melissa_rn

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  1. Patients destroying pain meds?

    Just wondering how other clinics handle the situation of destroying pain meds. For example, say a patient was prescribed Percocet, but they had a reaction to it, so the doctor wants them to get rid of the Percocet before giving them a prescription f...
  2. New RN in Docs office; Will it screw me??

    I never worked in a hospital after graduating nursing school. I worked at a residental treatment facility (psych), then a family practice clinic, and now a rheumatology clinic. While I don't plan to work in a hospital any time soon, I do wish I wou...
  3. IV Boniva

    Don't plan to "wing" it. Plan to get instruction by the doctor (since there hasn't been an RN in the office for a few months) but I wanted to have a bit of a "heads up" from some infusion nurses before going in to it.
  4. IV Boniva

    Just started a new job in a rheumatology office and will be giving an IV Boniva next week. I'm pretty confident in my ability to find a vein....but I'm not sure how the IV Boniva is set up. Will I be able to "pull back" to see if I'm in a vein? Wi...
  5. paid in pesos?

    I was a clinic RN in Seattle for 5 years. My pay there ranged from starting at $23.50 and ending at $28.24. Then I moved to NH. Pay in NH is much lower than Seattle. I asked for $23 here (since I had 5 yrs experience) and they looked at me like I ...
  6. How "intense" is it?

    I was offered $15/hr. Is that a usual salary for school nurses? I made $15/hr when I was a secretary during nursing school.
  7. How "intense" is it?

    Looking at a school nurse position for a small-town elementary school (430 students). My previous experience is 1.5 years at a residential treatment facility for mentally ill children and most recently 4.5 years at a family practice/sports medicine ...
  8. Would you take this job?

    I recently had an interview for a part-time family practice clinic RN position. I have 5 years of experience in a busy family practice clinic but we moved to another state. This was my first interview after getting licensed and they had me back to ...
  9. Nuva Ring questions

    I liked the ease of use but I turned into Cybil on it! My moods were all over the place. happy, then crappy, then near-tears, snapping at patients too! NOT like me. I took it out and moods went back to normal.
  10. Medical Assistants in WA

    I work in a clinic in Seattle that uses MA's who have not been formally trained. Some of them refer to themselves as "Dr. so-and-so's nurse" on the phone with patients, pharmacies, and other facilities. They do everything that the nurses do except ...
  11. Worried and feel bad...

    About 2 weeks ago I put a fiberglass long-arm cast on a hispanic man who did not speak english, per dr's order. The man had an interpreter with him. The fracture was at the radial head. He worked at a restaurant and slipped/fell in the kitchen. W...
  12. So...I've been working at my new clinic job for almost a month, and I have a few questions... Most of the doctors have Medical Assistants working with them. I am the float nurse, so I will be helping everyone. I do a lot of calling Rx refills to th...
  13. Have you ever hit the bone?

    Glad to hear I did what everyone else did...pull out a little, aspirate, and give the med. The woman I was injecting was a big lady, too! A fisherman, at that, with big muscles, I NEVER would have thought I would have hit the bone on her with a 1....
  14. Have you ever hit the bone?

    Has anyone ever hit the humerus when giving an IM in the deltoid? If so, what do you do?
  15. Lots of changes at our facility!

    Last week I found a new job (therefore I notified my boss, the executive director, that I would be leaving my position as nurse manager). The next day she quit without notice (read: stormed out). We only have 4 full time nurses and are supposed to...