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you were wrong :( they are giving the lovenox to keep her blood 'thin' until they get her coumadin to a therapeutic level (which at 1.4 they aren't there) so that really isn't your call to make...

They don't always need and NG tube. if the patient is not throwing up or feeling extreme nausea they will sometimes hold off and try bowel rest, movement and pain mgt. I have seen this bee...

I would have done that.

This is what i don't get. why be a PA? if your a nurse why wouldn't you be a NP. i have other co-workers that say they are going that route to. and i just don't get it.

I have friends who work at star-bucks (for years) without taking courses who say they want to go to med school.............let people have their dreams. i do know MD's who were RN's so it doesn't...

I wouldn't care but we don't assign based on gender, but i have had a pt that was muslim be assigned to a male nurse and i would go help her in the bathroom. she was grateful. there is no reason we...

I see the role as both of a comforter but also a coordinator/educator. I worked inpatient hospice. so people were often numb and they had 'no clue' what came next/ my role was to help them have a...

ah thanks:) My job is busy and doable but i like it most days. I like pts that actually can talk and walk and have a very good possibility of getting better...............its worth the trade off...

don't send that email!!!!!! i would nicely and carefully express your concerns. Its actually illegal for them to tell you to clock out if your not taking a break, and your co-workers could actually...

There will always be short staffing.......i think per deim is better than agency. that being said our unit is no longer hiring per diem. Im not sure why. we had several nurses leave that wanted to...

I did an accelerated program that was 34 thousand no including the pre-reqs (which i paid as i went),I owed 30 thousand , which i paid off in a year. I had no intention of making payments on it,...

I would totally be interested in being an infusion nurse.

As an RN in acute care where our CNA's do take out IV's and foleys, do blood sugar checks i take a lot of issues with your statement . A CNA is most certainly not doing all the work with my pts. i...

I think the idea is fabulous for some of our pts. seriously how many of my patients are just getting 3 to 4 rounds of iv abx a day. I think for them it would be ideal to be at home. but i think of...

rapid responses 1 -4 times a month (but we have pts that could have had a RR called we just deal with directly with the dr, for instance i had a non-responsive pt with o2 stat of 60 percent at...

I'm with pp. I am exhausted of being told that it is my job to police everyone else on top of doing my own very time consuming job. I like our drs. they do a great job, they are smart people...

As we become more accountable this will be come more common practice. an ER is not an appropriate place for migraine. its not cost efficient , much better to manage that in an office setting.

I agree, Pts that are in a hospital are requiring ACUTE care, and need more careful monitoring. I don't know how that is an argument that you can't given a mg bolus. it sounds like you just don't...

I don't understand your discomfort. I give it very slowly per ordered rate but I give it all the time to surgical pts , and they don't always have a baseline mg when we're giving it . We do no...

applewhitern, they don't learn to hang blood in school they perhaps review it but very few get the opportunity to actually hang blood (heck most of the new grads i have trained have never even...

Phone triage?

As a new rn , how would they take you off orientation without having hung multiple blood products. It would be concerning to me that a nurse who is off orientation wouldn't know the did fence at...

Yep.........i make less than some of the men i work with because i don't want to work 72 hours a pp...............no thank you. i will stick to less hours........

I agree where i work you don't talk to your manager until after you have secured a new position.

It means they have poor pass rates. That means they are going to be weaning out students at a higher rate because they aren't going to want people sit for their boards if they are concerned they...