deal...ot something that facilities usually wait until the next business day to resovle. Do they not do a narcot...

6. What to say when asked: "Tell me about yourself"?

   PediNurse3 replied to NurseAndLovinIt's topic in Job Hunt

   I start by talking about how I got into nursing and take it from there. It works well for me because I didn't go into nursing right out of college and I feel like it gives the interviewer what they are looking for - information about me. I have only ...

7. Nurses writing Scripts for Doctors

   PediNurse3 replied to fawnsternurse's topic in General Nursing

   Are you saying that the nurses decide what the patient needs to be on and the dosage and has the doctor ok it at the end of the day? We are given physican delegation in our clinic so we are able to authorize refills without consulting the physican i...

8. Giving a flu shot to patients without a signed consent?

   PediNurse3 replied to Double-Helix's topic in General Nursing

   A flu vaccine and antibiotic are hardly the same thing. Antibiotics, beta blockers, diuretics, etc may be a necessary part of treatment. The flu shot isn't part of a patient's treatment plan, and it certainally is not medically necessary. We offer...

9. How Long?

   PediNurse3 replied to Juwon's topic in General Nursing

   I was hired two months before graduation. I started my first job about two weeks after graduating, worked as a GN about a week, took NCLEX, worked some more, and had results a couple days later. I guess that it varies by state, but it was pretty much...

10. What do you do on the drive to work?

    PediNurse3 replied to whitecat5000's topic in General Nursing

    My drive is fairly short now. When I drove 45 min to an hour, I would listen to books that I downloaded from iTunes.

11. Drug error

    PediNurse3 replied to coneartist's topic in General Nursing

    An incident report should be written. That is how we learn from mistakes and make changes to (hopefuly) keep them from happening again. And if you haven't, you should write one yourself so that when the incident is reviewed, whoever reviews them at ...

12. Nurses and Dream Specialty?

    PediNurse3 replied to Juwon's topic in General Nursing

    I wanted to work in the PICU when I went into nursing school. When the time rolled around to start applying for jobs (last semester of nursing school), it just was not an option. I was already working as a tech in the ER, and a lot of other people w...

13. how much orientation did you receive as a new grad?

    PediNurse3 replied to tokmom's topic in New Nurse

    My new grad internship in the ER was 12 weeks. There were tons of classes on top of the scheduled shifts.

14. Pain meds IV push

    PediNurse3 replied to krista312's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked in adult ER, pain medication was given IV push, and it was really nurse discretion if it was diluted in NS or not and how quickly they wanted to give it. In the PICU, depending on the situation and the age of the child, it was given on...

15. Preceptorship advice!!

    PediNurse3 replied to laceface24's topic in General Nursing

    Ours was a 'Capstone'...I did mine in an ER. I also worked as a tech in a different ER, and already had a job in the ER internship where I was working. I thought that it would be good for me to get a head start on the nurse role. I don't know that I...