nursesaideBen

nursesaideBen specializes in Medical Telemetry, LTC,AlF, Skilled care.

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1. Did I do the right thing? *long*

   nursesaideBen replied to nursesaideBen's topic in General Nursing

   That'd be nice except that the company I work for doesn't believe in discipling physicians and buys into the whole MD=God mentality.

2. Did I do the right thing? *long*

   nursesaideBen replied to nursesaideBen's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for all your support guys! I've been brooding over this all week.

3. Did I do the right thing? *long*

   nursesaideBen replied to nursesaideBen's topic in General Nursing

   This cardiologist is about to retire, some of the nurses have told me that he's adopted an "I don't want to be bothered" type of attitude.

4. Did I do the right thing? *long*

   nursesaideBen posted a topic in General Nursing

   This past weekend I had an oncology patient who was a full code. In the early morning hours about 0500 I was getting qshift VS and this patient's heartrate was 41. I looked at his chart and he was typically running in the 50's. B/P was normal. Patien...

5. Question about lpn jobs

   nursesaideBen replied to trustarr's topic in LPN/LVN

   If you aren't able to get a job in a hospital, you should have no problem getting one at an Urgent Care Center, most like to staff themselves with mostly LPN's and CMA's.

6. I.V pushes

   nursesaideBen replied to Alibaba's topic in LPN/LVN

   I do IV pushes where I work. On my unit LPN's can push everything accept drugs like vasotec and adenocard unless an RN, MD, or PA is in the room. We don't typically flush our lines with Heparin unless it's to lock off a port-a-cath. If we have a PICC...

7. Bad Rep for Med Surg

   nursesaideBen replied to kellyskitties's topic in Med-Surg

   I've only been working as a nurse on the MCU for 3 months now but I've come a long way. I'm starting to really love working, it's such a variety of pts and diseases, everything from UTI's to meningitis. I think the trick most nights is trying to keep...

8. Nurses Recommending Doctors?

   nursesaideBen replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

   Post edited, Sorry about that! :)

9. Hep B vaccination, IM or SC?

   nursesaideBen replied to linzz's topic in General Nursing

   I gave 2 during my OB rotation they were IM, felt so bad for those poor little babies lol

10. Nurses Recommending Doctors?

    nursesaideBen replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I believe you took my post out of context. I should have have put capable in quotation marks. I was simply repeating what I had been told which by no means makes it true. Didn't mean to anger anyone :

11. No More Demerol?

    nursesaideBen replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

    On our floor, if you're getting pain meds IV it's either Morphine, Dilaudid, or Fentanyl. Also we give a huge amount of Protonix both PO and IV and now apparently Zosyn is the antibiotic of choice for EVERYTHING because it's stacked up in our med ref...

12. Nurses Recommending Doctors?

    nursesaideBen replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    From what I've always been told, nurses recommending physicians is a big "No no" because we don't have the "capability" to refer patients.

13. Lost Temper -- Yelled/Swore at Patient

    nursesaideBen replied to UhOh's topic in General Nursing

    Boy, that situation really stinks. I had a humdinger of a patient this past weekend, A/Ox4 no history of psychiatric problems, who told me he wished he had a gun so he could blow my head off because I came in the room at 0130 to hang an antibiotic. D...

14. You know it's a bad night when......

    nursesaideBen replied to Cmariehart's topic in General Nursing

    God ain't that the truth night FROM HELL!!!

15. You know it's a bad night when......

    nursesaideBen replied to Cmariehart's topic in General Nursing

    When all your pts have PRN IV pain meds q3hrs When your alcohol dtx pts have nothing ordered for agitation None of your Pts's 1800 meds were given out All your pts are under contact isolation precautions for either C-Diff or MRSA When you have 2 ad...