missjustice

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1. Can I call a recruiter back a month later?

   missjustice posted a topic in Job Hunt

   TL;DR- Recruiters from hospital A call me two days after I tell hospital B I'll take the job they offer me. I change my mind because hospital B is acting kind of shady. Can I call hospital A back now, or is it too late? I'm a recent grad looking for ...

2. Lasix and Renal Failure

   missjustice replied to missjustice's topic in Student Assist

   Thanks for the answers everyone. His BUN and creat were okay-ish, but he'd been getting dialysis for nearly a year. Apparently he'd been taking Lasix at home, and the nurse thought that his primary probably just forgot to take him off it, but the tea...

3. Lasix and Renal Failure

   missjustice posted a topic in Student Assist

   So I had an ESRD patient who was getting dialysis three times a week, and was oliguric at baseline (he said he peed small amounts maybe two or three times a month). He also had hypertension, and he was getting a bunch of meds to control it, one being...

4. Correcting INR

   missjustice replied to missjustice's topic in General Nursing

   No, it was definitely FFP. She said something along the lines of 'We need to correct her to 50,000, so she'll be getting a lot of plasma today.' But the nurse on the floor I asked said the same thing about platelets... maybe the doctor just misspoke.

5. Correcting INR

   missjustice posted a topic in General Nursing

   This is probably a dumb nursing student question, but here goes. I heard a doctor ordering FFP today say "Correct her to 50,000." I know FFP is for clotting factors, and I'm assuming that she was specifying how much to give, but what exactly does 'co...

6. Asking a patient if they're mentally retarded?

   missjustice posted a topic in General Nursing

   I know nurses have to ask embarrassing or very personal questions sometimes, but is there a polite way of asking a patient if they're mentally retarded? One of the techs on my floor told me today that as she was about to do an admission interview, th...

7. Pressing Charges Against a Patient

   missjustice posted a topic in Relations

   I'm a nursing student working on a medical telemetry floor. We currently have a patient who two staff members are pressing charges on for assault (he has AIDS and bit one, and the other he punched in the face.) Due to a mild language barrier and him ...

8. Leaving AMA

   missjustice posted a topic in General Nursing

   If you have a patient who wants to leave AMA, how do you usually handle it? I'm a nursing student who's been working as an extern at a big hospital in Philadelphia for a little over a year now. I've seen two patients sign themselves out AMA so far- t...