canadian_RN

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1. Aunt w/ Bone CA - care totally mismanaged

   canadian_RN posted a topic in Oncology

   Hello all, I'm an RN here in Canada (gee, did my name give it away? :chuckle ). A couple of weeks ago I found out that my Aunt (mid 50s) who lives in a very small rural town in a couple of provinces over, has bone cancer. Now the details of whether t...

2. Blatant Nursing "No-No's"........what's your worst???

   canadian_RN replied to anndoodle's topic in General Nursing

   Let's see, years ago I worked with an RN who had many years experience, she often worked as an evening supervisor as well. She worked nights, I was working days. After I got out of report, I did my usual round to check on everyone and check IVs, et...

3. Aunt w/ Bone Cancer - pathetic pain management regime

   canadian_RN posted a topic in Pain

   Hello all, I'm an RN here in Canada (gee, did my name give it away? :chuckle ). A couple of weeks ago I found out that my Aunt (mid 50s) who lives in a very small rural town in a couple of provinces over, has bone cancer. Now the details of whether...

4. meds never to be given IVP

   canadian_RN replied to newgrad2005's topic in General Nursing

   That's a good question! I don't work acute care any more but when I did, I know we had a large chart in our med room that listed meds that COULD be given IV push. Of course we had to also follow our hospital's Pharmacy and Therapeutics' policy as t...