Tenebrae BSN, RN

Tenebrae has 12 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative.

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   HESI Dosage Calculations

   Tenebrae replied to Frank Johnson's topic in Rock

   I struggled with maths when I started my degree. We were recommended maths and meds for nurses https://www.amazon.com.au/Math-Meds-Nurses-Dolores-Saxton/dp/1401834566 It takes you from the basic maths and how it applys in our day to ...
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   Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Tenebrae replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   Versed, in a glass phial doesnt need to be reconstituted doesnt have a warning label about being a paralytic Vercuronium, in a glass phial with a red top, and needs to be reconstituted. Has a large warning "paralytic" You can keep making ex...
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   Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Tenebrae replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   How is a hospital responsible for a nurse not reading the medication label? don't get me wrong, not to say the hospital has massive systemic errors at the end of the day she didn't read the label and Charlene Murphy died a horrific death
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   Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Tenebrae replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   No, it couldnt. I had to draw up vancomycin the other day. Do you know the first thing I did? Checked the box to ensure the correct medication, checked the phial in the box to ensure I had vancomycin. I then checked the EMAR to ensure I had the...
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   Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Tenebrae replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   Must of missed that interview. Not once has she expressed any remorse or owned her mistakes in public interviews
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   Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Tenebrae replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   No it wasnt just a mistake, she didn't read the phial of medication. VERCURONIUM vs VERSED, Never mind the 8 plus other safety checks she bypassed. The whole tragedy could have been averted if she had just read the bottle. She has done nothing ...
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   Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Tenebrae replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   because if someone asked me to speak in my city - tell me when I need to show up - out of my city, pay my transport and accomodation costs if I need to stay over. Neither of those options remotely come close to $10,000 As for ha...
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   Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Tenebrae replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   she could have owned her mistake. Shown how she had learned from the mistake and to stop it happening again Not played the victim As for loosing her income, at least she is still breathing and her loved ones can still interact with her. Cha...
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   Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Tenebrae replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   Possibly not by capitalising on the fact shes killed a patient. Not only did she kill the patient, the patient died horribly, suffocating and fully aware of the fact she was suffocating
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    Have you ever untwisted an IV when you aren't supposed to?

    Tenebrae replied to Katr's topic in Medications
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    Have you ever untwisted an IV when you aren't supposed to?

    Tenebrae replied to Katr's topic in Medications

    I'm not going to sit here and push a false narrative. I have an ethical obligation to be as honest as I can. It's great that you are vulnerable, it doesnt change the fact that you made a monumemtal mistake. You cant come on a nursing forum and not e...
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    Have you ever untwisted an IV when you aren't supposed to?

    Tenebrae replied to Katr's topic in Medications

    We have saying on my ward "stay in your lane" If its not covered in your job description, leave it alone. You screwed up removing the IV. You say it was only clindamycin. In NZ clindamycin is not used as a first line antibiotic but usually...
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    Psych-safe unit decorating

    Tenebrae replied to 21strawberry's topic in Psychiatric

    Way back 20 odd years ago when I was bouncing around the system I got to help create a sand stone sculpture which now sits out the front of the new unit. It was meadningful because many of us got to help make it. Would it be doable to have con...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    Tenebrae replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a kiwi, Some of the english girls use fanny but its not in the glutes And ditto if someone says they are going to jab you there, run while you still can In the fanny is in the vagina.
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    Medication Order

    Tenebrae replied to Nurse1282's topic in General Nursing

    When I have worked palliative care, dose ranges were common Eg morphine 2.5-5mg Q1-2 hourly. If 2.5mg was given, another 2.5mg could be given within the 2 hours. If the patient was needing 5mg constantly we would go back to the doctors an...