LovesFerrets

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1. Pt assessment and trouble shooting; was I wrong?

   LovesFerrets replied to LovesFerrets's topic in Professionalism

   I don't know this was a while. I'm just now thinking of it again. I do that sometimes. I don't keep my brains that go with my patients so I have little to no idea from sheer memory, but if they were elevated I would have remembered that.

2. Pt assessment and trouble shooting; was I wrong?

   LovesFerrets replied to LovesFerrets's topic in Professionalism

   Thank you, that tends to be what I think as well -It's nice to have some reassurance. Like I said where I work we don't call anything under 101 a fever necessarily, especially in someone who isn't over 60. Also she DID have a heating pad (one that i...

3. Pt assessment and trouble shooting; was I wrong?

   LovesFerrets replied to LovesFerrets's topic in Professionalism

   nope no tylenol

4. Pt assessment and trouble shooting; was I wrong?

   LovesFerrets replied to LovesFerrets's topic in Professionalism

   Yes, I had thought of sepsis, but there were blood cultures done that were negative previously that week. Nope, I gave no tylenol because I had in mind if it didn't go down, I would call about it and go from there. Plus where I am we don't give tylen...

5. Pt assessment and trouble shooting; was I wrong?

   LovesFerrets posted a topic in Professionalism

   I had a pt that I can't stop thinking about. 50 year old female. The diagnosis from the doc wasn't infection related, but they were not very communicative or active -stuporous is probably accurate. They were brought in with altered mental status whic...